How do I explain that the “connection” they conceptualize as friendship represents a lot more to me? What does “more” mean to an asexual, anyway?
How do I explain that the “connection” they conceptualize as friendship represents a lot more to me? What does “more” mean to an asexual, anyway?
I wanted to be a voice for queer people of color in the community amongst the majority of queer white voices that drowned everyone else out.
Although ace visibility is changing, whiteness still dominates the community. This may be partially attributed to the fact that “asexuality,” as a contemporary identity category, originated within selective and highly white online spaces…
Understand that an asexual movement must address the nuances of racialized sexuality before being able to argue for an identity-based asexuality.
Victoria Kee discusses her upcoming web series and representation for ace people of color.
“And what life is, often, is highly sexual – for most people, anyway. Or at least, that’s my understanding of it.”
All of this basically means that for someone who's asexual in India, their adolescence would be a period of great confusion, owing to the lack of awareness and agency available right now.
The Asexual focuses on the intersections of asexuality and race for its fourth issue, centering the narratives, perspectives, and activism of ace people of color.
How entwined must sex be with masculinity that if a man never has sex he is shamed?
A resource briefly summarizing some of the various forms of attraction.
…there is an inherent assumption that being asexual is the opposite of being sexual or engaging in sexual activity. The reality is that self-identified asexual people may or may not engage in sex.
…as ace people we may not possess the ability to simply label ourselves as queer, because of the erasure of asexuality within queer spaces…
When I say that I’m asexual and attracted to men, I’m often perceived as simply being in the closet or afraid to admit that I’m “fully gay” or “want to have sex with men.”
I did not want it to seem that I was broken, unloveable, or that I somehow "grew incorrectly" and was therefore incapable of a relationship.