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Yasmin Benoit's recent study with King's College London shows widespread public ignorance (and opportunities).
A very interesting interview that I recommend people to read — especially if they're allo. The results of the study is no surprise to us aces, but at least there's one more study we can reference to
happy pride month everyone <3 is the bot chaos still goin on in the ace tag?
okay originally this blog was gonna be silly and I was just gonna start ocposting right away but! Then I fell down a completely different rabbit hole.
so yeah! I found myself super curious about how the research world viewed people like me! But also, I thought it could be a nice idea to make posts documenting my journey reading through these papers, in a more accessible manner like this to share the knowledge <3 There are already some interesting and important topics I have in mind to explore! Though the most material is on asexuality, there were a few on aromanticism and even a wider spectrum, including demisexuality and others!! Was very nice to see!
FULL DISCLAIMER: I’m by no means an expert on ANYTHING here, although I have a couple beginner research experiences under my belt + I am currently studying cognitive science as my major, so some of my coursework is applicable here. Also, I won’t necessarily agree or endorse every point or conclusion that the papers make, but in my view it never hurts to see what information and data is out there!
If you wanna see more posts about this, I’ll be posting it under the the sparks-acespec-research tag. Also, this is a sideblog, so if you follow, I might not always follow back right away since it gets confusing with the main blogs and the side blogs….
If there are any topics you’re especially interested in, please drop an ask and I may or may not be inspired to look for stuff mentioning that!
A selection of “denial narratives.” From Taking the Cake: An Illustrated Primer on Asexuality zine by Maisha, 2012.
(Maisha. Taking the Cake: An Illustrated Primer on Asexuality (2012): 12 pages.)
From the Ace Community Survey Team:
It’s that time of year again – we are now recruiting participants for the Ace Community Survey!
The Ace Community Survey, run by the Ace Community Survey Team, collects valuable information on the demographics and experiences of members in the ace community, including asexual, demisexual, gray-asexual, and related identities. It is the largest survey of ace communities and creates a valuable pool of data for future ace community activists and researchers.
This year, we are working in conjunction with Dr. Lauren Beach from the Institute for Gender and Sexual Minority Health and Wellbeing at Northwestern University. Our collaboration will help further research into health disparities of sexual minority groups.
The survey is open to anyone: ace, non-ace, or still questioning. As long as you are 13 years of age or older we want to hear from you! We want to get a wide variety of responses from as many parts of the community as possible, so we encourage you to share this link with any other potentially interested individuals you know or any ace communities you participate in.
Click here to take the 2019 Ace Community Survey.
You will be able to view any published results from the survey at asexualcensus.wordpress.com. If you would like to receive an automatic email update when new results or announcements are posted, you can subscribe here.
For answers to common questions about the survey, please see the FAQ here.
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"Demisexuals are the least oppressed people on an entire spectrum of definitely not oppressed people. Demisexuality is bullshit, everybody feels that way, they're just normal people"
Oh okay so... then, when people study the higher rates of depression and anxiety for sexual minorities, demis should have nice low rates like straight people! Right?
These two tables show the mean scores on the PHQ-9 (which measures depression) and the GAD-7 (which measures anxiety). Broken down by gender and sexual orientation. And organized from lowest to highest scores.
Straight cis people, as you would expect, are at the top left of both tables, with the lowest scores.
Demisexuals scored the highest.
On both tests.
exciting research on aces
Asexual and Non-Asexual Respondents from a U.S. Population-Based Study of Sexual Minorities. Rothblum, E.D., Krueger, E.A., Kittle, K.R. et al. Arch Sex Behav (2019).
This study just came out a month ago, (June 18, 2019), and omg am I excited to find a way to read it.
Not only does it go along with basically all other ace-related research in grouping aces with lesbian, gay, bi, and queer people....
But it also specifically focuses on looking at how the experiences of aces differ from the experiences of LGBQ people.
(It's not cissexist; it acknowledges and counts trans people. It just focuses specifically on sexual orientation.)
From the abstract:
* "Asexual respondents felt more stigma than non-asexual men and women, and asexuals reported more everyday discrimination than did non-asexual men."
I'm really looking forward to digging into the data they have on this. E.g., what did they call stigma vs discrimination, what did the numbers look like when you accounted for people being gender minorities....
* "Asexual and non-asexual respondents did not differ in their sense of connectedness to the LGB community."
I would love to see how many of those folks are on Tumblr.
But I appreciate seeing that, in the outside world, aces feel accepted in and connected to the rest of the community.
* "Asexual and non-asexual respondents were as likely to be out to all family, all friends, and all co-workers, but fewer asexual participants were out to all healthcare providers than non-asexual men."
I'm curious about this one. When you separate out gay and bi people, bi folks are generally much less likely to feel safe being out than gay people. So if they're grouped together, that might mean that bi and pan folks are skewing the numbers, and that their stats and those of aces are closer together -- as usual.
* "The two groups were similar in general well-being, life satisfaction, and social support."
In other words, I'm guessing, aces had shitty mental health and struggled for support. Just like everybody else in the community.
* "In conclusion, asexual identity is an infrequent but unique identity, and one that has the potential to expand the concept of queer identity as well as to destabilize the foregrounding of sexual behavior."
I am here for this take.
I stopped filling out the questions because I got very upset and felt very invalidated by the fact it asked "in the past six months". I have stopped, for my own safety, really outing myself and a lot of the sexual abuse I have gone through and a large part of why I don't tell people until I'm closer to them (and I DONT get close to people, my group is limited because I'm tired and ill) felt like it meant nothing bc it didn't happen in the past six months.
Hi! I’m so sorry it was triggering!
I actually feel similarly on a few of the questions when surveys have time restrictions. I’ll make sure to bring this up for the next round of the AVEN Census, because I work on that - and will also talk to Aasha about this one and see why it’s only the last 6 months (I have a feeling it has to do with consistency in comparison to other research) and also look into whether there could be a trigger warning for this in the consent form if there are not places to answer the questions for the course of your lifetime.
I also take surveys before I share them - so in the future I’ll put it on my list of things to warn people about, but if there are other things that would be helpful for me to to, please let me know and I’ll try to make it happen!
study about asexuality and prejudice seeking participants
See researcher’s request below (as the consent form/study info seems to be consistent with our Respect Guidelines):
I'm Aasha (4th year doc student) and I've started working on my dissertation which is on asexuality and prejudice. I'm attempting to collect 400-450 complete responses, which is a bit more than what is typically found in Asexuality Studies research. So, your help with getting the word out is greatly appreciated. I’m also hoping to have more Canadian representation as well.
Here is the link: https://columbia.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_eLMKOvyxnWX94sB
This study has been approved by the Teachers College, Columbia University IRB (Protocol #16-211).
Thank you very much!
Best, Aasha Foster
