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Ace Day History Through My Eyes

Hi! My name is Rose and in 2013 I founded the FuckYeahAsexual blog. Two years later, The Asexuality Blog and I created Ace Day!
It’s a cheerful, digital event that focuses on celebration of self and the whole asexual spectrum.
Some day in April 2015, I was asked to help with Ace Day. There was some raised concern about its proximity to 2015’s Blackout Day (a tumblr event of selfies) and Trans Day of Visibility both of which probably did have an influence The Asexuality’s Blog’s (TAB) desire to ...

#PrideMonth @ GreatAce.Club

Normally I tease the theme, ask you to sign up and wait for the surprise book in your inbox. But this month I think it’s important to be decisive and vocal, wasting no time.

Hello World is science fiction that verges on thriller because I wanted to see an asexual protagonist be the action hero, show how important a single voice can be to bring about change.

You can read the full blurb or buy a paperback here, otherwise drop your email here to get the free ebook in your inbox on June 26th.

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Press Start Release Day!!

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Im so excited to bring you my cute book full of queer people having fun and being silly!!

If you preordered the ebook, unfortunately youll have to order it again do to an amazon error. But everything is good to go now for both ebook and paperback versions on Amazon or GreatAce.Club!

Havent heard about Press Start? Now is a great time for this fun, low stress read about a group of friends bonding over video games.

Blurb: A new app has turned the whole world into an augmented playground. By...

Press Start – YA Book Trailer

Woo! In an effort to celebrate things in these times I have a happy to show off the trailer today! The book is out May 5th and you can preorder the ebook  now!

Cool things about this book:

Demigirl lead Demisexual love interest Low stakes equal a low stress fun read Own voices on multiple fronts Party game fun in a book

Blurb: A new app has turned the whole world into an augmented playground. By reinventing retro party games, HoloHeroes makes sure it has something for every player....

Growing Up Ace: First Lessons In Transaction Sexuality

Id be willing to wager that phrasing makes you think of sex work, and while that is one type of transaction, its definitely not the first I learned. The first example of this for me was in the animated Aladdin. I can still picture Jasmine in the red outfit, flipping a switching and beaconing the bad guy with a come hither tone of voice.

That is my first memory knowing that sexuality, particularly womens asexuality, was something that was not so much felt, but offered. The next time I saw this...

Paycheck Protection Act & Sole Proprietors (Artists and Authors Edition)

You may or may not know that the Fyeah Asexual blog is largely run by disabled mods. I write books, and another mod has an etsy store. While thats not a complete picture, it does make me wonder about this the congressionally approved relief loans.

Many authors are sole proprietorships, and plenty of people who do business alone can apply for these loans starting today (April 10th). But authors and various other freelancers get their pay in funny ways so heres a post of my understanding of...

The Law of Attraction

How looking at the spilt attraction model can better help people understand SAM and Non-SAM people.

There is a long standing tug of where between groups over where aros fit, and has its own set of purity politics that follow. This article is not gossip explaining interpersonal community friction, at its core more queer theory specially on how a-spec communities organize.

I think all this tension, and often infighting, is the product of being upset with intersectionality. I personally find...

My Community, ‘Tis of Thee

I wish I could quickly explain that community spaces are not geological territories based on land. The idea that queer people will abuse each other over this concept of a club that has no physical barriers is mine numbingly incorrect.

This dream of fully protecting a community from outsiders that would do it harm is a false one. I want the lgbtq community safe from people who have a privilege is nobel, but flawed.

We dont kick cis people out because theres trans people in the community. We...

#BelieveAces Part 3: On asexuality, abuse, and gender

Final thoughts for the #BelieveAces series:

I was talking with someone the other day, and we were having a very frank conversation about the abuse we faced in life. Awful things that got us targeted because we were both asexual. And this person kept saying things like, youre a girl, you get it. A bunch of times. And this article holds no ill will or blame because I didnt correct them for it. For a curious reason Id like to explain.

Now this is based on my personal interactions with cis...

The first fifty to hundred pages on this book are fantastic. There was so many good lines about identity, depression, race and how all of those things are intermix in a confusing fashion that make it really hard to explain unless you are living it. At one point our main character Pab says, “I don’t even know what we’re arguing about at this point, but it’s clear that being locked in an idiot’s arms race of saying ignorant things is easier than having a real discussion.” That’s a fucking brillian...