#Ace Rights

[lgbtqtext]

[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.

[prethinkers-autistic-lover]

Shoutout to hypersexual ace/aroace-spec people, you're all awesome and I love you and I hope you live in prosperity for 1000 years.

[whereserpentswalk]

I see queer friendly Christians the same way I see Queer friendly republicans. Members of an inherently bigoted organization, giving it a friendly face so that it's easier to excuse its bigotry.

Just like how a single republican being gay doesn't change the fact that stripping all queer people of rights is part of what the republican party is trying to accomplish; a single Christian being gay doesn't change the fact that stripping all queer people of rights is part of what the Christianity as an institution is trying to accomplish.

It's time we stopped making excuses for the church because some of them put on a progressive face. Because you can make that excuse for any institution. We can't be having "not all Christians" disclaimers when we talk about Christian bigotry for the same reason we can't be having "not everyone on the right" disclaimers when we talk about right wing bigotry.

[ivydbomb]

I’ve been seeing a massive influx of Aroace posts. I am Aroace and completely unaware of what’s going on. What poll? What discourse? What happened 😭 do we need to invade another country again? Isn’t it the darn year of the dragon? DO I GOTTA BURN SOMEBODY????

[rincolonthree]

LEMON DEMON ACE RIGHTS LET'S GOOOOOO XD

[gzldragon10]

Hello. I'm here to remind y'all that aro-ace rights are still a problem. Bigger than you think.

Let's say someone's gay and they come out. What do they hear?

You're just confused/it's a phase/you just want attention/it's a sin

Now, what's the difference with aspec people? We are told all of that AND that it's a mental illness. And I'm beeing serious!

Everyone knows about the existence of gay people and homophobes just see it as sinful/bad/unnatural, but for aspec? It's treated like some emotional problems, you are told you are some sort of heartless asocial person who cannot understand basic emotion! And some therapists WILL treat it like a mental illness

[ms-paints-sometimes]

IT'S INTERNATIONAL ASEXUALITY DAY MOTHERFUCKERS!!!

you may celebrate by paypaling 20$ to the closest ace person

alternatively, we will accept cake and/or garlic bread as payment :)

(image by @/throwawaysoiwontgeteatenbyjamie)

[v3ddirast4r]

I decided to draw my OC and Remus supporting Aroace rights, and this is the sketch so far :3 should I finish and render this???

[thee-radio-host-is-a-kookaburra]

"lol aphobia isn't real. I mean, have you guys even had your 'sexuality' labeled as a disorder like us Real Queers have??"

um. yeah, actually...

[codthefishgod]

Am I the only person who hates telling other people about my sexuality irl? I'm proud of being aroace and all, it just gets tiring to explain it every single fucking time.

I mean, I can just say I'm not straight or I'm queer, but then people immediately default to thinking I'm gay if I say that.

It usually goes like this:

Stranger: "Are you straight?"

Me: "Oh, no."

Stranger: "Oh, so you're gay."

Me: "...Nope. Try again."

Stranger: "Bisexual?"

Me: "Nope!"

Stranger: "Can you give me a hint?"

Me: *long sigh* "I can, but I don't think you'll like the answer"

Now cue the explaining it for ten minutes and gods forbid they're aphobic (which, unfortunately, a large percentage of the people I've told are) because that's just a whole other fucking rabbit hole

[flocoatyl]

REMINDER TO BLOCK AND REPORT EVERY PORN BOT YOU FIND IN THE ASEXUAL TAG

[pinteresttransfer777]

Getting blocked on tumblr makes sense to me bc yeah sure, arguments happen and I've got some pretty shit takes cuz everyone has a few, but getting blocked on pinterest is HILARIOUS.

Like what, are you just not into fandoms or specifically that fandom? Did you not like getting spammed with Danny Phantom 24/7?? Or are you pissy bc i repinned something that suggests that aces not wanting sex from a relationship isn't abusive?

[ivydbomb]

A post to trend the aromantic, asexual, aroace, and all the aspec/arospec tags.

Screw you Valentines day.

(Also you are all valid and everybody who says otherwise is a billion times wrong)

Guys I literally ran out of tags I am so sorry to any identity I left out. Maybe I’ll make another one with the rest. Tag this with any identity under the aroace umbrella I may have missed!!!! We will get these tags all trending!!!!!!!

[the-phantom-barista]

hey allan can you say ace rights🖤🩶🤍💜

Sure thing! Allan here, and I say ace rights! Asexual people are awesome, and I stand with all my queer friends!

[tenaciousdecapitator]

Tbh the idea that aspec people are 'innocent' and 'don't know what sex is' seems equally insulting and infatilizing as saying the same shit abt autistic ppl

Equating ‘childlike innocence’ or ‘pitiable inexperience’ with either identity is bullshit, tbh. It’s an unfortunately rampant mindset especially in fandom spaces. For example, people in the She Ra fandom assumed Entrapta was aspec due to her autism coding until she started explicitly flirting with robots and spaceships in season 5. Besides, someone can still be Allo and “not know what sex is”, for example Travis Touchdown. He’s not aspec and probably not autistic, he’s just an anime nerd with no charm whatsoever.