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Documentary and video that put women past midlife on screen.

We Should All Be Hags

We Should All Be Hags

Catherine Mayer (TEDxCoventGardenWomen 2017) · other

Journalist and Women’s Equality Party co-founder Catherine Mayer asks where all the older women go, in media, workplaces and public life, and makes the case…
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ACCESS DENIED: Old People Locked Out of Life

ACCESS DENIED: Old People Locked Out of Life

Phyllis Haynes · youtube

A short, pointed piece on how the digital world shuts older people out — portals, passwords, endless changes to how you log in, and nobody…
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Is It OK to be Old?

Is It OK to be Old?

Patricia Greenberg · youtube

Patricia Greenberg talks to producer Phyllis Haynes about her book It’s OK To Be Old and the summit she convened around it. A direct challenge…
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I Got Fired for Saying “Yippee.” Ageism Loves Silence

I Got Fired for Saying “Yippee.” Ageism Loves Silence

Loren Greiff · youtube

At 55, Loren Greiff was put on a performance improvement plan for writing the word “yippee” in an email to a hiring manager. She quit…
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Why You Feel Younger (or Older) Than Your Age

Why You Feel Younger (or Older) Than Your Age

Tracey Gendron · youtube

Gerontologist Tracey Gendron takes apart the compliment “you’re only as old as you feel.” If feeling young is the goal, she argues, then feeling old…
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Why We Need More Age-Gap Friendships

Why We Need More Age-Gap Friendships

Liz Atkin · youtube

Liz Atkin makes the case for friendships that cross the generations, and against the generational labels — boomer, millennial, Gen Z — that make them…
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The Maturepreneur Network with Jannette Anderson

The Maturepreneur Network with Jannette Anderson

Jannette Anderson · youtube

The video arm of Jannette Anderson’s Maturepreneur movement — weekly interviews, business strategy and reinvention talk for people over 55 who are “not done by…
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Let’s End Ageism

Let’s End Ageism

Ashton Applewhite · other

In one of the most watched TED talks on aging, author and activist Ashton Applewhite makes the case that ageism — prejudice against our future…
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Ageism Is a Bully…Stand Up to It!

Ageism Is a Bully…Stand Up to It!

Mariann Aalda · other

Actress and comedian Mariann Aalda brings her signature humor to the fight against ageism in this 2020 TEDx talk. Drawing on her own experience navigating…
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Aging Sucks…Or Does It?

Aging Sucks…Or Does It?

Kat Miller · youtube

In this TEDxAjijic talk, aging counselor and activist Kat Miller challenges the cultural assumption that aging is primarily a story of loss. Miller argues that…
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