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The Aromantic-spectrum Union for Recognition, Education, and Advocacy is trying to raise $500 for general website and organizational costs by June 30th. You can help us reach our goal here!

We've raised $157 of our $500 goal!

Even small donations help! Let's build up aromantic resources $5 at a time!

[Image Description: A square graphic that reads “Help Uplift Aro Voices!” The text is next to the AUREA logo and is situated on a green text box with a dark green border. Above the text is a green box with a graphic of a green megaphone that has the words “Raise your voice” on it.]

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The Aromantic-spectrum Union for Recognition, Education, and Advocacy is trying to raise $500 for general website and organizational costs by June 30th. You can help us reach our goal here!

We've raised $157 of our $500 goal!

Even small donations help! Let's build up aromantic resources $5 at a time!

[Image Description: A square graphic that reads “A donation to AUREA helps fund website features like our accessibility toolbar!” The text is next to the AUREA logo and is situated on a green text box with a dark green border. Above the text is a green box with with a graphic of a person pointing to a computer screen that shows the AUREA website. The accessibility toolbar icon (a blue circle with a stick figure inside) is pointed to.]

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Sign-ups for Aros Create Pride are now open! If you are an aro-spec creator of any kind, fanworks, original works, and anything else that fits your fancy, join us to create pride together. In addition to feedback, artists will have the option to share their work publicly on AUREA’s news feed. Sign up here! Sign-ups close on June 30th. Participants will receive details about scheduling and next steps the week after.

[Image Description: A square graphic that reads “Sign Up For Aro’s Create Pride Today!” Under the text, there is a person clicking the “Sign Up” button on a large tablet. On the tablet screen are the letters “ACP” which have the words “Aro’s Create Pride” within each letter. The AUREA logo and Dancing Queerly logo are in the bottom corners.]

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Sign-ups for Aros Create Pride open on June 8th! If you are an aro-spec creator of any kind, fanworks, original works, or anything else that fits your fancy, join us to create pride together. In addition to feedback, artists will have the option to share their work publicly on AUREA’s news feed.

[Image Description: A square graphic that reads “Aro’s Create Pride Applications Open Tomorrow!” The word “tomorrow” is highlighted green. There is a computer above the text. On the computer screen are the letters “ACP” which have the words “Aro’s Create Pride” within each letter. The AUREA logo and Dancing Queerly logo are in the bottom corners.]

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The Aromantic-spectrum Union for Recognition, Education, and Advocacy is trying to raise $500 for general website and organizational costs by June 30th. You can help us reach our goal here!

We've raised $50 of our $500 goal!

Even small donations help! Let's build up aromantic resources $5 at a time!

[Image Description: A square graphic that reads “Support Aromantic Research!” The text is next to the AUREA logo and is situated on a green text box with a dark green border. Above the text is a green box with a graphic of a person sitting at a computer viewing a graph that includes the aromatic pride flag.]

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Sign-ups for Aros Create Pride open on June 8th! If you are an aro-spec creator of any kind, fanworks, original works, or anything else that fits your fancy, join us to create pride together. In addition to feedback, artists will have the option to share their work publicly on AUREA’s news feed.

[Image Description: A square graphic that reads “Get Ready for Aro’s Create Pride!” The text is encircled by a dancer, a pen, a green paint splatter, and the letters “ACP” which have the words “Aro’s Create Pride” within each letter. The AUREA logo and Dancing Queerly logo are in the bottom corners.]

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Happy Pride Month!

[Image description: A square graphic that is split down the middle diagonally. The left section of the graphic is light green. The right half is a rainbow, with all of the colors meeting at a single point in the bottom left corner and fanning out to cover the entire right side of the graphic. Overlayed in the middle of the graphic is a white box. Inside the box, there is text reading “JUN Happy Pride: Cheer and uplift aro and queer voices this month!”. Under the text is a small graphic of the AUREA logo. The top-left corner of the white box is overlaid with a stamp with the aromantic flag inside. The bottom-left corner of the white box is overlaid with two people holding hands. The one on the right is walking and the one on the left is using a wheelchair. There is an aromantic flag with hearts affixed to the wheelchair. The bottom-right corner of the white box is overlaid with an elderly individual in aromantic flag colors and two adults and a child walking hand-in-hand below aromantic-colored streamers.]

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Back in February, Sarah and Kayla from Sounds Fake But Okay hosted two authors from AUREA’s book project for Episode 332, and ASAW week special. Now you can see the other half of our collaboration as we interview Sarah and Kayla about their experiences running an a-spec podcast!

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Our volunteers are hard at work analyzing the data from the 2023 Aromantic census, but we need more analysts in order to share the results! If you have experience coding (especially in R) and would like to get more involved with the aromantic community, this is a great opportunity!

To apply for the analyst volunteer position, fill in this form: https://forms.gle/oyjtLE9f3zZHsuBn7

[Image Description: A green and white graphic that reads "Volunteer With The Aro Census!" Underneath the text is clip art of a magnifying glass being held over a sheet of paper covered in graphs. Below the clip art is the AUREA logo. In the background of the graphic, two diagonal aromantic flags are taking up the bottom left and top right corners.]

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Last October, community member, João, shared feedback with AUREA regarding use of the term ‘aromanticism’ versus 'aromaticity’, used more commonly in the Portuguese-speaking aromantic community. Many of our team members did not know that the term ‘aromanticity’ existed! As we believe this may also be the case for the wider English-speaking aromantic community, we invited João to expand on the perspective that ‘aromanticity’ may be a more suitable term. We received this thoughtful reply and wanted to share it (with permission) with you. Your reflections are welcome in the comment section! [Image Description: The article thumbnail is an aromantic flag with a partially transparent, grey cityscape overlayed on top of it. The link itself reads: "Perspective: Why the Aromantic community should consider replacing "Aromantic-ism" with "Aromantic-ity"]

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The Aromantic-spectrum Union for Recognition, Education, and Advocacy is trying to raise $1000 for general website and organizational costs by February 28th. So far, we have reached $113. You can help us get closer to our goal here!

[Image Description: A square graphic that reads “It’s the last day of our ASAW fundraiser! Help us reach our $1000 goal!” in bold letters. The text and AUREA logo are situated on a white text box on the bottom half of the graphic. Above the text is clip art of four people holding coins, cards, and cash. At the top of the graphic is white text that reads “Last Day!”]

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The Aromantic-spectrum Union for Recognition, Education, and Advocacy is trying to raise $1000 for general website and organizational costs by February 28th. So far, we have reached $113. You can help us get closer to our goal here!

[Image Description: A square graphic that reads “It’s the last day of our ASAW fundraiser! Help us reach our $1000 goal!” in bold letters. The text and AUREA logo are situated on a white text box on the bottom half of the graphic. Above the text is clip art of four people holding coins, cards, and cash. At the top of the graphic is white text that reads “Last Day!”]

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The Aromantic-spectrum Union for Recognition, Education, and Advocacy is trying to raise $1000 for general website and organizational costs by February 28th. You can help us reach our goal here! [Image Description: A square graphic that reads “Let's make information about aromanticism available to all!” in bold letters. The text and AUREA logo are situated on a white text box on the bottom half of the graphic. Above the text is clip art of a giant stack of books. One person is standing on the stack of books and reaching a hand to help a second person climb the stack.]

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The Aromantic-spectrum Union for Recognition, Education, and Advocacy is trying to raise $1000 for general website and organizational costs by February 28th. You can help us reach our goal here!

[Image Description: A square graphic that reads “Your donations help fund education and outreach about aromanticism!” in bold letters. The text and AUREA logo are situated on a white text box on the bottom half of the graphic. Above the text is clip art of two people looking at a laptop. One of them is sitting on a pile of coins.]

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The Aromantic-spectrum Union for Recognition, Education, and Advocacy is trying to raise $1000 for general website and organizational costs by February 28th. You can help us reach our goal here! [Image Description: A square graphic that reads “Help us shine a light on aro voices!” in bold letters. The text and AUREA logo are situated on a white text box on the bottom half of the graphic. Above the text is clip art of a person standing in a spotlight, holding a microphone to their mouth.]

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Explore recommendation 5 of 8 from PRIDEnet's community listening sessions in collaboration with ThePRIDEStudy! Aromanticism is not an issue to be fixed. Let’s affirm their experiences without pathologizing aromanticism. #ASAW2025

Read more at pridenet.org/reports

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Image 1: A square graphic that reads “Recommendation 5: Allow aromantic people to be seen as whole and complex and not as having an issue that needs to be fixed. Do not pathologize aromanticism. Understand that the layered identities and experiences of aromantic people may at times be related, but do not have causality relationships.” The text is in a box bordered in green. Next the text is clip art of a group of diverse people.  At the top of the graphic are the words “Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week, #ASAW2025”. At the bottom of the graphic is a text box with the PrideNet and AUREA logos. The logos are connected by the words “In collaboration with”. Next to this is another text box that reads “Based on responses from aromantic participants” with a green arrow pointing to the right.

Image 2: A square graphic featuring a quote from a community listening session participant. It reads “I'm very open about being disabled, and I have other conditions that cause me to lose consciousness. And my mental health was brought in, and my choice of how I partner was brought in to an assessment of my disabilities and of my chronic conditions because it was unfathomable that maybe these things were entirely separate. Because in the minds of the doctors, they'd stated things like, 'Well, maybe you don't like partnering because you have all of these chronic illnesses and they're all related, and you don't actually have your identity.' Rather, you're just ill and that makes it too hard for you to be partnering. Which personally doesn't apply to me, and it's incredibly difficult.”  At the top of the graphic are the words “Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week, #ASAW2025”. At the bottom of the graphic is a text box with the PrideNet and AUREA logos. The logos are connected by the words “In collaboration with”. Next to this is another text box that reads “Stanford University School of Medicine and PRIDEnet. Community Listening Sessions with Aromantic People: Summary and Recommendation Report. 2024 January.

Image 3: A square graphic featuring a quote from a community listening session participant. It reads “I think, as a start, one of the main things is for people to actually know what aromanticism is because I feel like that's still a lot outside of the queer community. It's not well known or not known in the sense that we want to be known. As people kind of think of it as a problem or something to be fixed a lot of times, which can kind of lead to, you know, like, oh, you know, you have to go to therapy and fix this issue because you don't experience romantic love, that sort of thing.”  At the top of the graphic are the words “Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week, #ASAW2025”. At the bottom of the graphic is a text box with the PrideNet and AUREA logos. The logos are connected by the words “In collaboration with”. Next to this is another text box that reads “Stanford University School of Medicine and PRIDEnet. Community Listening Sessions with Aromantic People: Summary and Recommendation Report 2024 January.

Image 4: A square graphic featuring a quote from a community listening session participant. It reads “ ... understanding that this is a real orientation and something that is not a problem to be solved, I think that's the main first step because that's still a big problem.”  Under the quote is a black text box that reads: “Read more recommendations from aromantic participants at: PRIDEnet.org/reports.”  At the top of the graphic are the words “Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week, #ASAW2025”. At the bottom of the graphic is a text box with the PrideNet and AUREA logos. The logos are connected by the words “In collaboration with”. Next to this is another text box that reads “Stanford University School of Medicine and PRIDEnet. Community Listening Sessions with Aromantic People: Summary and Recommendation Report 2024 January.

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The Aromantic-spectrum Union for Recognition, Education, and Advocacy is trying to raise $1000 for general website and organizational costs by February 28th. You can help us reach our goal here! [Image Description: A square graphic that reads “Support the only aromantic specific non-profit!” in bold letters. The text and AUREA logo are situated on a white text box on the bottom half of the graphic. Above the text is clip art of a hand with the aromantic flag floating above it.]