#ace inclusive

[fixing-bad-posts]

[Image description: A tumblr text post, edited blackout-poetry style and decorated with the fire emoji to read, "aces are queer, while also being collectively fire."]

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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 aces are queer, while also being collectively fire.

#fixingbadposts #fixing-bad-posts #blackout poetry #ace inclusive #ace spectrum #ace positivity #ace pride #aces are queer #queer inclusivity #queer inclusion #queer #asexual inclusion #asexual #asexuality #asexual pride

[switchblade-collector]

Ace and Aro people are queer

Ace and Aro people are queer!

ACE AND ARO PEOPLE ARE QUEER!

No one should have to detail the many cases of being sent to conversion therapy, or being beaten, or thrown out of their homes, or even being raped in order to prove that Ace and Aro people are oppressed.

No one should have to have a fucking queer history degree to prove that we have always existed and have always been a part of queer society.

And yes this fucking applies to cishet Aces/Aros too because Asexuality and Aromanticism are enough.

They are enough.

Aphobes stop playing the oppression olympics

Stop being ahistorical

Stop being shitty!

#aphobia #acephobia #arophobia #ace inclusive #Aro inclusive

[chaos-in-one]

Kisses sex positive aces in semi-sex repulsed ace

#my levels of repulsion fluctuate due to hypersexuality related issues but yk #ace #sex positive ace #sex positive #sex positivity #ace positivity #asexual #asexual positivity #ace pride #anti ace exclusion #ace inclus #ace inclusionist #ace inclusive #aspec #acespec #no ace discourse #ace exclusionist dni

[arcticflowerz]

Fluffy Ace

A term for when you are on the ace spectrum and are also fat/chubby/fluffy.

(I like to use “fluffy” as a cute way to say fat/chubby, I usually say it while describing myself)

This term is meant to create pride and to help normalize being fat/chubby because no one should have to feel ashamed of their weight/size.

Coined by: @arcticflowerz

Do NOT call someone a fluffy ace unless you know they are okay with it/they already identify as it. Do NOT use this term as a way to discriminate against fat/chubby ace people.

Also, do not repost my flags/the things I coin with out credit.

This term can be used by any ace person that is fat/chubby. I do not support ace/aro exclusionism.

Here’s the links to the Fluffy Aroace, Fluffy Aro, Fluffy Aqueerplatonic, and Fluffy Asensual versions.

#actually chubby #actually fluffy #coining post #coining #my flags #mogai coining #mogai identity #chubby lesbian #body posititivity #anti fatphobia #chubby #fat #ace inclusive #ace inclusion #body postivity #body positive #ace pride #ace spec #actually ace #asexual spectrum #asexuality #mogai safe #orientation coining #term coining #cointober #fluffy labels

[mental-mona]

#asexuality #asexuality explained #ace spectrum #david jay #lgbt #lgbtq+ #labels #ace inclusive #pride month #happy pride 🌈 #pride

[dilfdarthvader]

as new people follow me just a friendly reminder that my blog is not exclusionary towards any queer identity.

exclusionary discourse should've ended in 2014 😭

#mspec lesbian #ace inclusive #aro inclusion #queer discourse #the discourse #personal #sorry yall im just tired from twt 😭 #anyways no one has the right to dictate your identity

[sleepygaymerdisease]

[ID: Tweets from Emily 'Soup Lesbian' Gwen (@theemilygwen) on twitter with the following text:

Well, just left a job interview crying because the hiring manager told me they liked my application but were disappointed that I didn't bother dressing appropriately. I tried to explain that I haven't been able to afford new clothes in years but I just couldn't handle it.

That comment and my reaction was one of the most mortifying moments of my life. I thought I put together a decent outfit for the job with what I had, and hearing her say that just destroyed me.

Anyway I'm still looking for work and struggling a lot. Even $5 would help pay for a meal. ko-fi.com/emilygwen

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Please help Emily Gwen, the creator of the lesbian flag. If you show me that you donated any amount I will draw you something. You can also support them by buying something from their Threadless store!

#emily gwen has been so influential to me and i would really appreciate any donations sent their way 💖 #BEFORE ANYONE SAYS ANYTHING: emily gwen uses they/them pronouns. their flag is intended to be trans+nonbinary inclusive AND ace inclusive. #please do not spread rumors about them to avoid donating :( support lesbians! especially one who has been so influential #anis gaymer moments

[codthefishgod]

To all the people who think aspec people aren't LGBTQIA+ because we aren't "discriminated against enough", here's a lovely list of reasons why you need to educate yourself:

- We suffer from dehumanisation, people actively devaluing or even erasing our humanity because of our identities (The voidpunk community is heavily supported by aspec people because of this)

- We suffer from self hatred due to feeling as if and being told we are broken, that no one can be happy unless they're in a romantic/sexual relationship, because of allonormativity and amatonormativity that actively damages our mental health

- Amatonormativity shapes laws that put us at an active disadvantage, such as giving married people financial and legal benefits

- Aspec people have been victims of conversion therapy, correctional rape, a lower quality of life, and other effects of being a marginalised and oppressed group

- We suffer from our identities being pathologised and deal with medical stigma because of this, causing many of us to feel unwelcome in and even avoid health care settings

- We suffer from our identities being erased, which can range from people completely denying our existence and people equating it to celibacy, to an almost complete absence of aspec representation in the media (It's been getting better lately, especially for alloaces and aroaces, but I have yet to ever see a canon aroallo character, and representation for those on the spectrum rather than in the extremes is often ignored)

- YOU are creating a hateful, exclusionary space in a community meant to be about inclusion. The same thing that happens to us happens to bisexual people, to polyamorous people, and other identities that are "disputed." In a community meant to be about rejecting the norm, YOU are shoving us out because we don't fit the norm of being LGBTQIA+. Because we're not enough like you.

These are only a few examples of aphobia that people like me deal with. Discrimination and oppression against aspec people stretches far beyond this.

But even if it didn't, it is disrespectful and harmful to everyone involved to gatekeep membership in the community based on oppression and discrimination.

We aren't LGBTQIA+ because we experience oppression. We are LGBTQIA+ because our existence alone goes against heteronormativity and other societal norms forced upon us.

#lgbtq #lgbtqia #aromantic #asexual #aromanticism #asexuality #ace #aro #aspec rights #aspec #aro pride #aroace #arospec #ace pride #ace rights #acespec #aro rights #this has been a psa #psa #information #important psa #aroaceprideispridetoo #we are enough #allonormativity #amatonormativity #discrimination #aspec discrimination #oppression #inclusion #educate yourself

[yiddishfiles]

Something that i think is equally important to saying "asexual people aren't asexual because of trauma/body issues and asexuality isn't a phase" is saying "for some people their asexuality IS because of trauma/body issues and it might be something that can be worked through with therapy/recovery but they r still asexual" lots of ppl are asexual for lots of different reasons and u can't go around prescribing the ace experience

#lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtqia+ #asexual #asexuel #ace #aroace #aromantism #asexuality #asexual inclusion #asexual icons #ace visibility day

[theplasticdusk]

Have a very asexual 2023! 🐸

#ace pride #ace post #asexual #asexuality #ace memes #aspec #asexual representation #lgbtqia #aspec culture #asexual inclusion #new year #january 2023

[thereallyreallylatebird]

Daily reminder that using "asexual" as an umbrella term for ace-spec identities is fine and good.

But also,

Daily reminder that using "asexual" as an umbrella term for ace *and* aro-spec identities is not.

Aromanticism is not a subset of asexuality, and should not be grouped under the term asexual as if it is. Doing so erases aromantic allosexual people by making being asexual a barrier to entry to being aromantic.

No, it doesn't matter that's how it's been used in the past. Terminology changes. No, it doesn't matter if you don't mean it that way, people trying to figure out their identity will still see that you're grouping aromantic under asexual and assume they can't be aromantic because they're not asexual (partially why it took me so long to figure out I'm aro).

That's all.

#brought to you by me having an argument about this exact thing in a youtube comments section #with an aroace (unconfirmed but definitely aroace or alloace) person too #this is our (aroallos) community as well #please use inclusive language #it's not that hard #aromantic #asexual #aromantic allosexual #aro #ace #aroallo #thereallyreallylatebird

[fixing-bad-posts]

[Image description: The words, "AROS & ACES belong in OUR SPACES," coloured using the colours of the aromantic pride flag, asexual pride flag, and the 9-stripe Gilbert Baker pride flag. The text is overlaid on a blurry image of lavender flowers.]

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i was inspired to make a text graphic based on one of my first and most popular posts

#if anyone knows how to make buttons please take this as an invitation 🙏 #not fbp #queer #queer positivity #asexuality #asexual #aromantic #aro pride #aro positivity #aro inclusion #ace inclusion #ace inclusive #queer inclusivity #queer inclusion #queer pride #lgbtq #ace pride #aroace #aromantism #ace positivity #pride month #inclusion

[esf-art-and-design]

You wanna know something crazy?

I work for a LGBTQ+/Queer non-profit, I’ve had to sit in on training seminars on how to best support our community, how to create a space that is actually safe for everyone in the community, etc.

You wanna know the one thing that was emphasized by these professionals running these seminars (who are also a part of the community btw)

Telling queer people what their labels for their identity ought to be is extremely harmful.

Gatekeeping the community from other people who are figuring themselves out because of labels is harmful?! Shocker I know, but yes it is.

You know what this means right? It means that:

You don’t get to tell a guy experimenting with queer sex that he’s gay/bi/queer/etc if he ID’s as straight

You don’t get to tell a woman experimenting with queer sex that she’s lesbian/bi/queer/etc. if she ID’s as straight

You don’t get to tell aces who are hetero sexual/Romantic that they don’t belong in queer spaces

You don’t get to blame bi lesbians/m-spec women for creepy cishet men entering wlw spaces to hit on women (in an entitled way) (that’s called misogyny babes)

You don’t get to tell someone they are unlovable/not deserving of a relationship/etc. because of the label they use

You don’t get to tell people that actions invalidate their labels because “actions speak louder than words”

You don’t get to demand to know what labels someone uses because of their actions. (Or you don’t force someone to out themselves)

You don’t apply labels to someone from pure speculation (you could be outing someone and putting them in danger)

You don’t get to tell people their labels are “contradictory” or “don’t make sense” and demand they choose one label over the other

Other Labels cannot harm your own identity, and if you act like it can your wrong and harming the community

And ultimately, It means that according to actual professionals within the lgbtq non-profit space, the exclusionists in the community are wrong and are doing immeasurable harm.

Basically what I’m saying is that everyone is welcome here on my blog, policing identity is harmful, and yes, the exclusionists that told you that your identity is invalid or made fun of you for your identity we’re so fucking wrong.

Everyone who experiences sexual orientation, attraction, gender identity, and gender expression differently belongs within our community.

Gatekeeping only keeps people deserving of services away from the spaces where they can get those services. It keeps them away from peer support. And that’s not good, especially if you know the statistics for self harm and suicide within the community.

#tw suicide mention #tw self harm mention #bi lesbian #inclusive lesbian #he/him lesbians #gaysbian #ace #asexual #aromantic #aroace #aroallo #anti exclusionist #exclusionists dni #sapphic #bi lesbian positivity #aroace positivity #asexual positivity #aromantic positivity

[chrysalismandtea]

coming out as asexual is way harder than it should be - because the majority people still have no idea what asexuality is. plus it is very different for each person.

I always struggled with coming out - I still do! - and I thought it was because I’m too protective of my inner peace. which in a way is true, only when I used to think I was bi, or gay, I thought “when the time is right I’ll just tell people and be done with it”. guess what! every time I have considered coming out as ace I freak out because I will have to ✨explain✨.

my point is, I wish people knew about asexuality, and I’m not just talking about cishet people but also the lgbtq+ community. it would just be so much easier.

and of course, it would take the fucking shame away, because it’s time. (but that’s a whole other discussion).

#lgbtqiia+ #lgbtq #ace spectrum #asexual #asexuality #acespec #ace memes #ace pride #asexual issues #asexual is valid #asexual inclusion #asexual community #asexual culture #asexual experience #asexual lesbian #asexuallity #asexual moment #asexual pride #asexual positivity #asexual post #asexual problems #demisexual lesbian #demisexual #demisexuality #demisexual issues #greysexual #grey ace #lgbt #lgbtqplus #lgbtq community

[magicalshopping]

♡ Steven Universe Pride Hoio Stickers by Chunky Tomato ♡

#cute #kawaii #steven universe #pride #lgbt #lgbtq #queer #pansexual #bisexual #asexual #ace #transgender #inclusive pride flag #gay #lesbian #nonbinary #enby #fashion blog #shopping blog #sticker #stationery #chunkytomato #chunky tomato #under 5

[pens-personal]

Y'know I identified as asexual for like, a WHILE before eventually realizing I wasn't, and honestly I regret nothing. I mean I was like 15/16 and Mormon (repressed exmo gang eyy✌️) so it's not like I'd be having sex anyway, I wasn't missing out on anything (and aces aren't "missing out" in general, they're doin their own thing and I love that). But in my case identifying the way I did allowed me to step back and just. Get in tune with my emotions and attractions and everything. I'd realized I liked girls at 13 and instantly I thought that meant I had to sexualize them, objectify them even. And that led to a lot of awkward interractions and feeling like shit about myself for being creepy (didn't help that I'm autistic and had trouble figuring out what was too much). So I really think I needed to be ace for a while. I needed that time to let myself desexualize love and attraction in my brain until I was in a place where I could express sexuality in a healthier way. In a similar way I think it was good that I went through so many gender and sexual/romantic orientation labels before settling on what I am now, because it allowed me to analyze why I identify this way and what it means to me. My identity is stronger and more solid because of the way I grappled with it throughout highschool, and I learned a whole lot about other communities along the way!

#asexual #ace #aspec #ace spec #trans #genderqueer #transgender #trans guy #bi #trans man #ftm #butch #bisexual #anyways aces we're homies. I care bout y'all 🖤🩶🤍💜 #(I originally said Love but then I remembered that a lotta aces are also aro and might not vibe with the concept of love 👍) #(we're inclusive of all aspecs on this blog. don't think I forgot about y'all aplatonics either. I care about you in whatever way ur comfy)