It’s Asexual Awareness Week, which means that though I’d do it any time of the year, it’s the optimal time of the year to recommend and gather recommendations of media with asexual protagonists. And when they do feature aro-ace identity directly, the quiet revolution is front and centre, and the results are incredible and incredibly important. ![]() As I kept my eye on Oseman’s forthcoming novels, it transpired that this revolution sits at the heart of her writing, making them deeply resonant for aro/ace readers even when not featuring the identities directly. ![]() But to imply that you could be in love with someone in a purely platonic way? That you could refer to something as a love story even if it was about characters who were “just” friends, who never even thought about dating one another? It was a little bit revolutionary.īut that, of course, is the revolutionary heart of aromanticism and asexuality-the quiet, but resonant, revolution inherent in the articulation of different kinds of love, in the deconstruction of the dominant social narratives of romance and sex. Friends could say they loved each other, of course, in a fleeting and fluffy sort of way. It was the first time I had seen those words put together to such an effect. When I reached the passage quoted above, I stopped in my tracks. In 2017-somewhere on the stumbling journey to identifying myself proudly and loudly as asexual-I read Alice Oseman’s young adult (YA) novel Radio Silence. “And I’m platonically in love with you.” Alice Oseman, Radio Silence (2016) p.108 “You are.” He stretched out his arm and patted me on the head. ![]() He laughed again and hid his face under the blanket.
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