Asexual Vampires?
I recently read Ell Huang's excellent essay Interview with the Vampire and Asexual Loneliness In it, Ell does an asexual reading of all versions of Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice - the book, film and recent TV series - talking about how the loneliness of Rice's vampires speaks to the asexual experience. I don't intend to reiterate all the points Ell makes (you can read the essay yourself). But there were many aspects that resonated with me, even though Ell is aromantic, single and childless, and I am heteroromantic, married and a mother. Some of the points that grabbed me most stongly were: Queer Time. The idea that queer folk typically discover themselves and come of age later in life than non-queers. Or maybe we feel ourselves in a perpetual coming-of-age, a perpetual adolescence. Feeling like a child ("girl" always seems more fitting a word for myself than "woman" although I an currently 51) but not wanting to be infantalised. The vampir...