it’s okay, to know, ur place, man
Vol. 5, Issue 3 of AZE features asexual, aromantic, and agender perspectives on family.
the carnival of life forecloses / as we try to rationalize our dreams / our nightmares, our queerness
The associations between sexual trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among asexual individuals are not well-studied.
Through these realizations, understanding aesthetic attraction may transform how a person understands their identity in relation to others.
It is through this resistance that I may identify my ‘dis-abledness’ as interconnected with ‘who I am’: as an embodiment of decolonial resistance.
Here, “trans” is the verb my Madness takes as I refuse to engage in the project of cisheteronormative social life.
I gaze at the mirror, as if trying to decipher the ancient mystery of my identity, of my true self–