Asexual and Aromantic History with Luciella Scarlett

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🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Today's episode is on asexual and aromantic history! We're talking with Luciella Scarlett, the curator of Nonlimerent // Monosexual: An Aromantic and Asexual History. Join us to hear about the first self-identified ace person, the evolution of ace and aro terminology, and how much we can learn from looking at history through an asexual lens. You can check out Nonlimerent // Monosexual: An Aromantic and Asexual History online here and see Luciella talk more about her work in the Aces Never Ever Sleep stream here. Check out our website, where you can find our sources, as well as everything there is to know about Queer as Fact. If you enjoy our content, consider supporting us on Patreon, checking out our merch, and following us on Instagram, Tumblr and Bluesky. [Image: Luciella Scarlett, smiling, in front of a progress pride flag]

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Queer as Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world and throughout time.
0:05.0	I'm Alice. And I'm Eli.
0:06.5	And today we're talking with Lucy Alice Scarlett, the curator of the exhibition,
0:10.3	non-limerant monosexual and aromantic and asexual history.
0:25.9	Before we begin, I'd like to acknowledge the Warrondry Woyong people of the Koolen Nation as the traditional owners of the land in which we record this podcast and pay my respects to their elders past and present.
0:32.0	They're the custodians of an oral history tradition far older than this podcast.
0:35.9	We have some content warnings for this episode.
0:38.2	This episode will include discussions of ACE and Aerophobia and ERAO and EASA of
0:42.1	ACE and Aero identities throughout history. It will include discussions of the AIDS epidemic,
0:46.8	eugenics and mentions of masturbation. If any of that is something you don't want to hear,
0:51.3	feel free to skip this episode and check out our other content.
0:59.8	First of all, we're really excited to be talking with you today. Welcome to the podcast. Can you start off by telling us just a little bit about yourself and about the exhibition that you curated?
1:03.9	Yeah, sure. So, yes, my name is Lucy Ella Scarlet. So non-limin to monosexual and aromantic and asexual
1:10.5	history is looking at both the recent
1:14.0	history of asexuality and aromanticism, which states back to around the early 2000s, and also
1:20.1	looking through history at previous terms that have been used, previous constructs that have
1:25.3	been used to describe as sexuality and aromanticism, as well as kind of the political circumstances that have been used to describe asexuality and aromanticism,
1:28.0	as well as kind of the political circumstances that have shaped how we think about
1:32.4	asexuality and a romanticism.
1:34.3	One of the earliest parts of the exhibition includes excerpts from the Ace Dad blog in which
1:38.3	Cody Daigle-Oryans writes about the need for community and for being able to contextualise
1:43.0	your own experience. Do you see those
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