When are we too old or too young, or when it is too late or too soon, to change our perceptions, expectations, and attitudes about aging?
When are we the right age to embrace that aging is an achievement and a benefit to society?
My guest today explains how ageism is “stereotyping and discrimination on the basis of a person’s age. We experience it any time someone assumes that we’re “too old” for something—a task, a haircut, a relationship—instead of finding out who we are and what we’re capable of. . .” from the blog: https://thischairrocks.com/what-is-ageism/
Ashton Applewhite is the author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism
An internationally recognized expert on ageism, she speaks widely at venues that have included the TED mainstage and the United Nations, has written for Harper’s, the Guardian, and the New York Times, and is the voice of Yo, Is This Ageist? and a co-founder of the Old School Anti-Ageism Clearinghouse.
Ashton is a leading spokesperson for the emerging movement to raise awareness of ageism and to dismantle it.
An internationally recognized expert on ageism, she speaks widely at venues that have included the TED mainstage and the United Nations, has written for Harper’s, the Guardian, and the New York Times, and is the voice of Yo, Is This Ageist? and a co-founder of the Old School Anti-Ageism Clearinghouse. Ashton is a leading spokesperson for the emerging movement to raise awareness of ageism and to dismantle it.
Bonus:
TedTalk - Let's end ageism | Ashton Applewhite
Old School is a clearinghouse of free and carefully vetted resources to educate people about ageism and help dismantle it. You’ll find blogs, books, articles, videos, speakers, and other tools (workshops, handouts, curricula etc.) that are accessible to the general public. Our goal is to help catalyze a movement to make ageism (discrimination on the basis of age) as unacceptable as any other kind of prejudice. https://oldschool.info/
About our Guest:
Ashton Applewhite is the author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism and a spokesperson for a movement to mobilize against discrimination, on the basis of age.
In 2016, she joined the PBS site Next Avenue’s annual list of 50 Influencers in Aging as their Influencer of the Year. Applewhite has been recognized by The New York Times, National Public Radio, the New Yorker, and the American Society on Aging as an expert on ageism.
Ashton blogs at ThisChairRocks.com, and has written for Harper’s, the Guardian, and The New York Times.
She has been named as a Fellow by the Knight Foundation, The New York Times, Yale Law School, and the Royal Society for the Arts.
In 2015 she was included in a list of 100 inspiring women who are committed to social change.
Applewhite is also the author of Cutting Loose: Why Women Who End Their Marriages Do So
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