AZE
@azejournal.bsky.social
AZE (azejournal.com) is a literary and art journal publishing asexual, aromantic, and agender authors. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aze_(magazine)
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@azejournal.bsky.social
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creating a journal for ace, aro, and agender writers and artists
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Hi everyone! AZE journal has been run by me independently for 8 years. I am hoping to raise more support for the journal, since it is becoming difficult for me to continue the project in my current life situation. If you would like to help, consider supporting on Patreon: www.patreon.com/azejournal
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“He holds me so tight I might compress back into stardust.
Her loving fingers card through my hair so softly, with the tenderness I missed for decades of my life.
Low tones of “I love you” received with trust and warmth, having been, at long last, understood.”
I try to love myself this same way.🤍
Her loving fingers card through my hair so softly, with the tenderness I missed for decades of my life.
Low tones of “I love you” received with trust and warmth, having been, at long last, understood.”
I try to love myself this same way.🤍
A-: not as in missing, without, but as in free.
So many spaces of perceived absence beget
So much room for becoming
A person who can finally love themself back.
azejournal.com/article/2024...
So many spaces of perceived absence beget
So much room for becoming
A person who can finally love themself back.
azejournal.com/article/2024...
In the absence of? Everything. — AZE
He holds me so tight I might compress back into stardust.
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September 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
“He holds me so tight I might compress back into stardust.
Her loving fingers card through my hair so softly, with the tenderness I missed for decades of my life.
Low tones of “I love you” received with trust and warmth, having been, at long last, understood.”
I try to love myself this same way.🤍
Her loving fingers card through my hair so softly, with the tenderness I missed for decades of my life.
Low tones of “I love you” received with trust and warmth, having been, at long last, understood.”
I try to love myself this same way.🤍
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“I imagine sharing a bed, waking up feeling home in a partner’s arms as I turn to gaze on his face, slowly running my fingers through his morning hair.”
As an aroace who grew up resonating with David & Jonathan, I recognize also the wonderful love here, asexual homoromantic comfort in the same.
As an aroace who grew up resonating with David & Jonathan, I recognize also the wonderful love here, asexual homoromantic comfort in the same.
"Just because I think romance is “sexy” doesn’t mean I want to have sex. Just because I’m aroused by emotional intimacy and physical affection doesn’t mean I’m trying to get at more."
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There’s something about David and Jonathan — AZE
But what if both perspectives meet somewhere in the middle? What if they weren’t straight, and what if they weren’t gay? What if they were homoromantic, even asexual?
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September 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
“I imagine sharing a bed, waking up feeling home in a partner’s arms as I turn to gaze on his face, slowly running my fingers through his morning hair.”
As an aroace who grew up resonating with David & Jonathan, I recognize also the wonderful love here, asexual homoromantic comfort in the same.
As an aroace who grew up resonating with David & Jonathan, I recognize also the wonderful love here, asexual homoromantic comfort in the same.
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♠️♥️ aspec subs open! ♣️♦️
September 3, 2025 at 8:13 AM
♠️♥️ aspec subs open! ♣️♦️
submissions open:
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Submissions Open: Resilience Pt. 2 — AZE
Submit by November 15th, 2025.
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September 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
submissions open:
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It's live!!! I'm officially a published writer!! 🥳
Read my poem "frigid (bitch)" here, and check out all the other awesome pieces in this volume too!
azejournal.com/article/2025...
Read my poem "frigid (bitch)" here, and check out all the other awesome pieces in this volume too!
azejournal.com/article/2025...
August 28, 2025 at 9:53 AM
It's live!!! I'm officially a published writer!! 🥳
Read my poem "frigid (bitch)" here, and check out all the other awesome pieces in this volume too!
azejournal.com/article/2025...
Read my poem "frigid (bitch)" here, and check out all the other awesome pieces in this volume too!
azejournal.com/article/2025...
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“Most people move through the world assuming that eventually, they will merge their life, finances, and domestic labor with someone else’s […] Even the price of a hotel room makes more sense when you’re two.”
So, so much about this @azejournal.bsky.social article. 💯
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So, so much about this @azejournal.bsky.social article. 💯
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The Economy of Solitude: an Aroace in a World Made for Two — AZE
When people picture loneliness, they tend to imagine something dramatic (or cinematic): crying in the dark, empty rooms echoing with regret. But for me, loneliness is quieter than that. It’s logistica...
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August 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
“Most people move through the world assuming that eventually, they will merge their life, finances, and domestic labor with someone else’s […] Even the price of a hotel room makes more sense when you’re two.”
So, so much about this @azejournal.bsky.social article. 💯
azejournal.com/article/2025...
So, so much about this @azejournal.bsky.social article. 💯
azejournal.com/article/2025...
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The next issue of AZE (Vol. 7, Issue 4) is out now! The issue features articles, poems, visual artworks, and a musical composition that explore the subject of Resilience. azejournal.com/article/2025...
Vol. 7, Issue 4: Resilience — AZE
Vol. 7, Issue 4 of AZE focuses on the theme of resilience.
azejournal.com
August 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
The next issue of AZE (Vol. 7, Issue 4) is out now! The issue features articles, poems, visual artworks, and a musical composition that explore the subject of Resilience. azejournal.com/article/2025...
The next issue of AZE (Vol. 7, Issue 4) is out now! The issue features articles, poems, visual artworks, and a musical composition that explore the subject of Resilience. azejournal.com/article/2025...
Vol. 7, Issue 4: Resilience — AZE
Vol. 7, Issue 4 of AZE focuses on the theme of resilience.
azejournal.com
August 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
The next issue of AZE (Vol. 7, Issue 4) is out now! The issue features articles, poems, visual artworks, and a musical composition that explore the subject of Resilience. azejournal.com/article/2025...
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AZE is accepting writing and artwork by asexual, aromantic, and agender authors exploring stories of resilience against oppression, silencing, discrimination, disbelief, and other social pressures. Deadline: July 15th, 2025
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Submissions Open: Resilience — AZE
Submit by July 15th, 2025.
azejournal.com
May 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
AZE is accepting writing and artwork by asexual, aromantic, and agender authors exploring stories of resilience against oppression, silencing, discrimination, disbelief, and other social pressures. Deadline: July 15th, 2025
azejournal.com/article/2025...
azejournal.com/article/2025...
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God, this hit close to home. Beautifully written piece!
As someone who had a close friendship that may be was really a qpr, and lost it, I feel like this author understands the specific ache that comes with that and describes it beautifully.
As someone who had a close friendship that may be was really a qpr, and lost it, I feel like this author understands the specific ache that comes with that and describes it beautifully.
“Romance” doesn’t cross my mind; a “crush” is something intense and oppressive and apparently visually-motivated that I’ve never known and don’t care to know.
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Snapshots of aromantic childhood love — AZE
I am thirteen years old, confident in my close friendship of two years, and suddenly appreciating it in a new light. I bound around the downstairs circuit of my house, thinking, I love her! I love he...
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June 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
God, this hit close to home. Beautifully written piece!
As someone who had a close friendship that may be was really a qpr, and lost it, I feel like this author understands the specific ache that comes with that and describes it beautifully.
As someone who had a close friendship that may be was really a qpr, and lost it, I feel like this author understands the specific ache that comes with that and describes it beautifully.
“Romance” doesn’t cross my mind; a “crush” is something intense and oppressive and apparently visually-motivated that I’ve never known and don’t care to know.
azejournal.com/article/2024...
azejournal.com/article/2024...
Snapshots of aromantic childhood love — AZE
I am thirteen years old, confident in my close friendship of two years, and suddenly appreciating it in a new light. I bound around the downstairs circuit of my house, thinking, I love her! I love he...
azejournal.com
June 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
“Romance” doesn’t cross my mind; a “crush” is something intense and oppressive and apparently visually-motivated that I’ve never known and don’t care to know.
azejournal.com/article/2024...
azejournal.com/article/2024...
"Just because I think romance is “sexy” doesn’t mean I want to have sex. Just because I’m aroused by emotional intimacy and physical affection doesn’t mean I’m trying to get at more."
azejournal.com/article/2023...
azejournal.com/article/2023...
There’s something about David and Jonathan — AZE
But what if both perspectives meet somewhere in the middle? What if they weren’t straight, and what if they weren’t gay? What if they were homoromantic, even asexual?
azejournal.com
June 6, 2025 at 1:23 AM
"Just because I think romance is “sexy” doesn’t mean I want to have sex. Just because I’m aroused by emotional intimacy and physical affection doesn’t mean I’m trying to get at more."
azejournal.com/article/2023...
azejournal.com/article/2023...
AZE is trying to reach 100 Patrons by the end of June and is currently at 58! You can help support the publication of asexual, aromantic, and agender authors here: www.patreon.com/c/azejournal
Get more from AZE on Patreon
creating a journal for ace, aro, and agender writers and artists
www.patreon.com
June 3, 2025 at 3:58 AM
AZE is trying to reach 100 Patrons by the end of June and is currently at 58! You can help support the publication of asexual, aromantic, and agender authors here: www.patreon.com/c/azejournal
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“Sweet Dreams Made of These -or- I Won’t Say I’m in Love Cuz It’s True” on @azejournal.bsky.social, a Black Mirror meets Enchanted dystopian dating show in which kidnapping is legalized if it’s true love and the girl can apparently always just opt out.
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Sweet Dreams Made of These (or: I Won’t Say I’m in Love Cuz It’s True) — AZE
When I was taken, it was supposed to be a compliment.
azejournal.com
June 3, 2025 at 3:31 AM
“Sweet Dreams Made of These -or- I Won’t Say I’m in Love Cuz It’s True” on @azejournal.bsky.social, a Black Mirror meets Enchanted dystopian dating show in which kidnapping is legalized if it’s true love and the girl can apparently always just opt out.
azejournal.com/article/2024...
azejournal.com/article/2024...
"self-love is the most radical act of resistance in a society that is constantly trying to invalidate you."
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on feminism, asexuality, and resistance — AZE
Self-love entails acceptance and compassion towards yourself: you begin to acknowledge that your experiences are valid and important.
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June 2, 2025 at 12:47 AM
"self-love is the most radical act of resistance in a society that is constantly trying to invalidate you."
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Unfortunately, I also received this news yesterday about the book Ending the Pursuit: Asexuality, Aromanticism, and Agender Identity. Although I spent many years writing the book and it was released last year, I have still yet to receive anything for its sales.
So there you have it. My ex-publishers who last year stopped paying me for the seven books I'd written for them, have today gone back on their promise that some of the money that they owe me and their other authors would come through. I should have guessed.. www.thebookseller.com/news/unbound...
Unbound authors will not receive unpaid royalty payments until new publisher Boundless 'is cash stable'
As founder John Mitchinson leaves, Unbound authors learn they will not receive historic royalty payments for sales of their books unless Boundless "survives and thrives".
www.thebookseller.com
May 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Unfortunately, I also received this news yesterday about the book Ending the Pursuit: Asexuality, Aromanticism, and Agender Identity. Although I spent many years writing the book and it was released last year, I have still yet to receive anything for its sales.
"People are expected to push other connections more to the wayside in favor of one special person, stopping intimacy from developing among all types of connections like it could."
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Intim-ace-y — AZE
Without boundaries, without expectations, without conformity.
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May 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"People are expected to push other connections more to the wayside in favor of one special person, stopping intimacy from developing among all types of connections like it could."
azejournal.com/article/2024...
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"...catching the void space where we exist challenging the structure of romantic love and sexuality
This world tells you to love
But you don’t have to
You are radical"
azejournal.com/article/2018...
This world tells you to love
But you don’t have to
You are radical"
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An asexual manifesto — AZE
Poetry by Terlona Knife.
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May 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM
"...catching the void space where we exist challenging the structure of romantic love and sexuality
This world tells you to love
But you don’t have to
You are radical"
azejournal.com/article/2018...
This world tells you to love
But you don’t have to
You are radical"
azejournal.com/article/2018...
"I know I love deeply, both platonically and romantically, but I have some inability to show it often because of my inability to show affection physically. How do I show that I love, while not being able to use one of the most conventional methods of showing it?"
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Touch and Go — AZE
So for now, I’ll walk that tightrope of compromise, walk, and fall and fall again until I have my footing.
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May 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"I know I love deeply, both platonically and romantically, but I have some inability to show it often because of my inability to show affection physically. How do I show that I love, while not being able to use one of the most conventional methods of showing it?"
azejournal.com/article/2023...
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"It feels like amanormativity and compulsory sexuality are steeped into the air we breathe. [There is an idea that] if you do not date or look forward to a future with a partner, what is your life even going to be?"
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On the Discomfort of Inhabiting Gender and Sexuality — AZE
My confrontation with gender detachment was the first time that I was able to put into words the relationship I have to my gender.
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May 25, 2025 at 5:26 AM
"It feels like amanormativity and compulsory sexuality are steeped into the air we breathe. [There is an idea that] if you do not date or look forward to a future with a partner, what is your life even going to be?"
azejournal.com/article/2025...
azejournal.com/article/2025...
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Re-sharing some of my published ace horrors and fantasies here!
First up, an Enchanted meets Black Mirror short story, “Sweet Dreams Made of These -or- I Won’t Say I’m in Love Cuz It’s True,” on @azejournal.bsky.social!
azejournal.com/article/2024...
First up, an Enchanted meets Black Mirror short story, “Sweet Dreams Made of These -or- I Won’t Say I’m in Love Cuz It’s True,” on @azejournal.bsky.social!
azejournal.com/article/2024...
Sweet Dreams Made of These (or: I Won’t Say I’m in Love Cuz It’s True) — AZE
When I was taken, it was supposed to be a compliment.
azejournal.com
May 24, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Re-sharing some of my published ace horrors and fantasies here!
First up, an Enchanted meets Black Mirror short story, “Sweet Dreams Made of These -or- I Won’t Say I’m in Love Cuz It’s True,” on @azejournal.bsky.social!
azejournal.com/article/2024...
First up, an Enchanted meets Black Mirror short story, “Sweet Dreams Made of These -or- I Won’t Say I’m in Love Cuz It’s True,” on @azejournal.bsky.social!
azejournal.com/article/2024...
"...be honest about your asexuality, and how you feel [...] so that even if your relationship ends in a shitshow like mine did, your self-worth is intact."
azejournal.com/article/2017...
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Your Asexuality is not a Problem — AZE
I am proud to be asexual, and proud I stood by it even when I could tell it wore on my partner.
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May 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
"...be honest about your asexuality, and how you feel [...] so that even if your relationship ends in a shitshow like mine did, your self-worth is intact."
azejournal.com/article/2017...
azejournal.com/article/2017...
A-: not as in missing, without, but as in free.
So many spaces of perceived absence beget
So much room for becoming
A person who can finally love themself back.
azejournal.com/article/2024...
So many spaces of perceived absence beget
So much room for becoming
A person who can finally love themself back.
azejournal.com/article/2024...
In the absence of? Everything. — AZE
He holds me so tight I might compress back into stardust.
azejournal.com
May 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
A-: not as in missing, without, but as in free.
So many spaces of perceived absence beget
So much room for becoming
A person who can finally love themself back.
azejournal.com/article/2024...
So many spaces of perceived absence beget
So much room for becoming
A person who can finally love themself back.
azejournal.com/article/2024...
At first, I say that I have never been in love.
But there are different types of love, aren’t there?
I have finally managed to convince myself that my love is different, but not lesser.
azejournal.com/article/2024...
But there are different types of love, aren’t there?
I have finally managed to convince myself that my love is different, but not lesser.
azejournal.com/article/2024...
On Loving Love — AZE
Mom, dad? I don’t think I’m ever going to find love. Is it because you don’t love each other? Is it because you don’t love me? Or, maybe, it’s the other way around. Is it because I am unloving ...
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May 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
At first, I say that I have never been in love.
But there are different types of love, aren’t there?
I have finally managed to convince myself that my love is different, but not lesser.
azejournal.com/article/2024...
But there are different types of love, aren’t there?
I have finally managed to convince myself that my love is different, but not lesser.
azejournal.com/article/2024...