BroadMinded: Anti-Ageism Party
The only thing withering over time is this culture's outdated idea of women over 40.
When you don’t know how many more years you’ll wear something, make sure every hat is a show stopper! 😍 Stop what you’re doing, and follow Advanced Style NOW on all the platforms!!
Dolly Parton is a national treasure, and this commentary by Chelsea Handler perfectly captures the complete idiocy of ageist trolls trying to take down a 77-year-old complete badass. Dolly forever!!
02/12/2023
A very happy birthday to Marla Leela Martin, who performed in BroadMinded’s San Francisco show a few years back! She is ROCKING her 60s, showing us all how sparkly and exciting EVERY year of life can be. Here’s a great quote she shared for the BroadMinded SF show promo about how it’s NEVER too late to start something new — and a shot of her in the show. We love you, Leela! Happy birthday! 💖🌟
07/09/2023
It’s never too late. 💖 This culture has tried to make older people disappear for too long, and we are not going to internalize that 💩 anymore. We only grow more skilled, more epic — and generally just MORE over time.
01/09/2023
“My face is changing, and I love that my face is changing and aging,” she says. But “people think I had a facelift. They’re like, ‘What did she do to her face?’ I’m like, ‘B*tch, I’m just aging! It doesn’t mean I got bad plastic surgery. This is just what happens.’”
Charlize Theron Didn’t Get a Facelift, Thanks for Asking “I’m like, ‘B*tch, I’m aging! It doesn’t mean I got bad plastic surgery. This is just what happens.’”
You’re never too old to dance! 💖💃🏼🕺🏼
23/08/2023
The year Joy France turned 60, she pledged to try 60 new things. It led to her trading insults with MCs on the international stage. 🌟
A new start after 60: I’m a short, greying woman – and the world’s oldest battle rapper The year Joy France turned 60, she pledged to try 60 new things. It led to her trading insults with MCs on the international stage
21/08/2023
As kids, we’re always asked, “What do you want to BE?” We dream about the path ahead, and we’re always in the process of becoming. At a certain age, the mainstream culture slams a door closed on that forward motion.
For too long, society has routed people of a certain age — especially women of a certain age — onto a dead end street. When you’re treated as if you’re invisible, how can you continue imagining what you’ll *become* tomorrow? When the culture tells you that you’re nothing, how can you be anything at all?
Fortunately, it’s 2023, and the solution is to blow through the barricade and just keep driving forward. We don’t even have to listen to tired, shriveled up mainstream voices anymore. 🥱 We control our own narrative, thanks! We’re re-routing ourselves back into our own dream space. 😍 And in all the time we have on this planet, we’re going to do something simple, yet radical: We’re going to imagine what’s possible. FOREVER!
We’re NEVER going to stop becoming. 💖
Today’s post is - me. 😂 BroadMinded producer, Revolva. Last year, I was so inspired by all the people on TikTok doing the CUFF IT dance to Beyoncé. I ended up trying to weave the steps into some hooping. When I looked at the result, I thought, “Nah. I’ll just keep that to myself.” TikTok isn’t always the most welcoming place for people over 40. Today, I saw this CUFF IT hoop video in my drafts, and I thought, “Well I’m not really practicing what I preach about how it’s ‘never too late to try something new’ — if I try something new and then cringe.” So to quote Beyoncé, let’s be “unapologetic when we f*ck up.” 😂 We can just let go of things having to be stereotypically perfect, including the new things we try, and including our own bodies. Life is too short not to have fun, and we are perfect — exactly as we are. Aging is perfect. Dancing to Beyoncé while aging is PERFECT! 🌟 Did you try anything new today?
Preach, brother! 🌟 This man has done the work to understand how the patriarchy pressures women to appear young forever. There's a lot of pro-age content on social media for women, created by women, as we celebrate our years, our wrinkles, and the natural process of our bodies moving through time. What we don't always hear is men speaking up with such a sharp analysis about how sexism and ageism combine to crush women. This man is letting go of his own cultural conditioning around women aging, and it's comforting to know there are people like him doing that work. ✊
This video is by ChrissyJPowers on TikTok.
15/08/2023
It’s the scenic route, baby!
12/08/2023
“We are athletic. We are beautiful. We are intelligent. We live full lives and we wear your clothes, your shoes, your accessories and ride your bikes. I challenge all to make this as attractive and marketable as it actually is.”
This Cyclist is Tackling Ageism in Sport, Celebrating the Beauty of Older Athletes Joan Swain noticed that after a certain age, athletes seem to disappear from brand and media attention.
We LOVE over-50 dancer Kim Hale, who has a critical message: It’s never ”too late”!
Check her out @ MsKimHale on TikTok 💃🏻🪩❤️
10/08/2023
Want some inspiration? Check out Karen Quest of Cowgirl Tricks! She is lassoing and whipping her way right on into the future — showing women of all eras in life that we NEVER have to get off stage. Yee Haw! 🤠 Thanks for what you do, Karen! 🌟
09/08/2023
Look in the mirror, and give yourself some affirmations about all the years you’ve earned, you utter badass! 🤩 It’s not easy to let go of negative messages we’ve been fed around aging, especially for women. But it’s time. We don’t have to carry any of that 💩 anymore! We can just set it down and walk forward into the future.
Nellia and Dietmar Ehrentraut showing what it looks like to boogie woogie into the future!
We ❤️ destroying ageism. This was from the time we were featured in Huffington Post. 🙌🏼
04/08/2023
Follow us on Instagram! Just click this link three times while saying “there’s no place like home,” and you can add some anti-ageism inspiration into your IG feed: 😍👑
https://instagram.com/heybroadminded?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA==
03/08/2023
"Mainstream media has pandered to a certain demographic of straight men between the ages of 18 and 30. The notion is that these men are only interested in seeing representations of women they'd find sexually attractive, and the assumption is that these women will be young and adhere to a certain narrow definition of beauty, usually requiring Olympian exercise, anorexic dieting, and some kind of surgical enhancement." But a charismatic actress is "a force that denies resistance."
Grande Dames in Great Roles: Women Who Found a Second Career Onstage We profile 10 women over 40 who found second careers in musical theatre.
02/08/2023
Language around aging is demeaning—especially for women. So let's change it! What other positive descriptions can you come up with for the "advanced players" of the world? Comment away if you'd like to add to the brainstorm.
01/08/2023
At 75, Grace Jones is still hooping it up. While singing. In stilettos!
Post-disco legend Grace Jones, 75, masterfully hula-hoops for entire song at Pride event | Boing Boing On Saturday, the great post-disco queen Grace Jones, now 75-years-old, performed at the Los Angeles Outloud @ WeHo Pride festival. She uplifted the crowd with her classic “Slave to the Rhythm…
31/07/2023
“Employees at the intersection of age, race and gender experience hyper-vigilance,” says Dr. Nicole Washington, “Finding yourself always on guard is exhausting. More importantly, the intersectionality of age, race and gender can be potentially dangerous if bias is not addressed and averted.”
Age, Race And Gender Create A Triple Threat For Workplace Bias Do you know that age bias, myths and stereotypes impact younger workers as well as older ones?
29/07/2023
👱🏻♀️”You’re so beautiful.”
👵🏼”I know it.”
Greta Gerwig Explains What Barbie’s Bench Scene Really Means (& Casting An Oscar Winner As The Old Woman) The bench scene is the heart of the movie.
27/07/2023
That time BroadMinded was featured in VICE. ✨
“Performance is an extension of the soul in motion. The more experienced the soul, the more intoxicating the motion."
The Senior Citizen Showgirls Talent is timeless.
Today, we pay tribute to our friend, and our fellow patron saint Lynn Ruth Miller. This funny lady STARTED doing standup comedy in her 70s. She was also a writer, an artist, and someone warm and witty, who made everyone feel like her best friend. BroadMinded producer Revolva met Lynn Ruth when they shared a stage at Hubba Hubba R***e Uptown in Oakland, CA, more than a decade ago. At the time, Lynn Ruth was living in Pacifica, CA and traveling to the UK every year to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She eventually grew SO beloved in the UK that she moved to England — at an age when the culture calls older women “spinsters” and expects them to quietly care for everyone around them with no meaning or worth of their own.
Lynn Ruth exploded all the stereotypes about aging. In her 70s and 80s, she accomplished the following: She made the top 4 comedians in America’s Got Talent, 2008, won People’s Choice 2009 in the Branson Comedy Festival, made the finals in Bill Word’s Funniest Female Contest 2009 and semi-finals in the San Francisco International Comedy Competition, and won Star of the Brighton (UK) Fringe Festival in 2009.
She was a regular at the SF Punchline and The Stand in Scotland and made the top 100 in the UK in Britain’s Got Talent. She won the TO&ST AWARD 2014 in Edinburgh for best Cabaret Edinburgh Fringe, 2015 Liberty Award, Leicester Comedy Festival; 2015 finalist Old Comedian of 2015; London. She had numerous five-star cabaret and comedy shows and she toured all over the world.
We sadly lost Lynn Ruth in 2021, but only in the physical realm. Her spirit, her talent, her humor, and her inspiration live on! Let’s all be more like Lynn Ruth as we age and look FORWARD to what gifts the future holds. 🌟
Yes! Every year we get more FREEDOM, baby! 🆓✨
Sage advice by on TikTok
25/07/2023
Welcome back to BroadMinded! We have been a sold out all-women-over-40 variety show in San Francisco featured in Vice and Huffington Post. Now we’re back as a hub for all things anti ageist. Check out our patron saint Mary Harris in this photo from her 100th birthday party. She was an artist, an activist, and a woman who lived her own unique path.
We don’t have to believe the messages our culture sends us about crazy cat ladies and lonely, bitter “spinsters,” and older people (especially older women!) being useless and invisible. Look at this vibrant woman adorned with flowers, living it up for a century. She was very much seen. She had a major impact on so many people’s lives. She came to the San Francisco BroadMinded women over 40 variety show, and during an audience participation moment, she told the emcee her advice on aging was to “Always be yourself. Unless you’re into theater. Then you can be someone else.” 😂
Mary passed just shy of 101. At BroadMinded, we will always take inspiration from the example she set. We will always be our truest selves (even though we are also into theater). And we will celebrate each day, year, and decade we earned. Ready to join the anti-ageist crew? Let’s party! 🎉 Follow along for inspiration.
Sick of ageism? Come party with BroadMinded! 🎉 We are an all-women-over-40 variety show, a hub for anti-ageist thoughts — and we are ALWAYS high kicking ageism where it counts! 💃🏽👠
This clip of Revolva “refer-emceeing” our San Francisco show a few years back truly exemplifies how out of touch many producers are with what audiences even want to see. They’ll tell you they have to pack lineups with younger women and usher older women out of the spotlight — because “that’s what sells.” Well guess what? We SOLD OUT, homies! And everyone on our stage was ages 40-73. Try again. 😂
We’re tired of the culture encouraging all the seasoned people to just go away. We’ll create our own culture, thank you very much! Follow us on IG and FB for more inspiration. 🎉🎸
Yaaaaaas!! Head on over to TikTok and follow — for over 40 dance parties. Can’t get enough of them! 💃🏿💃🏽💃🏼💃🏻
16/07/2023
Women face ageism at EVERY stage of our careers — according to study validating the actual lived experience of women.
Why there is 'no right age' to be a woman in leadership A new study has found that women in the workplace face age bias regardless of how old they are or what stage of the career they are in.
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