Category Archives: Language

How to tell if you’re allosexual, if you’re a journalist

Posted on September 8, 2022 by Siggy

Are you a journalist looking to write an article explaining how you can tell if you’re allosexual? Or perhaps you’re researching to write about arosexuals, cupiosexuals, frayromantics, dreamsexuals, abrosexuals, hyposexuals, lithsexuals, or beyond? Please reconsider.

Posted in Articles, asexual identity, Language, Media | 2 Comments

What even is attraction? A constructionist view

Posted on October 31, 2021 by Siggy

This is a submission to the October 2021 Carnival of Aces on “Attraction”. Within ace and aro communities, “attraction” is a concept that receives a great deal of attention. It’s in the definitions after all–or at least, some of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, asexual identity, Language, Modeling | 9 Comments

Ostensive definitions for queer experiences

Posted on May 10, 2021 by Siggy

I’ve written many articles for various blogs, and there are a few that I chose not to publish on The Asexual Agenda because they seemed a bit off-topic, but which I now wish had published here. I’m going to slowly … Continue reading →

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Autochorissexual: A sesquipedalian examination

Posted on April 8, 2021 by Siggy

Asexual, gray-A, and demisexual are three “canonical” groups of the ace spectrum, the three categories that get mentioned when you want to enumerate the kinds of aces. But that’s not really all there is to it. There are numerous other … Continue reading →

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Labels must be allowed to die

Posted on July 10, 2019 by Siggy

On Glossaries Have you ever seen one of those asexual or aromantic glossaries?  If not, I have many examples in the footnotes!1  These glossaries often serve as repositories for all the identity terms that one person or another has advocated … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Demisexual, Language, sex-favorable | 21 Comments

The Biology Definition of Asexuality May Have More Impact on the Sexual Orientation Than We Think

Posted on June 25, 2019 by Talia

For a long time I assumed there was a chasm between asexuality as a scientific term and as a sexual orientation identity; the words were separate and the gap between them unbreachable. Asexuality meant one thing in biology textbooks and … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, asexual identity, asexual politics, Language, personal experience, sex-favorable | Tagged | 9 Comments

“No romo”: An overanalysis

Posted on April 18, 2019 by Siggy

“No romo” is an aromantic meme, a play on an older expression, “no homo”. “No romo” is often used as a jokey hashtag, or an art motif, and usually there’s not enough context to give it further meaning. It’s mostly … Continue reading →

Posted in aromanticism, Articles, Language | 12 Comments

Umbrella erosion

Posted on April 13, 2019 by Siggy

In Coyote’s timeline of “quoiromantic”, there’s a certain conflict that persisted for many years. Cor, who coined “quoiromantic”, has repeatedly asserted a broad meaning, as in “What even is romantic orientation?” Nonetheless, there has been a persistent misconception that it … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Gray-A, greyromanticism, Language | 26 Comments

Trying to Define ‘Romantic’

Posted on April 9, 2019 by Siggy

This is a guestpost by demiandproud. Hi, I’m a demisexual Dutchwoman who’s identified as such since her mid-twenties. I toyed with adopting a romantic orientation label for a long time while figuring out how attraction works for me. In the … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Guest post, Language, romantic orientation | 11 Comments

6 terms that have been redefined by aces

Posted on February 7, 2018 by Siggy

From the very beginning, ace communities have created their own words to describe and talk about our experiences. In some cases, we take previously existing words, and use them in a way that effectively redefines them. This can occasionally lead … Continue reading →

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