International Asexuality Day is held on 6 April, a day for raising awareness of the full asexual spectrum, including demisexuals, greysexuals, asexuals and other ace-spectrum identities, and for raising their visibility.
International Asexuality Day is held on 6 April, a day for raising awareness of the full asexual spectrum, including demisexuals, greysexuals, asexuals and other ace-spectrum identities, and for raising their visibility. A day for championing human rights as individuals with diverse orientations and for denouncing the unequal treatment that exists worldwide.
To commemorate this date, we at the Barcelona LGBTI centre will be sharing various materials for developing a deeper understanding of this orientation within the collective, which often ends up as a forgotten or invisibilised letter.
Books. The Armand de Fluvià Documents Centre, which is located in the Barcelona LGBTI Centre’s facilities, has a collection of books on asexuality, notably including:
–La revolución (a)sexual. Celia Gutiérrez (Egales, 2022)
La revolución (a)sexual is an introductory guide for a better understanding of asexuality. Despite being a sexual orientation like any other, it is rarely taken seriously. There is a lot of ignorance regarding it: people either do not know what it is or have prejudices and false ideas about it.
Celia Gutiérrez has therefore written this manual to provide accessible and useful information, in addition to personal reflections to help shed light on the matter, as well as to reconsider certain issues on sexuality that were regarded as obvious but maybe were not so much in actual fact.
–The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality. Julie Sondra Decker (New York, NY: Skyhorse Publishing, 2015). Next Generation Indie Book awards winner.
This book is one of the main references today in asexuality studies. It explains the current definitions of this orientation, debunks the most frequent mistaken assumptions and offers advice on how to come of the close and tackle lack of understanding from heterosexuals and LGBTI individuals. The author also explains her experience as a person and militant asexual.
–Understanding Asexuality. Anthony F. Bogaert. (Lanham, etc.: Rowan & Littlefield, 2015)
Understanding Asexuality is one of the first books written by a proper expert. Anthony F. Bogaert has conducted numerous studies on asexuality and is a reference in this field of research on sex-affective orientations. The book defines what is and what is not asexuality, where there are biological factors, as understood throughout history and the prejudices that asexual people are faced with.
–Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives. Karli June Cerankowski and Megan Milks (eds.) (New York and London: Routledge, 2014)
Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives was the first collection of scientific studies on asexuality. Still completely valid seven years later, the book offers an extensive review of the state of research on lack of sexual attraction. It positions it within the framework of gender identities and sexualities, feminist and LGBTI policies, racism and ableism, and the mass media.
-Asexuality: A Brief Introduction
This is a small volume featuring some of the entries available in AsexualityArchive.com, a community portal that provides information resources and a meeting space for the collective and anyone interested in the subject. If offers answers to the most frequent questions and misunderstandings on the matter.
Round table. We’re resuming the conversation held at the LGBTI Centre on 6 April 2021, to mark International Asexuality Day. We considered finding out what we mean when we speak of asexuality. What does it mean to be demisexual? And greysexual? Can asexual people have a partner? Are sexual attraction and sexual desire the same thing?
Our aim was to debunk myths and prejudices and to help to bring visibility to the diverse realities of asexual people. We did that with the help of Olivia Ávila, an activist, and Clara Morató-Aragonés and Alba Leiva, members of the Catalan Asexuals Association.
Associations. Catalan Asexuality Association . They work from and for asexuality and asexual people and to identify all the forms of discrimination that face such individuals . And also to defend the LGBTIQA+ community, in collaboration with all identity diversities.