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Don't fall for old vs. young framing. There's more variation within age cohors than between them. Both the 1% and the 99% are made up of all ages. ca.news.yahoo.com/wealth-hoard...

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Today is Nina Simone’s born day. My love for her is boundless. For several years, on this day, I’ve shared on social media some of my favourite things that Nina Said in appreciation and respect. I’ve collected them here in one place. www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-nina...

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Wouldn't that be nice? And about time.

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"Age discrimination is a fact of life," writes David Brooks. Despite which, examples of people late bloomers abound. Thanks to the women’s movement, the percentage of women is growing. Thanks to the age equity movement, more will be older too. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Joe Graber [email protected], Rose Wang COO: [email protected], Jessica Freitas, COS: [email protected] Now, more than ever, we cannot afford to let age divide us. DO BETTER.

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Really, @bsky.app. REALLY? Can't you celebrate without being #ageist, #sexist, and ableist? Don't you want women, older people, and people with disabilities to feel at home on Bluesky? DO BETTER.

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Hitler, Cruella deVil, Ebenezer Scrooge have all applied. wagingnonviolence.org/2025/02/doge...

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Mahnoor Khan, a first-year journalism student at @torontomet.bsky.social, speaks up about gendered #ageism. Women are never the "right" age. www.hercampus.com/school/toron...

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[email protected] on why there's "enormous overlap in our new political alignment between the admirers of middle-aged & older men who use steroids (RFK, Joe Rogan, Sylvester Stallone) and people who are obsessed with and judgmental of transgender people." www.offmessage.net/p/does-rfk-e...

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Correction, @1440daily.bsky.social: there are many ways to stay healthier, but no one stays young. Aging ≠ physical decline. It is a fascinating, multidimensional, lifelong process that involves gains and losses of all kinds. join1440.com/topics/aging...

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"There’s no such thing as a 'preventative' facelift.... Ultimately, the 'ageing' we may be running from may just be the simple act of looking like a living, breathing person in real life." www.dazeddigital.com/beauty/artic...

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"How does AARP shill for United Healthcare?" asks @democracynow.org prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

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The letter isn't true, and shame on @cnn.com for not including this credible reporting

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Remember "too old to hold office?" Here's it equally ageist counterpoint. It's not about how old people happen to be, it's about how they think and behave. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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"Ahem. Is it a surprise that facial balancing is trending in Trump’s America, as far-right ideology gains momentum across the world?" Genius beauty-culture critic Jessica Defino on why people are "harmonizing" their faces. jessicadefino.substack.com/p/facial-har...

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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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"I can tell you this: The resistance will be peaceful, nonviolent, colorful, multigenerational — we older people will march with you, no matter our sore feet and creaky joints." @annelamott.bsky.social Yes we will. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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"The deliberate unleashing of catastrophic harm on a trapped population of more than two million people—half of them children, all of them subject to the occupying power legally responsible for their welfare—was in fact the main, undeclared objective: a gratuitous exercise in mass cruelty."

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Curious about my new big idea? (It’s called YODA, and it's timely because we can't afford to let age divide us in these terrifying times.) Or my take on “woke” language, or the subversive potential of intergenerational framing? If so, read on. mailchi.mp/oldschool/hu...

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A list full of surprises, for me at least.

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"#Ageism should never restrict us from wearing the clothes we want to wear, the music we want to listen to, the activities we want to do, or the aspirations we set ourselves.”

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I like the way sociologist Sasha Johfre uses plain language to explain intersectionality: "Age, gender, race are pretty arbitrary categories, which we use to socially locate people. We’re always thinking about people across these categories."

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Karen Flood proposes a new hashtag: #CraggyAsFuck

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Preemptive strike!

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#Ageism is everywhere ...

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Despite the low pay and low prestige, geriatricians, who see older patients, rank at the top of doctors who love what they do. "It’s hard not to see the decline in geriatrics as yet another unfortunate product of a broken, profit-oriented health care system." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/o...

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Need a reminder that anti-aging products are harmful? "Brilliant beauty culture critic Jessica DeFino nails it, as usual. "Anti-aging is the ultimate capitalist goal, because it’s physically impossible. To try to anti-age is to be a consumer for life.” jessicadefino.substack.com/p/theres-no-...

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Want to help #EndGenderedAgeism ? Support the first global campaign created to and raise awareness of the bias and discrimination older women face: www.womensacademics.ca/womens-age-l...

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@thischairrocks.bsky.social asks, "What if olders and youngers heard one another's accounts of what's great and what's awful about being 19, and 90?" www.nextavenue.org/lets-come-to...

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My proposal for 2025: Let's come together to talk about age and power. Because it derails old vs. young framing and exposes the larger social & economic forces at work — and who benefits from them. www.nextavenue.org/lets-come-to...

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It's great news, but it's not the new 60, FFS. It's the new 70.

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Oh, we are in HELL

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Props to the Norwegian Football Association: “None of us can remain indifferent to the disproportionate attacks that Israel has inflicted on the civilian population of Gaza over a long period of time.” - Association President Lise Klaveness

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Think older workers take jobs away from younger ones? Think again. The pie gets bigger. www.nytimes.com/2016/05/14/y...

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on the acquittal Daniel Penny for the murder of Jordan Neely, an unhoused young black man with mental illness: "The judge adjourned the case with no one held responsible; and the marine was invited to watch a football game with America’s next president." harpers.org/2024/12/week...

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"People are aging into their student debt, not aging out." Shocker: most of the folks in debt went to for-profit colleges. @astra.bsky.social @democracynow.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCqB...

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I thought "of a certain age" was code for "old." I was wrong. @helenlewis.bsky.social breaks down the history and meaning of the phrase in her erudite and witty fashion. debuk.wordpress.com/2024/12/06/w...

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Is #ageism more common, or is it getting reported more often?

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This is an extraordinary piece. If you thought you had an informed opinion on assisted dying, give this a look.

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Just out : "The (Un)Silencing of older women" report, which identifies #ageism as a driving factor behind the invisibility of older women, including their omission in strategies to end violence against women. #Embolden2024 www.emboldenfestival.com/uploads/1/5/...

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See this movie if you possibly can. Politically and artistically brilliant. Cast: Louis Armstrong, Andrée Blouin, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Abbey Lincoln, Patrice Lumumba, Nina Simone, Malcolm X and more, including star and startling turns from Khrushchev.

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Nicole Cardoza on how events like CEO Brian Thompson's assassination reflect "how disconnected inequitable systems make us feel... robbing us not just of our rights but our capacity to grieve how they harm us, as chaotic and random as the violence itself." antiracismdaily.beehiiv.com/p/weekend-ed...

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"Age in America: Is elderspeak harmful or helpful?" Who writes these headlines? People who like being condescended to? I didn't like being called "young lady" when I was one. www.msn.com/en-au/health...

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US, Australia, China, and Saudi Arabia all argued against countries having any real legal accountability to act on the climate crisis. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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The script for $HARE was accepted by the prestigious Writers Lab program. Interested producers all had one caveat: the 59-yr-old [female] protagonist had to be at least 20 yrs younger. Back this effort to change the industry if you can. via @ccriadoperez.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nnv...

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Good article. One quibble: there's no such thing as "youngism" or "reverse ageism." Those terms encourage young vs. old framing and distract from the fact that we're all being judged and discriminated against because of our age. That's plain old #ageism. www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

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"What the f**k is young and what is old anyway? To play to this binary is to lean into #ageism – discrimination against people because of their chronological age. Ageism is a two-way street. It affects both the young and the old." #advertising www.bandt.com.au/ageism-is-ou...

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