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

Michael Paramo is a writer, academic, and artist known for founding the

agender identity.[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 of human sexuality, romance, and gender identity.[5][6][7] They published a book Ending the Pursuit: Asexuality, Aromanticism, and Agender Identity in 2024.[2][8]

Career

Paramo created

graduate student in American 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 the

BIPOC individuals.[7][11] They also presented research on the dehumanization of non-traditional gender identities, more specifically of drag queens, and the relationship of this phenomenon to colonialism.[10]

They wrote an essay for the magazine in 2018 on the

romantic attraction to include other forms of attraction.[12][13] They wrote another essay for the magazine that discussed the relationship between transphobia and colonialism, arguing that the former was inextricably linked with the latter.[14][15] Paramo interviewed Pragati Singh in 2018 on the subject of asexual awareness in India.[16] The magazine also reached 10,000 followers on social media platform Twitter.[17]

In 2019, Paramo was interviewed by

PhD student.[19]

Paramo published the book Ending the Pursuit: Asexuality, Aromanticism, and Agender Identity with Unbound in 2024, which questioned social norms of sex, romance, and gender.[2][20] Of the book, academic Ela Przybylo 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 for Geeks 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 by ITV's platform Planet Woo as "one of the globe's leading aro academics."[2]

Personal life

Paramo is a

aromantic spectrum and as queer and Xicanx.[18][23] Paramo also creates visual art and releases music under the name COZMECA.[21]

References

  1. ^ a b Taormino, Tristan (2019-10-11). "Michael Paramo on Asexuality, Aromanticism, and Agender Identity". VoiceAmerica. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  2. ^
    ITV
    . Retrieved 2024-02-18. 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. Retrieved 2024-02-18. Michael Paramo โ€” creator of AZE journal (originally known as The Asexual) and moderator for the Facebook group The Ace and Aro Advocacy Project โ€” 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. Retrieved 2024-02-18. 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. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  6. ^ Paramo, Michael (2018-10-11). "The 'A' Doesn't Stand For Ally". INTO. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  7. ^ a b c Montenegro Marquez, Janeth (Spring 2022). "Asexual Latina/o/x Representation in AZE" (PDF). Feral Feminisms. 10 (2): 13โ€“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. ^ a b "Ending the Pursuit: Asexuality, Aromanticism and Agender Identity by Michael Paramo". unbound.com. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  9. ^ a b ""Centering ace perspectives and narratives": an interview with Michael Paramo, founder of The Asexual". Drunken Boat. 2017-10-23. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  10. ^ a b Fawthrop, Wendy (2017-04-25). "CSUF student explores how RuPaul slays 'monsters' in humanizing drag queens". Orange County Register. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  11. ^ "International Asexuality Day". Amplify. 2021-04-06. Retrieved 2024-02-18. As Michael Paramo writes, current discussions of asexuality are rooted in mostly-white, mostly-online spaces...
  12. ISBN 978-1-119-90413-7
    . 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. Retrieved 2024-02-18. 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. ISBN 978-90-485-4026-6
    . Gender is inextricably bound up with racialization. On this, see... Paramo, 'Transphobia'
  15. ISBN 978-1-4773-1878-2
    . 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. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  17. ^ Trust, Asexuality New Zealand (2018-10-23). "Celebrating Ace Achievement: "The Asexual"". Asexuality New Zealand Trust. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  18. ^ a b M., 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. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  20. ISBN 978-1-80018-286-8
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  21. ^ a b Kirichanskaya, Michele (2024-04-01). "Interview with Michael Paramo, Author of Ending the Pursuit: Asexuality, Aromanticism and Agender Identity". Geeks OUT. Retrieved 2024-04-09.
  22. ^ "Profile (Michael Paramo)". AZE. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
  23. ISSN 1543-0413
    . Michael Paramo, who describes himself as a "Queer Xicanx artist-theorist," provides one example of the complexity of ace identity
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