We all want long lives, so why are we so afraid of growing old? Anti-ageism campaigner Ashton Applewhite works to dismantle the ageism that is woven into our societies.
This talk is chaired by Caroline Baum.
Ageing is not a problem to be fixed or a disease to be cured, it is a natural, powerful, lifelong process that unites us all.
You can no more be anti-aging than anti-breathing.
Discrimination on the basis of age is as unacceptable as discrimination on the basis of any other aspect of ourselves that we cannot change.
Ageing is something that both men and women are utterly terrified about.
Presented by the UNSW Centre for Ideas and Carriageworks.
This session is supported by EveryAGE Counts Campaign. Sign the pledge to stand for a world without ageism.
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Ashton Applewhite is an activist and the author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism. She has been recognised by The New York Times, National Public Radio, the American Society on Aging, the Australian Association of Gerontology, and the International Longevity Centre as an expert on ageism. Ashton blogs at This Chair Rocks, speaks widely at venues that have ranged from the TED mainstage to the United Nations, has written for Harper's Magazine, The Guardian, and The New York Times, and is the voice of Yo, Is This Ageist?
Caroline is the author of Only: A Singular Memoir about being an only child, published in 2017. Her life-writing has also appeared in several anthologies including My Mother, My Father: On Losing a Parent and Rebellious Daughters. Life Sentences, her podcast about the practice of contemporary biography, is available on all major platforms. Caroline is the winner of the 2015 Hazel Rowley Award and her journalism has appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, Griffith Review, and The Guardian. Caroline is the Ambassador for the Older Women’s Network in NSW.
