epic aro sculpture i did for class

the heart is made out of plastic bags wrapped with tape, so it's squishy ^_^ and the knife is qtips hot glued together. the knife is also removable!

Aspec representation is important because kids are still told in health class that everyone feels attraction

Aspec representation is important because somewhere in the world there’s a 12 year old crying because they feel broken

Aspec representation is important because I still get told “that’s not real” when I come out

Aspec representation is important because people still think the A in LGBTQIA+ stands for ally

Aspec representation is important because everyone deserves to see someone like them on screen

Aspec representation is important because people still think that asexual and aromantic are the same thing

Aspec representation is important

*likes aro posts*

Tumblr: so you want aroace posts? You're aro ace? You're ace? Your entire dashboard is exclusively ace now you're welcome

need some people to start examining why they get so upset seeing aroallos stand up for themselves

god I fucking hate posts that are like "reblog if someone can come into your dms to befriend you" "I consider all of my moots my friends" "hey you moot who I've never talked to I consider you my friend"

as an aplatonic, they make me very uncomfortable.

and the many times that people have called me their friend without permission - I'm not mad, just very uncomfortable - make me feel very icky. friendship is a relationship just like others, don't assume we're friends without consent. it's a relationship and it requires consent on both sides

i would talk more but I can't really think rn

Im not fucking aroace. My friend keeps calling me aroace and when I correct them they say it “doesnt matter because im aro.” Im so annoyed but I hate talking about sexuality because its private to me so I dont wanna bring it up. I shouldnt have to explain my sex life to someone to prove im not aroace they should just trust me wtf

Gonna start saying "love is a strong word" the same way people say "hate is a strong word"

I figured I’d make a fem presenting and a masc presenting version of this

Image Description:

Two memes using the Sayori Drake template; the second image has a short-haired flat-chested character instead of Sayori - the text of both memes is identical

The top text, which is next to a disapproving facial expression and gesture of rejection, reads: Being aromantic and installing a few dating-app-games/ online-dating-sims out of desperation…

The bottom text, which is next to a smiling expression and finger guns gesture, reads: …to get gendered and named correctly while getting complimented

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Sorry to all the A's I couldn't fit on here!

Heyy sorry if its a bit of a rant but I just wanted to ask is it normal to absolutley hate any romantic things but still being in a romantic relationship?

I really dislike any sort of romance (cuddling, kissing and making out (only when Im some what drunk) is alright) but just romantic and sexual gestures make me uncomftable. But I also love my gf romantically I just never see people like me so I wanted to ask. I neber sent an ask so Im very sorry incase I did smt wrong

-a person somewhere on the aroace spec

Yeah, it's normal, in the sense that it's normal that what can set off romance-repulsion (negative feelings that tend to appear in certain romantic situations) or not can be really specific like that. So it's very common for people with romance repulsion for some things to be completely fine (like being in a romantic relationship in this case), and some things to just set it off (like certain romantic-coded gestures).

So yeah, it's nothing wrong, Anon. And just how you happen to be wired. And so long as what you're doing is working for you, I'd say you're good.

All the best!

I gave my soapbox speech about how weight loss is mostly bullshit to two different patients in a row yesterday and so help me I’m pretty sure one of these days someone is going to say “but SURELY you agree I’d be HEALTHIER if I lost weight!” bc you can see the disbelief in their eyes. And like. Sure, maybe! You might see some improvement in biomarkers like LDL and A1c, and your knees would probably feel better. But you would be amazed at how much more good you can do for yourself by focusing on things you can actually meaningfully change without resorting to making yourself miserable. Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables—it’s hard bc they’re more difficult to prepare and more expensive per calorie and go bad faster than other foods, but they’re what we evolved eating the most of so they’re what our bodies need the most of. And walk around more; sure, cardio is great for you, but if it sucks so bad you don’t do it, it isn’t doing shit for you. And we evolved to walk very very long distances, a little bit at a time, so our bodies respond actually very well to adding walks into our schedules, which is vastly easier than adding workouts that are frankly designed to be punishing when the definition of punishing is “makes you less likely to do it again in the future.”

You get one life. It is shorter than you can begin to imagine. Don’t waste it hating yourself because somebody is going to make money off that self-hatred. You deserve better than to be a cash cow for billionaires who pay aestheticians and dermatologists to make them (or at least their trophy wives) look thin and beautiful no matter what they actually do.

“Sadly there’s a chance this character could be aromantic :(”

Well sadly there’s a chance you’re dying by my blade :(

i love you straight aromantics. i love you straight asexuals. i love you straight aroaces. i love you straight aroallos. i love you straight aspecs. i love you straight aspecs who are questioning if they’re aspec or not. i love you ‘straight passing’ aspecs. you are loved and you are included and i see your pain and your struggles. you will always always always be a part of our community.

The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers

Mark Gevisser

More than seven years in the making, Mark Gevisser's The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers is an exploration of how the conversation around sexual orientation and gender identity has come to divide--and describe--the world in an entirely new way over the first two decades of the twenty-first century. No social movement has brought change so quickly and with such dramatically mixed results. While same-sex marriage and gender transition are celebrated in some parts of the world, laws are being strengthened to criminalize homosexuality and gender nonconformity in others. As new globalized queer identities are adopted by people across the world--thanks to the digital revolution--fresh culture wars have emerged. A new Pink Line, Gevisser argues, has been drawn across the globe, and he takes readers to its frontiers. Between sensitive and sometimes startling profiles of the queer folk he's encountered along the Pink Line, Gevisser offers sharp analytical chapters exploring identity politics, religion, gender ideology, capitalism, human rights, moral panics, geopolitics, and what he calls "the new transgender culture wars." His subjects include a Ugandan refugee in flight to Canada, a trans woman fighting for custody of her child in Moscow, a lesbian couple campaigning for marriage equality in Mexico, genderqueer high schoolers coming of age in Michigan, a gay Israeli-Palestinian couple searching for common ground, and a community of kothis--"women's hearts in men's bodies"--who run a temple in an Indian fishing village. What results is a moving and multifaceted picture of the world today, and the queer people defining it.

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