This is the transcript for the zine: "A Quick One About Being Alone Forever"
It's been transcribed in as faithful a way as possible, including any and all strange quirks of my handwriting. However, the main purpose is for this to be readable to those who can't read my handwriting, including for people who may use screen readers.So please reach out let me know if there are any issues.
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This is a zine about being
aroace, and what that means to me.
I copied these definitions from wikipedia. I'm going to assume you are a functional adul and can google any other words that confuse you.
This is not an educational zine, it's a messy and subjective one.
content warning:
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it's kind of hard to talk about being aroace in a casual way without sounding like you're doing some kind of delecting small talk.
a lot of the time, I am actually doing that.
despite having definitions for being aroace up fron, in real life I don't tend to really explain it like that. it's part of the japanese tradition known as
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at least it seems pretty simple.
you
unless youre both the sorta person to read this while having your head stuck in the sand about other queer things, youre probably a little bit aware of how straight dominated the whole world is, how things inside that norm are unquestioned and things outside of it alienated and considered "unnatural" + "perverted". and i came to the discovery about my position in this at probably the best time in history for queer people c so far. Still not great mind you, but we've got bisexual coca-cola aderts + memes about grindr. so, considering
- I am white
- I'm in "the west"
- sadly YMMV when you are not in this position. :(
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but it kinda isn't.
as you can maybe tell by the relatively defensive tone i'm putting onattempting to speaking in,
it's not too simple.
it's easier to gloss by it.
for lack of a better term, it's easier to pass.