I will be arriving at Arisia on Thursday afternoon, pre-con, and leaving Wednesday morning (well past con, giving me time to go to Dead Dog on Monday night, and then wind down and mentally unpack on Tuesday ( Read more... )

Minority Monsters.

From Buzzfeed. The comics are here. (One has images which are NSFW ( Read more... )

I ran into this book in the library today. I flipped through it, since it claimed to have an answer for every question you have ever asked yourself. (Really!)

I was disappointed. While it does seem to be a good resource for gay and lesbian youth, and I don't dispute that ( Read more... )

I am also aware of how much sexualization often happens in fanfic -- characters who don't get into relationships together in canon get into sexual relationships, characters are written spectrum slid (link is to a webcomic which explains the term), and characters are re-written as having a different sexual orientation than as written in canon ( Read more... )

I totally lack time, but I also would like to start doing reviews of works 1) that have asexuality as a theme, 2) have asexual characters, or 3) don't have asexuality specifically as a theme but which might be interesting to review from an asexual perspective anyway (for example, works which have as a theme "sexuality is an intrinsic part of being ( Read more... )

Time magazine has a feature story about being transgender in the United States (link to the Think Progress article about the article, since the Time article itself is under a paywall ( Read more... )

My addendum to this postPsssssst.  Having sex is not the only way to "combine genes" and have children.  Perhaps you've never heard of IVF (and gestational carriers, too, while we're at it ( Read more... )

I found this author interview today, though it came out on July 25. It caught my eye because the author talks about the YA book she wrote, which has an asexual protagonist.

Does anyone know anything about this author or this book? Has anyone read it? Is anyone reviewing it?

But wait, here's where your metaphor REALLY breaks down -- asexuals actually LOVE CAKE!

Silly silly silly.