{"id":4123,"date":"2025-10-20T10:32:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/?p=4123"},"modified":"2025-10-25T10:43:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T14:43:25","slug":"interview-asexuality-201","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/?p=4123","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Asexuality 201"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was a guest for Ace Week with JoAnne Turner on <a href=\"https:\/\/asexuality201.substack.com\/p\/ace-week-special-julie-sondra-decker\">I Don&#8217;t Know If This Counts: Asexuality 201<\/a>. We talked about my personal experience being asexual and aromantic, some reflections on what I would change about my book if I had it to rewrite today (or if I wrote a sequel!), what I&#8217;ve seen change since I got involved in the community, and what I suggest in terms of keeping ourselves safe in an increasingly hostile political atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/asexuality201\/p\/ace-week-special-julie-sondra-decker\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4124 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/asexuality201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/asexuality201.jpg 500w, https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/asexuality201-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/asexuality201-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kicking off Ace Week with Julie Sondra Decker, author of\u00a0<em>The Invisible Orientation<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can listen to the episode in any of these places:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/asexuality201\/p\/ace-week-special-julie-sondra-decker\">Substack<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/2KbA0lNpXz52APxWwULgsj\">Spotify<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/ace-week-special-julie-sondra-decker\/id1800353282?i=1000732632787\">Apple Podcasts<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a guest for Ace Week with JoAnne Turner on I Don&#8217;t Know If This Counts: Asexuality 201. We talked about my personal experience being asexual and aromantic, some reflections on what I would change about my book if I had it to rewrite today (or if I wrote a sequel!), what I&#8217;ve seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,13,5],"tags":[14,27],"class_list":["post-4123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-interviews","category-news","tag-asexuality","tag-the-invisible-orientation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4125,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions\/4125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliesondradecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}