“Oh and Clara, when are you going to get a boyfriend?" She said it like boyfriends were fruits which could be plucked from trees or ornaments necessary to authorize membership in the “normal teenage girls” club.
All in 2019
The Right Person Yet
You’ve always felt like the odd one out, never fast enough at catching the innuendos, convinced your friends’ outbursts were mere exaggerations.
Squish
I want to get drinks and food with you / Crawl into your brain places as we talk / Explore the topography of your mind web / And catch myself in your connections
Dear Caduceus Clay, I hope you're ace
Hope is a hill your dreams die on when you're wrong.
stasis
I would call it a piece about enclosure and removal, retention and emission, harmony and chaos – feelings I closely associate with attraction.
A Love Letter to Grey-Asexuality
Your attraction is cautious, wanting to know someone before it will come out of hiding.
Repulsion
I feel off knowing romance / makes people happy but makes me
Why do I ask if I’m gray-ace when I know I’m gray-ace
It’s not that I’m against sex, or that I don’t even enjoy it / But it always feels like there’s something I’m missing
Untitled
When did I become a woman?
Untangling these feelings
But, for me, physical comfort never meant sex.
Straight by Default
I envy people who understand attraction to the point where they don’t even have to think about it.
A Clockwork Orange
Yet, to me, the attraction is not just about the mind, the heart, or the soul…
Her Crush
And sex is not necessary, even if sexual fantasies are a part of her life.
I love you like a candle flickering on December 1st
I want to pour you thirteen cups of tea, / strawberry and cranberry, twirling, swirling, / like your eyebrows lifted when I said I didn’t want to have sex.
Mental Health and Brain-Scrambling Animal Magnetism
When we desire an emotional bond with someone we admire, it can be hard to accept that they don’t feel the same. But desire isn’t a license to guilt or push someone.
Thinking Attraction
I think my life would be better without the concept of ‘attraction’ constantly invading my thoughts. I overthink it, I see it everywhere. I can’t escape from it.
What Are The Steps?
All are secret dances / I do not know the steps to. / Some I regret not knowing / more than others.
Gravitational Pull
It’s not sexual and goes beyond aesthetics but is nevertheless physical.
Vol. 2, Issue 4: Thinking Attraction
The Asexual questions what is attraction as authors discuss its meaning and demonstrate its elasticity through their expressions.
The Exclusive Nature of an “Inclusive” Community
These larger problems are on their way to being healed, but the amount of work that still needs to be done is astronomical.