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Introduction: Some Asexual Moments Ela Przybylo: I have experienced asexuality on many levels in my relational and theoretical practice. Asexuality resonates in the highly charged and intimate, yet asexual, friendships that have populated my life since a young age. These friendships bypass "sex" in favor of other modes of being with others. My most meaningful community formations have also been poly-asexual, though tense with affective togetherness. Asexuality manifests itself in the premium I place on friendships, broadly understood, as well as on myself. In this sense, asexuality multiplies and configures relationship formations. 1 Danielle Cooper: Like many others, coming out as queer in early adulthood involved distancing myself as much as possible from asexuality. Prior to coming out, I had considered myself asexual because there was no sexual component to my romantic relationships with cis-gendered men. As a newly out queer, I rejected my heterosexual past because I could only see that period in terms of repression, and, frankly, a threat to my legitimacy as queer. Rejecting my heterosexual romantic past for my queer sexual present, however, has only traded in old gaps for new gaps in my personal narrative because I cannot account for the romantic attraction I have experienced toward cis-men. I am beginning to wonder if my problem lies with the fact that I've always seen asexuality and sexuality as mutually exclusive orientations. But why can't I self-identify as experiencing same-sex sexual attraction and opposite-sex asexual attraction? We begin this article on asexual archiving with two moments: how else? Moments speak to a queer method of archiving, to those "ephemeral and unusual traces" so