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Sounds Fake But Okay: An Asexual and Aromantic Perspective on Love, Relationships, Sex, and Pretty Much Anything Else
by Kayla Kaszyca, Sarah Costello
informative
reflective
medium-paced
This book might be best for people who are beginning to question whether they’re on the asexual or aromantic spectra, but it often seems to be written for people who may never have questioned societal norms before. It’s quite informative about how broad the aspec is and it shares many examples of non-normative relationship structures, which were really helpful.
The authors continually stress that they can only speak from the perspective of white, middle-class women – and they’re not wrong. Many of the “alternative” ideas they cite are already known to POCs. Lastly, the book’s subtitle includes “an asexual and aromantic perspective”, but the asexual perspective is disproportionately larger, evidenced by the authors constantly prompting readers to don our “purple-coloured glasses”, but not all of us are asexual.
The authors continually stress that they can only speak from the perspective of white, middle-class women – and they’re not wrong. Many of the “alternative” ideas they cite are already known to POCs. Lastly, the book’s subtitle includes “an asexual and aromantic perspective”, but the asexual perspective is disproportionately larger, evidenced by the authors constantly prompting readers to don our “purple-coloured glasses”, but not all of us are asexual.