Английская Википедия:Aze (magazine)
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox magazineAze (stylized AZE) is a literary magazine for asexual, aromantic, and agender people that was created in 2016 and publishes issues online.[1][2][3][4] It was formerly known as The Asexual until 2019 when it expanded to include aromantic and agender people.[2] The magazine publishes visual art, poetry, and personal and academic essays on the subjects of asexuality, aromanticism, and agender experiences and their various intersections.[1][2] It was founded by Michael Paramo.[5] It is listed as an educational resource by some American university centers and elsewhere,[3][6][7] including Alice Oseman's young-adult fiction book Loveless (2022).[8] Writing in Aze has been referenced in scholarship published by Feminist Formations,[9] Sexualities,[10] Archives of Sexual Behavior,[11] Communication Education,[12] and others.[4]
Content
Aze publishes content online in magazine volumes of four issues. In 2019, the magazine changed its name from The Asexual to AZE to represent a shift in its content's focus beyond asexual identity, including gray-asexuality and demisexuality, as well as people on the aromantic spectrum and agender people.[13] The magazine had previously published an issue focusing on agender experiences in 2018.[14]
Most issues focus on a specific intersection or topic related to asexual, aromantic, and agender experiences.[15] Themes that have been explored in the magazine's issues have included "Asexual Masculinities," "Redefining Relationships," and "Aromanticism."[2] Other issues have focused on body image, race, media representation, gender, sexuality, and attraction.[2][13] It has published interviews with Pragati Singh in 2018 and 2023.[16][17]
The magazine's content is edited by the founder Michael Paramo, who is asexual, aromantic, agender, and Mexican American.[13] The magazine was discussed by Paramo in an interview for Sex Out Loud with Tristan Taormino in 2019.[18]
Reception
Aze's focus on publishing asexual, aromantic, and agender people's perspectives has been recognized as unique since these experiences are "often absent from the mainstream."[2] The magazine is listed as a resource by the Asexual Visibility and Education Network,[19] Sounds Fake but Okay,[20] some American university resource centers,[3][6][7] and in Alice Oseman's young-adult fiction book Loveless (2022).[8]
The magazine has been noted for its inclusion of people of color within the asexual, aromantic, and agender communities, particularly of BIPOC and Latinx people.[2][21][22] Janeth Montenegro Marquez argued that "AZE does a good job of creating a niche for individuals who crave it" by providing "other queer individuals, queer BIPOC individuals especially, a space of community to explore their identities" and theorize about their experiences where they may not be able to "in other queer spaces."[2] The magazine's issue on race was noted by Foster et al. to contribute to expanding perceptions of the asexual community beyond whiteness.[21] Justin Smith referenced a poem published on Aze to argue that there are inherent connections between blackness and asexuality.[9] Ben Brandley and Angela Labrador cited an article from the magazine that argued how people of color may feel excluded from the asexual community.[12]
Scholar Anna Kurowicka referenced the magazine's issue on disability to examine the intersections between asexuality and disability narratives, arguing for the need to trouble the boundaries between both experiences.[10]
In a book edited by Angela M. Schubert and Mark Pope, authors Stacey Litam and Megan Speciale refer to an article published on Aze that discusses different types of attraction as multi-layered, including sexual, romantic, aesthetic, sensual, emotional, and intellectual, to argue for the need to expand notions of attraction beyond sexual attraction within the context of interpersonal relationships.[23]
See also
References
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