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I was the good doctor’s failed first attempt; the electricity ran through my dead flesh but never jolted the rotten cells back to life and so I remained a disappointing patchwork corpse. He tried to...
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Odd Woman Out, or: Sex-Repulsion and Queer Media If you spend any time around me, either online or offline, you know I am out and proud. I wear a rainbow bracelet every day; my purse has a button that...
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Open Relationships, Or: That Time I Told My Girlfriend to “Go Pro” [ If you’re a family member or friend and don’t want to know anything about our sexual activities, I suggest not reading this post. ]...
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Can asexuals feel love? Fun fact: no, we can’t! I’m just a monster with a barbaric heart. In some states it’s legal to shoot me on sight; in others you need a permit. I’ve been waiting for someone to...
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I want to love you but you make it so hard we fight over everything and you cry so fucking much can you please get a hold of yourself? I want to love you but you make it so hard you’re cold and...
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Do you ever experience a piece of media – a book, a song, a movie – and get hit with the knowledge that this thing would have totally spoken to your younger self? That if you had experienced it at,...
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chronic weeping wound here is your measure of salt with rot come the wolvesFiled under: asexuality, poetry
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“Triskaidekaphobia” numbers betray me: the number of ways in which I have or have not the number of ways in which I will or will not the number of ways in which I am or am not the number of ways in...
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February 2017 Carnival of Aces: Resistance, Activism, & Self-Care When I started my Tumblr blog Still-a-Valid-Ace, I did so on a whim with no thought to where it might go in the future; to be...
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I find myself suddenly very bothered by the phrase “special snowflake”. I never liked it, nor the sentiment behind it, but I have recently been gnashing my metaphorical teeth over it. What bothers me...
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good for you, fang-face and your happy fucking ending and your hard-won heartbeat no, really, I’m happy; at least as a human you’re not a metaphor for everything I’ll never be cause man, how...
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Sometimes it feels like I am under a spell, as if when I was sixteen I unknowingly pricked my finger and fell into a slumber from which there can be no waking. Like Sleeping Beauty, I feel trapped...
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I wonder if, even years later, long after she had woken and all the kingdom was freed from its terrible spell, Sleeping Beauty still felt the thorns creeping back. I wonder if forever after True Love’s...
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What’s in a name? That which we call Rosa by any other name would smell as sweet. And yet we give each of a hundred species a name and a name to each of a thousand cultivars. Would you deny Rosa...
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Hi, friends. Let’s talk about hate blogs. The Forty-two Ideals of Ma’at. The Rule of Three. The Ten Commandments. Karma. There are a lot of tenets in a lot of belief systems, both religious and...
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In this special episode, I take a break from my usual sarcasm to respond to the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, address some of the backlash I witnessed in the queer community because of the...
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I am not the enemy just because I’m tired of invisibility; I am not an intruder just because I’m sick of your slander; I am not an oppressor just because you think my pain is lesser; I am not your...
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What makes something brave? Is bravery in the action, or in the intent behind the action? I don’t think I’m brave. I’m white and attractive and middle-class. My parents loved me and I have no student...
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Asexuality, Spirituality, and Queerness (for May 2016’s Carnival of Aces) When I was a kid, I had very strong opinions about romance and sex, and those opinions basically boiled down to GROSS. Romance...
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Asexuality and Paganism (for May 2016’s Carnival of Aces) Standing in the Kemetic section of Crescent Moon Gifts, I waivered. On the shelf before me was a beautiful statue of Bast, lithe form poised to...
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