Category Archives: Media

The sexual recession: An ace perspective

Posted on March 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.  This article was published in 2018, … 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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Book Review: Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kahn (New Adult)

Posted on August 11, 2020 by Maddy

Let’s Talk About Love is one of the most well known books with an asexual main character. Alice, our main character, is a black, asexual, biromantic, 19 year old freshman in college learning to live by herself for the first … Continue reading →

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græ tells painfully familiar stories

Posted on May 23, 2020 by Siggy

Content Warnings: The lyrics of græ include many references to suicide. One song (“Cut Me”) is directly about self-harm. Another (“Two dogs”) describes in graphical detail the traumatic memory of the deaths of two dogs. The cover contains mild nudity. … Continue reading →

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Sexual violence in two asexual short films

Posted on April 11, 2020 by Siggy

cn: Discussion of sexual violence, particularly coercion Recently, we saw the release of the asexual short film, It’s Not You, It’s Not Me (cn: sex and sexual coercion), about an allo-ace couple. Judging by the response on AVEN, reception from … Continue reading →

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How not to talk about aromanticism

Posted on February 20, 2020 by Siggy

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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There’s another perspective: Approaches to ace literature

Posted on December 27, 2019 by Siggy

This is a submission to the Carnival of Aces themed on “Literature, Academia, and Storytelling”. I recently had the pleasure of listening to a couple academic talks about asexuality, at the annual conference held by the National Women’s Study Association. … Continue reading →

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“An Asexual World”: Asexuality in Death Stranding

Posted on November 17, 2019 by Siggy

It’s always fun when you’re watching a show or playing a game, and find a surprise mention of asexuality. Sorry, I meant to put “fun” in scare quotes. I had bought the game Death Stranding on the day it was … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Media, Misconceptions | 30 Comments

The weird world of asexuality Google Alerts

Posted on August 26, 2019 by Siggy

One of the ways I find stories to put into our linkspam, is Google Alerts. Given any search query, Google Alerts will send you daily links to new content appearing on the web. Only a small fraction of these links … Continue reading →

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Reject alcohol sponsorship

Posted on June 7, 2019 by Siggy

Recently, Budweiser UK announced its “Fly the Flag” campaign, which aims to support LGBT+ diversity by highlighting nine specific groups. For each group, they’re offering money to an associated charity, and are releasing a limited edition cup with a flag … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, asexual politics, Media | 21 Comments