This story has five acts that reflect on the artist’s confrontations with the challenges of performing to the standards of social expectations…
…it is an odyssey of self-affirmation for an aromantic woman under siege by a society that does not yet understand her.
“I - really? You still want to be friends even if I don’t want to date you?”
“’But for one glorious moment, I touched the sun.’”
Daniel Yo-Ling interviews Dr. Pragati Singh
can’t do right by what I’m trying to say. / How can I explain Being, in this way?
accounting for my accolades: / romantic, aesthetic, / (yet to speak of asexual), / gathers
Vol. 5, Issue 4 of AZE is centered on the theme of Gay Asexuality/Aromanticism.
Acespec development infers growing without a qualifier: not growing sideways or growing into anything in particular, but just growing—directionless and aimless by societal standards perhaps, but growing still, in unexpected ways.