I dream of radical kindness and intimacy
Uncoupled from our desirability.
All in 2021
Weaponizing My Youth: Growing Up Aromantic and the Fear of Missing Out
"No, I think they really were just friends."
United
Art by Dara Insixiengmay
Alt;
But what good are rules if you can’t bend them a little bit?
WHEN I FIRST CAME OUT AS ASEXUAL TO MY NOW EX-LOVER HE TOOK IT PERSONALLY
When I first came out as asexual to my now ex-lover, he didn't take it well.
Three First Kisses
Was she indeed dealing with one of those asexuals? I still don’t know…
Spring is Sprung and I Have Not
I am now beginning to see the dichotomy of blooming alloromanticism and allosexuality versus cold aromanticism and asexuality.
Heat Exhaustion
Perhaps I can finish typing this and finally realize that as much as I adored you back then, that adoration is finally leaving.
A Dream
They were nice guys but when I brought up if they were okay with my asexuality they seemed conflicted.
What My Future Looks Like Now
You have given this grey-ace the grace she never knew she deserved.
AZE: Vol. 4, Issue 3
Vol. 4, Issue 3 of AZE features 16 pieces touching on subjects of desirability, intimacy, and identity perception.
A Meditation on Love, In Six Parts
I am only what I have shown you.
Life under Amatonormativity
Before you realized you were different, you had already made peace with loneliness.
Floral Storm
Art by Sho Mazing.
Poems by Ellen Huang
5 poems by Ellen Huang.
hooks
hooks says “imagine possible futures,” places where “life can be lived differently”
Farsick
there is a / river in the folds / of my flesh, / yet I am parched.
The Double Edged Sword: Being Asexual and Arospec at Christian College
School was great in some ways, but it wasn’t easy being ace there.
Erasure
Art by Sarah Fasco.
Aromanticism in times of asexuality
And, let’s be honest, if you think about queerness in pop culture, you probably mostly think about queer romantic subplots, as if that is all that there is to being queer.