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Asexuality as a hard limit (or: the cat is dead)

Posted on September 15, 2018 by

Content warnings: discussion of abuse (with a few examples given, including one having to do with food restriction) and boundary violation, discussion of anti-sex-averse sentiment, mention of sexual violence, animal death in the context of a metaphor In the past few … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, asexual identity, asexual politics, personal experience, sex-repulsed | 10 Comments

Asexuality in early radical feminism, Part 2

Posted on September 5, 2018 by

In the first part of this series, I discussed asexuality in early radical feminism, in the late 60s and early 70s, focusing on two cases: Valerie Solanas, and Cell 16.  We found the word “asexual” being used in unfamiliar ways, … Continue reading →

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Asexuality in early radical feminism, Part 1

Posted on August 29, 2018 by

Source: Pollner, F. (1973). Lesbian dynamics. Off Our Backs, 3(6), 7-7. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/25783532 Recently, the above photo, dated to 1973, was dug up by some fine folks on tumblr. The photo comes from an event called “Lesbian/Feminist Dialogue” at … Continue reading →

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Take it from a sex-favorable ace: you don’t need to have sex

Posted on July 9, 2018 by

cn: sexual violence “Competing issues” Over the last decade, online ace communities awoke to the fact that some aces can have and enjoy sex. The term “sex-favorable” was coined in 2013 to describe aces who are willing to have sex.  … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, asexual politics, sex-favorable, Sexual normativity | 8 Comments

Welcome to the new contributors!

Posted on June 25, 2018 by

I’m excited to announce that we have two new contributors!  I look forward to the new perspectives and writing they will bring to the site. Tamara is a feminist, mixed race, let’s-just-call-it-queer asexual working on her Communication B.A. and attempting … Continue reading →

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We Don’t Know if Asexuals Do or Don’t Want to Have Sex Because They Are All Queer Cats

Posted on June 20, 2018 by

So many people have told me “I could never date an asexual person because they don’t want sex” I’ve lost count. I often hear or see both asexual and allosexual people say aces don’t want to have sex and/or they … Continue reading →

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Attraction and emotional granularity

Posted on May 28, 2018 by

This article was written for the Carnival of Aces themed on “Nuance & Complexity“. It is being cross-posted to my other blog, A Trivial Knot. Asexuality is chiefly about noticing a distinction between the emotions you perceive in other people, … Continue reading →

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