#aroace zine

[toronto-aces-and-aros]

Toronto Aces & Aros Zine issue-- call for submission!

Hey all! We’re going to be organizing a group zine for the Toronto Aces and Aros group (exactly 10 years after the last group zine issue!). The goal is to be able to finalize and print the issue in the Fall of this year.

If you’re interested in submitting a piece for the zine, please read on. Thanks!

Submission deadline August 15, 2025 (We will also be having a zine-making workshop early September and assembling everything immediately after that.)

Theme:

Asexuality and aromanticism, and various grey experiences, are frequently described in terms of a lack of attraction or sometimes a lack of desire. This zine issue seeks to both explore and challenge the framing of these experiences as “lacking” or “missing” something.

What can be learned through an absence? In what ways can we envision asexuality and aromanticism as something gained rather than something missing? What meaning do you find in negative spaces? Or perhaps you find recognition or comfort in the vocabulary of “lack” - what significance does it have to you? What have these things (or questioning these things) brought into your life? What are reasons you’re grateful to be somewhere under the ace and/or aro umbrellas? We’d love to share them!

Submissions should be generally based around this theme, but you are welcome to interpret it in any way you like. 

Submission Instructions:

Submissions may be in text format (essays, poetry, etc), or visual format (collages, comics, etc), or a combination of the two. For visual submissions, note that the zine will be printed in black & white – the online version will be available in full colour.

Text submissions: Maximum 1500 words (no minimum) - with some flexibility if needed

Visual submissions: Maximum of 4 pages (no minimum)

Please email submissions to toronto.aces.and.aros.zine@gmail.com and include the following:

Your submission

A title for your submission, if you want one

The name / pen name / username under which you would like to be published, or “anonymous” if you prefer.

Brief bio (maximum 150 words) that will be published alongside your submission and will help give context to who is writing.

You may wish to include things such as age range, gender, pronouns, racial or ethnic identity, or other aspects of your experience and/or interests. Note: we especially want to interrupt how some aspects of identity, such as whiteness, get treated as the “default” when left unnamed. For this reason we encourage contributors to include these in bios. (e.g. if you are white, we encourage including this in your bio in order to disrupt the idea of whiteness being the unspoken baseline).

Please also be mindful of the group Respect Guidelines in your submissions: https://torontoacesandaros.wordpress.com/accessibility/respect-guidelines/ 

Timeline:

We’ll be collecting submissions via email until 15 August 2024. We may reach out to contributors to do minor editing & clarification of submissions as needed.

We’ll also include submissions collected from the zine-making workshop that will be organized in early September.

Plans for the zine:

The zine will be printed for distribution to recover print costs at Toronto Aces & Aros group events, e.g. tabling at Pride events and/or zine faire type spaces. It will also be made available for free on the Toronto Aces & Aros website.

Questions?

You can email toronto.aces.and.aros.zine@gmail.com with questions, or follow up in the #zine Discord channel. For more information about Toronto Aces & Aros or to join the Discord server, please email toronto.aces.and.aros@gmail.com

[questioning-pisces]

hi friends, i’m creating a zine for a class of mine about aspec and fandom. i decided to create a form to know what people’s favorite canon and headcanon characters were! there’s space for ace, aro, and aroace characters. and a open response if you want to share anything else, aspec fandom joy, struggles, anything at all.

please take it and reblog also share it with people who aren’t on tumblr!!!

thank you lovelies💜💚🩵🧡

[kindlyanni]

🌈 Happy Pride Month! 🌈

May I interest you with some light queer reading in the form of a PDF comic zine? It's an autobiographical comic about living by myself, partner-free, with posi vibes! 24 pages!

PDF available in my ITCH.io shop in English and in Finnish!

[tikklil]

[JUST FRIENDS]

Enjoy the first 4 pages of my comic about friendship and the depth of platonic love, which I’ll be selling at the first edition of Pride In Panels this month (aspecs are you listening?)!

Find me at the San Francisco Main Library on Sunday, Feb 18th, from 12-5PM.

[pluiepassant]

my art for the @aftgpridezine

[catjest3r]

my piece for the ghost cousins zine!! its my first zine and though i was too shy to interact with anyone, im really proud to have been a part of this project!!!

@ghostfamzine

[art-by-secret]

It‘s (nearly) Valentine’s Day, I‘m aro-ace and this is a mini zine about non-romantic gestures of love I have experienced <3

Maybe some of these things seem completely natural to you, but every one of them made me feel loved :)

(And of course, just because these things are not strictly romantic in nature, they can be a part of romantic love just as much as they can be platonic. Love comes in many shapes and forms :)

Being single is not the same thing as being unloved, and not wanting romantic love is not the same thing as being heartless!

[plantify]

My contributions to the Toontown Pride Zine

[theepitomeofanakaren]

Zine: Aromantic Fictional Characters 💚🤍🖤

Happy aromantic spectrum awareness week!

This time I made a zine with some of the aromantic fictional characters I know. Some of them were only confirmed by their creators or the actors who played them but I still think it is nice to know that we can see them or read them and relate to their experiences. Representation is so important and looking at the experiences of these characters made me feel so seen and valid.

I don’t really know what to say, this is my first aro week and I already feel so much love and support, I’m happy with my identity and proud to be part of this lovely community. 💚✨

[firbetmakes]

The Queer Expansive Tarot Project!

@queerextarot's deck is fully illustrated with 78 illustrated cards of 78 different queer flags, from 34 queer artists. The flags start from the original Gilbert Baker flag and expanding outward to include identities like Vyrosexual and Xenogender.

>> Preorders Close Thu July 25 4pm GMT <<

Of course this gal is featured as an illustrator!! I worked on 14 Council (Aroace), 9 of Dreams (Quoiromantic), and 5 of Insight (Litho/Akoisexual), with each of the characters here showing off their cards!! Expect some preveiws of the cards soon!

[deadeyedfae]

Sorry about the terrible blurry quality, I've been trying to make things to fit Tapas but unfortunately that's just made this looks super compressed 😕 anyway I made this to learn about myself but now I want to share it with whoever might need to learn these things as well!

[aspeczine]

A-Spec Zine Contributor Apps Open!

Thanks so much to everyone who participated in our interest check! Applications are now steaming ahead.

We are looking for WRITERS, ARTISTS, and DESIGNERS.

Due to the size of the project (small!) writer and artist applications will only be open for a week, but may close early if we hit the limit of applications we can reasonably process. We are only looking for around 10 artists and 10 writers, at most.

Designer applications will be open until the July 6 2023, or until we hit a hard limit of 10 applicants. If you are interested in designing as well as contributing, please fill out both forms.

[aceomenszine]

🌈 Celebrate your Aromantic Pride This Month!! 💚🤍🖤

The Ace Omens Zine is out NOW with a shiny new second edition, filled with heartwarming, funny, and moving stories and art that speak to all of us in the aspec umbrella, written and drawn by Good Omens fans all around the world!

Pre-Order Now! ➡️ https://aceomens.bigcartel.com/

[faeryvoid]

The Diversity of A-spectrum Experiences Zine Submissions!!

Hiya, I'm Fawn (FaeryVoid) Something to know about me is that I'm AroAce and I'm making a zine about the diversity amongst a-spec experiences. I've already made a post about this on my main blog The DazedPuppyDiaries, but I wanna make an updated post here. Before I discovered that I'm aro, I already really wanted to make a zine about the diversity amongst ace-spec experiences and that kind of evolved into making a zine about the diversity amongst a-spec experiences. I'm inspired to make this zine because I feel it's often forgotten that the a-spectrum is just that, a spectrum. I feel that a-spec experiences are often treated as a monolith which I find really frustrating. If you're a-spec and interested in participating feel free to reach out whether that be through commenting, reblogging this, or direct messaging me. I wanna make it clear this zine is for all a-spec not just aces and aros, so if you're aplatonic or asensual for example I'd like to hear from you as well. I do ask that anyone submitting something is 18+. You can be accredited however you like whether that be, your username, your name, your system name, an alias, or anonymous. I'm open to many mediums for this project so if you'd prefer to share your experience through illustration rather than writing that's also fine. I also have a prompt list available so if you'd like that reach out and I'll send you the document, but the prompt list is completely optional. If you're writing a submission try to be conscious about the length of the submission, but it's not too big of a deal. I should note that I might not be able to use all the submissions I get or I might not be able to use a whole submission if it's very long. Also If you don't want to write a submission, but would like to give me feedback about your experience for me to take into account while writing the zine I'd appreciate that as well, please just differentiate if it's feedback or a submission. This project is going to take me quite a while and I'm going to be taking submissions for quite a while too, so submissions are open unless I edit this saying otherwise.

[submissions and feedback are currently open]

[ineffable-kelpie]

Rating: G

Wordcount: 1,505

Summary:

Muriel knew about love, in general terms—human romantic love, that was. They understood that it was something humans felt that made them want to kiss and get married and have babies, and that was Good because they needed to have babies for humanity to keep existing, and it helped if they got married so they could raise the babies together, and kissing gave married couples something nice to do with each other. That all made sense in general terms, and it wasn’t as though Muriel planned on falling in love, so they’d never questioned it further. Except then they were reassigned to Earth long-term, and they started reading.

(In which Muriel is confused about how humans approach love and relationships, and asks some questions. Written for the Ace Omens 2 zine.)

[duckthechuck]

I haven’t posted in a while but I’m making a zine and I’m trying to find artists

If your asexual/aromantic and you make art of any kind please consider submitting