Wednesday, June 29, 2011

An Introduction, A Disclaimer and A Warning

An Introduction
Hi! I'm Emerald Girl. I'm an asexual, cisgendered, eighteen (well, almost 19)-year-old girl. I think I'm heteroromantic, but it's kind of complicated. I only discovered my asexuality a few months ago, and I'm only out to one person. Eventually, I'd like to be out to more people and maybe get involved with asexual visibility. Right now, I'm just planning on blogging about my life up to this point. Looking back, I think there were some "ace moments" that I didn't really recognize at the time but make much more sense now. But really, I just want to talk about my life. I'm not really interested in the "Asexuality 101" thing. I want to write about things that I think are important. I want people who are learning about asexuality to be able to come here and see that this is what an ace person looks like. I'm a person and I do normal things which are sometimes affected by my asexuality, and I hope that people will be able to see that when they read this.

A Disclaimer
I don't speak for all aces. My opinions are my own and I'm not going to apologize for saying what I think (I tend to do that too much). I'm pretty new to this and I might get some stuff wrong.

A Warning
This blog is a safe space. Priority for this goes 1) me, 2) asexuals, 3) everyone else. That means that if for any reason, any discussion on here makes me feel uncomfortable or unsafe or threatened in any way, it ends. 2 means that we might discuss things that bug us as asexuals, and any visiting sexuals need to be respectful. 3 means no sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic or otherwise discriminatory remarks. Be nice to each other. Also, don't feed the trolls.