Carnival of Aces July 2015 Wrap-up: Asexual History

It’s a bit late, but here it is!

Last month’s Carnival of Aces was on the topic of Asexual History, and we received some great submissions. A big thanks to everyone who submitted! If I missed an entry or got any names wrong, feel free to leave a note in the comments.

The next Carnival of Aces for August is being hosted by writer-ace, and the theme is “Ideals

Also, as a reminder, we are always looking for more volunteers to host the carnival – there’s no one lined up yet after August, so now is a great time to volunteer. See the masterpost for details.

Without further ado, here’s all out wonderful submissions:

• Ace-Muslim talks about Potentially Asexual Women in Early Muslim History
• Cake at the Fortress writes about Keeping up with documenting the asexual community’s history
• DemiandProud wonders about the history of the dutch ace community.
• Windowseatstories talks about how people in history who exhibited asexual behaviors were targeted as queer, with an emphasis on “spinsters”.
• Iris Robin recalls speaking at the Toronto Trans Pride Rally
• Writer-Ace writes about objective history (just the canonical facts) vs. subjective history (“written by the winners”) and discusses asexual history from both perspectives.
• DemiandProud writes about medieval Begijnhoven as possible historical sites of asexuality.
• Tristifere made a DIY guide to researching asexual history.
• Sennkestra discussed tools for finding primary sources for asexual history.
• DemiandProud shares a passage about asexuality from the afterword of The Routledge History of Sex and the Body: 1500 to the Present
• Robin and Mycroft muse on the subject of identifying historical figures as asexual.
• Sennkestra shared some links to archived versions of early asexual websites.
• Rotten-Zucchinis writes about the history of Asexuality and the DSM and discusses the relationship between flibanserine, the ace community, and pathologization.
• CosineTheCat promos the newly revised Asexual Bookshelf
  
• Thylacine documents her personal experiences in the ace community.
• Elizabeth remembers the early ace blogosphere.