Simon(e) van Saarloos - Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto Poetry A narrator and her dog

A narrator and her dog are criss-crossing the Swiss Alps

people are reclaiming the means to care for one another in defiance of a system that devalues and exploits the labour of care

Set in the underground bar and club scene of 1970s Tokyo

the tales featured in Love and Other Stories are at once bleakly ironic and profoundly humane in their depiction of their subjects

music and transgression

Simon(e) van Saarloos - Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto Poetry A narrator and her dogAgainst Ageism: A Queer Manifesto starts with what it is not: a socio economic argument against ageism, celebrating the elderly as economically viable. Instead, Simon(e) van Saarloos presents a radical critique of conventional arguments against ageism, rejecting constructs of age and youth and assumptions of their inherent qualities. Drawing from personal experience, the manifesto offers a reckoning with how ageism overlaps with structures of white