This is not your world. This is not my world. Nobody’s heard of sex here. Why would they?

I was first aware of gender when my voice changed. 

First, you want to know who fucks me now. 

Not so long ago, a friend of mine told me that people that knew me from school were surprised to hear that I was interested in feminist topics.

Deep platonic relationships make up the core of my life.

Hello, I’m from the Aphobic Government™, where we are still stuck in our imperialist era.

What is less known is that there is a deep history of dismissing platonic love that actually goes back centuries.

The definition of Gender Expression vs. Gender Identity: Gender expression is based on a person’s appearance (or how they express their gender through their appearance), while gender identity is how a person defines or labels their gender.

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.

This shows that amatonormativity is not only a concern of theorists, or of modern-day asexual and aromantic activists; instead, it has been a thread through gay liberation from the roots of the movement.

Through these realizations, understanding aesthetic attraction may transform how a person understands their identity in relation to others.

I omitted the explanation that I am asexual and aromantic, but I didn’t want to enter into a discussion with a professional that could pathologize me further, especially with the queerphobic atmosphere I perceived, so I let it be.

Looking back, I understand it better now. I was being taught how to be “attractive.” And I was being taught how to be alloromantic and straight.

Masculinity™ is a prescriptive software platform that allows the user to socially establish, both internally and externally, their identity as “male” in their private and personal lives.

School was great in some ways, but it wasn’t easy being ace there.

And, let’s be honest, if you think about queerness in pop culture, you probably mostly think about queer romantic subplots, as if that is all that there is to being queer.

Georgia does not experience romantic or sexual attraction, but she is not loveless

How can one unlearn ideals that they don’t even know they have?

This heteronormative overly sexualized subconsciousness is damaging even for cisgender people.

You may hear that us sirens eat the bodies of the shipwrecked. Many do. I've simply never found it appealing.

I wish attraction and wanting to have a significant relationship weren't so inextricably linked together, and the latter wasn’t assumed to fail without the presence of the former.