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 Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:35 am
I've been asked to be in an interview that will be heard on radio. It will be about asexuality, if I say "yes".
This is not the first time I'm asked (the Swedish media wants us asexuals). I've said no before. I'm not too comfortable with being interviewed.
However, this time I'm thinking about doing it. I was going to reply that I was interested, when I noticed that the one sending the message was from Gothenburg. Which is not close to where I live, Stockholm. So I figured ey might want to do it over the phone and... I don't like talking in telephones. I'm going to take 24 hours to think about it, then reply.
Enough about me.
Spoons:
Asexuality and media
Visuality (and the importance of it)
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Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 11:40 am
I think it'd be good for you to do it.
I've done a phone/radio interview before and it wasn't that scary...
Even though I don't like phones either.
My only help to advertising asexuality comes from educating the local teenage population.
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Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:57 pm
Yeah, I am still thinking about it...
I think it's more scary when it's me calling someone and asking questions... but now it's the other person calling. I don't know...
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Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:43 pm
Well that's not so bad then. Would it be live? =/ (The thing I was.)
You know I've forgotten, how old are you Miku?
(Sorry for the off-topicness.)
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Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 11:00 pm
I'm 20 years old.
My guess is it won't be live... but I should ask... yeah, I'll ask now, right away.
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Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 11:13 pm
I have some friends that's been in magazines and on radio about it, and some of them feel like it's a problem that it's the same few persons all the time. There are different ways to be asexual, different people have different opinions and yadda-yadda. I've felt like that too, but I've been afraid to participate in an interview.
But somehow, being and activist and all, I feel like I have an obligation to make asexuality visual. In the book Ronia the Robber's Daughter there are flying... monsters (well, maybe not monsters, but some kind of dangerous animals) that is in one episode chasing Ronia and Birk. The children hide and when the flying creatures can't find them they say "Not visible - not existing" which means "We can't see them, therefore they do not exist". Which is a bit like a motto for me. Asexuality has to be seen to exist.
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 4:23 pm
A good motto, and a good point.
I do believe asexuality should be more widely known of.
Good luck with the interview if you decide to do it (I say go for it).
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Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 12:52 am
Actually now me and the journalist (is that what it's called even if you work with radio?) are e-mailing about time and place. So yeah... I'LL DO IT! Even though I will be extremely nervous and a bit scared xp
I'm not sure if I should tell my parents... I have to if I'm going to write about it in my blog, but I'm really uncomfortable with talking about these stuff with my mum. Mainly because we have different ways of talking. I'm like "So this is the thing... I'm going to do this, there and then. (end of story)" and my mother wants to discuss it more and that make me in a weird position as I'm already on my way to another topic or maybe I'm on my way to leave. And it's so weird talking with someone that isn't familiar with the queer community in Sweden. I can't handle that >__<
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Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 12:58 am
If I do tell my mother, I will probably do this:
"And can you tell father? kthxbai *runs out through the door*"
I'm not sure that my father knows I'm asexual. I'm not sure my father knows what asexuality is. My mother reads my blog, while my father doesn't.
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Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 12:49 pm
I am a bit annoyed that the journalist haven't replied for more than 24 hours now.
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 10:05 pm
We're going to meet today at a coffee shop surprised
I'm a bit nervous.
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 12:42 pm
It went just fine but I don't think I'm going to listen to it xd
The last question was "What is love to you?"
Try to answer that one!
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Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 2:59 pm
The reporter bought me a latte... I think that was nice.
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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 3:56 pm
^_^
Did you tell your mother in the end?
Good that it went okay. =)
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Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 12:14 pm
I decided my mother could find out via the blog >.<;;
It wasn't that easy to answer the questions, as pretty much anyone might hear me. So I was like "Is this something that I would like the world to know? Can I say this on the radio?"
I haven't thought about it before you know. Like that I'm a virgin, it's nothing I think about. When people ask I reply, but is it public information?
And then I got the question how far I would go, and I haven't exactly drawn a line. So I just said that I wouldn't do anything that felt uncomfortable, but that doesn't really give much information xP I kept excusing myself and the reporter kept telling me that my story was interesting.
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