Asexuality Linkspam!

Here are some posts that have happened in the ace blogosphere in December:

Mind the Gap from Asexual Curiosities: examining the difference between asexuality and low libido

The presence of absence: asexuality and the creation of resistance and Asexy Pioneer: Asexuality vs. Eroticism in Willa Cather's O Pioneers! from Asexy Stuff. (By the way, that first paper is pretty bad.)

Asexuality Hotline and The Angry Video Game Nerd at Asexual Love/aceamoeba

Things Asexuals Like: Tea from Asexy Beast

Nothing Gray About This: Re-evaluating Attraction from Shades of Gray: the author talks about how zhe came to drop the "grey" part of hir identity

Asexual? Is That French for Cocktease? from Singularly Bizarre: TW for rape culture and sexual coercion, examines asexuality and PUA (pick-up "artistry")

Slut-Shaming, Victim-Blaming, and Being a Prude from Eden Café: TW for acephobia, sexual coercion, sexual assault, molestation, conversion attempts

Late Capitalism and Sexual Culture: The Project Plan from Mark Carrigan: examining how assumptions that sexual attraction is universal affect people. Also, video of a presentation at Spotlight on Asexuality Studies (I have not watched this, I have no idea if it is about actual asexuality)

Asexual Men and Rape at No, Seriously, What About Teh Menz? TW for rape and sexual coercion

On Asexuality from A Life Unexamined: the author's journey to identifying as asexual

a post about virginity from pinstripesuit

If there's anything I've missed (there probably is!) feel free to link in the comments.

A Carnival of Aces: Call for Participation

This month, the Carnival of Aces will be hosted here at Confessions of an Ist. The original master post will tell you more about the history of the carnival as well as its past and future locations. Apologies for the late notice; I originally thought I was scheduled for next month!

This month's theme, in keeping with the idea of looking forward to a new year, is unfulfilled desires. Possible topics include:

• what do you want to see for the asexual community in the coming year or other period of time?
• what do you want to see for yourself, in terms of asexuality and its affect on your life, in the coming [period of time]?
• what do you want from the world in terms of its response to asexuality and asexuals?
• etc

Basically, take it and run with it.

Submissions are due by December 31st. The round-up will be available a few days after that. I will post anonymous submissions here; send them to my Blogger handle at gmail.

Happy writing!