Angela chen book6/25/2023 ![]() “Something that brings aces together is the way we don’t really center sexuality in our lives,” Chen said at the start of her talk. “Ace” explores the issues that aces regularly face and what those conflicts can teach everyone about desire, sexuality and identity. ![]() Her book examines asexuality and the role that sexual attraction plays in Western culture. ![]() “Angela Chen was chosen because we thought that many people on campus needed to learn more about asexuality and we wanted the growing number of students identifying as asexual to have a speaker whom they could relate to, who would affirm them and their experiences.”Ĭhen is currently a senior editor at WIRED. “Last spring, all of the staff at the Stonewall Center helped compile a list of possible speakers for this year, and then we voted on who we would bring,” they said. Genny Beemyn, the director of the Stonewall Center, detailed the organizing process for the lecture. ![]() Asexual people, also known as “aces,” experience little or no sexual attraction. The event took place on International Asexuality Day. ![]() On April 6, the University of Massachusetts hosted a lecture by Angela Chen, author of “Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex.” The event was sponsored by the Stonewall Center, the LGBTQIA+ resource center at UMass. ![]()
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