Simon(e) van Saarloos is a writer, artistic collaborator and curator. They are the author of Against Ageism. A Queer Manifesto (2023); Take ‘Em Down. Scattered Monuments and Queer Forgetting (2021) and Playing Monogamy (2019) as well as several books in Dutch. Their writing has appeared in numerous co-edited volumes, academic journals, magazines and exhibition catalogues. Van Saarloos also writes fiction and theater and is currently writing a new book for AK Press, titled Trans Despair.