"I like being done with figuring my life out—with figuring out where I should live, what I should focus on, what sort of people I like, how I like to spend my days. I know what’s important to me." novelist Gish Gen on @oldstermag.bsky.social substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Peter Coviello with another dynamite piece. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

It's not in their 30s, 40s, or 50s either. www.good.is/age-of-funct...

Both the 1% and the 99% are made up of all ages. The story we need to tell isn’t about boomers vs. millennials. It’s about the rich and powerful vs. the rest of us. yoisthisageist.com

"#Ageism, especially against #women, discriminates against us in every area. But I'm shocked by the act of hiding one's age. I've spent the last few years championing maturity, and it pisses me off to see age become another kind of closet." 🙌 @annamanso.bsky.social en.ara.cat/sunday/for-w...

Reader asks, "This article in Greater Good magazine asks, not very grammatically, Are Older People Dating Younger Ageist—or Just Practical? What do you think? My answer here: yoisthisageist.com/post/7990344...

A reminder that @aarp.org "is in fact functioning as a multimillion-dollar marketing arm for an insurer [UnitedHealthcare] whose business model increasingly depends on enrolling seniors in private Medicare plans." healthcareuncovered.substack.com/p/unitedheal...

What could possibly go wrong? 🥶https://palisaderesearch.org/blog/shutdown-resistance

“Why would [gendered #ageism] be showing up in billions of words where there’s no visual presentation of people? That is really suggesting it’s woven into the fabric of how we categorize and interpret people in the social world.” news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

I recommend saying brightly, "You look good for your age too!" www.womanandhome.com/life/news-en...

How a new generation of GOP activists talk when they think no one is listening 😨https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146

What would a world without ageism look like? Here's an answer from ‪Jeanette Leardi‬ ‪@jeanetteleardi.bsky.social

Happy #Ageism Awareness Day! Watch this two-minute animation. Take a deep breath. Choose an ageist thought or behavior to challenge—gently—today and going forward. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs28...

Go Catalonia! #ageism www.catalannews.com/society-scie...

"Much like the resource curse entrenches autocracy in oil-rich countries like Saudi Arabia, a US economy that no longer needs as many people to generate wealth will have much less incentive to take care of their needs." @jasmine.bsky.social conducts some internet anthropology jasmi.news/p/dictionary

This @ilcuk.bsky.social report highlights that older people are more likely to benefit from talk therapy than younger patients. Surprised? Ask yourself why. www.msn.com/en-ca/health...

This one is fun. www.thepoke.com/2025/09/04/f...

As Trump's numbers fall, the ageist rhetoric is predictably ramping up. A reminder: #aging didn't turn Trump into a bully and tyrant. He was *always* a bully and tyrant.

#Ageism hits educated white men in their forties. It's worse for everyone further down the food chain. www.financialexpress.com/trending/is-...

A friend spotted in Berlin spotted “The Fountain of Youth” by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1547). yoisthisageist.com

"Ultimately, the art world’s obsession with categorization, particularly the rigid 'emerging,' 'mid-career, and 'established' framework, serves more as a gatekeeping mechanism than a meaningful metric of artistic merit or impact. 1/2 www.blackartinamerica.com/blogs/news/t...

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

A thoughtful take on the insidious nature of internalized ageism. "Many of my personal heroes are over 65," Frampton writes. "It’s the adults flying under the radar we need to worry about, and we need to be calling out systemic discrimination and condescension when we see it." #ageism

One for the snappy-answer department. #ageism www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

Guess what age group is most vulnerable to scams? What assumptions underlie your guess? www.experian.com/blogs/ask-ex...

What's the "real doom loop"? San Franciscans are growing older.Think the failure of governance or absence of affordable housing or lack of family leave have anything to do with it? Blaming olders is like blaming immigrants for "taking jobs away" or "crime surges." www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

"I’ve discovered as a therapist and as a patient in psychoanalysis that the capacity to anchor yourself in the reality of time passing,and to the potential for life to get better, is fundamental to good mental health." 🙌 Huzzah! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

'I’m beginning to think it’s the very act of becoming “women of a certain age” that inclines us toward autonomous and radical thinking — and demanding our pleasure be taken seriously." www.thecut.com/article/how-...

"Age inclusivity isn’t charity; it’s smart, responsible leadership.” #ageism www.forbes.com/sites/danpon...

Benevolent #ageism is nevertheless insulting and unwelcome. “Ask them to change the way they are speaking with you,” counsels my wise friend and Aussie age advocate. Easier said than done, but necessary. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

"The same #ageism that makes aqua aerobics a joke also makes space for its liberation." Fat positive + anti-diet activist Virginia Sole-Smith virginiasolesmith.substack.com/p/the-untapp...

The Guardian asked me to write something on a very juicy topic: "aging gracefully." www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

"There’s no style or cohesion besides the slenderness of one feature & a certain dull sleaze. She manages to convey both skank and frump at once; the mistress you leave your wife for and the wife you’re sick of at the same time." 🙌😂https://lytagold.substack.com/p/its-okay-to-notice-when-rich-people

Just launched: a toolkit for storytellers who want to confront the encroachment of fascist AI surveillance tech. 👏

"Chuck D tells SPIN that Black Sky songs such as “Siick” and “Ageism” focus on the pitfalls of a technology-obsessed society and discrimination against our aging hip-hop elders. " 🙌 www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

"Today in 'capitalism ruins everything,' the New York Liberty announced a new partnership with Vagisil" @thefrankiedlc.news Vagisil makes 'feminine hygiene' products that claim to protect against itching, dryness, and odor. In fact they're harmful. www.thefrankiedlc.news/p/haterade-t...

Carrie Coon often tells women — female actors in particular —to avoid speaking in their "baby voice." You're giving up all your power in every room," she said. Coon also hopes that young women in #Hollywood can withstand the pressure to go under the knife. www.businessinsider.com/carrie-coon-...

Clickbait headline: more than 2/3 of respondents said that no age is too old to go to this world-renowned festival in England. www.nationalworld.com/community/ne...

Iran’s FM responds to the overnight attack

This Juneteenth, Aging While Black founder Raymond Jetson calls for us to reimagine #aging as an emancipatory act. lasentinel.net/freedom-didn...

Over 100 terrific candidates applied to become the Old School Hub's first Executive Director. We're delighted to announce that Alessandro Negrete will step into the position on June 30th. Learn more about him here: mailchi.mp/oldschool/me...

"What’s happening in LA is not a deviation from the norm. It is the norm laid bare. ...This performance of repression is not only about optics — it is about erasure." 1/2 @crdjustice.bsky.social nlawcrdj.medium.com/the-spectacl...

"I've sat on this bench now for 40 years. I've never seen government racial discrimination like this." That's what a Reagan-appointed judge said about Trump cancelling hundreds of NIH grants. We can't stop fighting Trump's assault on science, the NIH, and our values.

The thing I hate about going to the gym is that everyone who works there looks like (and probably is) a 20-something fitness influencer. Hire some fat folks! Hire some old folks! Hire some ugly folks!

No kidding. Generational #stereotypes are divisive and baseless. Want to make things better? Break an ageist habit most all of us share: heading for people our own age when we enter a room. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

It's not "digital #ageism." It's straight-up #ageism. It's so entrenched that marketers don't even try to reach so-called "silver spenders" 🤮. And it's costing them. www.thedrum.com/open-mic/dig...

Sick of old vs. young framing? Eager to collaborate across age gaps? Join me on June 17 at 4pm ET at this free webinar hosted by @cogenerate.bsky.social to find out how to YODA. cogenerate.org/try-yoda-you...

"My suggestion is try to find your voice again,” advises journalist Sandra Thomas. "It’s in there, as that hotel in Victoria discovered on that fateful day when I decided enough was enough.” Here’s the story: www.coastreporter.net/opinion/of-a...

"A lot of people were worried about Biden’s age, but what exactly were they worried about?" asks political scientist @smotus.bsky.social. "As we’ve surely learned over the past few decades, people care about their party a lot more than age." #ageism #ableism oldster.substack.com/p/growing-ol...