#Ace Rights

[rapidashrider]

“I’m like, ‘Okay, she’s a doll. She’s a plastic doll. She doesn’t have organs. If she doesn’t have organs, she doesn’t have reproductive organs. If she doesn’t have reproductive organs, would she even feel sexual desire?’ No, I don’t think she could,” Robbie said. “She is sexualized. But she should never be sexy. People can project sex onto her. Yes, she can wear a short skirt, but because it’s fun and pink. Not because she wanted you to see her butt.”

Margot Robbie said Ace Barbie Rights with her whole chest.

[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.

[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)

[vampypurplequ33n]

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???

[paddysnuffles]

Me, on the comment section of a comedy sketch about coming out: When I came out as ace to my mom she was mad... that I wasn't dramatic about it like a good Latina should be. lol

Some loser: Asexual people don't need to come out because asexuality isn't persecuted.

Until 2013, asexuality was considered a disorder by the primary guide used by healthcare providers to define and classify mental disorders—the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). 

A 2018 U.K. government survey of LGBTQIA+ people found that asexual respondents were the most likely to be offered conversion therapy and as likely as gay and lesbian people to receive it.

[artcake]

first art of the new year, let's go back to my favorite Absolute Unit: Keladry of Mindelan!

Kel also says ace rights, author @tamorapierce confirmed

[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...

[aloeverawrites]

tw mentions of rape culture and sexual coercion:

The idea of aces or anyone having to sleep with their partners as a "sacrifice" or "something uncomfortable to show they care about them" is so infuriating to me. That's sexual coercion and normalising sexual coercion.

Yes asexual can have sex if they want to, yes people can want to sleep with people they aren't attracted to for other reasons, but no one should sleep with anyone. Ever. It is never owed, it's never "a chore you should do for them". The healthiest relationships are built on respect and love. A good partner wouldn't want to make the person they care about feel sexually uncomfortable.

Don't accept anything less then enthusiastic, affirmative consent and don't accept being treated like your boundaries don't matter.

[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

[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!!!!!!!

[flocoatyl]

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

[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.