#ace history

[lwgph]

In 1991, 15 Dutch regional news papers put out a giant questionnaire, which then was answered by tens of thousands of people

Among the questions also was this one

It basically says:

Do you consider yourself:

- heterosexual

- homosexual

- bisexual

- a-sexual

According to the results of this survey,

92,8% of the men and 92,5% of the women identified as hetero

3,1% of men and 2,1% of women identified as gay

2,6% of men and 2,7% of women identified as bi

1,5% of men and 2,7% of women identified as ace

I think this is fascinating, especially that they found so many asexual people, like this was in 1991 and yet they already found more people than that 1% that gets quoted a lot

#lgbtq #lgbtq history #bisexual #gay #lesbian #bisexuality #asexual #asexuality #aroace #queer #lgbtqia #lgbt #lgbt+ #bi #wlw #mlm #aspec #pride #queer history #ace history #gay history #bi history #homosexual #dutch #netherlands #my posts

[queerasfact]

Happy Ace Week!

This week is asexual awareness week, a week to celebrate ace people and their identities, as well as learn about, educate, and raise awareness of asexuality. And part of that for us means talking about ace history! This 1973 picture shows lesbian activists at Barnard College in New York suggesting a whole list of labels for people to choose from - including asexual.

Check out our podcast to learn more!

[Image: 'Lesbian activists at Barnard provide labels', Off Our Backs vol. 3 no. 6 Feb/Mar 1973 - two young women sit in front of a sign reading “Yea - it’s a heavy trip but! This is a chance to choose your own label instead of having someone else do it for you” and featuring various identity labels, including asexual]

#ace week #ace history #asexual awareness week #asexuality #asexual history #queer history #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbt history

[heyilike]

Our next pride month treat for you is Jess rambling on about the untold history of the ace folks! Joined by our good old friend JJ, we talk all things ace - from 1890s Germany to the invention of AVEN - so pop on over to hear something you've never heard before!

Find us on all major hosting sites! (spotify, google, apple, iHeartRadio, and pocketcasts)

#hey!ilikepod #podcast #pride month #ace history #asexual #ace pride #aromantic #aro pride #lots of pride going on here

[fourohfourlifenotfound]

How long have you identified as asexual (or on the asexual specrrum)?

Hi all! I'm doing a poll just to get an idea of the breakdown of how long most of us have been here

If you also want to rb and comment how you found out about asexuality, that would be cool! If you're one of the rare ones who has been around since before AVEN, I'd love to hear your story

#asexual #asexuality #asexual spectrum #aspec #ace #polls #ace history #rb for sample size and all that jazz

[rjalker]

For those who weren't there, or had no actual understanding,

Yes, aros were also persecuted during the Ace Discourse time. They were also being targeted, and just as viciously.

It's just that the fucking exclusionists did not know and did not care that "aro" did not inherently mean "ace" or vice versa. They attacked aro people the same exact way they attacked ace people, literally just lumping them in with aces and calling them aces.

Because they were bigots. All they wanted to do was shit on people, and they did not give enough fucks to learn about the people they were shitting on.

Aro people were mocked as being "asexies" the same fucking way people who were ace were.

The bigots just could not be fucking bothered to learn that ace and aro were not inherently synonyms.

The ace exclusionists were no fucking different from any random bigot on the street who doesn't know or care about the differences between being mspec and gay, they just know you're not straight, and that's more than enough, in their minds, to justify everything they're about to throw at you.

Aro people were just as persecuted during the "ace discourse" as ace people were. It's just that the bigots refused to even aknowledge their existance as something other than "cringey asexies not knowing what friends are"

#queer history #LGBT history #aspec history #ace history #aro history #aroace history #aroacemisia #aromisia #acemisia #amisia

[autismserenity]

I finally caved in to my deep desire to call this video "Julia Morgan and the Lesbian Doctors."

But the Lesbian Doctors are really also gonna get a deep dive of their own, because their lives were fascinating.

That one ends up at a socialist commune in Siberia almost immediately. Because of course it does.

This one stays in California. But boy does it ever make an impact there.

Also it's unfair, really, to call it "A Tower of Asexual History," because she was clearly aro as well. But I had thought I'd be putting it out for Ace Week. Ha ha ha. I tried.

Gimme more video ideas please! I need to do deep dives all OVER queer history!

And you can get lots of extra bonus content here:

#queer history #ace history #aro history #mills college #aroace culture #wall of words #Youtube

[it-is-only-a-novel]

[ID: image of the ace flag. Each stripe has the meaning of the color written on it.

Black: Asexuality

Gray: Gray-asexuals & Demisexuals

White: allosexuals

Purple: community

End]

Here's an article about the history of the ace flag:

#ace #asexual #asexuality #gray ace #demisexual #ace history #queer #queer history #M's post

[kiwimuichiro]

#ace #asexual #ace history

[the-english-student-studyblr]

this is fine

#studyblr #gradblr #dissertation #academia memes #back on my bullshit #in case you were wondering #no one is allowed to ask me about emma trosse for the next 3 days #i now have 4k words JUST ABOUT HER and this section is meant to be 4500 total #help me #ace history

[demigoddessqueens]

Happy 2,068th to when we should totally just stab Caesar!! Grab a knife with your bestie!

#assassin's creed #ides of march #julius ceaser #julius caesar #aya of alexandria #assassin’s creed origins #ac origins #tumblr holidays #roman history #roman empire #we should totally just stab caesar #rome #ancient rome #caesar #brutus #et tu brute #beware the ides of march #mean girls #shakespeare #Shakespeare Julius Caesar #meme #funny memes #memes #tumblr memes #assassin’s creed

[doctorsiren]

that Steven Universe meme

#doctorsiren #ace attorney #apollo justice #phoenix wright #beanix #ace attorney fanart #meme redraw #art #digital art #my art #fanart #procreate #just an art warmup before I study for a history final all day :’)

[queerasfact]

Golden Orchid Societies

Golden Orchid Societies were communities of women in the Pearl River Delta region of southern China who chose not to marry, or not to live with their husbands. Golden Orchid sisters may have been asexual, aromantic, women-loving-women, or had other reasons to avoid traditional marriage.

Golden Orchid Societies generally consisted of small groups of five or so women, who lived together and pooled their financial resources. Instead of marrying a man, some Golden Orchid sisters had a solo wedding, showing their desire to remain independent from a husband. Like other weddings, these weddings were family affairs, with a banquet funded by the woman’s parents.

Many Golden Orchid groups lived together for their whole lives, and saved up to retire as a community.

Learn more

[Image description: Liang Jieyun, 85, and Huang Li-e, 90, two of the last surviving Golden Orchid sisters; they are two elderly Chinese women, facing the camera and photographed close up]

#golden orchid societies #chinese history #queer history #women's history #wlw #lesbian history #ace history #asexual history #queer chinese history #lgbt #lgbtq

[sunny-rants]

Queerness is not just about sex and romance. Since the concept of queer has been around, so have asexual and aromantic people. Lavender marriages, voluntary spinsters, vows of chastity used to cover a disinterest in sex. “Monosexuals”, “anesthesia sexual”, “anaphrodites”, category "X". Queer-platonic relationships, asexuality and aromanticism are an undeniable part of lgbtq+ history. Before there were any terms, any flags or acronyms, choosing to not conform to society’s romantic and sexual guidelines has been the very essence of queerness. The inherent queer experience of feeling alienated because you don’t love the “right” way or feel the right feelings for the right people, of trying to meet the expectations set for you while trying to build a life that doesn’t feel like a lie. These are all part of the aspec experience. We aren’t “invading” a space we don’t belong because it’s a trend, or an internet identity. We’re not “spicy straight”. We’re making ourselves known in a community we have always been a part of.

#take a shot every time i say queer #lgbtq+ #lgbtq #queer #asexual #asexuality #aromantic #queer history #queer community #lgbtq community #lgbtq+ history #lgbtq history #aroace #asexual aromantic #aspec #acespec #arospec #ace spec #aro spec #asexual spectrum #aromantic spectrum #asexual history #ace history #acephobia #arophobia #amatonormativity #fuck amatonormativity #queer platonic partner #queer platonic relationship #queerplatonic

[fourohfourlifenotfound]

I wonder how many allos will never understand the specific way that ace discourse affected the people in my community

Allo LGBT people can look at an LGBT comic or post or whatnot and see community, instantly. Sometimes I see those posts and just one piece of wording that sounds a bit off will have me searching the word "asexual" in someone's blog, waiting with bated breath to see the kinds of posts they've been reblogging about my identity.

When you shut us out of your community, you took an axe to our relationship. Sure, the rift has healed a lot since then, but the tree will always remember what the axe did.

Maybe this new generation of aces will be lucky enough to never know the horrors that were happening online just a few short years ago. But the echos of that atrocity will remain for years to come, in the places where our history has been washed away under a sea of hatred pouring from a group of people who were supposed to accept us

#ace discourse #asexuality #ace community #ace history #never forget. dont let it happen again #i want to start a project to archive aspec history but i dont have the energy with my new disability :( #post inspired by a 200 note comic on my dash featuring a lesbian who identified as ace while in denial.

[rjalker]

I am aroace. Being ace and aro are inexplicably tied together for me.

A few years ago now I made a post about how asexuality is not pedophilic, in direct response to seeing what I thought was a trusted mutual reblog a post saying, "It's important to teach kids it's okay to be gay, but it's pedophilic to teach them about asexuals" and teaching kids about it can only help them, so they know it's okay not to want to date or kiss other people.

And ever since I made that post people have been fucking getting pissy about me using "ace" and also talking about not feeling romantic attraction.

And a few years ago I did make an addition to the post apologizing.

But you fucking know what? No, I've changed my fucking mind. I'm not going to apologize for saying ace and also meaning aro.

Literally no other fucking orientation forces people to use the split attraction model, and I'm fucking tired of people acting like being ace and aro are completely disparate things that never have anything to do with the other -.-

You use the split attraction model? Cool.

Now, honestly, shut the fuck up and stop policing how other people are allowed to talk about their experiences.

People are allowed to just say "ace" and mean someone who does not want to have sex or date, or kiss, or do anything romantic either.

No, it is not fucking aromisic or acemisic for people who are both to talk about their experiences without always using the fucking split attraction model.

I usually refer to myself as aroace - but I shouldn't fucking have to. You know why I do? Because otherwise if I just call myself ace, people will ignore my aromantcism. If I just call myself aro, they ignore my asexuality.

And that is fucking unacceptable.

I am sick and fucking tired of the aspec community acting like the split attraction model is mandatory and applies to everyone, when it's fucking optional.

Fucking shit like assuming someone who says they're ace still experiences romantic attraction unless they state otherwise is literally fucking amatanormative. Someone saying they're aro and people assuming they still experience sexual attraction unless they state otherwise is literally fucking amatantormative!

Assuming that someone who says they're "ace" or "aro" still experiences the "other" form of attraction unless they state otherwise is literally amisia, by acting like people who are ace or aro need to be fucking redeemed by experiencing other forms of attraction, and they can still be fucking "shippable" and "normal".

I'm fucking tired of it.

I'm aromantic and asexual.

I should be allowed to make a post about being ace or aro without people fucking jumping down my throat about how I'm erasing people who use the split attraction model.

No other fucking sexuality or orientation treats the split attraction model as mandatory, and it's fucking amisic as shit that people in the aspec community think it's okay to do so.

Assuming I'm still redeemable or normal and am willing to date people if I say I'm ace is amisic as fucking shit.

Assuming I'm still redeemable and normal and willing to fuck people if I say I'm aro is amisic as fucking shit.

Leave aroace people alone, and stop fucking demanding people use the split attraction model.

Shit like this is why the first question out of amisics mouths when I tell them I'm ace is "okay, but who do you date?" and why they think it's okay to erase a character's orientation so they can still ship them, because "oh it's definitely ace, but romance was never mentioned!" even when the character is explicitly just as repulsed by romance as sex.

Stop fucking forcing people to use the split attraction model. Stop fucking acting like it's okay to assume someone can still be fucking redeemed by being "normal" in other ways. I'm going to rip the next amisic I see to fucking shreds, and no, fucking ace and aro people who use the split attraction model, you are not fucking exempt!

Especially because it seems like every few years there's yet another fucking form of attraction that you're assumed to experiences unless you state otherwise. "Oh you might be aroace, but you still want a QPR, right? Oh you still experience platonic attraction, right? You still want to get platonically married, right???"

How many more fucking times do I need to say no??

#aroacemisia #amisia #aromisia #acemisia #split attraction model #I've been sick of this for years and I'm even more sick of it right now #amatanormativity #aspec #aro #ace #aromantic #asexual #aromantic asexual #SAM #split-attraction model #aphobia #arophobia #acephobia #aroacephobia #gatekeeping #Queer history #Aspec history #Ace history #Aro history #this is the post I was looking for

[autismserenity]

I've started creating deep dives into queer history on YouTube.

But they take sooo long to make. And ADHD means I often get derailed into wild side stories.

Which are perfect for TikTok!

Like Maria Pool, who was putting lesbian puns in her book titles all the way back in the 1880s.

Or the two dudes who got married IN 1840s BOSTON, and ended up running a beloved gay B&B.

Or the aro teen who sought guidance from the lesbian community 50 years ago.

I think I need to do one about William Cather next. Yes: the American novelist that most of us never knew was trans and intersex.

Any requests?

#queertok #tiktok #queer history #intersex history #trans history #ace history #aro history #wall of words