Hi! I have a main character who is a mixed black/Hispanic, fat, non-binary trans feminine person. Ze is also aro/ace and part of the story is zir developing a queerplatonic relationship with a humanoid alien. Zir best friend, also central to the story, is a black trans woman, who is zedsexual (not ace), though she doesn’t have an opportunity for romance in my first book (I’m planning a series), I only mention a past boyfriend at one point.

I partially based these two off of real people I know, and my concern now is that I’ve created a hypersexualized/desexualized dichotomy between the thinner zedsexual character and the fat asexual character. Originally the plan was for the ace character to be sex-repulsed, though that has not come up in the story so far, and I haven’t decided if I want to explore it, so I wonder if I should scrap that part (zir alien partner is zedsexual, so they already have scenes where they work out what kind of intimacy or lack thereof they want in their relationship. They certainly could later work out whether to include sex in their relationship).

Just for clarification: zedsexual/zeesexual has been suggested by folks in the ace tumblr community as an alternative to allosexual, which can be a problematic term.