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isabellascarlett1 · 5 months
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80% of Asexuals have experienced sexual violence.
50% of Aces aren’t out to doctors & 20% say being out negatively impacted their care.
Only 25% of Aces are out to friends.
10% of Aces have been offered conversion therapy.
Ace Week may be over, but advocacy must continue.
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steviecrowdude · 9 months
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Hey shout out to my aroace people who are sex and romance repulsed and feel like they have to be comfortable with sex and romance to be accepted. you don't, and you deserve a space where you can feel safe.
This is including arospec and acespec people too
Y'all (and me ig) deserve characters who are allowed to be hot and not sexualized
Y'all deserve a place where stories dont have to have sex to be fun/interesting
Y'all deserve a space where people dont get annoyed at you for disliking overly sexual or romantic stories
Specifically for arospec people who are romance repulsed, yall deserve a place where friends are valued and its ok to have sex/be attracted to people without any thought of romance. Yall also deserve characters and stories about this.
Specifically for yall acespec people who are sex repulsed, yall deserve a place where you can feel safe knowing that sex wont be expected of you, a place where you can date someone and not be expected to have sex with them, and most of all, yall deserve characters and stories about people like you who's story and sexuality isnt erased.
Yall dont need to be comfortable with sex or romance, theres been an uptick in people talking about aroacespec peeps who are comfortable with that stuff, and are very prominent in fanfic and smut areas of the internet, which is very cool and good, but that does not need to be you.
If youre romance and or sex repulsed, that is completely ok, you should not have to feel like you have to be comfortable with that to be accepted by people.
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the-anemoi · 1 year
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hi hi hi happy asexual awareness week! especially to those who don't feel they fit quite right
as in. the demisexuals, the greysexuals, those who are questioning asexuality or those who identify as it but still feel unsure anyways. those who are sex positive or sex neutral. those who are sex-repulsed, or those who worry that they think they're not really ace, maybe just allo and sex-repulsed. those who think they'll grow out of it, and those who worry if they'll still identify as asexual later. those who experience intrusive thoughts, those who have other factors play into their identity, those who end up worrying about it because of these factors.
it's okay not to feel confident. it's okay to worry. just think of right now, this week. you're valid. this week is for you, too.
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tasteslikekeys · 1 year
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Happy International Ace Day 🖤🤍💜 The spectrum is so misunderstood, that I'm out to share my journey, spread awareness, and hopefully cross the path of anyone who might be questioning. Because it was through other people's shared stories where I had my own EUREKA moment.
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petition to move asexual awareness week to the week before valentines and then make aroace awareness week directly after
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“sex is the greatest act of human intimacy”
but have you ever
• saw your loved one’s eyes in the sunlight and wanted to tell them that they look like they’re glowing
• cuddled together on a soft bed playing with your loved ones hair
• sat and listened willingly to someone ranting about trauma and personal issues
• sent a letter to a long distance friend to tell them that you’re thinking about them
• stargazing together
• feel a sweep of ecstasy when you see them smile?
• had a deep and full hug that lasted longer than a minute
• laid on someone’s chest and listened to their heart beat
• had someone sit and comfort you while you cry, because at least you don’t have to be alone
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serpent-radio · 2 months
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Update: Fuck it, give me every fucking character. It's tiring to make full body so it's only headshot. I'll try to finish and post it on pride month or sm🪼
Give me canon Aroace character or character you headcanon as Aroace, I wish to draw them… please
I'll even do Aromatic or Asexual characters, I just want to fill the canvas
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yasminbenoit · 2 years
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Yasmin Benoit Launches UK’s First Asexual Rights Initiative in Partnership with Stonewall
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I'm so proud to announce that I am partnering with Stonewall - Europe’s biggest LGBTQ+ rights organisation - on the Stonewall x Yasmin Benoit #AceProject! We are going to be conducting research into the issue of asexual discrimination in the UK and putting together a report which will be used to provide a clear set of actions to influence policy and legislation.
It's time for asexuality to be recognised as a legitimate orientation in the UK and protected as such. It's time to end the medicalisation of asexuality. We can only do that with research, and we need YOU to be participants! It's time for ace voices to be heard, so we need you to be loud!
If you're over 18, based in the UK, and have experienced any degree of asexual discrimination during your time in education, in the workplace or in healthcare, please register your interest in being part of our focus groups: https://www.stonewall.org.uk/stonewall-x-yasmin-benoit-ace-project or email me directly at [email protected]!
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Stonewall are the biggest LGBTQ+ rights organisation in Europe and have been pivotal in the fight for equality, now they'll be pivotal in protecting the ace community too. It's an absolute honour to partner with them on this and to be entrusted with such important work. Representation in research and legislation matters too. I've always wanted to use my background in social science to contribute to that. Thank you to everyone who has shown their support for the project so far.
If you can’t help, please share this so we can attract more participants and raise awareness for the initiative! It’s time to change the game.
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acesndogs · 1 year
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Positives of being on the aro/ace spectrums:
More time to play video games
You can have whatever you want for dinner
You can adopt as many pets as you like
Have more time to hang out with friends
Negatives of being on the aro/ace spectrums:
The responsibility of keeping the mothership intact
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asexualaromanticblog · 5 months
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IT’S NOT FAIR
It’s not fair that I’m asexual. It’s not fair I’m a romantic. I can’t believe this card was dealt to me. Why can’t I fall in love? Why don’t I want to make out with anyone? All my friends have. Everyone laughed at me because I’m single. Why do I feel so much disgust at thinking of losing my virginity? Or why do I feel simply neutral regarding it? Why don’t I want sex as much as everyone around me. It’s not fair that I’m all alone and all my friends have partners. My parents keep telling me to find someone but I just CAN’T tell them what I feel because they won’t understand. I know they’ll just laugh. I’m so angry, because everyone keeps telling me I will find someone and I quite simply know I will not. They don’t understand it. They say it’s not natural. Why are all my friends getting married already and I’ve never even been in a relationship? My younger brother has been happily married for years. My colleagues at work bring their spouses for dinner and I can’t turn up all alone.
It’s not fair, it’s not fair, it’s not fair.
Well, my asexual and aromantic friends. This is our life, IF WE CHOOSE TO LOOK AT IT THAT WAY. But we write our own story, and though we do not choose our asexuality, we do choose how we look at it, and how we react to it too.
Yes, we can be upset over our sexuality. It is hard soometimes. Actually, it is hard ALL of the time.
I will not deny it. At all.
And even if you all hate me because I make it sound so easy, accpting your asexuality as it is can set you free. I felt set free when I accpeted myself for who I am. You stop trying to be like everyone else. You stop trying to like people because other people do. You realise you are heathy and alive and as sane as everyone else. And you can live your live without some flaming romantic interest taking over it.
Be youself. Because if you aren't youself, then who are you?
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mallgothed · 2 years
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I’ve seen a lot of posts by other asexual people about how they grew up thinking there was something horribly wrong with them, that they had some weird condition that no one else had ever experienced, and then one day they found out about asexuality and breathed a huge sigh of relief. And that’s definitely a story worth telling, but I want to make a post about the opposite experience–that is, assuming you’re “normal” and then having your world knocked off its orbit by the revelation that you’re lowkey probably on the ace spectrum. 
See, I love the idea of romance. It was always my favorite part of every book and movie when I was a kid. I daydreamed constantly, and I liked looking at boys, but the desire ended there. When I got older, I thought I wanted sex, because it seemed like the natural extension of the things I liked to daydream about, but I spent very little time actually having sexual thoughts or desires. I “wanted” sex in a vague, distant, hyper-idealized kind of way, and I always just sort of assumed that everyone else felt the same way I did. And for a long time, that idea went unchallenged. When I was in high school, sex was still sort of a taboo, whisper-and-giggle subject for most of my peers, and since no one ever told me exactly what sexual desire was supposed to feel like, I assumed we were feeling the same thing.
But then, when I got to college, all the social barriers against sex were gone. I was surrounded by horny 18-year-olds who had been dropped in the middle of a huge campus where no one cared what they did, where they could do whatever they wanted, and they wanted to fuck. For the first time, I was surrounded by people who were being very straightforward about their sexual desires. I learned that for them, sexual desire was a direct, immediate, physical thing, rather than a vague idea that they thought about sometimes but never felt the need to act on. That was when I first began to suspect that I wasn’t feeling the same things everyone else was feeling. And then, as I started to interrogate that idea further, I realized that I’d never really wanted sex that badly at all–I just thought that sex was necessary to obtain the things I did want (namely, closeness, validation, and acceptance from men).
Realizing that I was on the ace spectrum was not a happy revelation. As dramatic as it sounds, I kind of felt like my life was a lie. I spent my whole life thinking I was “normal,” only to found out I was actually part of a group that comprises about 1% of the global population. My feelings, which I had assumed were universal, were actually borderline incomprehensible to a decent chunk of people--to the point where I have to write a novel-length tumblr post to adequately explain my point of view. It felt like having a rug pulled out from under me. 
I’m not really sure where I’m going with this. Finding out that I’m a-spec was a fairly recent development, and I’m still kind of deciding how I feel about it. But if anyone else reads this and relates to it, I hope it made you feel a little better.
Much love, and happy (belated) ace day. 
💜
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tacomanarrows · 5 months
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Ace of Space!
ACE WEEK ART BE UPON U!!!
I said I wanted to make something before the week is out and I managed to deliver! Yeah it's not super complex or anything, but it's just rlly fun and that's rlly all I wanted out of this piece :]
Just Shep with some ace color clouds and fun little space symbols scattered throughout <33
Bit of a rambly talk abt what my Ace label means to me under the cut if u wish to see it
I've been using asexual as my main label since June of 2019 and it has been the one I've always felt most comfortable with and felt the strongest connection to ever since. Even after adding biromantic to my labels in January of 2021, I find that I still present myself more as ace first and biro second. It's just always felt like a big comforting thing, knowing that I can seek out other things in a relationship and still feel happy and fulfilled with it. It also kinda helps me to see that, when it comes to a relationship, why rush? Yeah, I would like to have a partner in general, but I want to take my time with it to find the right person. And in the meantime, I can take solace in my ace label to know that I don't necessarily need a relationship to be my true self. It's just a label that has helped me so much over the last few years and it's the one I wear most loudly and proudly of all.
Happy Ace Week everybody 🖤🩶🤍💜
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no-passaran · 5 months
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Hi, it's Asexuality Awareness Week and I would like to share one of the reasons why it's important to raise awareness: including asexuality in legal protection.
One of the reasons why legal protections are necessary is the case of asylum seekers. Asexual asylum seekers, who are endangered in their home country, are routinely not accepted as asylum seekers because the legislation protects LGBT people but doesn't include asexuality in the acronym.
Let's see a couple of examples:
In 2018, an Algerian man applied for asylum in the Netherlands, explaining that he feared being persecuted in his country of origin for being asexual and for refusing to marry his niece.
The Netherlands, a country that accepts LGBTI asylum seekers, did not accept this man's asylum request because asexuality is not mentioned as being in the LGBTI. The court also said that asexuality is not punishable in Algeria. But not being legally called by its name and explicitly punished does not mean asexual people don't face discrimination, forced marriages, and threats of violence and rape. (Marriage itself, by the laws in most of the world, must include "consummation", whether the people involved want to or not).
This is the case of a 26-year-old woman living in Senegal, using the pseudonym Jade. Her family, across the border in Guinea, demanded that she find a man to marry. Her sister told her that if she didn’t, their parents would force her to wed a man who would rape her.
In Guinea and Senegal, forced marriages are common – the same sister who threatened Jade was in one herself. Divorce is also heavily stigmatised – when one of Jade’s cousins told her abusive husband she wanted a divorce, he said he would shoot her, her mother and himself.
Jade is a sex-repulsed asexual woman. She feared being married to someone she didn’t love and being subjected to so-called “corrective rape” until she bore children.
She considered suicide.
Her mother suggested sending her to therapy to fix her "aversion to marriage", when Jade refused, the mother said she'd "fix" her herself. She had Jade lay on the floor while she put her hand on her chest and prayed over her, asking afterwards whether she felt any different.
For a while, Jade’s last resort was escaping West Africa permanently. After she began studying in the US, it became her first choice. When researching what her options were, she found the case from the Netherlands that we've talked about before this one. She also found that legislations that aim to protect LGBTQI around the world don't include asexuality.
At present, the only piece of legislation which explicitly mentions asexuality is New York’s Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act of 2003. However, that didn’t help Jade. A New York lawyer told Jade that there was no information as to whether asexuality was grounds for asylum in the US. After a long process of trying in the USA, she couldn't make it but after a year and a half she found an opportunity to do an internship in Ireland, where she lives now.
Since leaving West Africa, Jade has learned that her parents had chosen a husband for her without her knowledge, not long before she managed to escape. She says that, had she not been able to escape, she wouldn't be alive today.
This is what people mean when they say "asexuals aren't LGBTI!", "We can't have asexuals stealing our resources!". These are the kind of resources they mean: the ones that could save the life of a person being discriminated against for not being heterosexual heteroromantic and not conforming to the normative ideas of what their love and sex life should be like. An issue that is deeply shared with the rest of the LGBTQIA+ community.
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acexualien · 29 days
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@staff @support
PLEASE be a supportive ally and change the colours in the hashtag #aroace, it looks too good not to! 🥰
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spoonful116 · 7 months
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Pretty sure conservatives hate asexuals because we disprove their claims that queer people are perverts and out to sexualize the k8ds
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alphashley14 · 4 months
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Why the 🤬 do people do this???
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I’m scrolling, minding my own business, and BOOM. Boobz.
SOMEBODY for some reason sees fit to post p0rn links on here, and they put as many random-ass popular tags as they can so that as many people as possible are forced to see it.
Like, if I was looking for p0rn then I’d look for p0rn. But I don’t. Because I’m ✨asexual.✨
Now personally, I just grimaced, rolled my eyes, and reported this blog when I saw this. But sex-repulsed asexuals, or just sex-repulsed people EXIST, you know! People who maybe have trauma, or were just born repulsed don’t deserve to be subjected to random naked people while they’re minding their own business, just scrolling through their feed or looking for something totally unrelated to that nastiness.
Like, look. I get that Tumblr has policies that restrict sexually explicit material, but come on. Misusing the tags like that is a shit thing to do. A lot of people have certain tags filtered out on purpose because they have good reason to not want to see things like that. And you’re gonna throw it in their face anyway? That’s sick, low, and shitty. Screw you, Tumbler p0rn bots and blogs that do this. 🖕
💜🤍🩶🖤
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