In a recent email newsletter, writer Ashton Applewhite proudly announced:
I finally made it into Playboy.
Not because I hired a professional photographer—hope you like the photo on my new banner—but I’ll take it. Last March I got an email from an editor at Playboy who’d come across comedian Bill Maher’s rant about ageism being “the last socially sanctioned prejudice.” Would I be interested in writing a short essay on the subject? You bet, and here it is (“Why Can’t Jerry Brown Be President”). Another piece is coming out this month in Generations, the journal of the American Society on Aging. My editor there figured it was “likely a first, one of our writers being in both of those publications at the same time! Hah.” Hah indeed!
Learn more about Ashton Applewhite on her website, This Chair Rocks, and hear what she thinks about aging in this brief video (2:27).
[Hat tip to EngAGE Founder and Executive Director Tim Carpenter for the link.]
