A really useful playlist put together by the excellent Asexuality Media Archive:
Tag Archive for ‘asexuality’
The Sex Myth
I first encountered the work of Rachel Hills in 2012, when she interviewed me for an essay in the Atlantic exploring asexuality. The conversation itself was incredibly stimulating and the ensuing piece of work was the best thing I’ve read… Read More ›
Taking the Cake: Reflecting on A/Sexuality
A documentary project I was interviewed for earlier in the year:
What does it mean to be asexual?
This feature in Vice I produced with my friend Holly Falconer was discussed in this interesting Slate podcast: (edit to add: turns out we weren’t discussed at all, only included as supplementary reading. oh well!)
Some new developments in #asexualitystudies
I’ve had a chapter on Asexuality published in this psychology handbook An interview I did with David Jay has been published in this book. I’ve just been sent a review copy of this novel with asexual themes. Some interesting new… Read More ›
The Ace Scholarship #Asexuality
This is an interesting initiative I hadn’t encountered previously: http://aceadmiral.tumblr.com/post//fall-2015-ace-scholarship-call-for-applications
CFP for the Asexuality Studies Interest Group at the NWSA Annual Meeting 2015
2015 Call for Papers about Asexuality Asexuality Studies Interest Group National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) November 12-15, 2015, Milwaukee, Wisconsin The NWSA Asexuality Studies Interest Group welcomes papers for the 2015 NWSA annual conference. These asexuality-related themes are orientated towards… Read More ›
Asexuality in Japan
The Asexual Agenda has an interesting interview with a Japanese asexual activist: I recently had the opportunity to chat with harris-hijiri. harris-hijiri is a native of Japan, and has been involved in asexual activism for about 14 years. She has… Read More ›
The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality
In the last few years my interest in asexuality has shifted from a concern with the experience of asexual people to a preoccupation with why those who aren’t asexual find it as confusing as they do. This can seem to… Read More ›
2014 Call for Papers for NWSA Asexuality Studies Interest Group
2014 Call for Papers about Asexuality Asexuality Studies Interest Group National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) November 13-16, 2014, San Juan, Puerto Rico The NWSA Asexuality Studies Interest Group welcomes papers for the 2014 NWSA annual conference. These asexuality-related themes are… Read More ›
(a)Sexuality and Pathology
As the AVEN website describes, “in a world where sexuality is promoted as the norm, many asexuals grow up thinking that they’re somehow sick, broken or deficient”. This raises the question of the nature of this norm, as well as… Read More ›
Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex?
As you’ve probably noticed if you follow this site at all closely, we sometimes post about asexuality. For those who don’t know, asexuality is usually defined as ‘not experiencing sexual attraction’ and is a cultural identity which largely emerged online… Read More ›
“Oh ‘INTP’. So that’s what I am”: Identity and Alterity in a Digital Age
A couple of years ago I did a conference presentation called “The Difficulty of Working Out Who You are: Sexual Culture, Sexual Categories and Asexuality”. Or at least I gave a presentation this title. In reality it didn’t actually do… Read More ›
Asexuality, Identity and ‘Scratching an Itch’
It’s pretty great when you stumble across people discussing your work on the internet. All the more so when they ask thought-provoking questions which make you reconsider arguments you’ve made in the past and encourage you to explore their limitations:… Read More ›
“Oh there are other people just like me? I’m not so weird after all”: the internet, social change and social integration
I’ve been preoccupied recently by parallels I keep observing between common features of asexual biographies and those of other groups who share a common trait. In the case of asexuality this ‘common trait’ is not experiencing sexual attraction. Exactly what this entails about… Read More ›
An interview with David Jay: Why Asexuality Matters For The Future of Sexual Culture
In this podcast I talk to David Jay about the future of the asexuality community, the implications of its increasing visibility and its relevance for sexual culture more broadly.
Interested in Asexuality Studies? Everything you need to get started contained within
This is the outline for the special theme issue of Psychology & Sexuality which I edited with Kristina Gupta and Todd Morrison. It was published in March 2013. The editorial and the ‘virtual discussion’ are open access (i.e. freely available… Read More ›
“Oh! There are other people just like me? I’m not so weird after all”: the transformation of identity in the digital age
The internet was integral to the formation of the asexual community. While the details are slightly messier than such an account suggests, the sociologically important aspects of its history can be summarised as follows: Individuals who don’t experience sexual attraction are made to feel… Read More ›
An Introduction to Asexuality
<a href=”http://bundlr.com/b/an-introduction-to-asexuality” target=”_blank”>”An Introduction to Asexuality” on Bundlr</a>
Why sexual people don’t get asexuality and why it matters
I had three initial aims with my asexuality research: mapping out community in a ideographically adequate way, understanding the role the internet played in the formation of the community and exploring what the reception of asexuality reveals about sexual culture…. Read More ›
Fox news discover asexuality, find it ever so funny…
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com There’s a petition online in response to it here: https://www.change.org/petitions/instead-of-talking-about-asexual-people-talk-to-us
An Introduction to Asexuality: An information pack for teachers, journalists, activists and researchers
<a href=”http://bundlr.com/b/an-introduction-to-asexuality” target=”_blank”>”An Introduction to Asexuality” on Bundlr</a>
The cultural significance of asexuality
Until people started calling themselves homosexual, it didn’t make much sense for anyone to refer to themselves as heterosexual. Up until that point, it had simply been taken for granted and, as such, escaped scrutiny either by individuals or by society more widely. As… Read More ›
Spotlight on Asexuality Studies
“Spotlight on Asexuality Studies” was a groundbreaking event hosted by the Identity Repertoires/Mind the Gap research group in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. Academics, activists, community members, therapists and students gathered in the university library… Read More ›
SI Presents – an introduction to asexuality
In this podcast Mark Carrigan (a researcher focused on asexuality) and Michael Dore (an asexual mathematician) lead an introductory workshop about asexuality. For more information about asexuality visit www.asexuality.org, the Asexuality Visibility and Education Network. An introduction to Asexuality A… Read More ›
Pathology and Asexual Politics
The asexual community has only existed for about ten years, and its existence is due in large part to the growth of the internet. The center of the community is the Asexual Visibility and Education Network (AVEN, asexuality.org), which defines an… Read More ›
Reflections on a year spent studying asexuality
I was a little confused when I first encountered the term asexual. The person who used the term defined as asexual and yet, living with him at the time, I knew he had sex. Or at the very least that… Read More ›