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Functional males that are produced occasionally in some asexual taxa - called 'rare males' - raise considerable evolutionary interest, as they might be involved in the origin of new parthenogenetic lineages. Diploid parthenogenetic Artemia produce rare males, which may retain the ability to mate with females of related sexual lineages. Here, we (i) describe the frequency of male progeny in populations of diploid parthenogenetic Artemia, (ii) characterize rare males morphologically, (iii) assess their reproductive role, using cross-mating experiments with sexual females of related species from Central Asia and characterize the F1 hybrid offspring viability and (iv) confirm genetically both the identity and functionality of rare males using DNA barcoding and microsatellite loci. Our result suggests that these males may have an evolutionary role through genetic exchange with related sexual species and that diploid parthenogenetic Artemia is a good model system to investigate the evolutionary transitions between sexual species and parthenogenetic strains. © 2013 European Society For Evolutionary Biology. ; This study has been funded by the Plan Nacional CGL2008-03277 project, sponsored by Spanish Government MICIN. AG was supported by a National Environment Research Council (NERC) Advanced Fellowship (NE/B501298/1). MM was supported by a fellowship of the JAE Program from CSIC and European Social Fund. ; Peer Reviewed

"Brave, witty and empowering, this graphic memoir follows Rebecca as she navigates her asexual identity and mental health in a world obsessed with sex. From school to work to relationships, this book offers an unparalleled insight into asexuality."--Provided by publisher

"The landscape of trauma is scattered with ghosts. Wolves hunkering in the shadows. Memory's spectral persistence and evasion. Leaky bodies and selves gathered up in the storm of pain. Genders imposed and genders made. History's cruel excisions, scars, the spillage of wounds. A landscape in which we are nevertheless called to build home. Here, "storytelling is a kind of suturing."

Combining memoir, lyrical essay, and cultural criticism, KJ Cerankowski's Suture: Trauma and Trans Becoming stitches together an embodied history of trauma and its ongoing impacts on the lived realities of trans, queer, and other marginalized subjects. Suture is a conjuration, a patchwork knitting of ghost stories attending to the wound as its own archive. It is a journey through many "transitions": of gender; through illness and chronic pain; from childhood to adulthood and back again; of psyche and form in the wake of abuse and through the work of healing; and of the self, becoming in and through the ongoingness of settler colonial violence and its attendant subjugations of diverse forms of life.

Refusing a traditional binary-based gender transition narrative, as well as dominant psychoanalytic narratives of trauma that center an individual process of symptom, diagnosis, and cure, Suture explores the refractive nature of trauma's dispersed roots and lingering effects. If the wounds of trauma are disquiet apparitions—repetitions within the cut—these stories tend the seams through which the simultaneous loneliness of mourning and togetherness of queer intersubjective relations converge. Across these essays, healing, and indeed living, is a state of perpetual becoming, surviving, and loving, in the nonlinearities of trauma time, body-time, and queer time."

Aspergillus nidulans has long-been used as a model organism to gain insights into the genetic basis of asexual and sexual developmental processes both in other members of the genus Aspergillus, and filamentous fungi in general. Paradigms have been established concerning the regulatory mechanisms of conidial development. However, recent studies have shown considerable genome divergence in the fungal kingdom, questioning the general applicability of findings from Aspergillus, and certain longstanding evolutionary theories have been questioned. The phylogenetic distribution of key regulatory elements of asexual reproduction in A. nidulans was investigated in a broad taxonomic range of fungi. This revealed that some proteins were well conserved in the Pezizomycotina (e.g. AbaA, FlbA, FluG, NsdD, MedA, and some velvet proteins), suggesting similar developmental roles. However, other elements (e.g. BrlA) had a more restricted distribution solely in the Eurotiomycetes, and it appears that the genetic control of sporulation seems to be more complex in the aspergilli than in some other taxonomic groups of the Pezizomycotina. The evolution of the velvet protein family is discussed based on the history of expansion and contraction events in the early divergent fungi. Heterologous expression of the A. nidulans abaA gene in Monascus ruber failed to induce development of complete conidiophores as seen in the aspergilli, but did result in increased conidial production. The absence of many components of the asexual developmental pathway from members of the Saccharomycotina supports the hypothesis that differences in the complexity of their spore formation is due in part to the increased diversity of the sporulation machinery evident in the Pezizomycotina. Investigations were also made into the evolution of sex and sexuality in the aspergilli. MAT loci were identified from the heterothallic Aspergillus (Emericella) heterothallicus and Aspergillus (Neosartorya) fennelliae and the homothallic Aspergillus pseudoglaucus (=Eurotium repens). A consistent architecture of the MAT locus was seen in these and other heterothallic aspergilli whereas much variation was seen in the arrangement of MAT loci in homothallic aspergilli. This suggested that it is most likely that the common ancestor of the aspergilli exhibited a heterothallic breeding system. Finally, the supposed prevalence of asexuality in the aspergilli was examined. Investigations were made using A. clavatus as a representative 'asexual' species. It was possible to induce a sexual cycle in A. clavatus given the correct MAT1-1 and MAT1-2 partners and environmental conditions, with recombination confirmed utilising molecular markers. This indicated that sexual reproduction might be possible in many supposedly asexual aspergilli and beyond, providing general insights into the nature of asexuality in fungi. ; National Natural Science Foundation of China 31601446 ; National Research Foundation of Korea 2016010945 ; Intelligent Synthetic Biology Center of Global Frontier Projects 2015M3A6A8065838 ; Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council ; Government of Iraq ; Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad BIO2015-67148-R

This paper seeks to expand the work of Marxist-feminist scholars Rosemary Hennessy and Nancy Fraser by placing it into conversation with the emerging work of scholars of asexuality and asexual identity. In resisting the tendency to reify the identity category of "asexual" as a newly emerging and dialogically structured identity which stands in opposition to the "allosexual," this paper will rather attempt to determine its nature as a historically structured and contingent emergence of a particular moment in neoliberal capitalism. From this, it will argue that there need not be a tension between the notions of "compulsory sexuality" and "sexusociety" developed by scholars such as Elizabeth Emens and Ela Przybylo. It will be demonstrated that asexuality can be used as a positional tool in order to illuminate the totality of sexuality as a reified and commodified entity under late capitalism, one which is useful for understanding and resisting the capitalist historical (re)organization of human potentials for sensation and affect.

In Ordinary Failures I develop a new conception of "diaspora" as the ordinary failure of recognitions and solidarities founded on ideological and ancestral ties. Informed by the queer studies turn toward negativity and the relational turn in African diaspora studies, my project examines the interventions of artists and writers of the diaspora who opt to recite intraracial failure (between blacks) in the face of their structurally overdetermined failure as minoritized subjects. I identify in textual and visual objects an engagement with the promise of intimacy attendant to the artist's lived experience of diaspora and there I aim to expose the limits of diaspora discourse. My explorations of the failures of diaspora are aided by pushing on queer theories of negativity to speak to race. This project departs from traditional approaches to black failure such as the black mainstream's condemnation or eschewal of black failure in favor of respectability politics and the black left's redemption of failure through revisionist narratives of resistance. In doing so, this project holds space for betrayal, exhaustion, and laziness without fear of reifying speculations on the failures of blackness to allow for visions of blackness that are unbound by the binary racial logic of success and failure and instead turn our eyes toward instances in which resistance and defeat are overlapping.In the first chapter, "Reciting Diaspora," I examine diasporic misrecognitions in the memoirs Lose Your Mother by Saidiya Hartman, Triangular Road by Paule Marshall, and My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid to interrogate what is at stake for the black diasporic memoirist in reciting failure, and the strategies these authors employ to reconcile themselves with the damage incurred in these moments of misrecognition. The second chapter, "The Repetition of Betrayal," wrestles with the "cruel optimism" of racial solidarity and the afterlife of the suggestion of betrayal in the artwork of Wilmer Jennings to understand how the repetitive and reductive form of wood engravings contributes to a visual language of intraracial solidarity, vulnerability, and intimacy. Chapter three, "A woman should have something of her own," examines black feminine tiredness in the neo-slave narrative Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler, the history of slave suicide, and challenges readings of resistance. The final chapter, "Desireless Diasporans," examines black asexuality and black idleness and argues for the liberatory potential of failing to contribute to normative social and economic reproductivity.

'Human identity, sexual identity, primary and secondary identification, object choice, narcissism - all of these lie on a continuum with homosexuality, transsexualism, transvestism, heterosexuality and asexuality. Concepts on sexuality and gender are outlined anew in an interplay of theoretical and clinical networks, with the aim of increasing the efficiency of analytic praxis freed from prejudice and monolithic convention.' Alcira Mariam Alizade from the Foreword

The present paper identifies and characterizes the asexual community of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area. In order to do so, it carries on a theoretical revision of the concept of asexuality, highlighting the most relevant contributions for its emerging study. Secondly, as asexual people mostly interact through virtual platforms, the chosen methodology is a virtual ethnography, combined with in-depth interviews. The objective is to highlight the specificity of a mainly virtual community. In the last place, the process of "politization" of the asexual community is developed, this one being oriented to the rest of the civil society and other groups of sexual diversity. ; O presente trabalho identifica e caracteriza a comunidade assexual do Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires. Para fazer isso, em primeiro lugar, faz uma revisão teórica do conceito de assexualidade, salientando as contribuições mais relevantes para o seu incipiente estudo. Em segundo lugar, como os assexuais se relacionam prioritariamente através de plataformas virtuais, a metodologia implementada é a de uma etnografia virtual, combinada com entrevistas em profundidade. Assim, o objetivo é mostrar a especificidade de uma comunidade forjada principalmente online. Por último, se desenvolve a politização da comunidade virtual assexual, orientada ao reconhecimento social do resto da sociedade civil e dos coletivos da diversidade sexual. ; El presente trabajo identifica y caracteriza a la comunidad asexual del Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires. Para ello, en primer lugar, se lleva adelante una revisión teórica del concepto de asexualidad, destacando los aportes más relevantes para su incipiente estudio. En segundo lugar, como los asexuales se vinculan prioritariamente mediante plataformas virtuales, la metodología implementada es la de una etnografía virtual, combinándola con entrevistas en profundidad. Se busca, de este modo, dar cuenta de la especificidad de una comunidad forjada principalmente online. Por último, se desarrolla la politización de la comunidad asexual, orientada al reconocimiento social del resto de la sociedad civil y de los colectivos de diversidad sexual.

Under the frame of a doctoral thesis, regarding the appearing of the asexual identity in the social scene, this work investigates the main cultural factors that could have contributed to its start and development. An identity under construction, that it's being produced here and now, in the bosom of a virtual community, and that can't be unconnected with the opportunities that offer the Information and Communications Technologies. The social networks start to seem, this way, not only as a useful resource to get changes in the public politics, and not only as a key to find new forms of communication and knowledge, but as spaces in which can be generated and disseminated changes, even in the more intimate and personal aspects of the human being, as the sexuality, in whose normativeness has always taken root the "must-be" (that is the identity) of men and women. ; En el marco de una tesis doctoral a propósito de la aparición, en la escena social, de la nueva identidad asexual, el presente trabajo indaga en los principales factores socio-culturales que pueden haber incidido en su desarrollo. Una identidad que se elabora intersubjetivamente ante nuestros ojos en el seno de una comunidad virtual y a la que, por tanto, no le pueden ser ajenos factores como las posibilidades que ofrecen actualmente las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación. Las nuevas redes sociales comienzan así a mostrarse, no sólo como instrumentos útiles para impulsar algunos cambios en las políticas públicas, o no sólo como generadoras de nuevas formas de comunicación, conocimiento y saber, sino como espacios donde se elaboran y se transmiten cambios, incluso en los aspectos que parecerían más íntimos del ser humano, como la propia sexualidad, en cuya normatividad ha enraizado siempre el deber ser- esto es, la identidad- de mujeres y hombres.Under the frame of a doctoral thesis, regarding the appearing of the asexual identity in the social scene, this work investigates the main cultural factors that could have contributed to its start and development. An identity under construction, that it's being produced here and now, in the bosom of a virtual community, and that can't be unconnected with the opportunities that offer the Information and Communications Technologies. The social networks start to seem, this way, not only as a useful resource to get changes in the public politics, and not only as a key to find new forms of communication and knowledge, but as spaces in which can be generated and disseminated changes, even in the more intimate and personal aspects of the human being, as the sexuality, in whose normativeness has always taken root the "must-be" (that is the identity) of men and women.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Editors' Introduction -- 1. Abstinence -- The Rise of Abstinence Education -- Celibate Feminisms -- Sexual Choice and Asexuality -- Notes -- 2. Adolescence -- Normative Roots: The Emergence of Adolescence as a Developmental Category -- Undoing Adolescence: Problematizing Adolescence as a Distinct Developmental Period -- An Unsustainable Fiction -- Notes -- 3. Age -- Regulations -- Desires -- Notes -- 4. Animals -- Bestiality -- Breeding

Human sexuality involves sexual attraction to another person, which for the most part is to the opposite sex (heterosexuality), some to the same sex (homosexuality) or some having both (bisexuality) or not being attracted to anyone in a sexual manner (asexuality). Human sexuality is determined by many factors, like cultural, political, legal and philosophical aspects of life, but also morality, ethics, theology, spirituality and religion. Sexuality is as old as mankind and interest in sexual activity is very much related to the onset of puberty and the period of schooling. In this book, we hav

Intro -- About This Book -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 A Brief History About the Discovery of Autism Spectrum Conditions -- 1.2 Autistics and Their Sexual Behaviours, Interests, and Insights -- References -- Chapter 2: Methodology -- 2.1 Scoping Review Procedure -- 2.2 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Results -- 3.1 Study Characteristics -- 3.1.1 Year of Publication -- 3.1.2 Location of the Study -- 3.1.3 Sample Composition -- 3.2 Sexual Orientation -- 3.2.1 Asexuality -- 3.2.2 Bisexuality -- 3.2.3 Homosexuality -- 3.2.4 Lesbian -- 3.2.5 Gay -- 3.2.6 Pansexuality and Polysexuality -- 3.2.7 Heterosexuality -- 3.3 Gender Identity -- 3.4 Sexual Relationships -- 3.4.1 Relationships in General -- 3.5 Online Sexual Activities -- 3.5.1 Learning About Sexual Issues Online -- 3.5.2 Online Dating -- 3.6 Sexual Behaviours -- 3.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Recommendations for Research in the Future and Final Comments -- 4.1 Contraception -- 4.2 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Asexual (LGBTQIA+) -- 4.2.1 Coming Out -- 4.2.2 Homophobia -- 4.2.3 Transphobia -- 4.2.4 Gender Reassignment Surgery (GRS) -- 4.2.5 Asexuality -- 4.3 Pregnancy and Childbirth -- 4.4 Parenting -- 4.5 Domestic/Family Violence -- 4.6 Relationship Breakup and Divorce -- 4.7 Sex Education -- 4.8 Engaging People on the Autism Spectrum as Research Participants -- 4.8.1 Conducting a Pilot Study -- 4.8.2 Testing Interview or Focus Group Session Questions -- 4.8.3 Adjusting the Consent Process -- 4.8.4 Orientation Before the Interview or Focus Group Sessions -- 4.8.5 Creating a Comfortable Environment for Participants on the Autism Spectrum -- 4.8.6 Setting Up the Room Before the Interview or Focus Group Session Occurs -- 4.8.7 Immediately Before Starting the Interview or Focus Group Session -- 4.8.8 During the Interview or Focus Group Sessions.

Youth-centeredness presents a "deficit model" of aging and stigmatizes elders. Social constructions reduce the aging process to illness and asexuality. Western conflations of beauty and youth render older adult sexuality disgusting and/or abnormal. Grounded theory methods utilized to interview older women ( N = 20) about love, intimacy, and sexuality reveal more complex and heterogeneous narratives than we are socialized to believe. While important commonalities were reported across age cohorts, relationship statuses, and sexual orientations, sociohistorical as well as psychosocial factors, such as the feminist movement, attitudes about aging, experiences of ageism, and views on sexuality, demonstrate both within- and between-group differences.

Front Matter --Copyright page --Advance Praise for Expanding The Rainbow --Foreword /R. F. Plante --Preface --Acknowledgements --Introduction /Brandy L. Simula , Andrea Miller and J. E. Sumerau --Bi+ and Plurisexual Relationships --"By Definition They're Not the Same Thing" /Ashley Green --You Cared before You Knew /Nik Lampe --Sibling Relationships and the Bi+ Coming out Process /Lain A. B. Mathers --Autoethnographic Insights on Media Representations of Bi Narratives /Brittany M. Harder --Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships --Polyamory and a Queer Orientation to the World /Mimi Schippers --Monogamy vs. Polyamory /Michelle Wolkomir --Margins of Identity /Krista L. Benson --Race, Class, Gender, and Relationship Power in Queer Polyamory /Emily Pain --Relational Fluidity /J. E. Sumerau and Alexandra "Xan" C. H. Nowakowski --Kinky/BDSM Relationships --BDSM Relationships /Robin Bauer --Kink Work Online /Angela Jones --BDSM Disclosures and the Circle of Intimates /Katherine Martinez --Finding Yourself in the Dark /Mar Middlebrooks --Asexual Relationships --Asexualities, Intimacies and Relationality /Tiina Vares --At the Intersection of Polyamory and Asexuality /Daniel Copulsky --Asexuality and the Re/Construction of Sexual Orientation /C. J. Chasin --Queering the Nuclear Family /Katie Linder --Intersex Relationships --Understanding Intersex Relationship Issues /Cary Gabriel Costello --Not Going to the Chapel? /Georgiann Davis and Jonathan Jimenez --Shifting Medical Paradigms /Sarah S. Topp --Transgender Relationships --Trans Relationships and the Trans Partnership Narrative /Carey Jean Sojka --"I Try Not to Push It Too Far" /alithia zamantakis --Generational Gaps or Othering the Other? /stef m. shuster --Research on Gender Identity & Youth /Griffin Lacy --Symbiotic Love /Shalen Lowell --Back Matter --For Use in the Classroom /Andrea Miller --Notes on Contributors.