Creating Change Conference Update
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- Published on Tuesday, 18 December 2012 22:50
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David Jay, Sara Beth Brooks and several other Asexual celebrities will be heading to Atlanta. (No one from Asexual News will be there because we do not have any Asexual celebrities on our staff). AVEN and the people who worked with Asexual Awareness Week successfully conducted the fundraiser. Due to Lara’s cash flow problems and general forgetfulness about when the hosting bill falls due, the site was down.
AVEN and Asexual Awareness Week Begin Fundraiser to Send Aces to NLGTF Conference
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- Published on Thursday, 06 December 2012 19:31
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Asexual, Demisexual, and Gray-A people, and their allies, have been working for years to raise awareness and visibility about our communities. Last year at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's annual organizing conference, Creating Change, Asexual activists David Jay and Sara Beth Brooks screened a documentary called (A)sexual and had an amazing response. More than 150 people attended the screening and dozens stayed in the hall for more than an hour afterwards for an unscheduled Q&A. Jay is the main subject of the documentary and also the founder of the largest Asexuality organization, the Asexual Visibility and Education Network (AVEN).
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Random Acts of Visibility
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- Published on Saturday, 20 October 2012 21:28
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Asexual Awareness Week does not have an official date this year. Sara Beth Brooks, founder of the organization that runs the event, changed the format for this year's event. A number of sites have set aside the third week in October to celebrate it.
Sex and Sexuality Week On Campuses: Another Opportunity for Visibility
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- Published on Tuesday, 30 October 2012 21:05
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Many colleges celebrated a sexuality week. One top Ivy League school decided to shorten the name of the week. Calling an activity sex week on a college campus may not have been the best idea. It may not have occurred to the founders of this week to think about the implications of the event. College students, even Harvard Students, gave an opportunity to discuss sex and what it means. The flyers inviting students to participate in its planning may have been interpreted the wrong way. They may have engaged in planning on their own.
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The Asexual Identity and Sexual Law -- Upcoming Presentation at Columbia University
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- Published on Tuesday, 16 October 2012 23:49
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Elizabeth Emens will speak about Asexual identity and sexual law at Columbia University tomorrow night. Emens is not the first person to address this topic, but she may be the first professional to do so. David Jay addressed the topic on his blog, Love from the Asexual Underground.
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