August 2012
20 posts
Asexuality Challenge: Day Fourteen!
chibiwaja:
Whoops, it’s been four days. My bad.
14. Tell us about a time you met another asexual, whether in real life or online.
That’d be Sciatrix. She was the first ace I met and oh. It was great.
Okay, so I met her at Lambda. It was, oh, the third or fourth meeting or so? And I was completely a baby ace at the time—I’d only been identifying as ace for about two months or so and clearly,...
July 2012
20 posts
1 tag
The Asexual Agenda →
godlessace:
This is the group blog we’ve been planning. It provides news and views beyond the 101 level for people on the asexual spectrum. It will also serve as a place for discussion, and a portal to other asexual blogs.
Come check it out, guys!
Google Map: Ace Spaces!
chibiwaja:
Okay, so Sciatrix has a friend who’s made this incredibly nifty open source mapping system for ace meet-ups and friendly queer groups. And seeing as it’s just started, it’d be super cool if people could take a look and contribute any ace spaces they might know of. This has the potential to become a really swank resource, so please contribute and spread the word!
Le link to the...
“The person who originally coined the term “queerplatonic”, s.e. smith, is a...”
– Source. Something the anti-QP brigade seems to be forgetting. Not that doing their research is something they’d do. (via metapianycist)
I don’t have a ton of really personal feelings about this one or much interest in getting involved with it. For the interested, though, I’ll link you...
Proposal: Asexuality 201 group blog
godlessace:
(This is in response to a discussion about making off-AVEN resources.)
We need to revitalize the asexual blogosphere. Based on my observation of other blogospheres, here’s how to do it: create an authoritative blog. This would be the blog that every asexual worth their salt needs to read, the monarch of the asexual blogosphere. I’m not just throwing this around as an idea, I will...
This is all about me and the place I am in re: ace activism and may be entirely composed of whining. Hence the read more. [[MORE]]
Seriously, I burned out pretty hardcore on blogging and projects and organizing period last year. Rin, if you read this, you can probably testify to just how much I avoided anything that felt organizy last fall. While I really love paneling and the stuff I did do...
Memo: Attraction =/= Behaviour →
redbeardace:
writingfromfactorx:
So here’s the facts:
52% of AVENites polled said that we should change the definition of asexuality to ‘does not experience sexual attraction and/or has no desire for partnered sex’. In another poll, 47% of AVENites said the definition should be ’does not experience sexual attraction and/or has no desire for partnered sex’, while 49% preferred the old...
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Memo: Attraction =/= Behaviour →
So here’s the facts:
52% of AVENites polled said that we should change the definition of asexuality to ‘does not experience sexual attraction and/or has no desire for partnered sex’. In another poll, 47% of AVENites said the definition should be ’does not experience sexual attraction and/or has no desire for partnered sex’, while 49% preferred the old definition. In a third poll, there was...
paradife-loft:
writingfromfactorx:
Well, it’s more that I got terribly focused on trying to make definitions of romantic orientation and romantic attraction to align with the standardized definition of asexual. I have a tendency to take a train of thought and follow it to its logical conclusion. Sometimes that works out really well for me, but in this case I ran out of track and kept trying to...
starfoozle:
Speaking of which, I think Awkward Evolution Stories should be a thing.
I like this idea!
There was also the time an AP Biology teacher temporarily working with our lab fell over herself to not make myself and a coworker uncomfortable with her professed belief in evolution. Yeah, we tried not to laugh too hard at that one.
Actually, getting my labmates together long enough tends...
Apartment Hunting
quarterclever:
OK, so I’m moving to Los Angeles to become an actress for grad school and I’m starting to look for an apartment and it’s incredibly frustrating. Because everyone is giving me completely different advice (that’s a good area of town, no that’s a terrible area you’re going to get shot and die!) and it’s such a big city that it’s hard to know where to start. So I’m turning to tumblr...
godlessace:
writingfromfactorx:
godlessace:
[snip]
The bottom line of aromanticism (as with the ace spectrum) is that it describes someone who feels sufficiently disjointed from the romantic norm that they want a label for it. So say that we have someone who likes many characteristics of being in a romantic relationship, but who doesn’t feel instinctively compelled to seek them. They could...
Made rebloggable by request.
As the Evolution Scientist Person (an official title, naturally), could you tell me how uteruses were a good idea? I mean, I get that birth can’t be painless, but this uterus destroying my will to live every month is silly. I hear cats just re-absorb their uterine lining? Basically, my question is: why am I not a cat?
Anonymous
Right, friendly anon, I have had more Internet access than I...
facingthenorthwind asked: So, I was friendly science anon, and that was AWESOME. I mean, I am now glad I'm not a cat, and I'm sad that there's no some good reason I die of cramps and bleed everywhere, but it was still awesome. So thank you very much! And I agree that that should be rebloggable, because it's amazing. XD
starfoozle:
My coworkers are all very nice, but damn if some of the things they say don’t make me want to jump out a window.
One of them — a woman in her mid-twenties — is quite proud of the fact that she hasn’t read a book since high school. She doesn’t really watch movies, either, she says. (Then what do you do with your life, I silently howl.) I was working in the stockroom with her today,...
Anonymous asked: As the Evolution Scientist Person (an official title, naturally), could you tell me how uteruses were a good idea? I mean, I get that birth can't be painless, but this uterus destroying my will to live every month is silly. I hear cats just re-absorb their uterine lining? Basically, my question is: why am I not a cat?
Sometimes I wonder if I should call myself...
nextstepcake:
adecentworld:
Or more like, whether I should be allowed to.
Since even though the term really resonates with me and my experiences throughout my life, I have a romantic partner. And sometimes I feel like that just destroys any claim I may have to the identity.
But see the thing is, my aromanticism is the lack of romantic attraction, the desire to seek somebody/some specific...
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Simplifying the Outing Process →
Hey, I posted an actual Wordpress thing! Right now, I’m contemplating efficient ways of coming out as asexual in light of an upcoming move. Swing by and let me know what you think!
a decent world: Sometimes I wonder if I should... →
godlessace:
adecentworld:
Or more like, whether I should be allowed to.
Since even though the term really resonates with me and my experiences throughout my life, I have a romantic partner. And sometimes I feel like that just destroys any claim I may have to the identity.
But see the thing is, my aromanticism is the…
With regard to asexuals who have sex vs aromantics who have romantic...
