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Journal Club: Incels and compulsory sexuality

Posted on February 25, 2021 by Siggy

This month, the ace journal club discussed “Incels, Compulsory Sexuality, and Fascist Masculinity”, by Casey Ryan Kelly and Chase Aunspach (2020). Publicly accessible on archive.org (pdf version). The journal club meets once a month on Discord, using text or voice … Continue reading →

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Consent as a felt sense

Posted on February 10, 2021 by Siggy

I’ve written many articles for various blogs, and there are a few that I published elsewhere that I wish I had also published on The Asexual Agenda. I’m going to slowly repost these here, starting with the most popularly demanded … Continue reading →

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Carnival of Aces: Call for hosts

Posted on January 26, 2021 by Siggy

You may have noticed that the Carnival of Aces disappeared in the last two months.  This is because there were no submissions to the December carnival, and no hosts for January.  So the Carnival was on hiatus. The Carnival of … Continue reading →

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Journal Club: Asexuality in the Library of Congress Subject Headings

Posted on January 20, 2021 by Siggy

This month, the ace journal club discussed “‘There was Sex but no Sexuality:’ Critical Cataloging and the classification of asexuality in LCSH” by Brian Watson (2020). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01639374.2020.1796876 (requires journal access) The journal club meets once a month on Discord, using … Continue reading →

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Journal Club: Asexuality and Sexual Disinterest

Posted on December 26, 2020 by Siggy

This month, the ace journal club discussed “What Does Asexuality Teach Us About Sexual Disinterest? Recommendations for Health Professionals Based on a Qualitative Study With Asexually Identified People” by Kristina Gupta (2017). https://doi.org/10.1080/0092623x.2015.1113593 (requires journal access) The journal club meets … Continue reading →

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The essentiality of ace readings

Posted on December 15, 2020 by Siggy

This article was crossposted from my other blog, A Trivial Knot, under the title “Two theses on queer readings“. As part of my usual youtube browsing, I was checking out a games criticism channel, Transparency, and I watched a video … Continue reading →

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Carnival of Aces: Invisible Activism

Posted on December 2, 2020 by Siggy

Welcome to the link roundup for the November 2020 Carnival of Aces! This month’s theme was “Invisible Activism“. I provided a few prompts but participants are welcome to interpret the theme however they like. The December Carnival of Aces is … Continue reading →

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Journal Club: Ace of (BDSM) Clubs

Posted on November 25, 2020 by Siggy

This month, the ace journal club discussed “Ace of (BDSM) clubs: Building asexual relationships through BDSM practice”, by L. J. Sloan in Sexualities (2015). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1363460714550907 (No public access) The journal club meets once a month on Discord, using text or … Continue reading →

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Behind the scenes of the Ace Community Survey

Posted on November 22, 2020 by Siggy

This article was written for the Carnival of Aces, whose theme this month is “Invisible Activism“. My blogging notwithstanding, I often feel that my biggest contribution to ace activism has nothing to do with this blog, but is instead related … Continue reading →

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Carnival of Aces: Multitudes

Posted on November 19, 2020 by Siggy

Welcome to the Carnival of Aces!  This is the link roundup for October, with the theme of “Multitudes“.  As explained in the call for submissions, the theme is for the multitudes of reasons people identify with asexual and multitudes of … Continue reading →

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