Monthly Archives: July 2015

Linkspam: July 31st, 2015

Posted on July 31, 2015 by queenieofaces

Every Friday, we will share links to news, blogs, and anything else we find interesting.  We can’t catch everything, so you are invited to self-promote in the comments! #21AceStories, which was mentioned in last week’s linkspam, included two additional pieces … Continue reading →

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Question of the Week: July 28th, 2015

Posted on July 28, 2015 by Siggy

What does your ideal local ace meetup look like? Different people seem to want different things from their ace meetup groups, with some wanting to talk about ace-related troubles, some wanting to just talk about whatever, and other people wanting … Continue reading →

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Paper: Asexuality in China’s Sexual Revolution

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Siggy

Content warning: Medicalization of asexuality and comparison to abuse. It’s well-known that English asexual communities are dominated by people in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.  This blog has made minimal efforts to include voices from other countries, but one … Continue reading →

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Asexuality in the Media: Towards Diverse Representation

Posted on July 25, 2015 by Elizabeth

Asexual people have always had difficulty with media representation. Most frequently, everything is oversimplified, only a narrow portion of the asexual spectrum is presented, and often aromantics are either ignored or presented as “those weird ones” in opposition to an … Continue reading →

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Linkspam: July 24th, 2015

Posted on July 24, 2015 by queenieofaces

Every Friday, we will share links to news, blogs, and anything else we find interesting.  We can’t catch everything, so you are invited to self-promote in the comments! redbeardace wants to know what it’s important for educators to know about … Continue reading →

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Looking for Asexual Agenda contributors

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Siggy

The Asexual Agenda is a blog written by ace-spectrum people, for ace-spectrum people, covering topics at a higher level than what you find in the mainstream news. We talk about experiences, identity politics, intersectionality, academic research, asexual activism, and more.  … Continue reading →

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After three years, looking forward

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Siggy

Today, The Asexual Agenda turns three years old.  Last year, I wrote a retrospective looking back at my goals for the blog, and how well we fared.  This year, I’d like to say something more forward-looking. The Asexual Agenda has … Continue reading →

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Question of the Week: July 21st, 2015

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Talia

What have other people said or done that makes you feel comfortable as an ace person? If you don’t have any examples from personal experience, what would you want to hear?

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Linkspam: July 17th, 2015

Posted on July 17, 2015 by queenieofaces

Every Friday, we will share links to news, blogs, and anything else we find interesting.  We can’t catch everything, so you are invited to self-promote in the comments! As has been discussed on this blog, asexual organization MAAPLE briefly listed … Continue reading →

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Structuring asexual groups and communities to be anti-bias and anti-bigotry

Posted on July 10, 2015 by Laura (ace-muslim)

The Movement for Asexuality Awareness, Protection, Learning and Equality (MAAPLE) is a group recently founded in the UK (it was featured in an Asexual Agenda linkspam). The group aims to engage in political advocacy towards getting asexuality included in anti-discrimination … Continue reading →

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