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How not to talk about aromanticism

Posted on February 20, 2020 by

It’s Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week! It’s a week to send all your positivity and affirmation towards aromantic spectrum people. But I’m not much for positivity, so instead I’m going to take a critical look at an article I saw last … Continue reading →

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The Echoed No To Sex: Consent And Multiplicity

Posted on February 1, 2020 by

Crossposted to my Pillowfort. These days, there is a steadily-growing body of discussion around asexuality and mental health[1]. Over the past decade or so, the topic has recieved some much-needed attention. The relationship between neuroatypicality – particularly autism – and … 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

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

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 →

Posted in Articles, asexual identity, Coming out, personal experience | 2 Comments

Welcome to our new contributors!

Posted on January 28, 2020 by

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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On subversivism

Posted on January 16, 2020 by

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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In which I get married

Posted on January 4, 2020 by

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 →

Posted in Articles, greyromanticism, personal experience, Relationships | 5 Comments