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Margaret Morganroth Gullette

Margaret Morganroth Gullette is an internationally known cultural critic and anti-ageism pioneer whose prize-winning work is foundational in critical age studies. She is the author of six books, most recently American Eldercide: How It Happened, How to Prevent It. American Eldercide won a 2025 MASS Cultural Council grant, in Literature, and was nominated for a Pulitzer and a National Book Award. Her first longform essay on the Eldercide appeared in Dissent. Some of her other writings on the politics of age have appeared in New Political Science, atlantic.com, AlJazeera, Nation; Age, Culture, Humanities: An Interdiscipinary Journal, and Monthly Review.

Devastating. The Damages that “Too Old” Inflicts on Politics and Society

1The Good Father, Turned into an Enfeebled Grampa Ageism, merging with other disreputable prejudices, drove President Joe Biden out of the 2024 race. However you now think about his renunciation, it was another win for a set of horrifying national biases that, if they remain unopposed, will now afflict Americans as we grow older. In […]

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1The Good Father, Turned into an Enfeebled Grampa Ageism, merging with other disreputable prejudices, drove President Joe Biden out of the 2024 race. However you now think about his renunciation, it was another win for a set of horrifying national biases that, if they remain unopposed, will now afflict Americans as we grow older. In

Confident Incontinence: A Century of Campaigns to Make Excretion Dignified

A coming out party for underwear In 2021 the New Yorker’s inside back cover—a full-page ad, hard to miss—shows a tall, hefty man of color, solidly planted on shapely legs, arms crossed over his chest, smiling, while wearing nothing more than Depend’s line of “absorbent underwear.” The bold word reaching across his entire chest reads

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A coming out party for underwear In 2021 the New Yorker’s inside back cover—a full-page ad, hard to miss—shows a tall, hefty man of color, solidly planted on shapely legs, arms crossed over his chest, smiling, while wearing nothing more than Depend’s line of “absorbent underwear.” The bold word reaching across his entire chest reads

“The One Who Feeds Us All,” by Margaret Morganroth Gullette

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The facts I gradually discovered about the human survivors who feed us all have an element of surprise, tinged with wariness about the future. What might once have seemed alien in their way of being came to seem special, all too rare, precious, endangered.

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The facts I gradually discovered about the human survivors who feed us all have an element of surprise, tinged with wariness about the future. What might once have seemed alien in their way of being came to seem special, all too rare, precious, endangered.

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