9 You Can Love Yourself
We are so grateful for and indebted to the Trevor Project for their amazing work at offering the queer community options beyond suicide. They also offer other resources including this wonderful definition of Asexuality. If you can’t love yourself, you may not be able to recognize love when it is coming from somewhere else. But what about when you want the relationship, but you’re not that (at all?) interested in sex, it gets a little trickier. What if your partner doesn’t understand? Should you say it first thing? Do you owe people that kind of “I'M ASEXUAL” disclaimer as they walk up to you on your first date? Okay, probably not, but then when? Is it limiting to think that you will fall in love with someone who is going to have a problem with your sexual identity? Do you have to be poly if you are an Ace in love??? This week’s episodes look into the interminglings of asexuality and polyamory, more specifically, how well do they coexist. TL:DR, they can coexist pretty well, if you are asexual and polyamorous. Polyamory, pretty much jsut asks for radical honesty: let people know what’s good with you. We don’t claim to be experts on asexuality, but the Trevor Project does a really great job defining it. We also get into labels, identities, shifts in sexual desire, and iconic teen movies a the day Jessamyn came out (maybe). Tell us your favorite teen movie @dearjessamyn on IG. Janie Leopard designs our episode art, she hangs out over at janieledford.com. We love her, like a lot. Fruit Snack is the sweetest little queer band that ever banded and are the voices behind our theme song. They’ve got some other tunes over yonder on Bandcamp. Sending another little love note over to Anna Rooney a Chaz VanHoose, office mom a social media queen, respectively. Check out the cannabis census at We Go High! #NoOneShouldBeInJailForWeed We are so grateful for and indebted to the Trevor Project for their amazing work at offering the queer community options beyond suicide. They also offer other resources including this wonderful definition of Asexuality. Drop page. xoxo, Jessamyn a Ashe
