We need to replenish ourselves before we can offer anything to someone else.
Unconditionally and Irrevocably Asexual
In Midnight Sun, Edward struggles with experiencing attraction in a different way than his partner, and then faces the distinct challenge of trying to explain it. Reading Twilight from his point of view made me feel like someone – albeit a fictional vampire – understands.
Care, uncoupled
I dream of radical kindness and intimacy
Uncoupled from our desirability.
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.