Popular author and founder of Age March, Barbara Rose Brooker is fearless in what she is willing to say out-loud. Or put to paper as she does in her novels, to name just a few Should I Sleep in His Dead Wife’s Bed, The Rise and Fall of a Jewish American Princess , The Viagra Diaries , and her latest Love, Sometimes: A Novel about Risk in Hollywood and Controversial Love; a topic about which she knows quite a bit. Barbara makes wincing in the agony of aging in America an adventure all its own.
So fervent she is and has been for years on the issue of getting older in a world of youth-worship, she has taken her Age March to new and now virtual level. No one was really talking about age discrimination years ago, but Barbara was in her commitment to ending it and in her novels. She faced some resistance, she earned some admiration, but most important, she forged ahead. Today, of course there is endless talk about “ageism”.
Listen to Barbara talk about her life in making the playing field level for people of all ages, the words she wants off the list of descriptors, her attitude towards the advertising campaigns that let women know that looking old is a curse that can be ameliorated with a few dabs of the right product. What did Darren Star and Goldie Hawn have to say about Barbara’s deliciously aging character? Oh, and take a look at her Youtube on the topic for the joy of watching someone age not only gracefully but intelligently.
