Audible Resistance, Subversive Stories: Performing Intergenerational Activist Exchange on the Community Radio Show Aging Radically

• In Event: Re-Imagining Aging: Creativity in Later Life

Abstract

In this paper, two emerging scholar-activists reflect on their community radio show Aging Radically, which amplifies the voices of older local women working for change while fostering intergenerational dialogue about activism. Considering the performativity of public radio, the authors examine older women activists’ diverse, complex, creative, and subversive storytelling. They argue that, through the show, older women activists are crafting narratives of their activism, posing personal challenges to an ageist culture, and making their voices heard. The authors consider, too, how these intergenerational conversations might constitute a transformative space and bring visibility – and audibility – to older women’s creative subversions.

Presenters

• Melissa Baldwin, Trent University

• Madeline Macnab, Trent University