AVEN Digest - 7th November 2016

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AVEN Digest - 7th November 2016

Site News:

The November/December issue of AVENues has been published.

Visibility:

A new version of the letter to the Office of National Statistics, calling for the inclusion of asexuality in any questions regarding sexual orientation in the 2021 UK Census, has been released.

Asexuals in New York are working with the Department of Education to include asexuality in sex education, following the new law requiring it to cover non-heterosexual orientations.

Asexuality is also now a category for New York City's data collection on sexual orientation.

World Watch:

Not Wanting It is a short film about asexuality made in Finland.

The University of Maryland's student newspaper has an article on asexuality.

Asexuality is briefly mentioned in a TIME article about online meetup groups.

Community:

Ace Toronto will be hosting an unconference in the new year.

Austrian meetup - Vienna (12th November)

Swedish meetup - Gothenburg (12th November)

UK meetup - Birmingham (12th November)

US meetup - Ann Arbor, Michigan (13th November)

The full schedule for 2016 AVEN meetups can be found here.