Asexuality Roundtable resource post

[neotoma]

At Con.txt, I moderated the Asexuality Roundtable panel (which had 10 to 20 people attending, much better than I expected for the last panel on the last day, especially when scheduled against the hockeyfic panel), and promised a resource post.

Here it is:

Asexuality - general information

Asexual Visibility and Education Network
Asexuality Archive
DemiGray.org
Demisexuality Awareness
A glossary of terms and concepts -- by anagnori
Asexual Relationships -- from the Good Vibes blog
Redifining Romance: David Jay on Asexuality -- an intereiw for the radio program To The Best of Our Knoweldge
The Asexual Story Project
Giant List of Asexuality and Aromantic Blogs by house-of-ace
Asexuality tag at Huffington Post
One Percent World
Ace Secrets
Ace Muslim -- for a look at the intersection of Islam and asexuality
Carnival of Aces masterpost
I am Not Your Dirty Secret -- sex-averse and sex-repulsed asexuality is still asexuality
Asexual Awareness Week

How To Be an Asexual Ally

How to be an Asexual Ally pt 1, pt 2, pt 3
What to Do When Someone Tells You They Are Asexual
Being an Ally to Asexuals (.pdf from U Mass)
Being an Asexual Ally

Asexuality in Fandom

asexual_fandom
Tv Tropes: Asexuality -- the list of media that has a canon asexual character is rather impressive
An ace character in British soap opera Doctors - unsubtle, but the cousin is an awesome ally and the mother is really not
Shortland Street, a New Zealand soap opera, had a male heteroromatic asexual character
Sirens on USA has a canon asexual female character who is dating a het male, and they've agreed NOT to have sex!

Writing Acefics

Representation in Acefic
Some Issues with Asexuality in Fanfic
How to Write an Asexual Character
Writing Asexuality in Fiction masterpost by anagnori
especially:

• Stereotypes to Avoid when Writing Asexual Characters


• Writing Sex Scenes with Asexual Characters


• Writing Demisexual Characters (without invalidating asexuality)

Reading Acefics

AO3 Asexuality tag, Asexual Character tag, Asexual Romance tag, Queerplatonic Relationship tag, Asexual Awareness Week tag, Demisexuality tag, Aromantic tag
Asexy Valentines collection on AO3

Allowed by the_ragnarok -- Inception
At Least There's Football by sheffiesharpe -- Sherlock
Big Ace Directedverse Fic skull4601 -- Dresden Files, BDSM AU
A Comfortable Life by beatrice_otter -- Pride & Prejudice
The Fall of the Veils by lettered -- Harry Potter
Here You Come With Your Open Hands by -- by lannamichaels Les Miserables, BDSM AU
Lorenz Attractor by beastofthesky -- Pacific Rim
A Love with No Name -- (couldn't find this one -- anyone know it?)
Libido Has Nothing to Do With It by ambitiousbutrubbish -- Pacific Rim
Mosaic by isabeau -- Xmen: First Class
Neural/Hands/Shaking by hobbitdragon -- Pacific Rim
The Problem with Kindly Interventions by quinara-- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
TardisIsTheOnlyWayToTravel's asexuality fics -- 13 works by tardisistheonlywaytotravel
Variations on a Theme by ImpishTubist -- Sherlock

I'd really appreciate more links for demisexuality and grey-asexuality, either informative or fic recs.

Comments

[alee_grrl]

The Freedom Requires Wings blog has an asexual spectrum section that features blog posts by asexual, demisexual, and grey-asexual authors. There are some interesting and useful reads there, and they are frequently looking for new contributors.

For those who are interested I also published a paper exploring the the asexual spectrum and American law and culture (it was for a Sexual Orientation and the Law course at my law school). That paper, What Do You Mean You're Not Interested in Sex?: American Life and Law from an Asexual Perspective, is available for free via Smashbooks in a variety of digital formats.