Join us for the London launch of Simon(e) van Saarloos’ new book Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto. Drawing from personal experience, this piercing manifesto offers a reckoning with how ageism overlaps with structures of white supremacy and patriarchy. To mark its UK release, van Saarloos will be in conversation about Against Ageism, which through the lens of crip and queer theory, as well as anti-carceral and anti-colonial perspectives on time, provocatively calls for the abolition of age-related laws, reframing commonly held understandings about age.
Author bio
SIMON(E) VAN SAARLOOS is a writer and curator. They are the author of Take ‘Em Down: Scattered Monuments and Queer Forgetting (2021) and Playing Monogamy (2019), as well as several books in Dutch. They also write fiction and theatre. Van Saarloos works as an independent curator of public programming and artistic collaborations, such as the queer programming for the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and ‘The Non- Monogamy Letters’ with Kim TallBear at ArtsEverywhere.ca.
In conversation with Juliana Gleeson
Juliana Gleeson is a writer from West London based in east Berlin. Her latest book is a new history of the intersex movement, Hermaphrodite Logic (out June 3rd with Verso).
Hosted by Lux Pyre
Lux is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer based in London. His work explores intimacy, humour and public spectacle in online and offline communities, predominantly through meme creation, erotic horror, and auto-fiction.
Lux has just completed a writing residency with Montez Press and has upcoming publications with TISSUE magazine, Deviance magazine and Montez Press. His work has been shown at York University (Toronto, Canada), Rich Mix (London, UK) and Newham Word Festival (London, UK).
