Reading: How to Be Ace

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Rebecca Burgess's How to Be Ace is a graphic novel memoir of their experiences as a teen and young adult, coming to terms with their asexuality as well as dealing with anxiety and OCD. It's divided into chapters covering different stages of Burgess's life, beginning with 'How to Pretend to be Something You're Not' (secondary school) and ending with 'How to be Ace' (present day), and charting their journey from first realising that they didn't share their teenage peers' growing obsession with sex and relationships, through experimenting with relationships to coming to accept and embrace their asexual identity. I liked it a lot - it's sweet and relatable and cartoon-Rebecca's experiences and worries are vividly evoked by the watercolour illustrations, and it's also really good to see more representation of asexuality.

(I would say that I had the kindle edition, and there were several blank pages with coloured borders at the end of chapters which I suspect might have been meant to be information panels, so you might be better off with the paper copy instead.)