Asexual
Artifacts involving asexual people
Asexual Protagonists: What Their Patterns Reveal About the Representation of Asexuality
An essay discussing the need for a more BIPOC and gender-inclusive representation of asexuality in fiction literature
“Asexuality BC (Before Cake)”
A personal recounting of early asexual history by an early AVEN member
“The Evolution of Online Asexual Discourse”
An academic dissertation on asexual history and online asexual discourse from the late 1990s to the early 2010s
Nat Titman’s talk at WorldPride Asexual Conference
A talk at WorldPride Asexual Conference 2012 on early asexual history
A Carnival of Aces
A monthly blogging carnival centered on the asexual spectrum
“A history of asexuality”
A timeline of asexual history, with a major focus on early online asexual communities
Introduction of the asexual pride flag
The asexual pride flag is proposed, designed, voted on, and decided on across a series of AVEN forum threads.
“For Them, Just Saying No Is Easy”
An article in the New York Times about asexuality
“Black rings and other ways to show asexual pride”
The tradition of asexuals wearing a black ring is introduced in an AVEN forum thread
“Study: One in 100 adults asexual”
An article by CNN about asexuality which mentions Anthony Bogaert’s study
“No sex please, we’re asexual”
An article in The Guardian about asexuality which mentions AVEN and quotes asexual people
“Glad to be asexual”
An in-depth article on asexuality published in New Scientist where the author meets David Jay.
“Asexuality: Prevalence and Associated Factors in a National Probability Sample”
An early study on the prevalence of asexuality
“Semisexuality”
An early discussion about aspec identities between allosexual and asexual