I just did a short phone interview about asexuality and I was struck by the extent to which I feel I’ve been repeating myself for the last couple of years. I have nothing new to say on the subject and the repetition involved in talking about it is starting to get a bit weird. There are a few more pieces of writing I’m committed to (a chapter in a psychology handbook and two theoretical articles which use asexuality as a case study) after which I’ll probably stop writing about it. This seems a shame on one level. I feel as if I haven’t really made full use of the data I collected (8 in depth interviews and 174 open response questionnaires for which many wrote essay length responses) and the best empirical piece I wrote is stuck in an edited book that no one other than institutional libraries will ever buy. At some point I still want to apply for funding for the project, which if you’ve ever talked to me in person about asexuality I’ve probably told you about, that would try and situate asexuality (as well as trans, poly and kink) within a broader historical account of socio-cultural change. But that’s something I won’t be thinking seriously about for at least a couple of years. For now, I’d just like to stop repeating myself and do something new.
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