AVEN Digest - 10th October 2011

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AVEN Digest - 10th October 2011

Apologies for missing last week's Digest.

Elections:

Moderator elections for a variety of AVEN forums are now open: http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?/forum-33/announcement-13-moderator-elections-are-open/

Interview Requests:

Kristina Gupta at Emory University, who has previously conducted research on AVEN, is now looking for interviewees in Los Angeles in late November: http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?/topic/66271-looking-for-interviewees-in-los-angeles-in-late-november/

A writer is looking for a female asexual in the UK to be interviewed for a piece in Grazia magazine: http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?/topic/66299-asexuality-piece-for-uk-womens-magazine/

Asexual Research:

Those who like to keep up with asexuality research will be interested to know that Mark Carrigan's website Asexual Studies has recently gone live: http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?/topic/66217-asexuality-studies-is-going-liveis-about-to-go-live/

World Watch:

Asexuality was featured on The Morning Show in Australia: http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?/topic/66135-asexuality-on-the-morning-show/

An article on asexuality has appeared on a German website: http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?/topic/66179-german-internet-feature-on-asexuality/

There was also an article in UK magazine Out! NorthEast: http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?/topic/66201-out-northeast-article/

Canada's The Gayest Show Ever has featured a comedy sketch of an asexual lesbian couple: http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?/topic/66257-the-gayest-show-ever/

Community:

A new Google group has been created for those interested in the history of asexuality: http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?/topic/66181-history-of-asexuality-google-group/

This month's Sydney meetup takes place on Saturday 15th October: http://www.asexuality.org/en/index.php?/topic/65902-sydney-monthly-meet-october-15/