#Ashton Applewhite

[mitchipedia]

Ashton Applewhite:

The phrase has always made me uneasy, partly because it’s usually accompanied by a picture of an older person doing something considered “age-inappropriate,” like wearing a wacky outfit or doing something acrobatic. The bigger issue is that it trivializes something important. Age is indeed “only a number,” as long as that number reflects how many times we’ve circled the sun. Age is real. Age differences can’t be wished away, nor should they be.

I'm currently reading Applewhite's book, "This Chair Rocks." It is transforming how I feel about aging, and helping me realize how much ageism I've internalized. I turned 61 a couple of weeks ago—internalized ageism was becoming a heavy burden.

Applewhite has a good Tumblr: Yo Is This Ageist

#aging #ageism #Ashton Applewhite #This Chair Rocks #Yo Is This Ageist

[violent-backed-starling]

okay so here me out, surviving the applewhites but make it bell’s hells.

in this version of the story i would put ashton in the jake semple role. he is a punk who has been dealt a pretty crappy shake of things and are being treated as more of a problem than a person. i think that he’d still be an orphan and he would still crime as he is wont to do. so then jiana hexum would be his parole officer and fulfill the role of jake’s uncle, just pawning ashton off onto anybody who’ll deal with them so she doesn’t have to.

so hexum drops him off with bertrand bell who is rudolph applewhite in this au so he is running a school/home for ‘problem children’ with his partner liev’tel who is the sybil jameson. he has collected all of the hells throughout the years, even adopting chetney as like a weird ass uncle or whatever. so therefore chetney is the zedediah in this world. he lives in a cottage on the property and spends most of his time woodworking and grumbling about the kids running around. the parrot that zedediah has can be pate and go to laudna. laudna and imogen are gonna be like the lucille and archie of this au, but younger.

laudna, i think is the adopted daughter of bertrand after being on the run after her parents were murdered by the briarwoods. he found her and decided that he liked her and that he might as well take her in. so she was there first and then she befriends imogen at school and notices that neither of their needs are being met at the aforementioned school and imogen has a very distant father, so why not ask her loving adoptive father and his partner to school the both of them. 

so that is how it starts and then they add on dorian as cordelia. he is trying to go further with his more musical and artistic expression and that is why he goes there. the next addition to their motley crew was chetney and he just sets up shop and sells his master crafts-work. orym comes next and he the e. d. as he is the most rational, logical, and level headed. he also is there because his bestie dorian is there.

fearne i think fulfills several roles. she is hal and govindaswami in one as well as being a chaotic force in her own right. she shows up as bit after orym as she just followed her boys to bell’s hellions as they are known colloquially. the last to join them, aside from ashton, is letters who is the destiny of this group. he is the youngest as is dumped on bertrand as he is known for taking in renegades. fcg clings to ashton after he becomes a part of the group.

i think the plot should follow fairly closely to the book. so it mostly would follow our favourite punk rock as he settles in to life with the hells, but he really gets invested in them when he is cast in the musical by bertrand and people start to see him as more that a nuisance. 

thats all folks!

#bell's hells #surviving the applewhites au #feel free to ask about this if you want to #icarus speaks #ashton greymoore #orym of the air ashari #bertrand bell #chetney pock o'pea #fearne calloway #imogen temult #laudna #dorian storm #letters #fresh cut grass #fcg #cr3

[best-childhood-book]

Future Competitions

In light of recent requests and submissions, once this competition is over, we'll be starting back up again with a whole new set of books! If you'd like to submit a title, check my pinned post and the list below to make sure your submission is eligible. I can no longer add to this list. Any further titles are being kept privately by me, but there are there, I promise! I am now tagging asks with the titles submitted.

A to Z Mysteries

Abhorsen

A Dog's Life

Adventure (Blyton)

Adventures of the Bailey School Kids

Adventurers Wanted

Alcatraz VS the Evil Librarians

Alex Rider

All-of-a-Kind Family

The American Girl Books

Amulet

Anne of Green Gables

Animal Ark

Animorphs

Applewhites

The Babysitter's Club

The Bartimaeus Trilogy

Beacon Street Girls

Beatrice Bailey

The Belgariad

Bella Sara

Betsy-Tacy

Black Beauty

The Black Stallion

The Blackwell Pages

Books of Bayern

The Borrowers

Bridge to Terabithia

The Boxcar Children

Captain Underpants

Casson Family

The Cat Club

Catwings

Charlotte's Web

The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness

The Chronicles of Chrestomanci

The Chronicles of Dragon

The Chronicles of Prydain

The Circle of Magic

Clementine

The Clique

The Cloak Society

Cobble Street Cousins

The Cooper Kids Adventures

Coraline

Damar (McKinley)

The Dark Hills Divide

The Dark Is Rising

Dear America

Dear Canada

Deltora Quest

The Divide (Kay)

Dork Diaries

Dragonbreath

The Dragonfly Pool

Dragonhaven

Dragon Rider

Dragon Slayer's Academy

Earthsea Cycle

East (Pattou)

Echo (Ryan)

Edgar & Ellen

Emily (Montgomery)

Emily Windsnap

The Enchanted Castle

Encyclopedia Brown

Esperanza Rising

The Ever Afters

The Faerie Realm

Fablehaven

Fairyland (Valente)

The Faraway Tree

Ferngully

First Light (Stead)

Five Children and It

Flat Stanley

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Gallagher Girls

Geronimo Stilton

The Girl Who Drank the Moon

The Giver

Goddess Girls

Goosebumps

Graceling

The Great Brain

The Greenglass House

Gunnerkrigg Court

Half Upon a Time

The Hardy Boys

Hatchet

Heist Society

Help, I'm Trapped...

His Dark Materials

Holes

How to Train Your Dragon

The Hunger Games

Igraine the Brave

The Immortals Quartet

The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place

Ingo (Dunmore)

The Inheritance Cycle

Inkheart

Iron Hearted Violet

Island of the Aunts

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Ivy & Bean

Journey to the River Sea

Julie of the Wolves

Junie B. Jones

The Kane Chronicles

The Kid Who Ran for President

Kiki Strike

Killer Unicorns

Kingdom Keepers

The Last Apprentice

The Letter for the King

La Quête d’Ewilan (in French)

Legend (Lu)

Les Chevaliers d’Émeraude (in French)

Leven Thumps

Liesl & Po

Little House on the Prairie

A Little Princess

Little Women

Lockwood & Co.

The Lost Conspiracy

Macdonald Hall

The Magic Thief

Magic Treehouse

The Magisterium

Magnus Chase

Malory Towers

Matt Cruse

Maximum Ride

Melissa (Gino)

Merlin (Barron)

Michael Vey

Miri and Molly

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

The Missing (Haddix)

Mister Max

The Mistmantle Chronicles

Misty (Henry)

Molly Moon

The Moorchild

Mr. Lemoncello's Library

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

The Music of Dolphins

My Secret Unicorn

My Side of the Mountain

My Teacher Is an Alien

Nancy Drew

Nevermoor

The Neverending Story

Nimona

The Ogre Downstairs

Out of My Mind

The Penderwicks

Pendragon

Peter and the Starcatchers

The Phantom Stallion

The Phantom Tollbooth

Pillage (Skye)

Pippi Longstocking

Pixie Tricks

Poison (Zinn)

Pony Pals

Princess Academy

Protector of the Small

Rainbow Magic

Rain Reign

Ramona

Regarding the...

The Roman Mysteries

Rose (Webb)

Rowan of Rin

The Royal Diaries

Running Out of Time

Sammy Keyes

Savvy

School of Fear

The Search for Wondla

The Secret Garden

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

The Secret Series

Septimus Heap

A Series of Unfortunate Events

The Seventh Tower

Shadow Children (Haddix)

Silver Brumby

Silverwing

Skullduggery Pleasant

Song of the Lioness

The Spiderwick Chronicles

Stardust

Stargirl

The Strictest School in the World

Swallows and Amazons

Sweet Valley High

The Swiss Family Robinson

A Tale Dark & Grimm

The Tale of Despereaux

Tales of Alderley

Tales of Magic

Ten Kids, No Pets

The Thief Lord

Tiffany Aching

Tillerman Cycle

Time Hunters

The Trumpet of the Swan

Tuck Everlasting

Tuesday McGillycuddy

The Two Princesses of Bamarre

Uglies

Un Lun Dun

Undertow

Unicorn Chronicles

Upon a Marigold

Upside-Down Magic

The Vengekeep Prophecies

The View from Saturday

The War That Saved My Life

Wayside School

The Westing Game

When You Reach Me

Where the Red Fern Grows

Wildwood Chronicles

Windsingers

Wings & Co.

Winnie the Pooh

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

The Worst Witch

You Be the Jury

#best childhood book #second competition

[storyxonline]

Ignored and Misrepresented: Enough Already

Age persists as one element of diversity that advertisers and romance fiction continue to ignore. Olders, to use the phrase coined by anti-ageism activist, Ashton Applewhite, are consumers of all sorts of products, from cars to food, to films, to romance novels. However, olders are typically ignored or misrepresented, and as Martha Boudreau, AARP’s chief of marketing and communications officer…

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[thatswhatshedoes]

Let's end ageism | Ashton Applewhite

"The strange thing about ageism: that 'other' is us. Ageism feeds on denial.” – Ashton Applewhite at TED 2017

#social activism

[toddlohenry]

Let's end ageism

Let’s end ageism

It’s not the passage of time that makes it so hard to get older. It’s ageism, a prejudice that pits us against our future selves — and each other. Ashton Applewhite urges us to dismantle the dread and mobilize against the last socially acceptable prejudice. “Aging is not a problem to be fixed or a disease to be cured,” she says. “It is a natural, powerful, lifelong process that unites us…

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[recentlyheardcom]

End Ageism: NPR

Part 3 of the TED Radio Time episode Late flowering. Discover part 1, part 2 and part 4. We get a lot of messages about how bad it is to grow old. Anti-ageism activist Ashton Applewhite says that while some of our fears may be justified, aging offers more opportunities than we realize. About Ashton Applewhite Ashton Applewhite is an author and anti-ageism activist. The Decade of Healthy Aging, a…

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[simplefill09]

Baby Boomers Changing the Paradigms About Aging

Shared with us from our friends at Silvernest

Ask any Baby Boomer to reflect back to their childhood and their general perception of their grandparents when they were in their 60’s or 70’s. Most usually widen their eyes and exclaim, “old!” Images of a grumpy old man or wizened old woman come to mind. Many of today’s 65 year-olds look nothing like that. In a short thirty years, we have extended our lifespan, and opened up a third phase of adult life 50+ that is often filled with vibrancy, possibility and health. Yet, our society continues to perpetuate the notion that the “peak years” of life are around age 28. It’s all downhill from there. Really? Ever heard of the word “ageism?” According to Ashton Applewhite, author of “This Chair Rocks, a Manifesto Against Ageism,” it is the last socially sanctioned prejudice, and a cultural narrative that impacts almost every aspect of life after 50. Have you ever felt compelled to lie about your age, or had someone compliment you and say, “You look great for your age?” That’s ageism. In the past few months after the release of her book, Applew Baby Boomerhite has been named “Influencer of the Year” by Next Avenue’s Influencers in Aging list, featured in the New York Times, appeared at the United Nations and is traveling around the country. She is the voice of a new movement, and on a mission to highlight the pervasive narrative that reinforces aging as something to fear, deny or dread. She opens her book with the confession, “I’ve never lied about my age – I have no problem saying ‘I’m sixty-three’ loud and clear – but I know a lot of people who do. People who lie on resumes and on airplanes and on dates.” Applewhite admits ageism is something it has taken years to fully recognize. “Any time we make an assumption about what any person is capable of, what they’re thinking about or doing on a basis of chronological age – that defines ageism,” she says. “Chronological age is a lousy indicator of pretty much anything abut a person, and all “isms” are based on stereotyping – especially because the longer we live, the more different from one another we become.” The term “ageism” was first coined by Pulitzer prize winning physician Robert Butler, founder of the International Longevity Center, in 1968 – around the same Read more: https://simplefill.com/baby-boomers-changing-the-paradigms-about-aging time as the terms racism and sexism. “We experience ageism any time someone assumes that we’re “too old” for something – a task, a haircut, a relationship – instead of finding out who we are anhttps://simplefill.com/baby-boomers-changing-the-paradigms-about-aging/d what we’re capable of,” said Applewhite. This Chair Rocks is a wonderful and fast read; full of powerful insights, and would make a fantastic book-club pick. Applewhite humorously breaks down pre-conceived notions about what it means to get older, and paves the way for trailblazing Boomer activism. Her zany style made me laugh out loud on numerous occasions, and nimbly poked to the inner core of what it means to get older in today’s society. In addition to the book, Applewhite has created a blog called, “Yo is this Ageist?” and a “conscious-raising” booklet to promote grassroots discussion called, “Who Me Ageist?” “No one is born prejudiced, but attitudes about age – as well as race and gender – start to form in early childhood,” she writes. “Over a lifetime they harden into a set of truths: “just the way it is.” Unless we challenge ageist stereotypes – old people are incompetent. Wrinkles are ugly. It’s sad to be old – we feel shame and embarrassment instead of taking pride in the accomplishment of aging. That’s internalized ageism.”

Read more: https://simplefill.com/baby-boomers-changing-the-paradigms-about-aging/

[fractallion]

“Ravages of age,” really? That phrase has got to go.

“Language matters. Journalists need to stop relying on offensive, misleading phrases like ‘ravages of age’ and we need to keep calling them out until they do.”

💬 Ashton Applewhite

[mitchipedia]

“The story of the 80-year-old supergeezer jumping out of an aeroplane or the 50-year-old woman waylaid by early Alzheimer’s is going to get a lot more readers than the true story, which is that most of us muddle along fine and continue to do everything we always did, or at least, versions of it, right to the end.”

#Ashton Applewhite #aging #aging well #ageism #twt #living well

[manifiesta02]

Deficiencia en protección internacional para las personas LGBT  

No es amar a un hombre lo que hace la vida más difícil para los gays, es la homofobia. No es el color de su piel lo que hace la vida más difícil para las personas de color; es el racismo. – Ashton Applewhite

24/06/22

“Nacemos libres e iguales en dignidad y derechos”. De acuerdo con este postulado de la ONU en la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos, parece sensato asumir que nadie debería luchar constantemente por sobrevivir y ganarse la vida en contextos hostiles; con miedo de ser quien es o amar a quien ama. No obstante, al momento que lees estas palabras, al menos una persona está huyendo para salvar su vida debido a su identidad de género, orientación sexual o características sexuales. (ACNUR, 2018). 

Congreso Estudiantil de DDHH en Twitter / Manifestante en Pride 2022

En la región iberoamericana Brasil tiene los índices de crímenes de odio más altos, en 2019 el Grupo Gay de Bahía calculó que un miembro del colectivo se suicida o es asesinado cada 19 horas. Por su parte en México 2021, la iniciativa del Observatorio Nacional de Crímenes de Odio de la fundación arcoíris reportó 80 casos; 73 culminaron en asesinato, mientras que el resto competen a desapariciones. Cabe recalcar que por cada caso, se estima que 3 o 4 no lleguen a ser reportados debido a falta de conocimiento o registros erróneos. 

Además de las tasas de homicidios, la violencia doméstica o palizas derivadas de prejuicios hacia lo diferente son comunes. Así como leyes con variada severidad que hacen referencia a la orientación sexual y expresión de género. Las restricciones para la libertad de expresión en el entorno jurídico pueden presentarse de manera explícita o implícita. Ya sea que nombren abiertamente cuestiones de diversidad sexual y/o de género, o se escondan en un lenguaje vago apelando a la moralidad pública para limitar el libre intercambio de ideas; ambas variantes dando pie a los mencionados abusos a manos de conciudadanos, familias o el propio gobierno.

Paradójicamente, también hay varios países con leyes que criminalizan la intimidad entre personas del mismo sexo, aunque se hayan implementado otras anti exclusión. Barbados, Kiribati, Santa Lucía, Samoa y Tuvalu, protejen de la discriminación laboral por motivos de orientación sexual, mientras que persiste la criminalizacion de los actos sexuales entre parejas homosexuales. Estos casos evidencian que las protecciones constitucionales no equivalen a total protección ante toda violencia y las violaciones de derechos.  

La Jornada / Pride 2022, CDMX

Con la finalidad de vivir de acuerdo a su identidad y orientación sin miedo, en muchas ocasiones las personas LGBT terminan desplazándose de manera forzada. Desafortunadamente, no siempre logran conseguir protección y entendimiento de sus necesidades particulares. Principalmente las personas trans y de género fluido, quienes se encuentran entre los grupos que tienen más riesgo de sufrir golpizas, violaciones, torturas y asesinatos en las zonas de tránsito y destino. 

Nos queda mucho camino por recorrer para que no exista el miedo, para cimentar la protección nacional e internacional de las personas LGBT, pero continuaremos avanzando en la dirección correcta a medida que se reconozca al otro como una parte esencial de nuestra sociedad, y busquemos honrar el derecho ajeno de vivir libremente. 

Feliz Junio, y feliz pride.

Bibliografía:  

Noticias ONU. (2022, 20 mayo). El colectivo LGBT, entre los migrantes más marginados y vulnerables. Recuperado 24 de junio de 2022, de https://news.un.org/es/story/2022/05/1508852 

UNHCR. (2022, 18 mayo). Lo que significa ser una persona refugiada LGBTI. Recuperado 24 de junio de 2022, de https://www.acnur.org/noticias/historia/2020/5/5ec300614/lo-que-significa-ser-una-persona-refugiada-lgbti.html 

OIJ. (2019, 16 julio). Lo que las cifras dicen y lo que esconden: Violencias contra las personas LGTBIQ en la región iberoamericana. Organismo Internacional de Juventud para Iberoamérica. Recuperado 24 de junio de 2022, de https://oij.org/lo-que-las-cifran-dicen-y-lo-que-esconden-violencias-contra-las-personas-lgtbiq-en-la-region-iberoamericana/ 

ACNUR. (2014, octubre). La protección internacional de las personas LGBT (N.o 9). https://www.acnur.org/fileadmin/Documentos/Publicaciones/2014/9872.pdf

#noticias #lgbt pride

[in-the-stacks]

The Lone Reader: This Chair Rocks by Ashton Applewhite

Presenting This Chair Rocks by Ashton Applewhite. Reviewed by The Lone Reader podcast for the Everett Public Library in Everett, Washington.

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#This Chair Rocks #Ashton Applewhite #The Lone Reader #inthestacks #mylibrarian #librarian brain #podcasts #librarian book reviews #amreading #reading #Everett Public Library

[theendofageism-blog]

Ashton Applewhite with her new book, This Chair Rocks. A book about rewiring the way we look at ageing. Applewhite challenges negative social stereotypes of growing older. Targeting, for this book, towards people in age denial is her first target audience. As we start getting old we become worried about ageing this appeals to everyone. Ageism is perfect target for collective advocacy because it affects everyone.

#Ashton Applewhite #target audience #insight #ageism #old #book #this chair rocks #author #stereotypes

[azspot]

I want to live in a country where Colin Kaepernick is seen as a hero and Kyle Rittenhouse is seen as a terrorist.

Ashton Applewhite

[yoisthisageist]

Making things clear to grandmas

Hi, Trello –

I often love to read the articles you link to in the “Taco from Trello” email, and I find some interesting and helpful information—not just about Trello, but about other subjects, as well.

Today I clicked through to read the piece called Boost Your Leadership Skills With The Feynman Technique. In general, I found it interesting. But I was dismayed to find a shocking incidence of ageism—with a little sexism thrown in, too. The statement I’m referring to is, of course, this one:

But the truth is, the real smarties are able to make their subject crystal clear to newbies, grandmas, and well, anyone else!

This statement suggests that it takes extra effort to make a subject clear to newbies—which makes objective sense, of course, because people who are new to a subject are, by definition, lacking background knowledge.

But why does the statement also suggest that it takes extra effort to make a subject clear to grandmas? Why is there an assumption that older people—or, more specifically, women who are old enough to have children who have children—aren’t likely to understand something unless you take steps to “make it simple,” as the paragraph states earlier?

As a writer myself, I recognize that little statements like these are often dropped in to paint a picture in the reader’s mind, and even for a chuckle. However, I also recognize that ageism is an enormous part of our culture—especially in tech culture. And that not everybody understands how harmful ageist statements actually are.

In study after study, researchers have shown that exposing people to ageist stereotypes causes measurable, negative reactions—such as slowed movement and forgetfulness—even in younger research subjects. When we hear or read ageist statements, our abilities are actually diminished.

In addition, prolonged, systematic activation of these stereotypes has harmful consequences on people’s health—both physical and mental. And even on life expectancy.

 It’s a bit like telling a team, “I don’t think you can win this game” before they go out on the field. Sure, some people will respond with, “I’ll show you!” and double-down on their effort. But the most common consequence of planting negativity in people’s minds is that we impede their success.

You already know that you wouldn’t play into other stereotypes in your writing. You wouldn’t make a “light-hearted” stereotypical joke about someone who’s gay, trans, BIPOC, disabled—the list goes on and on. I encourage you and your team to apply this lens of sensitivity and sensibility to statements that focus on age, as well.

I encourage you to ask yourself questions about ageist assumptions, and apply them to your own lives. After all, each of us is aging, every minute.

At what age will it be appropriate for people to start assuming you have trouble learning new things?

At what age will it be OK for you to become a little joke in a tech company’s blog, based on your demographics?

If you had evidence that these things specifically cause harm—and that they’re already causing harm to you and the people you love and respect—would that affect your answer?

If, by any chance, these questions do leave you with a specific number in mind—“Well, of course they can start dissing me when I hit 60…”—I promise, you’ll reconsider as you approach that age.

If you have questions about whether a statement is discriminatory and/or insulting based on age, I encourage you to check out Ashton Applewhite’s blog Yo, Is This Ageist?—and to look into other resources on fighting ageism, as well. Applewhite has a fantastic TED Talk, Let’s end ageism, and a beautifully researched book, This Chair Rocks. And there are many other excellent anti-ageist resources, as well. Lots of people have joined the movement to make discrimination on the basis of age as unacceptable as any other kind.

I hope you’ll join us, too.

 Thanks,

 - Margaret McDonald

[dxmedstudent]

When Ashton Applewhite hit 55 years old, she dyed her hair. So what? That’s what women the world over do, you might think: dye grey hair to hide their age. But what Applewhite did was different: she dyed her hair grey. Not Kim Kardashian-platinum grey, but defiantly uncool, bog-standard grey.

“I went to a matinee, so it was all old people,” she says, grinning widely as she absentmindedly tousles her hair, the brown roots showing. “When it finished, everyone left via an escalator. I looked down and there was not a grey head to be spotted. I suddenly thought: ‘This is one way we collude, en masse, in making ourselves invisible as older women – and that’s a real problem, because when people are invisible, so are the issues that affect them’.”

When Applewhite, author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism, gave a TED talk titled Let’s End Ageism in 2017, it was an unexpected hit, with 1.5m views to date. In the video, the audience gives Applewhite repeated standing ovations as she talks about how it is not the passage of time that makes it so hard to get older, it’s ageism: a totally illogical prejudice that pits us against our future selves. “Ageing is not a problem to be fixed or a disease to be cured,” she exhorts from the TED stage, to shouts of support. “It is a natural, powerful, lifelong process that unites us all.”

#ageing #society #books #feminism