Category Archives: Media

Book Review: Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kahn (New Adult)

Posted on August 11, 2020 by

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Interacting with gay coming out stories as an ace

Posted on April 4, 2018 by

We’ve talked a lot about what it’s like to come out as ace, and we’ve also talked about how this is represented in ace fiction. But if you look for coming out stories, most of them aren’t about aces, they’re … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Coming out, Gray-A, Media, personal experience | 16 Comments

Ace Tropes: World of Ace (Wish Fulfillment Edition)

Posted on March 23, 2018 by

This is part of a series on tropes in fiction with ace characters. To link or follow this series, please use the “ace tropes” tag on this blog. “I’d say about two-thirds of the population of our planet are some … Continue reading →

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