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In asexuality studies we would call this "compulsory sexuality", and as Sherronda J. Brown reminds us in the intro to Refusing Compulsory Sexuality, there is a *lot* of overlap btwn CS and rare culture.

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RIP Margaret Cavendish, you would have hated AI. (see if you can spot the two Early Modern Accidental Emoticons (TM) )

Remember my post earlier this year about the tendency of sex positivity to slip into sex normativity? Or my Early Modern Asexualities conf. paper about the values of differentiating forms of love and attraction? Well: here is that, but in the seventeenth century: #SAM #AspecHistory #RenAsexy

Charting watermarks in Margaret Cavendish's books at the Huntington this week, and delighted as always to see the UFO lurking in the pages of Cavendish's Playes. 👽

Aro find of the day in the Huntington Library: verses to be written on a bracelet to ward off marriage. 💚 #Aromanticism

Giving at talk at UCSD this Thurs on early modern green-sickness (aka"the disease of the virgins"), pathologizations of #asexuality, and em love poetry. Finalized my ppt this morning, and happy I've finally managed to create a rough visualization of something I've been struggling to articulate:

Does anyone else now put off allowing software updates for fear that the updates will entail more, and more unavoidable, AI being added to otherwise usable programs?