How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual

Paperback, 184 pages

English language

Published Aug. 27, 2020 by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

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978-1-78775-215-3
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Selected as a 2020 LGBTQIA+ Graphic Novel for Young Readers by Publishers Weekly

"When I was in school, everyone got to a certain age where they became interested in talking about only one thing: boys, girls and sex. Me though? I was only interested in comics." Growing up, Rebecca assumes sex is just a scary new thing they will 'grow into' as they get older, but when they leave school, start working and do grow up, they start to wonder why they don't want to have sex with other people. In this brave, hilarious and empowering graphic memoir, we follow Rebecca as they navigate a culture obsessed with sex - from being bullied at school and trying to fit in with friends, to forcing themself into relationships and experiencing anxiety and OCD - before coming to understand and embrace their asexual identity. Giving unparalleled insight into asexuality and asexual relationships, …

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How to Be Ace

How to be ace è un memoir dove Rebecca Burgess ci racconta di come sia stato crescere come asessuale in un mondo nel quale questo orientamento era ancora sconosciuto: è diviso in sei capitoli ed è altamente probabile che, se siete statə adolescenti asessuali nei primi anni Duemila, vi riconosciate in tutto o in parte nell’esperienza di Burgess.

Il memoir inizia con How to pretend to be something you’re not e racconta che, quando sei già nella categoria delle persone strane e prese di mira daə bullə, non è facile aggiungere alle stranezze anche il fatto che non stai affatto entrando nella fase del Sogno/Voglio una relazione. Figuriamoci confessare che ti annoi a morte ogni volta che si passano le ore a parlare di ragazzə, nuove coppie, coppie scoppiate e storie strappalacrime varie. Tutto il tempo e le energie che le persone allosessuali dedicano al sesso (e/o al romanticismo) …

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Whoa, weird. There's an actual word for how I feel? Does that mean I'm not just really broken??


I loved a lot about this book: the art style, the thoughtfulness, but mos of all, how viscerally relatable I found a lot of the author's experience. That one moment of fake-gushing about the Gravitation manga? OMG, literally been there! And there was an anime based on it, too, and my friends were so sad that it never properly showed the "hot scenes," so I pretended to be sad, too, even though whispers I absolutely didn't care, I was in it for the drama, and whether the drama was "hot" and "sexy" or not was irrelevant.

Also: that entire feeling of being the odd one out, then finding your crew of fellow weirdos, and still being the odd one out when it comes to romance and sex. The conviction that everyone else …

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