#including asexuality

[deancaskiss]

rb to have a super gay 2023

#this was a hit last year so lets do it again for 2023 #here’s to being even more gay next year #gonna make 2023 the gayest year yet #also my 2022 post worked for so many people. including me ;) #bex talks #lgbt #lgbtqia #gay #bisexual #lesbian #transgender #asexual #queer #intersex #pansexual #pride #txt #txt post #text post #text

[dadstielkline]

fun facts about sharks

#I know I didn't include every pride flag #but these were fun to make #might do a part 2 #lgbtq #gay #lesbian #pansexual #asexual #aromantic #nonbinary #transgender #pride month 2022 #pride month #unlabeled #happy pride 🌈 #bisexual

[aroacearchangel]

aro and/or ace culture is wondering “is that actually a thing alloromantics and/or allosexuals experience? or is it just the Media™ pushing unrealistic narratives for everyone involved?”

#feel free to include examples #aro #aroace #aromantic #ace #aromance #asexual #asexuality #aspec #aspec community #aspec stuff #aeomanticism #alloace #aroallo

[ale-arro]

been going a little bit insane about this sentence from Ace by Angela Chen for the past week

#replace this with any other type of significant relationship too #also! this book actually rules btw i really recommend it #i didnt read it when it first cane out bc i was like. well i am already pretty familiar with asexuality and not rly interested in 101 stuff #but it turns out it doesnt feel 101-y at all its a super awesome piece of queer theory and also chen has Good opinions #and not weird watered down ones that i am sometimes wary of in aspec communities (frankly especially ace ones) #i think maybe if more people approached asexuality the way chen does (including and maybe even especially ace people) #i would be more inclined to still ID as ace #but anyways! #aro #aromantic #<- tag selections that reflect how i personally engage with this quote #also #described in alt text #also also #j tag #:/ #aro media

[scarlct-vvitch]

i know i attract more ace followers than anything else lmao so y'all better show up for this one

#i dont really think i would but i am also aro which changes things lol #but i didnt include romance in this #anyway im always curious abt the ace spectrum #it fascinates me #mostly bc i dont understand it at all and yet i am on it #the struggle #ace #asexuality #asexual #ace spectrum #lgbtqia #polls #i like making polls way too much

[redysetdare]

Accept and support repulsed people or die by my blade

#text #aspec #aro #ace #aromantic #asexual #aplatonic #aroace #sex repulsed #romance repulsed #platorepulsed #touch repulsed #any other a-attractions and repulsed ppl are included too #i just don't know them all im sorry

[hum-tittle]

Women are works of art 💕

#im ace #ace #asexual #asexuality #ace memes #bisexual #bi #bi memes #pansexual #pan memes #pan #lgbtq #lgbtqia #this includes trans women #this includes masc women #this includes androgynous women #this includes enbys #this is about all women #i love women #aroace #queer #beautiful women #queer memes #lgbtqia memes #alphabet mafia #wlw

[pokimoko]

People seemed to really like last year's critters, so I'm back to celebrate Ace Week again with some more simple little artworks of silly little creatures. ✨Keep being amazing, fellow aces.✨

#ace week #ace week 2022 #asexual week #asexual #asexual artist #ace #lgbtqia+ #lgbtq+ #asexuality #my art #ace flag #rat #bat #(...just now realising those rhyme) #(realising if I include the cat from last year that's three that rhyme; the magpie is now the odd one out huh) #minimal art #digital art #art #cute art #ace community #aspec #aspec friendly #vector art #love how ace weeks happens around halloween #let's me get a bit spooky with it #also blanket permission to use these as icons if you want to #critter series

[lgbtqtext]

#lgbtq includes aromantic and asexual #lgbtqtext #lgbtq text #animated text #word art #rainbow #white #multicolor #aromantic #asexual #lgbtq #aro #ace #aroace #aromantic asexual #aromantic pride #aromantic positivity #asexual pride #asexual positivity #aro pride #aro positivity #ace pride #ace positivity #aromanticism #asexuality #ace rights #aro rights #lgbtqia #lgbtq+ #lgbtqia+

[beanghostprincess]

You are never safe from Ace jokes 🖤🩶🤍💜

#sorry i just I HAD TO #i had to do this #anyway happy ace day to the aces here #we are including ace bc i love him #bisexual supporting his asexual brother #or aspec brother #some type of asexual! #one piece #portgas d. ace #monkey d. luffy #asexual

[magnus-rhymes-with-swagness]

i get that many aroaces experience their aromanticism and asexuality as connected in some way, but it's still important to acknowledge that "aroace" and "aro/ace" are not umbrella terms for the entire aspec community. as somebody whose aromanticism and allosexuality are inextricably intertwined and can't be fully separated from one another, you don't see me using "aroallo" for all aspecs - that clearly wouldn't be an accurate reflection of the whole community! "aspec" is a good term that includes all of us - please consider using it when referring to the general community.

#aspec #aromantic #asexual #aro #ace #aroallo #alloaro #alloace #aceallo #non-sam aro #non-sam ace #i wasn't going to tag this as anything other than aspec but you know what i think i will #i feel like sometimes people forget that their specific experiences aren't universal #and end up trying to apply them to everyone which of course only serves to exclude people #this isn't aimed at any one person or incident or anything it's just a trend i detest #PLEASE make an effort to include those in your own community. #my words

[shmaroace]

cis, heteroromantic aces and cis, heterosexual aros are still part of the queer community because being asexual and aromantic are queer identities. include them in your pride

#''oh but they're cishet we can't include them'' yes you fucking can and yes you fucking should #aro #aromantic #arospec #ace #asexual #acespec #aroace #aspec #pride 2023 #1k #2k

[xumoonhao]

pride web badges, version 2! / flag outline

version 1

#hehe heres the newer design of them :3 im quite happy w/how they turned out :o #i like the originals ofc but i think these ones are sleeker and overall look neater! and im glad they all have hearts :3c #and i included the ones i was asked about before!!! three new ones in this set <3 #my art #web badges #ok to rb!!! #gay #queer #asexual #bisexual #pansexual #agender #aromantic #bigender #genderfluid #genderqueer #nonbinary #transgender #neopronouns #xenogender #as always free to use with or without credit :3 just dont claim as your own <3 #don’t reblog this if you’re a terf!!!

[decolonize-the-left]

Ive seen an influx in posts asking the LGBT community to hold itself accountable for ace/aro bigotry and they're fucking right.

How are we supposed to hold homophobes and transphobes accountable and demand they do better when we won't even do that for each other?

We're a community right? A family who's supposed to look out for each other? What happened to everyone being valid? Is a sibling saying "you hurt me, please correct it somehow" not valid?

For my part I'll admit I was part of this.

I was on the side of the asexual exclus back in the late 00's/early 10's. I was deep in the belief that oppression had to be systematic in order to count and at the time I didn't see any systematic oppression faced by aces. I even identified as ace and I didn't consider myself oppressed for being asexual. I saw the hostility and vitriol directed at aces everyday...but I didn't see it as wrong. I didn't see it as bigotry. I saw it as righteous anger.

I know how awful things were because I was one of the people making them that way. There is Real trauma that was experienced. There's no fucking way that a normal person could be invalidated that much and take the vitriolic bigotry aces/aros did everyday and have it not leave a lasting impact.

I fucked up. That was wrong and awful of me and I'm genuinely so fucking sorry.

I see the broken trust and promises between us now in 2023 and I see how shattered the community is and it's partly my fault. That gap is there because of me and people like me.

We should have loved and supported and welcomed you. We should have saw the way you were being treated and said something. You deserved to be protected and loved and supported from people who treated you that way.

And you weren't. We didn't. And it was normalized.

We absolutely fucking failed you as a community and as human beings. I need to own that. And I need to be one of the first people to trying to repair that.

And I know an apology is barely even a first step and I know it's just a drop in a giant bucket but I am sorry. For everything it's worth to you, I'm sorry.

Because of me and people like me you experienced the kind of identity trauma that typically only homophobes are capable of. And you experienced it at the hands of the community that's supposed to be fighting specifically that sort of ignorance against a-typical sexualities.

We fucked up

And it'd just be hypocritical salt in the wound if 10+ years later we ignored your asks for accountability and didn't do anything about it when it's resurfacing.

So yeah.

I was a bigot. I hurt people. I hurt my own community. I thought I was right and I wasn't. I was wrong. And so is everyone who insists on continuing that today.

There is no excuse or justification for it. I thought there was too but I was wrong and I'm gonna spend the rest of my life making up for it.

Whatever justification you find for treating people with a-typical sexualities and genders is shit. It has no leg to stand on and it sure as hell isn't being done for the sake of the community.

The LGBT community was founded not by people with checklists on how to be a Good Gay or Acceptable trans woman but by people being treated like shit for who they were choosing to love or not love. It was founded by people who's gender didn't fit in cishet boxes. It was founded by people who just wanted to be free to exist as themselves.

You can't treat asexuals or aros or bisexuals or pansexuals like shit and say that it's in the name of the LGBT community.

It's not.

It spits in the face of everything our community is supposed to be and it's time someone besides aces and aros said it.

None of us should be okay with how they're treated and all of us should be part of stopping it

#aces #aros #asexuality #queer history #asexual history #i threw in the others because the bigotry for them back then overlapped a LOT #i didnt personally have a hand in anything against the other identities mentioned but itd be wrong not to include them i think #lgbt #queer #ace discourse #lesbian #gay #bisexual #transgender #asexual #aromantic #lgbt history #aphobe #aphobia #aphobic

[voiddemon]

a lazy identity piece (rest under the cut, it's longggggg)

thanks for readingg.

#I've kinda said what I am exactly in that one image but tbh #I'm not including it in words because I don't want to and I think it goes against the point #long post #doodles #Asexual #Asexuality #It's prettyy short honestly. Wish I made it longer but im tired :thumbsup:

[meowzet]

i adore the aspec community and how normal they are about sex.

regardless of your own personal stance [whether youre sex repulsed, favourable, etc.], fellow aspecs have always been so sex positive. i cherish seeing that.

#had a conversation with an allo friend a while back #and we both came to the conclusion that asexuals are the most normal about sex #lol #i do want to include aromantics into this discussion #as i also see them being sex positive - and i want to show my appreciation of that!! #queer #asexual #ace #aroace #aromantic #aro #aspec #my meows