A Life

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The long series name deserves an even longer episode title. This week: social media as a political platform, religion and countries behaving badly.

What? Mitt Romney said something inane? Shocking!

...if Wikipedia counts...

Elections! Elections EVERYWHERE!

Is there any hope left for any of us? Nope, we're all done for. The end. Have a very nice weekend!

The Conspiracy continues on! This time Skylar and Vlad discuss the conventions.

Because A Life is encountering continuous production problems and the topics seem to be pretty well covered, Skylar and Vlad are launching a new show that you will now be the first people to hear. What is it about? Well, the title pretty much covers it, doesn't it? It sure is long enough!

The case against joining the LGBT community, again. Also: New subforum on AVEN & Daria.

The advantages and disadvantages of living in different settings and being a member of a gender or sexual minority. Also, your homework: A Negative: LGBTAbsent

So... the constant hiatuses. We're going to explain the reasons and beg for forgiveness. Also: Boobs!

The show has never shied away from criticizing the community and especially AVEN. But this time the feces has really impacted the ventilator with the latest development involving yet another denial of creating a subforum for aromantics. And that is our topic for today.

A brand new show! Is that even possible? Apparently. This time the panelists talk about the image that media uses to portray asexuality.

We present you: A long delayed "lost" episode of A Life for the first time.

It's been so very long since this show was recorded that not even the panelists can remember what the show was about. So step into our little international box of intrigue!

The holidays are upon us and that means it's time to indulge in some festive musings relating to Asexual and general issues.

We've talked about the differences between Asexuals and the LGBT community in great detail in the past. This time we turn the table and talk about the similarities.

Another unplanned but prolonged absence creates the necessity for an entire episode of reading your feedback.

As the logical continuation to the continuous exploration into the subject of gender, the panelists look at androgyny as it was and as it is.

Inspired by a blog comment, we go over three harsh top ten lists.

We’re back! And because of the extended hiatus, there’s a whole lot of feedback to cover. And that is what we did, uncharacteristically thoroughly as well, not even abridging the longer messages. So it’s feedback galore, for your enjoyment and/or dread.

Feeling repulsed by your own gender is a theme that seems to come up pretty often in the asexual community. Gender repulsion goes beyond "simple" genital repulsion, since it encompasses other parts of your body as well as the societal norms and expectations placed on you because of your physical sex. This is what the rather small crew of A Life discusses this time around.

Queer is a term that has proved itself to be rather problematic for both people who identify as such and those who don't. What does the word actually mean and who should be using it to describe themselves? And, ultimately, can asexuals be considered queer? These are the questions that accompany general randomness in this episode of A Life!

Sex is said to be one of the most important great pleasures in life and therefore we asexuals suffer as we're missing out on it. But that is rather silly, because everybody derives great pleasure from different things. Therefore we discuss our great pleasures as well as a large dosage of the signature randomness you've come to expect in this episode of A Life.

How does feminism relate to asexuality and how do different kinds of feminists deal with the asexual community? And what exactly is feminism and why should we or why should we not care? These are the questions processed by the team with the aid of Sy. Who is Sy? You'll find out in the 60th episode, released sometime next week.

In this very eeeeeevil episode of A Life, the team digs into the very eeeeeevil topic of kinks and fetishes as they apply to asexual people. Featuring the guestive expertise of Diedra.

Radiocarbon dating is a radiometric dating method that uses the naturally occurring radioisotope carbon-14 to estimate the age of carbon-bearing materials up to about 58,000 to 62,000 years. However, we're talking about the other variety of dating, the human interaction inducing personal contact kind.

Randomness is the word of the day when the A Life team heads off to the unknown territories of an offtopic show. Although, to be honest, I don't know what the official word of the day is, so it probably is not randomness. In any case, the show features the special guestitude of Kendra.

This week the intrepid panel of A Life delves into the depths of maturity. Often asexuality is confused with sexual immaturity, so we discuss how they differ from each other and how to tell them apart.

Life happens! Even when it's offline. So asexuality happens. Even when it's offline. And that is what we discuss.

It may come as a bit of a shocker, but there actually are other online communities than AVEN around. We go over the more larger and notable ones. Poll: Do you participate in other asexual communities beside AVEN?

This week's show got a little out of hand... In fact, it got so out of hand that Vlad did a pretty major editing for the show afterwards, so I thank her for the effort in here as well. The show makes repeated attempts to have a topic... but fails. So enjoy! ...or at least don't hate it too much.

A series of unfortunate occurrences have prevented the brave crew of the starship A Life from convening and bringing you another dosage of asexual discussion. But here we are again, this time mainly going over the past several weeks of feedback and playing the Asexual Elitist Blame Game!

Demisexuality and Grey-A's are a part of the asexuality community as well. So naturally they'll be a part of this podcast as well. This is what the brave crew of the starship A Life discusses this time around. Special guestness provided by Cat & Wojtek.

In honour of the 50th episode, the panelists decided to go for video. With disastrous consequences! Well, they’re really not all that disastrous, but I thought that a sensationalist description might boost our numbers a bit…

In honour of the 50th episode, the panelists decided to go for video. With disastrous consequences! Well, they’re really not all that disastrous, but I thought that a sensationalist description might boost our numbers a bit…

Allies! Who are they, do they exist and do we need them? Those, and somewhat similar questions, are answered in this episode of A Life. Or, well... they're not as much answered than discussed... after the feedback... somewhere around there... It's very entertaining, I promise!

Last week's offtopic show ended up to actually have a topic. So we tried again. This time we talk about everything from Adar to warehouse management in space. Mission accomplished!

Being different is probably the worst thing you can be in this world, and you'll never be forgiven for being that. Being asexual is rather different, so the panel discusses how the world has made them pay.

Children. I can't stand them, but fortunately there were other panelists on the show, who have something more constructive to say. In the episode, the panel digs into the prospect of raising them and being one.

Epic topic results in epic runtime. So sit back and enjoy as the panel digs into aromantic considerations with a special guest.

Like it or not, sexuals are all around us and they're multiplying in numbers. Therefore we have to deal with them a lot. That's why the intrepid crew of A Life discusses some common themes that come up when dealing with them.

Most larger minorities have developed a cultural sensibility of their own. Is asexuality one of those minority groups that have achieved that? And if not, why not?

As tradition dictates, it is time to go off topic for our final episode of the year. This naturally means immediate derailment and general confusion in the part of the panelists. Let the festivities begin!

The culture around us is full of sex, that is something we cannot do anything about. So what is a poor asexual soul to do? Well, as luck would have it, most of us still can enjoy sexual culture in one form or another for some more or less convoluted way. That is what we discuss in this edition A Life.

This time around the crew of A Life revisits an old topic well due for a revisit. Gender identity is something that the asexual community talks about often and maybe has a unique angle to.

If 1% of people are asexual then logically 1% of artists should be asexual as well, so why isn't 1% of art asexual? That is the question on the table on this episode of A Life as well as a recap of some of the more popular fictional characters who may or may not be asexual. Links: Gay Geekery: Holmes & Asexuality Asexual Blues Half Death Girls With Slingshots

Labels. Some people revel in them, some people hate them. But everybody should probably be aware of them, so that is why labels are the topic of this edition of A Life.

"Coming out" is usually covered a lot in these sorts of podcasts and is universally hailed as a good thing for everybody. But what if you just want to stay in and not deal with the hassle or repercussions of coming out. Is it as respectable and if it is, what are the ways to stay in without blowing your cover? These questions and a lot of tangential sidelines are at the core of this episode of A Life.

This episode of A life has it's hosts tell personal stories of their asexuality and parents, some sex education stories, and more.