Monthly Archives: January 2020

Linkspam: January 31st, 2020

Posted on January 31, 2020 by Siggy

On Fridays, 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! Ace Blogging Lib is continuing their series on why they’re an inclusionist. … Continue reading →

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We’re Bad at Understanding Behavior Based on What We’ve Never Experienced

Posted on January 31, 2020 by Sara K.

This is for the January 2020 Carnival of Aces: “Conscious and Unconscious Difference” In articles describing people’s personal journeys towards identifying as ace, a common theme is ‘I thought other people around me were having sex mainly because of peer … Continue reading →

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The Ace Case: On Going Undercover

Posted on January 29, 2020 by Maddy

We all know the vocabulary lesson that happens every time we tell someone our sexuality. ‘What’s that mean?’ ‘I’ve never heard of it’ ‘you mean like how plants reproduce?’ It gets exhausting pretty quickly, and I’ve discovered that sometimes I … Continue reading →

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Welcome to our new contributors!

Posted on January 28, 2020 by Siggy

The Asexual Agenda has two new contributors: Maddy is an asexual aromantic non-binary that’s still just trying to figure it all out. They’re an American born Canadian studying Creative Writing in England (yes, they’re aware that’s a lot of countries) and … Continue reading →

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Question of the Month: January 21st, 2020.

Posted on January 21, 2020 by Talia

What do you think about aegosexuality? Do you identify with the term? Never heard of it?  I recently learned that aegosexuality is a sub-type of asexuality “describing people who exclusively feel sexually aroused by situations that don’t involve themselves” (cw: … Continue reading →

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On subversivism

Posted on January 16, 2020 by Siggy

This has been crossposted to A Trivial Knot. “Subversivism”, according to Julia Serano, is the practice of extolling certain gender and sexual expressions and identities simply because they are unconventional or nonconforming. In the parlance of subversivism, these atypical genders … Continue reading →

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Linkspam: January 10th, 2020

Posted on January 10, 2020 by Siggy

On Fridays, 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! Ace Blogging Coyote talked about the fixation on attraction as the defining … Continue reading →

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In which I get married

Posted on January 4, 2020 by Siggy

Part 1: In which I have a cough I graduated a couple years ago. I wrote a dissertation about time-resolved experiments on high-temperature superconductors. I am done with physics. I am switching careers. Throughout my PhD, I suffered from long-lived … Continue reading →

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Carnival of Aces: Literature, Academia, and Storytelling

Posted on January 3, 2020 by Siggy

The Carnival of Aces for December has been posted on Aria’s Hollow.  The theme was “Literature, Academia, and Storytelling”.  Please take a look! The next Carnival of Aces is being hosted by Ace and Aro Acts.  The theme for January … Continue reading →

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Reminder: You could write for The Asexual Agenda!

Posted on January 2, 2020 by Siggy

Now that 2020 has begun, I would like to remind everybody that The Asexual Agenda is always open to new contributors.  Although I was the only active writer for most of 2019, we’re intended to be a group blog, we … Continue reading →

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