The Asexual Manifesto

Queer as Fact

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4.8 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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This week, Queer as Fact is talking about the Asexual Manifesto, published in New York in 1972. Join us for our first deep dive into ace history, a discussion of the place of asexuality in 1970s feminism, and one of the first ever mentions of ace pride. Check out our website, where you can find out 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 Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook. [Image: 'Lesbian activists at Barnard provide labels', Off Our Backs vol. 3 no. 6 Feb/Mar 1973 - a young woman sits in front of a sign featuring various sexuality labels, including asexual]

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Queer as Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world
0:03.9	and throughout time.
0:05.0	I'm Alice.
0:06.1	I'm Jason.
0:06.9	And I'm Eli.
0:07.9	And today we're talking about asexuality in 1970s American feminism.
0:20.1	Before we get started, I'd like to acknowledge the Wondry Woyarang people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which we record this podcast and pay respects to their elders past and present.
0:30.0	We recognise them as the custodians of an oral history tradition far older than this podcast.
0:34.5	We also have some content warnings before we begin this episode.
0:37.4	This episode will include discussions of acephobia, misogyny and transphobia.
0:42.6	There'll also be some conflation of asexuality and celibacy in historical sources we'll look
0:47.4	at and some sex negative rhetoric in those sources, as well as a little bit of swearing
0:52.0	and quotes.
0:53.1	So if any of that sounds like something
0:54.5	you don't want to listen to, feel free to skip this episode and check out our other content.
0:58.2	Last bit before we dive into the episode itself, I want to thank a few people. Since Ace History
1:03.2	is a field still largely in its infancy, and a lot of the work is being done online and just
1:08.6	written up in blogs and so forth, I thought it was worth shouting out some of the people who sent us sources or who wrote
1:14.1	up the blogs that I use since they're not, you know, published academics that you might
1:18.4	find as easily.
1:19.3	So I specifically want to shout out Siggy on the asexual agenda WordPress, who's done a lot
1:24.2	of the legwork, hunting down people and archives and written several blog posts
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