‘The oppression of ace people is tied up in the oppression of fill in the blank: Queer people, Black people, Indigenous people, poor people. Liberation of ace people is tied to the liberation of all of these people too. And that is my viewpoint… we all gotta get free.’
‘To close with the powerful words of a participant, Maureen, who identified as a Black panromantic asexual cisgender woman:
The oppression of ace people is tied up in the oppression of fill in the blank: Queer people, Black people, Indigenous people, poor people. Liberation of ace people is tied to the liberation of all of these people too. And that is my viewpoint… we all gotta get free.’
‘The asexual experience for white people is not the same for racially and ethnically marginalized people. Black aces and other asexuals of color must fight against stereotypes like the Jezebel, the Mammy, the China doll or the Geisha Girl, or the desexualized Asian male trope that have historically stripped our personhood of any nuance. Therefore, the insecurities we harbor that prevent many from even identifying within the community are valid’
- Ebony Purks for Rebellious Magazine, 2021
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ALTMarshall Blount (@/AceGentle on Twitter), Kimberly Butler (@/AsexualGoddess on Twitter) and Alyshia Rodgers have founded SoulAce Day for February 16th 2025 in the US’s Black History Month. The purpose is to celebrate African American asexuality and contributions to asexual art and activism!