Asexual Awareness Week: ysabetwordsmith

Asexual Awareness Week

Asexual Awareness Week is October 23-29. *waves to ace friends* Follow the action on Facebook. Learn more about asexuality on the AVEN site. Visit communities such as

asexuality or Asexuality and Asexual Fandom on Dreamwidth.

Asexuality is among the many flavors of sex/gender stuff that I study and support. I have some ace characters. One who is both canonically ace and open about it is Hope in the poetic series The Odd Trio, as explained in the poem "Hope of the Future." Some of my desertfolk are too, on the fiction side. Then there are characters who are either ace or celibate and haven't necessarily made that distinction explicit in print yet. Among these are Lian(a) in "A Doe in Velvet" and Don Candido in the poetic series Fiorenza the Wisewoman as touched on in the poem "Fiorenza and the Wisewoman." Also worth mentioning is the whole Path of the Paladins series, in which the main characters are not primarily motivated by sex/romance. I doubt that Gailah requires celibacy of Her clergy, but the paladins I've seen thus far just don't seem interesting in coupling.

If anyone else on here is doing something special for Asexual Awareness Week, or wants to start a discussion of any related issue, please pipe up.

haikujaguar

October 24 2011, 22:45:54 UTC 9 years ago

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I suppose it is serendipitous timing that I'll be releasing my novella about Jahir and Vasiht'h this week. :)

Yes...

ysabetwordsmith

October 24 2011, 23:37:42 UTC 9 years ago

Please let me know when that goes up, and I will gladly link it. You might also want to promote it on any of the asexual-themed communities. People are always looking for good primary relationships that aren't based on sex, and that's a really great one.