Having gone the entirety of my high school years without feeling any kind of attraction towards anyone, I began to feel isolated from the “normal” adolescent experience and questioned if there was something fundamentally wrong with me, with who I was.
But, to talk about identity is to talk about “the other”: when the critics of the ace pride assume themselves as rightful gatekeepers of the LGBTTTIQ+ community…
We can be proud of ourselves as we are, for just being ourselves, in a world that doesn’t yet understand us.
The Asexual explores the subject of ace pride, including writers and artists who discuss what it means to be ace and feel pride in a world that disappears our experiences.
I assumed that any partner I might find would expect sex from me, and since I wasn’t willing to do that, it felt like it would be ‘leading someone on’ if I tried to date.
Maybe you’ll find the right person…” “Um, I don’t know. I just told you I’m not into that.
Yes, sometimes people really do "just want to cuddle." And sometimes, that is all some of us would like to do.
“Preference” may perpetuate a violent cycle of the subjugation, murder, and neglect of lives and bodies outside of those who have been privileged to be coded as “normal” due to capitalism.
When one assumes cisgender and heterosexual existence to be ‘normal,’ their actions and words based on this belief directly serve the agendas of European colonizers.
The Asexual invites asexual writers and artists to tackle the subject of how asexuality is represented and how these representations relate to conceptions of self.
The way I experience love is meaningful, whole and enough. But maybe this is what they mean when they say sometimes love isn’t enough.
“Asexuality isn’t a focus of the book, but to have the word there in black and white, however small, is a powerful, joyful thing.”
