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Michael Paramo
Paramo in 2024.
Born1993
NationalityAmerican
Alma materCalifornia State University, Fullerton
Notable workAze
Websitehttps://azejournal /mxparamo

Michael Paramois a writer, academic, and artist known for founding theliterary magazineAze(formerly known asThe Asexual) and for their work examininginterpersonal attractionandlovewith consideration toasexuality,aromanticism,andagenderidentity.[1][2][3][4]Paramo identifies on the asexual and aromantic spectrum and advocates for people of similar experience to express themselves toward expanding society's ideas ofhuman sexuality,romance,andgender identity.[5][6][7]They published a bookEnding the Pursuit: Asexuality, Aromanticism, and Agender Identityin 2024.[2][8]

Career[edit]

Paramo createdAzeon October 5, 2016 (at the time under the nameThe Asexual) while attendingCalifornia State University, Fullertonas agraduate studentinAmerican Studies.[9][10]The journal was created because of what Paramo saw as an absence of places for asexual people to publish their creative work: "I knew their experiences, stories, perspectives, and voices needed a space of expression."[9]

In 2017, they authored an essay discussing thewhitenessof the asexual community and advocated for the community to be more inclusive ofBIPOCindividuals.[7][11]They also presented research on thedehumanizationof non-traditionalgender identities,more specifically ofdrag queens,and the relationship of this phenomenon tocolonialism.[10]

They wrote an essay for the magazine in 2018 on thesplit attraction modelthat argued for the expansion of notions of attraction beyondsexual attractionandromantic attractionto include other forms of attraction.[12][13]They wrote another essay for the magazine that discussed the relationship betweentransphobiaand colonialism, arguing that the former was inextricably linked with the latter.[14][15]Paramo interviewedPragati Singhin 2018 on the subject of asexual awareness inIndia.[16]The magazine also reached 10,000 followers on social media platformTwitter.[17]

In 2019, Paramo was interviewed byTristan Taorminofor their work examining asexuality, aromanticism, and agender identity for a book they were writing.[1]That same year they changed the name of the literary magazine they founded fromThe AsexualtoAzeto include asexual, aromantic, and agender people.[7][18]They began attending theUniversity of British Columbiaas aPhD student.[19]

Paramo published the bookEnding the Pursuit: Asexuality, Aromanticism, and Agender IdentitywithUnboundin 2024, which questionedsocial normsof sex, romance, and gender.[2][20]Of the book, academic Ela Przybyło wrote "Paramo refuses to take for granted the normalized ideas we are fed around how relationships should work and what they should look like."[8]In an interview forGeeks OUT,Paramo spoke to the inclusion of poetry in the book as a hybrid method of bringing together critical and creative expressions.[21]In 2024, they were referred to byITV's platformPlanet Wooas "one of the globe's leading aro academics."[2]

Personal life[edit]

Paramo is aMexican Americanwho was born inOrange County, Californiain 1993.[22]They identify as being on theasexualandaromantic spectrumand asqueerandXicanx.[18][23]Paramo also creates visual art and releases music under the name COZMECA.[21]

References[edit]

  1. ^abTaormino, Tristan(2019-10-11)."Michael Paramo on Asexuality, Aromanticism, and Agender Identity".VoiceAmerica.Retrieved2024-02-18.
  2. ^abcdKyle, MacNeill (2024-02-14)."The new aromantics flying the flag for the misunderstood identity".Planet Woo,ITV.Retrieved2024-02-18.Mexican-American writer Michael Paramo is one of the globe's leading aro academics... they published Ending the Pursuit, a book questioning society's normative views on sex, gender and romance.
  3. ^"Exploring Asexuality: The" A "in LGBTQIA+".Psych Central.2021-10-26.Retrieved2024-02-18.Michael Paramo — creator of AZE journal (originally known as The Asexual) and moderator for the Facebook group The Ace and Aro Advocacy Project — is a digital artist and researcher who identifies as homoromantic and asexual.
  4. ^Wong, Brittany (2019-04-09)."What It's Like To Date When You Don't Experience Sexual Attraction".HuffPost.Retrieved2024-02-18.Michael Paramo, a 25-year-old from Southern California who founded and edits the online magazine The Asexual
  5. ^Kliegman, Julie (2018-07-26)."Asexual People Can Be Sexually Assaulted Too".BuzzFeed News.Retrieved2024-02-18.
  6. ^Paramo, Michael (2018-10-11)."The 'A' Doesn't Stand For Ally".INTO.Retrieved2024-02-18.
  7. ^abcMontenegro Marquez, Janeth (Spring 2022)."Asexual Latina/o/x Representation in AZE"(PDF).Feral Feminisms.10(2): 13–15.Paramo created this journal to give other queer individuals, queer BIPOC individuals especially, a space of community to explore their identities. The journal began in 2016 as The Asexual, then became AZE to be more inclusive of ace, aro, and agender people.
  8. ^ab"Ending the Pursuit: Asexuality, Aromanticism and Agender Identity by Michael Paramo".unbound.Retrieved2024-02-18.
  9. ^ab""Centering ace perspectives and narratives": an interview with Michael Paramo, founder of The Asexual ".Drunken Boat.2017-10-23.Retrieved2024-02-18.
  10. ^abFawthrop, Wendy (2017-04-25)."CSUF student explores how RuPaul slays 'monsters' in humanizing drag queens".Orange County Register.Retrieved2024-02-18.
  11. ^"International Asexuality Day".Amplify.2021-04-06.Retrieved2024-02-18.As Michael Paramo writes, current discussions of asexuality are rooted in mostly-white, mostly-online spaces...
  12. ^Diane A. Litam, Stacey; Speciale, Megan (2022-09-20)."Ch. 8: The Multidimensional Nature of Attraction".In Schubert, Angela M.;Pope, Mark(eds.).Handbook for Human Sexuality Counseling: A Sex Positive Approach.John Wiley & Sons. pp. 129–130.ISBN978-1-119-90413-7.In a 2018 essay "Beyond Sex: The Multilayered Model of Attraction," Michael Paramo provided a comprehensive framework of attraction that expands and critiques the historical definition of attraction.
  13. ^"ALTERNATE TAKE: On Chesil Beach (2018) by Dominic Cooke".Cinematary.2018-06-04.Retrieved2024-02-18.Michael Paramo writes in The Asexual Journal of "The Multi-Layered Model of Attraction," in which sexual attraction is just one of many that draws people together. Others include emotional, aesthetic, sensual, intellectual, or romantic.
  14. ^Spencer-Hall, Alicia; Gutt, Blake, eds. (2021).Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography.Amsterdam University Press.p. 324.doi:10.5117/9789462988248.hdl:20.500.12657/61200.ISBN978-90-485-4026-6.Gender is inextricably bound up with racialization. On this, see... Paramo, 'Transphobia'
  15. ^Geffen, Sasha (2020-04-07).Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary.University of Texas Press.p. 2.ISBN978-1-4773-1878-2.When European settlers devastated the Americas, they "looked to the existing sexual and gender variance of Indigenous people as a means of marking them as racially inferior and uncivilized: a justification for a forever unjustified genocidal conquest," wrote Michael Paramo.
  16. ^Paramo, Michael (2018-02-01)."Indian Aces: Awareness and Activism in India".AZE.Retrieved2024-02-18.
  17. ^Trust, Asexuality New Zealand (2018-10-23)."Celebrating Ace Achievement:" The Asexual "".Asexuality New Zealand Trust.Retrieved2024-02-18.
  18. ^abM., Bradda (2021-06-10)."Pride Reads: Three Queer Speculative Fiction Magazines to Check Out!".The Geekiary.
  19. ^JW (2021-05-14)."Lunar Notes: An Interview with Featured Writer Michael Paramo".Night Music.Retrieved2024-02-18.
  20. ^Paramo, Michael (2024-02-08).Ending the Pursuit: Asexuality, Aromanticism and Agender Identity.Unbound Publishing.ISBN978-1-80018-286-8.
  21. ^abKirichanskaya, Michele (2024-04-01)."Interview with Michael Paramo, Author of Ending the Pursuit: Asexuality, Aromanticism and Agender Identity".Geeks OUT.Retrieved2024-04-09.
  22. ^"Profile (Michael Paramo)".AZE.Retrieved2024-02-18.
  23. ^Gilman, Lisa (2023)."Cake is Better than Sex: Pride and Prejudice in the Folklore of and about Asexuality".Journal of Folklore Research.60(2): 200.doi:10.2979/jfolkrese.60.2_3.09.ISSN1543-0413.Michael Paramo, who describes himself as a "Queer Xicanx artist-theorist," provides one example of the complexity of ace identity
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