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✨ A Story of Exile, Identity, and Asexual Rebellion: Why I Write ✨
In my past creative chapters, I published under other pen names. Today, as an independent queer author in exile, I write under my chosen name - Xeni Davyd.
This is the story of my evolution & my bilingual alternative 19th-century novel, "The Valdai Romance".
I lived under state censorship in the Russian Federation, forced into a mold that wasn't mine. It took more than 7 years of living outside of Russia, healing and deprogramming, to finally clear the fog and discover my true identity:
🔗 I am a masculine non-binary individual. I am a man, not the woman they tried to force me to be. Stepping into my true identity went hand in hand with being queer and asexual. In a world obsessed with hyper-sexuality, being an asexual man is often met with erasure. But I refuse to be invisible. My writing is my ultimate form of rebellion and survival.Currently, my situation is fragile - displaced, financially vulnerable, and in deep isolation. Yet, through this frost, I choose to create warmth."The Valdai Romance" explores the electric intensity of asexual romantic love - proving passion burns hotter without sex. It follows the slow-burn connection between Virgil Carter, an alien engineer trapped in his own biological coldness, and Januar Walday, a lonely romantic dreaming of supersensual closeness. My mission is to reclaim the Russian language for queer narratives that are currently being suppressed.
📩 How you can support me today:
Follow this page & engage with my posts.Read my bilingual work for free on Medium:
https://medium.com/@xenidavyd/list/the-valdai-romance-part-1-canon-88a59008502dShare this post to your Stories to help my voice break through.Thank you for standing with me and recognizing my true name.
🖤🩶🤍💜
#queerauthors #nonbinaryartist #Asexuality #Asexual #Ace #androromance #homoromance #manloveman #lgbtqia #indiewriters #writingcommunityً #exileart #transidentity #TheValdaiRomance #bilingualbooks #19thcentuarylove #19thcentury #LGBTQ -
✨ A Story of Exile, Identity, and Asexual Rebellion: Why I Write ✨
In my past creative chapters, I published under other pen names. Today, as an independent queer author in exile, I write under my chosen name - Xeni Davyd.
This is the story of my evolution & my bilingual alternative 19th-century novel, "The Valdai Romance".
I lived under state censorship in the Russian Federation, forced into a mold that wasn't mine. It took more than 7 years of living outside of Russia, healing and deprogramming, to finally clear the fog and discover my true identity:
🔗 I am a masculine non-binary individual. I am a man, not the woman they tried to force me to be. Stepping into my true identity went hand in hand with being queer and asexual. In a world obsessed with hyper-sexuality, being an asexual man is often met with erasure. But I refuse to be invisible. My writing is my ultimate form of rebellion and survival.Currently, my situation is fragile - displaced, financially vulnerable, and in deep isolation. Yet, through this frost, I choose to create warmth."The Valdai Romance" explores the electric intensity of asexual romantic love - proving passion burns hotter without sex. It follows the slow-burn connection between Virgil Carter, an alien engineer trapped in his own biological coldness, and Januar Walday, a lonely romantic dreaming of supersensual closeness. My mission is to reclaim the Russian language for queer narratives that are currently being suppressed.
📩 How you can support me today:
Follow this page & engage with my posts.Read my bilingual work for free on Medium:
https://medium.com/@xenidavyd/list/the-valdai-romance-part-1-canon-88a59008502dShare this post to your Stories to help my voice break through.Thank you for standing with me and recognizing my true name.
🖤🩶🤍💜
#queerauthors #nonbinaryartist #Asexuality #Asexual #Ace #androromance #homoromance #manloveman #lgbtqia #indiewriters #writingcommunityً #exileart #transidentity #TheValdaiRomance #bilingualbooks #19thcentuarylove #19thcentury #LGBTQ