Author talk: Ace Voices: What It Means To Be Asexual, With Eris Young

ACE VOICES

How do we experience attraction?

What does love mean to us?

When did you realise you were ace?

This is the ace community in their own words.

Drawing upon interviews with a wide range of people across the asexual spectrum, ACE VOICES is an empowering, enriching journey through the rich multitudes of asexual, aromantic, demi and gray-a life.

With chapters spanning everything from dating, relationships and sex, to mental and emotional health, family, community and joy, the inspirational stories and personal experiences within these pages speak to aces living and loving in unique ways. Find support amongst the diverse narratives of aces sex-repulsed and sex-favourable, alongside voices exploring what it means to be black and ace, to be queer and ace, or ace and multi-partnered – and use it as a springboard for your own ace growth, or to better support the ace and ace-spectrum people in your own life.

Author Eris Young will talk about the genesis of the book and their own journey of realization, engage in conversation with host Richard Foss, and take questions from the audience, following which the book will be available for purchase and signing.

Eris Young is a queer, transgender author of fiction and nonfiction. Their short stories have appeared Pseudopod, Fusion Fragment, Escape Pod and Metastellar, as well as anthologies such as Uncanny Bodies from Luna Press Publishing. Their nonfiction books They/Them/Their: A guide to nonbinary and genderqueer identities (2019) and Ace Voices: What it means to be asexual, aromantic, demi or gray-ace (2022), are published by Jessica Kingsley Publishing. They also edit fiction at Shoreline of Infinity magazine, were the writer-in-residence at Lighthouse Bookshop from 2019 – 2022, and in 2020 received a Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award for fiction.

This is a free event, and will not be livestreamed.

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