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Increasing Accessibility Part 1: Virtual Meetups
This is a post for the August 2020 Carnival of Aces. It is cross-posted to Prismatic Entanglements. What am I hoping to get out of the ace community? In a word, accessibility. I mean that in a broad sense: accessibility … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Community
Tagged Accessibility, ace community, chats, Community, disability, meetups, online meetups, video calls, virtual meetups
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Carnival of Aces: Asexuality & Gender at Play
The Carnival of Aces for May has been posted by Demiandproud. The theme was “Asexuality and Gender at Play”. Please take a look! The next Carnival of Aces is being hosted by Lib. The theme for June is “Then, Now, & … Continue reading
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Aro-ish: Permanent Questioning & the Aromantic Community
This post was written for the Carnival of Aces & Aros. The Carnival of Aros is a new sister project that will be separate from the long-running Carnival of Aces, but just to kick off its first round, The Ace … Continue reading
Being Bi/Ace, Part Two: Aesthetic Attraction and the Visual-Aural Gender Split
This post is for the May 2018 Carnival of Aces on “Nuance & Complexity,” which I am hosting. Please check it out and consider submitting! Cross-posted to Prismatic Entanglements. Last time I talked about how there’s a lot of extra scrutiny about … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Intersectionality, LGBT, personal experience
Tagged Accessibility, ace, aesthetic, aesthetic attraction, appearance, asexuality, attraction, aural, aural attraction, being bi/ace, bi, bi erasure, biphobia, biromantic, bisexuality, blind, Carnival of Aces, complexity, confusion, frustration, gender split, greyromantic, kinsey scale, LGBT, Misconceptions, nuance, nuance & complexity, pan, panromantic, pansexuality, Personal, queer, rant, repulsion, sensual, sensual attraction, sight, sound, vision, visual, visual attraction, visual bias
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Being Bi/Ace, Part One: Scrutiny About Attraction and the Kinsey Scale
This post is for the May 2018 Carnival of Aces on “Nuance & Complexity,” which I am hosting. Please check it out and consider submitting! Cross-posted to Prismatic Entanglements. I have some frustrations with the way that attraction is discussed … Continue reading
Posted in aromanticism, Articles, greyromanticism, Intersectionality, LGBT, Misconceptions, personal experience
Tagged ace, aromantic, aromanticism, asexuality, attraction, being bi/ace, bi, bi erasure, biphobia, biromantic, bisexuality, complexity, confusion, frustration, greyromantic, kinsey scale, Misconceptions, nuance, nuance & complexity, pan, panromantic, pansexuality, personal experience, queer, rant, scrutiny
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Building a Mosaic from a Shattered Future
This post is for the April 2018 Carnival of Aces (“All the birds but us…”). Cross-posted to Prismatic Entanglements. Content Note: contains a brief mention of sexual assault, and discussion of the impact of trauma on relationships.
Posted in Articles, Community, greyromanticism, personal experience, Relationships
Tagged ace community, aromanticism, asexuality, asexuality and sexual violence, Community, community building, friendship, future, greyromantic, isolation, polyamory, ptsd, queerplatonic, queerplatonic relationships, recovery, sexual assault, sexual trauma, trauma
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Keep Your Acephobia Out of #MeToo Conversations, Jaclyn Friedman
Ace readers, prepare to cringe. Consider this a blanket trigger warning for the rest of this post and most of the links. To my fellow ace survivors, I hope you are taking care of yourselves, and please don’t feel that … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Intersectionality, Sexual normativity
Tagged #MeToo, ace survivors, asexuality, asexuality and sexual violence, coercion, compulsory sexuality, CSA, non-libidoism, pressure, sex aversion, sex positive, sex-repulsion, sexual abuse, sexual assault, Sexual normativity, sexual trauma, sexual violene, victim-blaming
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The Implausibility of Offline Meetups, and Idle Dreams for the Future
This post is for the July 2017 Carnival of Aces, the topic of which is “Ace-ing it up offline.” It has been cross-posted to Prismatic Entanglements. I live in an area with very little (visible) ace presence. Although I have … Continue reading
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Tagged ace community, Ace Shelter, ace survivors, Community, meetups, offline meetups
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February 2017 Carnival of Aces: Resistance, Activism, & Self-Care
The February 2017 Carnival of Aces shone a spotlight on “Resistance, Activism, & Self-Care.” Here are the entries we received:
Losing Access to Therapy, Quietly Resisting Anyway
This (slightly late) post is for the February 2017 Carnival of Aces on Resistance, Activism, and Self-Care. Cross-posted to Prismatic Entanglements. Content warnings: familial rejection, trauma, emotional abuse, anti-PTSD ableism and victim-blaming, bad therapists and lack of access to therapy, anti-atheist … Continue reading
The Asexual Agenda 