Queering Time, Ageing and Relationships with Split Britches

This article begins by outlining some dominant narratives that produce ageism socially constructing older age as a time of linear decline, social dependency, isolation and intergenerational conflict. It then concentrates on recent work elder lesbian feminist performance company Split Britches: Ruff (2012), Unexploded Ordnances (2018), What Tammy Needs to Know about Getting Old Having Sex (2013) Last Gasp (2020�1). explores the alternative � or life Britches propose, futurity, desire, unexplored potential well intra-generational relationality. also how responds chrononormative practices which make produced understandings appear natural queering them. The argues model progressive visions relationships, both across generations within their own, expectations relationships including ageing.