Shouting out this Zine I participated in during Soul Ace Day, a day to celebrate Black #asexuals and #aromantics. Please support!

Debra Renée Byrd@debreneebyrd.bsky.social · 6mo ago

HAPPY SOUL ACE DAY to my Black asexuals and aromantics! To celebrate and learn more, please download Black Ace Culture: A Digital Zine by blackaceculture blackaceculture.itch.io/black-ace-cu... #blackaces #blackace #blackasexual #blackaromantics #asexuality #asexual #aroace #acearo #aromantic

New essay + Surprise drop! Are We Not Allowed Privacy Anymore? On the disappearance of the 2000s and 2010s Internet Safety Era, the digital invasion of privacy and why it's okay to fall behind on the discourse leikeliscomet.substack.com/p/are-we-not...

Are We Not Allowed Privacy Anymore?

We should all know less about each other. Unironically.

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If you're an asexual lesbian, looking for a space that talks about asexual lesbian shit, look at this! www.instagram.com/p/Da1AD4MDcO...

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Happy belated birthday to I Am Not Human, I Walk In Eternity, the 1st (or one of at least) queer Doctor Who essay series specifically about asexuality and aromanticism, for asexual and aromantic Doctor Who fans and the longest essay I've ever written x

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I Am Not Human, I Walk In Eternity - An Aspec Lense on Doctor Who’s Desire and Humanity A big deep dive into Doctor Who, amatonormativity, compulsory sexuality, asexual and aromantic coding and aspec identity in the whoniverse. leikeliscomet.substack.com/p/intro-and-...

New essay: Half Man (2026) proves you hate victims, but we been knew Reviewing Richard Gadd's 6 part drama, discussing the imperfect victim complex and standing against the 'Niall is worse than Ruben' delegation #halfman leikeliscomet.substack.com/p/half-man-2...

Half Man (2026) proves you hate victims, but we been knew

A review and some thoughts on Richard Gadd’s nauseating 6-part drama.

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There’s a deadline extension on this! Wednesday 17th June 11:59pm BST (10:59pm UTC)

next jen | bluesky era@leikeliscomet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you're a Black asexual person who's also lesbian, gay, bi, trans, non binary, pan or intersex, you could be featured on the Black Ace Culture Instagram! Read the form below and fill it in by Monday 8th June 11:59pm BST if you're interested docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

For Aces and Aros looking for an epic YA fantasy that doesn't include a romantic plot for the MC, look no further than Fractured Princess! Currently available in 3 formats at Amazon and e-book at Barnes and Noble! Links in the replies! #authorsky #indieauthor #pridemonth #asexual

I can't stop the misinformation about the "new asexual flag" spreading but I can keep telling the truth. The original asexual flag isn't being replaced, the "new flag" creator tried asking AVEN to update the current one & they said no. No one's forcing you to use the other one

If you're a Black asexual person who's also lesbian, gay, bi, trans, non binary, pan or intersex, you could be featured on the Black Ace Culture Instagram! Read the form below and fill it in by Monday 8th June 11:59pm BST if you're interested docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Black Ace Queer Solidarity Series

For the Black Ace x Black Queer series Black Ace Culture will be sharing this Pride, it would be great to collect some personal stories from Black asexuals of multiple queer identities, specifically B...

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‘I Don’t Want a Seat At Your Table (Anymore)’ was a needed wake up call for myself. Too many times I’ve caught myself appealing to the white gaze, the American gaze and to liberalism in my work and posts.

The asexual community created a whole smear campaign against a Black asexual woman for making a new ace flag that no one is being forced to use and genuinely thinks board & consultations should dictate the culture. It's truly the only community I'm in that loves its own shackles.

I'm not doing Pride discourse this year. If you hate asexuals or lesbians, suck your mum ✌🏾

The big one of the essay is here. Going forward I need all my non Black followers to get that I'm not your personal anti-racism and DEI bank just because I’m Black, on your feed & you are unaware of Black people’s culture and oppression.

The most concise way I can explain why I’ve stopped trying to de radicalise white right-wingers.

Black allosexual people specifically Black lesbians, Black bisexuals and Black trans women have done more to defend me from the asexual + aspec community's antiblackness than non Black aspecs ever have. Don't let the garlic bread and cake memes fool you.

New essay: I Don’t Want a Seat At Your Table (Anymore) Part 2 of Internet Mammy. On Black visibility, being painted as a Black activist/educator figure, being a diversity hire and letting go of the white gaze. leikeliscomet.substack.com/p/i-dont-wan...

I Don’t Want a Seat At Your Table (Anymore)

Can self-proclaimed white “allies” leave me alone? Abeg!

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Tearing singlet this Bank Holiday Monday. Mark yuh calender! open.substack.com/pub/leikelis...

"Keep it off our forums, for as long as you can." But this community is SO safe. Good morning! I'm leaving @avenofficial.bsky.social . www.instagram.com/reel/DYkW4V6... #asexuality

I fricking hate Reddit. They're removing my post about AVEN not being safe. I WANTED to say it's not safe for Black Aces, but I didn't. #asexuality #reddit

It’s 1 thing to have your opinions, work & ideas misconstrued and distorted by someone who hates you, but it’s another to see someone uphold, defend & contribute to systems and movements built to exterminate and suppress you by the person who claims, ‘I see you and I support you’

One week until SUGAR GIRL drops! 🫦 New Little Simz EP out May 8

New essay: we'd go to the third space, but we're broke My working-class Londoner POV on third space discourse, East London gentrification, the commodification of 'community' & appreciation of London working class third spaces leikeliscomet.substack.com/p/wed-go-to-...

we’d go to the third space, but we’re broke

How capitalism is selling community back to us.

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Happy Lesbian Visibility Week! I been quiet lately but i still wanted to say that I love all my lesbian oomfs, my butches, femmes, studs & stemmes for being the best people i know. Extra special shoutout to all my Black lesbians & asexual lesbians too. Hope the week's going good! 🧡🧡🤍🤍🩷🩷

The fact this is my first tv show and tell release since last year is kinda WILD but it feels so good to get into my tv analysis bag again, free from the limits of fandom x

next jen | bluesky era@leikeliscomet.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New essay (or should I say, review 👀): Heartbreak High Season 3 Was... Weird Talking about character bias, lesbophobia, shipping and the Asexual Netflix Curse leikeliscomet.substack.com/p/heartbreak...

New essay (or should I say, review 👀): Heartbreak High Season 3 Was... Weird Talking about character bias, lesbophobia, shipping and the Asexual Netflix Curse leikeliscomet.substack.com/p/heartbreak...

Heartbreak High Season 3 Was… Weird

How Heartbreak High fell at the final hurdle.

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This Heartbreak High Season 3 review is dragging icl but it makes sense cus the season was too-

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Said this on Substack but I need liberal aces + "allies" to have nuance. Me saying 'the allo queer community could treat aces a bit better' & 'nonsexual + nonromantic intimacy matters too' doesn't mean go 'everything is allo queer people's fault' & start slut shaming people in the comments 🥴

Happy International Asexuality Day to Black asexuals and asexual lesbians. Everyone else? Idk happy Monday I guess.

I get why Brits are saying they're scared about what's happening in the US happening here but like, we already have the criminalisation of transness, a recession, mass deportation, policing of Black communities, medical misogyny etc. There is no 'getting worse'. Its here. Now.

New essay: Dyke or Prude, Who Will You Be Today? Adding some depth to the I-don't-feel-asexual-enough-or-lesbian-enough struggle most asexual lesbians have, talking compulsory sexuality in the lesbian community and lesbophobia in the ace community leikeliscomet.substack.com/p/dyke-or-pr...

Dyke or Prude, Who Will You Be Today?

Why asexual lesbians keep feeling like that.

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