Tag: lgbtqia

how do you know if your aro bc I cant tell if i am or if im just like in a “young dumb and fuck love!!” mentality if that makes sense? im sorry if this question makes no sense lmao

aspecsapphic:

some good ways to know if you’re aromantic or somewhere on the aro spectrum are as follows:

  • if you’ve never been romantically attracted to anyone (as in seen someone and wanted to date them and do romantic things with them)
  • if you’re not sure if you’ve ever had a crush on someone
  • if you’re not sure if you’ve ever been in love
  • if you have trouble telling the difference between romantic and friendly feelings
  • if you find romance boring, annoying or upsetting when it appears in fiction, even if it’s well written
  • if you want a best friend much more than you want a romantic relationship.
  • if you’ve ever doubted whether crushes or love really exist, or if they’re just cultural constructs
  • if you have trouble relating, or feeling involved when your friends discuss their romantic relationships or romantic feelings
  • if falling in love doesn’t seem that exciting or important to you
  • if you don’t really understand why other people make such a big deal out of having crushes or falling in love
  • if you have never or rarely had a romantic relationship – not because you can’t get one, but because you just never really bothered to try, or you like being single better
  • if getting a romantic partner feels more like fulfilling an obligation, or something you’re supposed to do, rather than something you’re really enthusiastic about
  • if you’re more excited by making a new best friend than by falling in love
  • if you wouldn’t mind marrying your best friend and spending your life with them, even though you’re not in love with them
  • if when you discovered the word aromantic it felt like something finally clicked into place for you
  • if identifying as aromantic makes you feel relieved, free, happy, or more like yourself

immagotobed:

ok so I’m not nb or trans but for someone to be told their whole life that there is only ‘boy’ or ‘girl’ and that whatever you’ve got down there is who you are forever, for someone to see all that and still recognise who they are as someone who defies everything they have been told about gender, that is fucking amazing.

you are so amazing.

you are a fucking superhero.

LGBTQIA+ Community and the Internet

waitineedaname:

Hi everyone! For my final in my argumentation class, I have to write a research paper and collect my own research to develop an argument. The topic I chose to research was the interconnection of the LGBTQIA+ community and the Internet – basically, researching the Internet’s purpose in helping LGBTQIA+ discover their identities and form communities online.

This survey should take less than two minutes to answer, and it’ll help me a lot! Please take a minute to answer the five short questions and share it so I can get a better data sample. Thank you!! Have a great day.

LGBTQIA+ Community and the Internet

Ace and Aro Book

ace-and-aro-support-group:

Hi!

I’m Isabel, a member of the aces group in DC. I am a board member and co-founder of The Ace and Aro Advocacy Project (TAAAP), an ace and aro activist group. We’re trying to write a book on asexuality and aromanticism that is geared towards people who work with asexual and/or aromantic people in a professional setting — i.e. mental health professionals, doctors, guidance counselors, volunteers/employees at LGBTQ+ centers, etc.

We aim to make this book representative of a diverse range of experiences, and in order to do that, we are looking for asexual and/or aromantic people who might be willing to take a survey to share their experiences; either in the form of direct quotes or as a reference for our own writing. This is the survey link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdiwnsg0mCDRD3uSN6Z70tarC7O4RbOK2ZRjrE5nCTmX_i4fA/viewform.

I’d be happy to talk to you about this more – you can email TAAAP at asexualawarenessproject@gmail.com.

Hope to talk to you soon!

-Isabel