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“I’m not interested in having a physical relationship with anyone because it disgusts me.”
In a nutshell, that’s pretty much how I came out as asexual to my parents. I did not want to. I was not ready. I believe that every person should be able to pick the moment that’s the most comfortable and safe for them to come out. However, I can’t help but feel like I was robbed of that.
The two dreaded words that prompted this moment: arranged marriage.
Read More“British colonialism secured the permanence of monogamous heteronormativity and criminalized all other forms of livelihood through both legislation and language. These constructed notions of sex and sexuality offered a vocabulary for delineating and policing boundaries between communities and uplifting certain people at the expense of others – the very premise of white supremacy.”
Read MoreSimran Singh Jain is a queer South Asian activist and poet currently living in Syracuse, New York. She has been in the fields of Reproductive Justice and anti-racist activism for several years, including currently working in anti-incarceration. She is an emerging poet and has been published by the Academy of American Poets' and the Pennsylvania Bards Southeast Poetry Review. She is also the editor of a book of poetry translations, originally written by her Dadiji (grandmother), Sunita Jain.
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