Ace Auto-Inclusive Culture

This post is for the April 2015 Carnival of Aces, themed “Asexual Culture.” It’s unpolished but, given I’m half-an-hour from surgery, voila and please pardon the lack of links.

This post focuses on the negatives that emerge from, in my view, false positivity within ace culture. (Not a phenomenon unique to ace culture, certainly, but one I’ve found very prominent and pervasive and relevant.)

Survivor Words

Musings about categories, naming, who we mean to include/exclude, who feels included/excluded by what words. Naming of several kinds of trauma, non-graphic.