Artifacts

All artifacts

A Carnival of Aces

A monthly blogging carnival centered on the asexual spectrum

2011–2023

“The Evolution of Online Asexual Discourse”

An academic dissertation on asexual history and online asexual discourse from the late 1990s to the early 2010s

“For Them, Just Saying No Is Easy”

An article in the New York Times about asexuality

2005

“Asexuality BC (Before Cake)”

A personal recounting of early asexual history by an early AVEN member

2017

TNGirlTech’s Asexualism Page

A pre-AVEN FAQ page on asexuality

2001

“A Genealogy of Queerplatonic”

A blog post tracking the etymology and development of the term “queerplatonic”

2019

“Atypical sexualities face oppression”

A newspaper article in which a sex therapist expresses concern about celibates being labelled as asexual

1979

David Jay on The View

David Jay, founder of AVEN, is interviewed on ABC’s The View

2006

Off Our Backs, vol. 3, no. 5

An issue of a feminist news journal that mentions asexuality

1973

“Asexual Chic: Everybody’s Not Doing It”

A newspaper story in which various self-professed asexual people are interviewed

1978

“Mental Health Implications of Sexual Orientation”

A study on the correlation between mental health and sexual orientation which includes asexual people as a sample group

1983

“The Innocent Bystander: Asexual Militancy”

An interview with the president of the Asexual Liberation Movement

“All God’s Children Need Love” Gay Freedom Day Parade

A photo featuring a sign for equal rights for queer people, including asexuals

1973

Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love

The book which first introduced the concept of “limerence”

1979