happy international asexuality day!
April 6th marks International Asexuality Day, a day meant for recognizing, validating, educating and embracing the asexual umbrella of identities, including, but definitely not limited to asexual, aroace, demisexual, greyasexual, aceflux, pomosexual, quoisexual, and other aspectrum identifying people.
i began identifying as asexual as well as aromantic in the early 2010s before silently dropping the label as tensions around whether or not asexual people were "truly" queer/lgbt rose. i felt ashamed of that part of me and stopped talking about it, but as time has passed, the asexual community has started to rebuild, and the entire queer community owes it to the asexual community to help us rebuild and establish ourselves.
we have been the butt of many jokes for years and its time to get rid of the stigma this identity has once and for all and accept that in a society that demands sexuality from each and every person, asexuality is undoubtedly queer. to stand in the face of a society that barrages you with sexuality and sexual imagery, innuendo and conversation almost 24/7 and say that it is not for you, or that you do not approach sexuality in the same way as it has been forced upon you is extremely queer.
cishet or not, every asexual spectrum person falls neatly into the queer community. throwing us under the bus isn't acceptable. we struggle in cisheteronormative society just as much as other queers and it's time to acknowledge and embrace that. it was safer and easier for me to talk about being a gay man than it was for me to talk about being asexual. it was easier for me to talk about being transgender than it was for me to talk about how i don't like having sex with people and don't experience sexual attraction very often and when i do, i have no plans to follow through with it unless it is to meet the other person's needs in a logical fashion.
i have been guilted and forced into sexual relationships that i did not enjoy multiple times over the years. i do not enjoy having sex with people. it's not for me. i've done it many, many times and the conclusion i come to every time is that i don't enjoy it and i come out the other side feeling worse than if i just hadn't done it at all.
i don't really experience the drive to do it in the first place, so why should i force myself to? even if i occasionally find people attractive, if i don't want to follow through on it, i shouldn't have to. nobody should have to engage with sex at all if they don't want to. sex is morally neutral, but it can be very bad for some people to interact with, and this is okay.
whether you're sex repulsed, neutral, favorable, or something else, happy international asexuality day to you! be proud to be yourself, there's no shame in being asexual or asexual spectrum. let's get rid of the stigma around aspec identities once and for all
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Fashionably late noodles
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Pomospec Pride Flag
Pomo spectrum consists of identities that are indeterminate in some way, usually because the person either doesn't know where they fit in or rejects preexisting terms that specify their identity. Terms like quoi or novi are examples, because they have rejection/indeterminacy in the definitions themselves.
In terms of pomogender spectrum, it would be similar to undefined/unknown and uiaspec. However, pomospec includes attractional, affectional, and orientation identities too, among other things (e.g. presentation, sex, relationship, partnering, amory, etc.).
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I don't think i have to explain why we should stop using the kinsey scale
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SBG Headcanons: Aiden
•Has dyed his hair red, blue, and pink before settling on green
•Grew up watching old animated movies and shows like Betty Boop and Popeye The Sailor
•Likes to attend Ashlyn’s ballet performances (he’s so in love with her)
•Went through a creepypasta phase
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Last chunk of moths/butterflies (for now at least).
Usual disclaimer If you use them for anything please give design credit (and also @ me because I would like to see). Intended for personal use only.
In this batch:
A-spec, Trixic, Boyflux
Pomosexual, Apothiromantic, Apothisexual
Queer, Toric, Girlflux
Bellusromantic, Nonbinary boy, Nonbinary girl
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⧉﹒♡︵⸝⸝ JEDENAMASEXUAL / JEDENAMISAN
EXPLANATIONS ✦ ╲╲ ︶︶︶︶︶︶︶︶︶︶︶︶ᘒ ˚. ˖ ๑
Jedenamasexual / jedenamaromantic / jedenamisan,, a term for those who concider themselves to be every sexualities / orientations, weither it's at the same time, or fluctuating between them all, for whatever reasons. One could concider themselves multisexual, abrosexual or even, a form of pomosexuality!
Terminology,,
JEDEN-AMA-
Jeden: from the word "every" in German
Ama: from the word "amare" ; love in latin.
MEANINGS ✦ ╲╲ ︶︶︶︶︶︶︶︶︶︶︶︶ᘒ ˚. ˖ ๑
Lines 1 & 11: The two light lines surrounding the flag represent the large spectrum of attractions one can experience.
In order,, 2. Unity 3. Multisexuality && Fluidity 4. Masculine genders, Min- individuals 5. Community 6. Complex and unique attraction 7. Every orientations && forms of attraction 8. Feminine genders, fin- individuals 9. The ones who do not fit the gender binary 10. Pride
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No this is my emotional support collection of sometimes contradictory identity labels
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October is just pride month but spooky ok? He's some of the canon lgbt characters in my rewrite of mlb (Miracle Box): Nathaniel is gay, so is Marc, Alix is asexual, Mylene is pansexual, Max is aromantic, Luka is trans, Juleka is lesbian, Rose is bisexual, Chloe is bicurious, and Adrien is pomosexual. (other's I didn't have time to draw are Kagami who's non binary, Sabrina who's bi, and a surprise trans girl I will not yet reveal)
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Can u make pomosexual pride blinkies? + "I'm a magical girl" one?
pomosexual pride blinkies! (requests open)
request note —-x-— i wasnt sure what to do for the “magical girl” one, sorry. but here’s the pomosexual blinkies! thank you for requesting
(created by me — no need for credit if used — reblogs appreciated)
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What does being asexual/aspec mean to you?
I started labelling myself as asexual years ago because I thought it was relatable, but now I'm seeing the popular definition of "experiences little to no sexual attraction" and I wondering if I'm even asexual at all.
I thought, well I don't want to have sex or any relationship, so bam, I'm asexual, simple. Sure I find people hot and attractive, and I find the ideas of romantic/sexual relationships fun, but that doesn't matter (because see the first sentence). But obviously the "experiences little to no sexual attraction" definition brings things into question.
I figured the thing with me isn't lack of attraction, or necessarily action I suppose (I can get along with people well enough), but no reaction/reciprocation. I could like someone (so attraction), and I could be close to them (so they'd like be back and whatnot I guess), but I don't know what the hell's supposed to happen after that. Is it suppose to invoke some feeling within me? Certainly seems so. (I don't think "that was okay" counts. Other people certainly seem to act as if these things are supposed to be important, impactful, or particularly enjoyable, in some sense. My nonchalant attitude is not the norm.)
The common definition of asexual doesn't fit, orchidsexual was kind of close but I'm not repulsed, so that doesn't fit either. I don't relate to non queer people but there's no queer orientation that fits me either. Wow is my orientation a mess.
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