Stay Asexy, My Friends

[foolish_m0rtal]

It's Asexuality Awareness Week! The University of Virginia's Proud to Be Out week coincides with AA Week, and they were happy to include us in the festivities. Yesterday we hosted a screening of (A)sexual to a great campus-wide turn out! (more info about the screening here) Not to mention that the UVa Queer community now has a giant fan-crush on David Jay. :D

UVa and Charlottesville organisations that contributed to event publicity and information included:

• Queer and Allied Activism (QuAA)
• Queer Student Union (QSU)
• Minority Rights Coalition
• Feminism is For Everyone (FIFE)
• UVa Pride (Organisation of LGBTQ Faculty and Staff)
• Piedmont Virginia Community College QSU
• University Programs Council (UPC) Cinema
• Offscreen
• Filmmaker's Society
• QTimes newsletter
• Gay C'ville
• UVa Student Activities Centre and Event Calendar
• VPSA Communications
• Brown College on Monroe Hill
• UVa's Queer Theory classes and faculty

It was a wonderful first day of Proud to be Out week and a great kick-off for AA Week! If you'd like to learn more about Asexual Awareness Week and find out about screenings in your area, visit their website and look under Events. You can also visit their Facebook. 

Other resources include AVEN (Asexual Visibility and Education Network), asexy beast (asexual perspectives on pop culture and more), this article written by swankivy (she's great!!) on Good Vibrations, and some others that I probably missed, which you can find in this post by theotherdibbler. 

Youtube resources you can hit up include Hot Pieces of Ace, Letters to An Asexual by the above swankivy (who is also in the film (A)sexual), and my favourite panromantic asexual Arne (roll the r) from Ask A Pansexual:

If you don't read anything else,  a hilarious and wonderfully informative series of posts that I wholeheartedly recommend are the Asexual Visibility Week posts by husbife. I think she really communicates a lot about the complexities of asexuality along with addressing many common questions about aces. Oh, and did I mention that they are HILARIOUS? 

Hope you learn a little more about asexuality this week and have a lot of cake. Stay asexy!

Comments

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

I started reading some of them and just burst out laughing. I'm glad you liked them!

[husbife.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the recommendation; you're awesome!
I'm loving all these links, as well! :D

I wanted to do it again this week, though I don't know what else to address, so perhaps just one more post will suffice. Take care! <3