The Age Buster 🇺🇦

@DrVdelaFuente @LoeweOfficial Stunning! This is what inclusivity really looks like!

🌟 Something is changing...for the better❣️@LoeweOfficial debuted its spring 2024 campaign with actress #MaggieSmith at its center! How refreshing to see firms finally making #OlderWomen visible. #AWorld4AllAges is possible and we're making it happen. ▶️bit.ly/46I9kPh

@FreelanceOwl Thank you, Vanessa! I’ll check out your website and keep your name for future references!

@TheAgeBuster Thanks for the follow! I'm a professional book editor. If you're in the market for editing services, be sure to check out NightOwlFreelance.com. 🦉 And have a great week!

@mhdksafa Our fear of ageing warps every aspect of our lives and robs us of the simple joy of being alive. But we can rebel against this narrative theagebuster.com

This is a side by side of two women gracing the front covers of two well known magazines. The one on the right we all know is Martha Stewart, age 81. The one on the left is Apo Whang-Od, age 106, a tribal tattooist in a remote province in the Philippines. There seems to be an unwritten rule which equates beauty with youngness. In an interview, Martha Stewart told the reporter she credits her organic, home-grown, farm-to-table eating, yoga, and actively healthy lifestyle to her youthfulness. While that’s an admirable journey for her, let’s not forget the amount of privilege that kind of lifestyle requires. On the left is Apo Whang-Od, who is a 106-year-old tribal tattooist in the Philippines. The wisdom she carries in every forehead wrinkle and frown line is stunning. Her eyes are glass, reflecting back all that she’s witnessed over a century of lived experiences. Her tattoos a reminder of the ancestors she seeks to honor. Both women are beautiful in their own right. But I wish we as women didn’t play into this idea that we have to look younger—and thinner—in order to fit some unrealistic beauty standard which will grant us acceptance and relevance in the world around us. I’m writing this for any woman who, like me, may have had a punched-gut reaction to seeing an octogenarian in a swimsuit on the cover of a magazine looking more like a woman in her forties or fifties: Anti-aging is not a beauty standard. There IS beauty in wrinkles, and saggy skin, and drooping breasts. These are markers of a life hard fought for and well lived. It seems odd to try and erase these battle scars. So while I applaud Martha for her fortunate body, carefully curated procedures, and pristinely styled makeup, I also applaud Whang-Od for what others may perceive as imperfections. Anti-aging is not a beauty standard. Authenticity is. @ FeministNews

@nikkiparrish31 @ElliottBlackwe3 @carolineb180 It's literally the history of ideas, how we went from the fire to Freud. It makes you see our time in flux instead of static, I've found it has given me more agency. Happy reading!

@TheAgeBuster @ElliottBlackwe3 @carolineb180 Ive read mans search for meaning ..what is the history of ideas about?

What was the last book that changed or shifted your perspective on the world? One that made your perspective that much larger? One that made you ask deeper questions? (art by Anna Cunha)

@encore_janine As the saying goes, what matters is how much life there is in your years. Happy birthday from as far as Thailand! (I know we don’t know each other personally, but I love birthdays)

@moomincutting @look4thewoman @OldSchool_Info @MERVatLLARC @MichaelFKay @gatewaywomen I don't intend to make it a fashion statement, just look at what the other 70+ wore on his arrival. I applaude Yellen's take-me-as-I-am approach :-)

@TheAgeBuster @look4thewoman @OldSchool_Info @MERVatLLARC @MichaelFKay @gatewaywomen What else do we 70+ wear on our feet? I mainly live in my walking boots.

You may think what you like about the war in Ukraine (I know what I think 🇺🇦) or Janet Yellen, but seeing this 76 year-old woman in a war zone with her white hair and a pair of sneakers makes my heart sing @look4thewoman @OldSchool_Info @MERVatLLARC @MichaelFKay @gatewaywomen

@jacopo_iacoboni @GiuseppeConteIT Look what democracies do and learn: Lithuanians raise 1 006 000 euro for radars for Ukraine in 1 hour. Lithuanian IT company Tesonet doubles it for 2 012 000 euro. In 1 hour.

the former Italian pm Conte calls for “a peace negotiation” with Russia, because “we’re democracies and public opinions count, and beyond a certain limit, we cannot hold our own, in this, with states like Russia” It is all so sad and pitiful

@cindygallop @susandanziger I know THAT place, I've published a story about it and since than it's on my wish-list. I hope you've enjoyed!

Me on an early morning walk with @susandanziger in the Dutch countryside yesterday, getting some fresh air before what turned out to be a legal-here-in-the-Netherlands psilocybin trip experience that lasted 9 hours 😮 #GirlsTrip

@CristinaIannic1 Bella Bea! Sempre un mito!

@eziomauro @repubblica Bastaàaaaaàa

Ezio Mauro: Padre Georg: “In Vaticano il diavolo ha agito contro Papa Benedetto” - la Repubblica repubblica.it/cronaca/2023/0…

@apmassaro3 For what it matters, I STRONGLY belong to the first group 🇺🇦

@IuliiaMendel The problem is the weaponisation of the event. As you can see from the screenshot, @corriere has falsely translated Von der Leyen's comment at the Opera House. She said "We have to honour culture" and NOT "Russian culture"

Italy’s most treasured opera house, Teatro alla Scala, opened its new season Wednesday with the Russian opera “Boris Godunov,” against the backdrop of Ukrainian protests that the cultural event is a propaganda win for the Kremlin during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. .

@TraceyGendron @look4thewoman I love birthdays! Welcome to the 52 y.o. cohort, Tracey!

@irmachep One more follower ❤️

5000 followers. Why is this important to me? Because it means that I’ll be able to tell more ppl about #RussianWarCrimes, especially in #Kharkiv. I’m just an ordinary Ukrainian and it’s important for me to be heard. I’ve found friends here, #NAFO and a lot of support. TY for that

@CarolineEdAG @NatureAging @ARC_S_L Thank you Caroline for your work. Human rights stop on the doorstep of care homes. It's a mystery of our time. Or better, a misery of our time @JackiesRev2

Dear Twitter, Patricia Burd from the University of Manchester is looking for pet lovers (65+) who want to share their story about their furry companion for her master's project. See the poster below @OldSchool_Info @MERVatLLARC @LiatAyalon @JustMeandLilley @look4thewoman

@WSJ Is it only me finding the illustration an example of sexageism? @thischairrocks @mariannaalda @TraceyGendron

Biological age won’t help you live forever, but a ‘credit score for your body’ might prolong your lifespan, some scientists say.

@HydeM1976 Congratulations, Martin! Keep me posted on your work!

I finally got one of those ESRC grants everyone’s been talking about. Now I just need someone to come & work with me on it. If you have stats skills & are interested in the impact that living in age diverse areas has on health & well-being please apply swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swanse…

@johnsweeneyroar If Putin is the only one who has the power to do something (attack Ukraine), he’s called a dictator. If Scholz is the only one who has the power NOT to do something (sending heavy weapons to Ukraine). Why he’s not called a dictator?

#KyivDiary Day 110 The war grinds on.