Everybody Shaking: widerständige Lebenslust, liebevolle Weltbeziehungen

“The personal is political.” Carol Hanisch

Everything is in motion, yet much is under enormous pressure—bodies, democracies, ecosystems, social relationships. Everybody Shaking highlights liveliness as a counterpoint to promises of performance: fragile, shared, and present. Not about becoming stronger at any cost, but about remaining perceptible. Not about optimizing, but about caring.

What does it mean to be alive in a time of constant exhaustion? How can vitality and regeneration be protected from logics that instrumentalize them as new forms of ableism or longevity capitalism? How can care, vulnerability, and love become political forces?

This conversation brings together body politics, critical care, and more-than-human relationships. Simon(e) van Saarloos, writer and author of Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto, challenges normative ideas of age and relationships. Andrea Schöne, author, journalist, and political educator, contributes perspectives on inclusion and (eco-)ableism. Jol Thoms, artist and researcher, offers a view of care as a relationship between human and more-than-human worlds. Moderated by Elevate curator and transformation psychologist Irina Nalis, the panel explores how “vital signs” can become forms of resistant, transformative liveliness.