Asexuality and aromanticism are inherently queer experiences and I’m fucking sick of being told otherwise.
#not just experiences but identities too (via @mukhannath)
Yes, I intended to communicate that as well. I am aroace and I am queer, because my identity and my experience of my identity is inherently queer, and I will not sit by and let myself to be called “basically straight” or treated as if I’m a nothing who doesn’t belong. I am queer.
Asexuality is a sexual orientation, like heterosexuality or homosexuality, etc., but instead of being sexually attracted to men or women, asexual people are sexually attracted to no one. This doesn’t mean we all hate sex or avoid it, it just means we don’t find people sexually attractive.
What is the Asexuality Archive?
The Asexuality Archive is a collection of all things Ace. In these pages, I hope to provide a comprehensive and uncensored look into what asexuality is, what it means to us and how it shapes our lives. My intention is to provide information that is approachable and informative, whether or not you’re asexual.
Projects:
What is Asexuality?: A companion site, dedicated to providing information about asexuality in multiple formats, including pamphlets and slideshows.
Asexuality: A Brief Introduction: An informational book about what asexuality is, what it’s like to be asexual, and what people should know about asexuality.
An Asexual’s Guide To…: A series of in-depth posts on topics that are typically wondered about, but are rarely explored in ace circles.
The Comment Section: A series of posts that explore troublesome comments left on articles about asexuality, and tips for responding to them.
Friendly reminder that anyone on the aromantic and or asexual spectrum is valid and belongs in the LGBTQIA community. Please don’t listen to those who try to tell you you’re not welcome or valid. You’re very loved and important.
#AsexualAwarenessWeekFandomChallenge
Day 2: aspec characters in shows and movies
Matthew Cuthbert (drawn here in movie form) has always been on the asexual spectrum for me. He lived with his sister, and never married because he was too afraid of women (Marilla, on the other hand, never married because men were too afraid of her).
I was a little disappointed when the new Netflix version gave Matthew a romantic subplot, but he was still the same endearing Matthew, so I got over it. His love for Anne always makes my heart ache because it’s so pure.
Thank you so much!!! I haven’t seen the movie with Liam Neeson but there’s a part in the book where it says that when Jean Valjean had trouble noticing that Cosette had a crush on Marius because he’d never had one himself, and I thought that maybe the reason why he seemed so uncomfortable at Marius and Cosette’s wedding was because he hadn’t realized that attraction was a real thing before then.
It’s Asexual Awareness Week and I want to try an experiment.
Ever since June, this blog has been posting pictures of aces spotted at Pride events, in order to show that we exist and we belong. Now I want to show where we exist, namely, that we’re everywhere.
Here’s what I want to do: I’m going to start with some blank maps and I want to fill them in. But I don’t just want to color in the states or countries when someone says “I’m in Nebraska!” or “I’m in Lichtenstein!” or wherever. I want pictures of visible aceness in all of these places. Ace flags at famous monuments, demi t-shirts on the street, gray-ace chalk markings at Pride, that sort of thing.
I’m going to need your help for this.
Here’s what I need you to do.
Grab an ace, gray-ace, or demi flag or acey clothing of some kind. (It’s okay if the flag is printed or hand drawn!)
Go outside. If you can go to a famous landmark or nice view of some sort, that would be great, but you don’t have to. A local park would be fine, even the sidewalk in front of your house would be okay in a pinch. (If you already have a good picture, you can just send that in. If you don’t have or can’t take a picture, an artist’s rendition of what it would be like to take an ace flag to someplace awesome in your local area will be suitable.)
Take a picture of the aceness wherever you are. You don’t have to be in the picture if you don’t want to, but some visible ace symbol has to be.
Submit the picture to acespotting, putting your state/province/country in the caption. You can do that here: https://acespotting.tumblr.com/submit And make sure you give me your location, since that’s the point of this experiment! Province/Territory in Canada, State/District/Commonwealth/Territory in US, and Country anywhere else. (If you’re logged in, your username will be associated with the picture, so if you don’t want that, you can either log out or use an “Incognito” or “Private” browser window to submit anonymously.)
I’m also going to need your help to track down aces in obscure places and convince them to participate. California will be easy. Nunavut will be hard.
I’m hoping that we can completely fill the Canada/USA/Mexico map by the end of Ace Week. I’d also like to get at least half of Europe filled in. And as amazing as it would be to get every single country on the world map represented, I think I’d be happy to get something on every continent. (Who knows someone in Antarctica?) And if your place isn’t really on the map (Like, say, Puerto Rico…), send something in anyway and I’ll get it added.
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