56. I'm Asexual, Not Broken
Sensual Self with Ev'Yan Whitney
Ev'Yan Whitney, Sexuality Doula®
4.7 • 758 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
What if it was okay that you don't want to have sex? In this one, Ev'Yan speaks with Angela Chen (author of Ace) about asexuality and ace liberation. Angela debunks a lot of myths about asexuality and educates us on how nuanced the Ace spectrum is. She talks about the fluidity of desire and how we don’t need to pathologize those who don’t have much of it; the connection between sexual trauma and Aceness; and how asexuality can offer us a flexible, fluid perspective of sexual desire. Ev'Yan also shares very candidly about her experience of realizing that, after all this time denying it, she is on the Ace spectrum.
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| 0:00.0 | Cold is coming, winter's here. |
| 0:03.0 | Coats and scarfs are always near. |
| 0:06.0 | If you're feeling flat. |
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| 0:13.0 | Formulated with 11 vitamins and minerals including vitamins B6 and 12 to help support energy release and reduce tiredness and fatigue. |
| 0:20.0 | Barocca, face the lag. |
| 0:22.6 | Barocca contains vitamin C, B vitamins 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12 and sensual self. |
| 0:48.3 | I'm Evian Whitney, and this is a space for you to slow down, tune in, heal and feel the sensations and pleasures |
| 0:58.9 | of your sensual body. Thank you for being here. |
| 1:08.0 | Have you ever read a book that changed your life? |
| 1:12.5 | Like genuinely change the way you see yourself and made a profound impact on your identity as a whole? |
| 1:21.0 | I've had that experience myself only a few times in my life. |
| 1:25.4 | Some of the books that I still think about and continue to |
| 1:28.4 | inform who I am and how I move in the world are gender outlaw, the politics of trauma, |
| 1:35.3 | come as you are, pleasure activism, which, if you haven't already, check out my conversation |
| 1:40.9 | with Adrienne Marie Brown on episode 54. |
| 1:54.0 | But one of the latest books I've added to my changed my life shelf is Ace by Angela Chin. |
| 1:59.4 | I honestly didn't know what I was getting into when I picked up this book. |
| 2:03.3 | I got it because I realized that as a sex educator, I wasn't well versed on the topic of asexuality, which is not all my fault. So many of the |
| 2:10.9 | resources about asexuality have been either really sparse or just straight up misinforming up until really recently. |
| 2:19.9 | So Ace for me was a book that I was interested in reading to help me educate myself about |
| 2:25.0 | the Ace experience so that I can be as inclusive as I can within my work as a sexuality doula. |
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