Hello. I’m asexual. I’m also non-binary. I tend to settle on “queer” when it comes up in conversation to cut through the chatter.Good, now we’re caught up.Asexuality is one of those things people just really really really struggle to understand. So much so that even some of my fellow aces gatekeep it into this hyper-exclusionary,… Continue reading PRIDE: Asexual People Can Have Sex and That’s Good for Everyone
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The Bi-Vestigation of Eddie Brock
Pride month means all my queer comic and comic adjacent subReddits are talking canon sexuality among Marvel characters, particularly the Marvel Rivals cast. And I do have to express a level of chagrin that people are boxing it into “gay, straight, bi” because like…asexual? Split theory of attraction? Whatever.One of the big points of discussion,… Continue reading The Bi-Vestigation of Eddie Brock
To Support Queer Artists, You Actually Have to Know Who They Are
A discussion came up in on of my comic subreddits about the Marvel Pride issue coming out this month. There were a lot of good-natured jokes about Daken’s yassification on the cover and the nature of rainbow capitalism and how they pull these characters out once a year, then place them back on the shelves.… Continue reading To Support Queer Artists, You Actually Have to Know Who They Are
Creating a Queernorm Fantasy Setting: Disabling the Link Between Reproduction and Sexuality
In an effort to create a queernorm fantasy setting, one of the things I found myself doing was experimenting with ways to dislodge reproduction from gender and sexuality. Why? Because, collectively, we struggle with the idea of “non-reproductive” coupling. This manifests in different measures with childless couples and same-sex couples. While the former has their… Continue reading Creating a Queernorm Fantasy Setting: Disabling the Link Between Reproduction and Sexuality
Creating a Queernorm Fantasy Setting: Genetic Restructuring
Something that came to me, in a study of biology, was how much more interesting a fantasy setting would be if some of the sapient peoples in the world I was creating didn’t adhere to the typical reproductive binary. From this thought process came how I ended up writing hermaphroditic goblins and a whole planet… Continue reading Creating a Queernorm Fantasy Setting: Genetic Restructuring