This is a follow up to my previous post, but there was a lot of great things that happened this week and I just wanted to acknowledge them and celebrate them.
The Allusionist episode
First of all, a wonderful episode of The Allusionist, a podcast about language, released an episode about asexuality and aromanticism. You can find it here! I've been nagging her about doing a podcast about this for ages so I'm super happy to see it! It really was such a surprise for me and I was absolutely thrilled to see it drop and also to listen to it.
Disabled Aces Day
This year marked the first ever Disabled Aces Day! It was founded by Courtney Lane, a wonderful ace activist, and it aims to highlight the specific struggles of disabled aces. You can read more about it here, but the general idea is that disabled aces are often overlooked since all disabled individuals are assumed to be non-sexual. This results of erasure, of bot ace and allo disabled individuals. And in particular it can be hard for disabled aces to feel confident in their asexuality since it feels as though they're confirming a stereotype. So it's great that there's now a day for this community! Support and love disabled aces.
Racism in the community
Unfortunately there's also been a ton of racism online. Yasmin Benoit launched an asexuality-themed lingerie campaign and so many people have decided that this is too much or incomprehensible or whatever it is. I really wish that someday we could get to a point where this doesn't happen. Yasmin is a wonderful, incredible activist and she shouldn't be constantly harassed like this. Who cares what she's wearing? The whole point is that aces can wear and look however they want, that doesn't make them less asexual. Just another reminder of how far we have to go.
Happy Halloween!
And finally, happy Halloween! Aces get Halloween now, it's official. I hope that your week has been wonderful and tons of fun.
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