Ace Voices: What It Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace

How do we experience attraction?
What does love mean to us?
When did you realise you were ace?
This is the ace community in their own words.
Drawing upon interviews with a wide range of people across the asexual spectrum, Eris Young is here to take you on an empowering, enriching journey through the rich multitudes of asexual life.
With chapters spanning everything from dating, relationships and sex, to mental and emotional health, family, community and joy, the inspirational stories and personal experiences within these pages speak to aces living and loving in unique ways. Find support amongst the diverse narratives of aces sex-repulsed and sex-favourable, alongside voices exploring what it means to be black and ace, to be queer and ace, or ace and multi-partnered - and use it as a springboard for your own ace growth.
Do you see a story like your own?

ISBN-13: 9781787756984

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Publication Date: 12-21-2022

Pages: 288

Product Dimensions: 5.70(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.00(d)

Eris Young is an asexual, non-binary writer and editor. They are Writer-in-Residence for The Lighthouse Bookshop, winner of a Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award, and previously published They/Them/Their. They are from Santa Ana, California, but reside in Edinburgh.

Table of Contents

A Note to My Readers 9

Introduction 10

Visibility 20

Who Are We? 31

Microlabels 57

When Language Isn't Enough 64

Coming (and Being) Out 71

A-spec and the LGBTQ+ Community 85

Intersectionality 101

Friends and Family 145

What Is Love? 162

Sex 186

The Future of Relationships 216

Joy 234

Resources 250

Endnotes 261

Index 279