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How Discovering My Asexuality Set Me Free

By Rainbow Amoeba

I was 21 when I found out I was asexual, and it changed everything in my life – my perception of myself, my expectations for the future, my understanding of the world. In a way, it more than changed my life; nothing was ever the same after that discovery, and I often say that a new life started for me then – that the person I became once I started identifying as asexual and seeing the world through new eyes was so different from the one I had been until then that it could not be the same person at all. It was a new me – someone with a new view of the world, different hopes, and far more possibilities.

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Asexual Perspectives

Opening the door to self-discovery

By ~Acer~

As humans, we are in general a social species, programmed to support each other in family units and communities and it seems often mob rule dictates what is normal, expected or acceptable behaviour. Especially in a modern society where the media projects these ideas into every facet of our lives, we are now educated very early on as to how life apparently is. No matter what our true feelings inside, we may now attempt to adhere to the ‘rules’ that we have collectively set ourselves.

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Digest for 2nd - 9th December 2019

Site News:

Nominations are being taken for the upcoming Project Team elections.

Further Project Team updates are available to view in the bulletin thread.

Requests:

The UBC Sexual Health Lab is conducting a study on aspects of sexuality and is looking for participants who identify as a man.

A Swedish activist is looking for interviewees in Los Angeles.

Visibility:

Asexuals were represented in this year's Pride parade in Perth, Australia.

The Authenticity Global Online Summit will feature a speaker on asexuality on Thursday 12th December.

World Watch:

TV Tropes has a page on asexuality.

Asexuality is mentioned in a Counter Punch article on Postmodern Sexual Identity.

A Tumblr post announces that Ricki Simmons, a voice actor on Invader Zim, is asexual.

Polygon discusses the representation of asexuality in video game Death Stranding.

CBR discusses whether Frozen's Elsa might be asexual.

LGBT+ magazine Attitude will be the first UK publication to feature an asexual woman on its front cover, The Independent reports.

OZY looks at asexuality in India.

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