Digest for 2nd - 9th December 2019

Nominations are being taken for the upcoming Project Team elections.

Further Project Team updates are available to view in the bulletin thread.

Requests:

The UBC Sexual Health Lab is conducting a study on aspects of sexuality and is looking for participants who identify as a man.

A Swedish activist is looking for interviewees in Los Angeles.

Visibility:

Asexuals were represented in this year's Pride parade in Perth, Australia.

The Authenticity Global Online Summit will feature a speaker on asexuality on Thursday 12th December.

World Watch:

TV Tropes has a page on asexuality.

Asexuality is mentioned in a Counter Punch article on Postmodern Sexual Identity.

A Tumblr post announces that Ricki Simmons, a voice actor on Invader Zim, is asexual.

Polygon discusses the representation of asexuality in video game Death Stranding.

CBR discusses whether Frozen's Elsa might be asexual.

LGBT+ magazine Attitude will be the first UK publication to feature an asexual woman on its front cover, The Independent reports.

OZY looks at asexuality in India.

Community:

Canadian meetup - Vancouver (14th December)

UK meetups - Bristol, Weymouth (14th December); Exeter (15th December)

US meetups - Salt Lake City, Utah (14th December); Houston, Texas (15th December)

The full schedule for 2019 AVEN meetups can be found here.