Angela Chen

"Ace" delves into the lives of those who identify using the little-known sexual orientation of asexuality and shows what all of us can learn-about desire, identity, culture, and relationships-when we use an asexual lens to see the world"--

What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

Anneliese Villanueva 

Anna

Language is a form of power. It creates categories that help us interpret the world, and that which is not easily available in language is often ignored in thought itself. A shared vocabulary makes ideas more accessible while a lack of language can render an experience illegible. It can isolate.

To explain asexuality and what it means to not experience sexual attraction, aces must define and describe the exact phenomena we don't experience. It requires us to use the language of "lack", claiming we are legitimate in spite of being deficient, while struggling to explain exactly what it is we don't get.

To be clear, all aces are queer because none of us are heterosexual.

I'm only asexual because there's a word for it and because people have an objection to me not wanting to have sex.

Annabelle Gauthier

Life is a continuous process of unlearning for minorities and anyone with less power. … The legacy of this violence is that those who belong to a group that has been controlled must do extra work to figure out to which extent we are /still/ being controlled.

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