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How to Be Ace by Rebecca Burgess

January 19, 2022 by GentleRain 2 Comments

This is another winner from Jessica Kingsley Publishers, which I’ve become increasingly aware of in the last year as a great specialty publisher. How to Be Ace is both a good coming of age memoir and a great primer of what asexuality is and how the social pressures to have sex and find a romantic partner can be very damaging. It also covers OCD, anxiety, and touches a bit on autism, so it manages to cover a lot of ground in 208 pages. I’d been following Burgess’s […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: asexuality, autism, graphic memoir, growing up/coming of age, Rebecca Burgess

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:15 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: asexuality, autism, graphic memoir, growing up/coming of age, Rebecca Burgess ·
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How to be Ace? Anyway you want to!

How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual by Rebecca Burgess

November 4, 2020 by BlackRaven 2 Comments

I am not sure what I expected from How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual by Rebecca Burgess, but this was not it. There is some repetition with the authors feeling and actions (they mention more than once that they “might grow into wanting to have sex” or “it’s something that once happens will feel right.”  They also repeat saying how it is uncomfortable with touching people/being touched and repeated mentions of their social anxiety. I think I was looking for more of […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Non-Fiction, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: asexuality, glbtq, Human Sexuality, Rebecca Burgess

BlackRaven's CBR12 Review No:339 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Non-Fiction, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: asexuality, glbtq, Human Sexuality, Rebecca Burgess ·
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