#asexual safe space

[crystalsandbubbletea]

Aromantics are valid.

Asexuals are valid.

Aroaces are valid.

The world doesn't revolve around relationships, grow the fuck up.

If someone is happy single, then they are fucking happy. No, they aren't "wrong in the head", they are valid.

If you don't agree, stay the hell away from me.

There is a '+' in LGBTQ+ for a reason.

The 'A' is NOT for 'Ally', it is for Aromantic, Asexual, and/or AroAce.

People on the Aromantic spectrum and Asexual spectrum are LGBTQ+.

[leggywormy]

It's end of May, yall know what that means

[rainbowpiss34]

i got a manicure for the first time every yesterday :33

[risesthenight]

aromantic and asexual people deserve representation. we deserve to see characters who feel neither sexual nor romantic attraction. we deserve to see characters who only experience romantic or sexual attraction. we deserve to see characters who experience different types of attractions at different levels. we deserve representation for the variety that is the aromantic spectrum and the asexual spectrum.

[convolutedblasphemy]

Bro Twitter is so aphobic I swear I feel like most people there fucking hate the ace community for existing. I saw someone on a thread saying they never experience sexual desire and saying "maybe I'm broken or something" and I wanted to help and suggested maybe they might be ace, just a possibility, bc that's something a lot of ace people feel and it didn't even take 2 minutes for aphobes to find my tweet and start shitting on me

[agels-not-hooman]

[crowrosive]

Happy pride! Tried to squeeze in as many flags as I can currently think of so far!

[soulwordrain]

so I came out to two people yesterday: one told me asexuality doesn't exist and I'm just afraid of commitment, the other said "omg, haven't met anyone who's asexual, can you tell me more about your experience?"

guess who's gonna remain my friend

[therainbowgoblinthempress]

[cnonymousturtleduck]

get your sexual propositions the fuck off the asexual tag <33

[davidisnotmyname]

hey

hey you 🫵 fellow queer person

this is your daily reminder that infighting within our community doesn’t help us. It only makes our oppressors stronger. So if you don’t understand someone’s identity or feel it doesn’t fit your idea of how that identity should be used, just LEAVE IT BE. We need to focus on the people who want us illegal and dead. The meowgender it/its user and the bisexual cis woman are hated by bigots just the same.

[crystalsandbubbletea]

Just a reminder...

Trans Women ARE WOMEN!

Trans Men ARE MEN!

TRANS PEOPLE ARE STILL PEOPLE!

TRANS RIGHTS FOREVER!

THE 'T' IN LGBTQIA+ MEANS 'TRANS'!

🏳️‍⚧️💙🩷🤍🩷💙🏳️‍⚧️

ASEXUALS ARE VALID!

ASEXUALS ARE HUMAN!

THE 'A' IN LGBTQIA+ MEANS 'ASEXUAL!

ACE RIGHTS FOREVER!

🖤🩶🤍💜

AROMANTICS ARE VALID!

AROMANTICS ARE HUMAN!

THE '+' IN LGBTQIA+ INCLUDES AROMANTIC PEOPLE!

ARO RIGHTS FOREVER!

💚🤍🩶🖤

NONBINARY PEOPLE ARE VALID!

NONBINARY PEOPLE ARE HUMAN!

THE '+' IN LGBTQIA+ INCLUDES NONBINARY PEOPLE!

NONBINARY RIGHTS FOREVER!

💛🤍💜🖤

WE ARE HUMAN, WE ARE VALID!

I'm not Trans, Aromantic, or Asexual myself but my blog is a safe space for anyone who identifies as Trans, Aromantic, or Asexual or all three. My blog is also a safe place for nonbinaries.

I see you all, I hear you all. You are beautiful. 💜

[froggyteehee]

Sorry, I'm homophobic-phobic

[rainbowpiss34]

an aroace guy with his obligatory feline daughter ☝️

[risesthenight]

Aro vs Ace

As someone who’s aroace i’ve noticed a very clear cultural distinction between people who are just ace and people who are aroace. One of the most commonly used phrases i’ve seen in the ace community is the classic “we’re still human, we still feel love” excuse. A phrase that throws every aromantic individual under the bus when certain aces try to defend their orientations to straight people.

If you grew up aroace, or just aromantic, you’ve most likely felt broken. Surrounded by love being broadcasted as a milestone, and forced upon everyone with romcoms , true loves kisses, and “there’s someone for everyone” type phrases. If you grew up ace, you felt broken too. Surrounded by first times, the purity of virginity, and the fantasies that everyone seemed to have. However, people are more likely to be accepting of aces, because they see it as a choice to stay celibate. While that’s not true, they have something to lean back on, something pre-existing that allows their “choice” to be accepted. But when people hear of someone who doesn’t experience love? That is much less likely to be accepted. You will be told that you are broken. You will still be believed to have made this as a choice, and people will try to convince you to rethink the decision. There is nothing to lean back on, because the idea of being loveless, will always going with being heartless. You’re suddenly a monster, you are not pure.

Over the past few years, asexual has becoming a growing label in the community. Asexual characters appear all over media, it’s actually a much more common label now. There is still discrimination, there is still hate, but there is more acceptance than there has ever been before. Aros are at a point where they’re still more likely to be shunned for their lack of attraction, all while watching their Ace friends be accepted. Because at least they still love, right? They’re not completely broken, unlike them. Because love is love. The very phrase that isolates us from the community. If love is love, where the hell do we go? What if there is no love?

For this reason, I always resonated more with the aromantic part of aroace. Whenever I scroll the ace tag, or talk with ace people, I’m still finding myself being outcasted, feeling as if the label shouldn’t even apply to me. To scroll the aro tag, I feel much more at home. They don’t hold messages with cruel undertones, there is no undermining of ace identities, just an embrace of our collective independence.

I’m aroace, but I hardly feel ace.

[wingsofhcpe]

very interesting how this whole clusterfuck of a discourse centers around if cishet aro MEN are queer but the same question isn't applied to cishet aro WOMEN... hmm... could it be because it's radfems and TERFs stirring the pot with their bullshit ideology again.... because they inherently see all men as The Big Enemy as if men are Sauron and radfems are Frodo fuckin' Baggins... hmm... could it be because 99% of exclusionism and intracommunity bigotry originates from radfem/TERF circles since their "identity" is based entirely on exclusionism and hatred...

One can't help but wonder!