{"id":22638,"date":"2022-02-01T10:55:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T05:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/?p=22638"},"modified":"2022-01-31T18:05:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T12:35:39","slug":"brushstrokes-why-being-asexual-doesnt-mean-im-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/brushstrokes-why-being-asexual-doesnt-mean-im-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"Brushstrokes: Why Being Asexual Doesn&#8217;t Mean I&#8217;m &#8216;Broken&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This comic has been reposted from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/everydayfeminism.com\/2017\/01\/asexual-not-broken\/\">Everyday Feminism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of prejudices and misconceptions about asexual people. This comic from Everyday Feminism (originally published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.empathizethis.com\/stories\/asexual-not-broken\/\">Empathize This<\/a>) sensitises us to asexuality through a deeply felt real-life story of finding love as an asexual person. It sheds light on an unconventional coupledom that is often hypothesised but seldom understood.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/BS-asexual-not-broken.png\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-22640 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/BS-asexual-not-broken.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"686\" height=\"3665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/BS-asexual-not-broken.png 686w, https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/BS-asexual-not-broken-56x300.png 56w, https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/BS-asexual-not-broken-131x700.png 131w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of prejudices and misconceptions about asexual people. This comic on Everyday Feminism sensitises us to asexuality through a deeply felt real-life story of finding love as an asexual person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":22661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1,3188,7],"tags":[368,2518,2027,3222,71,670,349,59,3213,2310,1935],"class_list":{"0":"post-22638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brushstrokes","8":"category-categories","9":"category-sexuality-and-coupledom","10":"category-visualcorner","11":"tag-asexuality","12":"tag-attraction","13":"tag-exploration","14":"tag-genderqueer","15":"tag-love","16":"tag-relationship","17":"tag-romance","18":"tag-safety","19":"tag-sexuality-and-coupledom","20":"tag-sisa-spaces","21":"tag-vulnerability"},"menu_order":30,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22638"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22706,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22638\/revisions\/22706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}