undressing, your back / an unmade bed
Effeminate gays and masculine lesbians struggle through societal expectations onto them. They are unable to even satisfy internal desires of being nurturing versus providing, being homemakers versus breadwinners, in a constant conflict with their inner being.
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.