The Ace Couple
The Ace Couple
Asexual married couple Courtney and Royce talk about all things Asexuality. By discussing queer culture and history, we’ll explore the topics of life, love, and sex through an Ace lens. Full transcripts and show notes on theacecouple.com.
Episodes
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Nov 19, 2025 • 43min
GLAAD's 2025 media report ignores the precious few Asexual characters
GLAAD released their 2024-2025 "Where we are on TV" report. They cite only 2 asexual characters on TV this year (a decrease from last), but unfortunately ignore key details about them, making this report underdeveloped and poorly edited at best and inaccurate and dismissive at worst.
Nov 12, 2025 • 60min
Ableist Language (Part 4)
The final installment...for now.
Nov 5, 2025 • 1h
Ableist Language (Part 3)
OK. Phobia story time...
Oct 29, 2025 • 1h 2min
Ableist Language (Part 2)
Royce is trying very hard to keep episodes around or under an hour, so here is episode 2 of...4? Maybe?
Oct 22, 2025 • 58min
Ableist Language (Part 1)
The start of an important, yet contentious conversation. Please be nice! We put these episodes off for literal years, because historically some of you have been EXTREMELY not nice about this topic.
Oct 15, 2025 • 60min
"The Ick"
Yet another type of romantic and/or sexual feeling that we will simply never understand...
Oct 8, 2025 • 50min
Ketamine Part 2: Health insurance adding insult to injury
Ketamine can be a life-saving treatment... It can also be prohibitively expensive. And only fellow chronically ill Americans will believe the audacity of our health insurance company revealed in a series of phone calls we've had this month.
Oct 1, 2025 • 52min
Ketamine
A life-saving drug.
Sep 24, 2025 • 1h 4min
Bicentennial Man and humanizing characters through sex
Analyzing a 25 year old robot movie that bombed in order to make a point about sexuality, humanity, and asexual media representation because we simultaneously love and hate it.
Sep 17, 2025 • 55min
Asexual Representation on Broadway: Maybe Happy Ending
Imagine a year where the Tony award winning best play and musical were both asexual??? Maybe Happy Ending might not be as elegant or explicit as Purpose in that regard, but honestly....please just let me have this?
