INTERVIEW WITH ANONYMOUS by Janus the Fox So, what are your activism efforts in your country? My efforts now have spanned about 8 years, erm and have actually gone way out of the country at this point, i’m fortunately been able to do a lot of activism and advocacy work internationally at this point, i mean even physically, so for example, i had the opportunity to do some work on Asexuality in counties such as Czech Republic, in Sweden, in London, in New Zealand, in US a couple of times and even in Sri Lanka. All of this was physical in the pre-pandemic times. So i did this by bringing up asexuality as a subject to be explored in conferences. These conferences were sexuality conferences or LGBTIAQ conferences, human rights programs and events and other kinds of things, and so on, you know. For example the first time i did this was all the way back in 2017 at the world association for sexual congress which was being held in Prauge. I submitted my paper on asexuality which was considered luckily and i presented that paper at the conference, i also had that paper published in the journal of sexual medicence. Turns out this was actually the first time any such academic on asexuality that had ever come out of my country, and then in 2019, so i don’t know if you know about ILGA, ILGA is this is huge old orginization that has been working on LGBT causes for a really long time and they have these things called ILGA world conferences. In 2019 they held it in New Zealand where where i conducted my own workshop on asexuality and i also noticed they had the asexual flag in their poster, only to later find out that this was the first ever time that they had actually included the asexual flag in their world conference posters ever in their entire history and this this was also the first time that had a session being done on asexuality which means that if i hadn’t of submitted my proposal to the workshop and if i hadn’t travelled all the way to New Zealand, they still wouldn’t have done it, the flag still wouldn’t have been included, i mean what gives, but that’s the work that i’ve been able to do internationally, and then of course at the regional level, even
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