Hi I'm Jules,
I read a lot of disability related more academic stuff and then mostly queer fantasy, science fiction / speculative fiction to relax.
I read mostly e-books for accessibility reasons. So if you're interested in a book on my lists, just send me a DM. I can point you to sources or just send it over.
I'm @queering_space@mastodon.art on masto
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50% complete! Jules, reading has read 6 of 12 books.
I think this book is even more important for allo people to read than it is for aces. Seriously, if you never thought and learned about asexuality, this would be a great way to start.
For me personally it was not much new stuff. But there were still interesting and thought provoking bits here and there. And it got better towards the end.
I'm not doing star ratings but it's a worthwhile read!
Ela Przybylo: Asexual Erotics (The Ohio State University Press)
Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality attends to the silence around asexuality in queer, feminist, and lesbian thinking from …
But a life of being understood without any uncomfortable conversations does not exist for anyone. Talking and listening are the only sure ways to make intentions clear.
— Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen (Page 174)
For Zee, sex goes from "vaguely amusing" to "deeply chore-like" after the first two weeks of a relationship. Sex isn't repulsive, but it's a hobby other people have that Zee doesn't care for, like bowling.
— Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen (Page 169)
As long as people don't know about asexuality - hell, forget about the label, so long as they don't know that saying no forever and for any reason and in any context is okay - sex education, sex therapy, and popular depictions of sex are incomplete and people don't have the relevant information to fully consent.
— Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen
One woman and her pilot are about to change the future of the species in …
Okay, I have no idea where this is going. Things changed and the worldbuilding is still interesting. But that's the only thing really.
The love stuff (now in the form of whining) is still annoyingly boring and it's like 90% inner monologue and self pity and repetitive... ugh. I'm having a really hard time not quitting.
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving individuals the tools to …
One woman and her pilot are about to change the future of the species in …
Content warning I don't know
This love story is so incredibly boring. And the whole baby thing?
I can only hope there's more to come.
One woman and her pilot are about to change the future of the species in …
A bit clumsy and obvious when it came to setting the social parameters with everyone that will be involved.
But I do enjoy the worldbuilding and how our two main characters get to know each other.
It is all very not dramatic so far, although there's a lot of potential. I'm curious to see if that's going to chance now they arrived on the planet.
One woman and her pilot are about to change the future of the species in …
Next audiobook
When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The Wayfarer, a patched-up ship …
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation …
Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.
You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had …
Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.
You know that feeling when you’re …
Impulse control; I should try to write a code patch for that.
— Network Effect by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
