CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! MAY 2016 CARNIVAL OF ACES: QUESTIONING YOUR FAITH
by halfthoughts
Hi! I’m your host for this month’s Carnival of Aces.
The Carnival of Aces is a monthly blogging carnival run by The Asexual Agenda. For more information check out the Carnival of Aces Masterpost.
Last month’s Carnival was hosted by A³, on the topic Be Yourself (But Stretch). Check out April’s roundup here.
For this month, I’ve chosen the theme Questioning Your Faith. Previously there was a Carnival of Aces on the topic of religion (or atheism) and asexuality. I’m interested in hearing more perspectives on the interplay between questioning one’s asexuality and questioning one’s faith.
In LGBTQA+ discourse there is a lot of validation of questioning your identity. Often questioning one aspect of your identity leads to questioning another. Exploration and experimentation is encouraged. I’m curious about how often that questioning carries over to questioning one’s faith and how that plays out, especially among the ace community.
Here are some dictionary definitions of faith:
: strong belief or trust in someone or something
: belief in the existence of God
: strong religious feelings or beliefs
: a system of religious beliefs
For the purposes of this topic, the definition of faith is quite open. For example, in addition to religious faith, one could have faith in an ideology, a political movement, or a person. Feel free to interpret faith however you want when writing your response.
Below are some possible ideas to get you started. Of course, feel free to write about anything else that comes to mind when thinking about this topic.
- What does faith mean to you and how has your ace spectrum identity influenced your faith life?
- How has asexuality shaped your understanding of your own faith?
- How has your faith tradition been affirming or unaffirming of your ace identity?
- Did your faith tradition negatively or positively affect your self-discovery process as it relates to your ace spectrum identity?
- Did your faith tradition influence your choice to come out or not?
- Has questioning your asexuality played a role in questioning your faith? How has it played a role in strengthening or weakening your faith? How has it played a role in reshaping your faith, theology, or world view?
- Has questioning and discovering your ace spectrum identity led you to change faiths or give up your faith? If you changed faiths, why? What was that process like?
- How has your faith changed, grown, or developed after discovering your ace identity?
- How has your ace spectrum identity taught you to have faith in yourself or others?
- In what ways does accepting and validating ace identities and experiences require a leap of faith?
- Anything else you can think of!
Submissions in any form are welcome (written, drawn, audio, video, etc.). To submit you can comment below with a link or email me at myhalfthoughts@gmail.com.
Guest posts are also welcome! If you would like to post anonymously, let me know and I will copy and paste text from an email into a guest post on my blog.
I look forward to reading your thoughts!
AWESOME topic, I will definitely take part!!
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https://onlyfragments.com/2016/05/02/1761/ Here’s one of mine. 🙂 (Might do another)
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Thanks for the wonderful post!
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Hello! Here is my submission for the prompt: https://acubedblog.wordpress.com/2016/05/03/carnival-of-aces-questioning-faith/
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Here is my second entry. 🙂
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Reblogged this on asexual feminist and commented:
For any of my fellow aces interested in submitting. 🙂
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Reblogged this on This Too Shall Eventually Pass and commented:
My contribution will hopefully be up soon, but take a look at the prompt and some of the other submissions in the mean time! This is a really great question to explore.
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Here is my short submission for this month!
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Here’s my contribution 🙂 I hope it followed the prompt close enough…
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Here is my submission: http://purrplelace.tumblr.com/post/144478740358/questioning-as-a-process
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Here’s my contribution for this month: https://thistooshalleventuallypass.wordpress.com/2016/05/18/questioning-your-faith-dont-panic-its-just-a-crisis-of-faith/
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Here’s mine for this month!
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Am I still able to give you my entry or did I miss the deadline?
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You’re good!
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Here is my last minute contribution for this month’s carnival!
http://wherethecherryblossomsdance.tumblr.com/post/145212874376/questioning-my-religion-a-journey-of-faith-and
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Here’s my submission:
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Here is my submission: http://adventures-in-asexuality.tumblr.com/post/145255364883/this-is-an-entry-for-the-may-2016-carnival-of
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