This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions
Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm and you can join in to the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social. Followed by an extended discussion for a half hour. Volunteers please join by 10:30 am.
We have been inundated with preconceived ideas about the elderly, the middle-aged, and the young: in conversations, in the workplace, at school, in the media, within our families and in social circles.
When we are all grouped together based solely on age, it can feel marginalizing and diminishing. Sometimes it’s hard to feel seen as an individual when immediate assumptions are made based on which age group we fall into.
This Sunday we will watch a TED Talk (found on YouTube) by Ashton Applewhite where she examines ageism: the assumption that older people are alike and that aging impoverishes us. She is an activist and the author of “This Chair Rocks: a manifesto against ageism” and the blog: “Yo, is this ageist?”.
Ashton says “I don’t want to reject my age but the fixed meanings that people assign to it. I claim my age at the same time that I challenge its primacy and its value as a signifier.”
Kristen Gane, a Toronto Oasis participant, will introduce the video and lead the discussion afterwards.
Please RSVP on meetup:
https://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Oasis/events/zgtbgsyccfblc/
Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!
This meeting has been recorded: (Our guest musician was recorded.)
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