Aphobia is bigotry against #asexual (#ace) or #aromantic (#aro) people (sometimes agender, too). And in the following posts I will do a little explainer.
(I won't talk about agender, because I'm not agender.)
It's fine to not be that into #sex or #romance. It's fine to not feel sexually or romantic attracted to anyone. It's fine if you do have sex, but only rarely.
Sex and romance are deeply personal things, so don't let society put you down.
But aphobia says the opposite. Aphobia says that it is NOT okay, thus forcing everyone into sex and romance, even if it doesn't work.
#Aphobia may come even from the #LGBTQ+ community: There's this idea that #asexual and #aromantic people do not belong to the LGBTQ+. A common excuse is we're not "oppressed enough". 🤡
Here's the thing: ALL #aces and #aros violate #heteronormativity. No matter how you twist and turn it, it's impossible to be ace/aro AND fully comply with heteronormativity.
Excluding people who violate heteronormtivity is patently absurd.
New: Laura R. Samotin's queer grimdark fantasy The Sins on Their Bones.
Set in a Jewish folklore-inspired reimagining of 19th century Eastern Europe, this queer dark fantasy debut pits two estranged husbands and a daring spymaster on opposite sides of a civil war. Perfect for fans of Leigh ...
The sad and short-lived story of a #racist homophobic troll on my #Pride Flags repository:
Act 1: The #troll tells me they want to #abuse all #gay people.
Act 2: Post gets deleted and the troll gets banned by #Codeberg#moderation before I even checked the repo.
The End.
That’s how it’s done. Don’t feed the trolls. I’d have deleted the post myself but #Codeberg was faster.
(How do I know the post existed? I got an e-mail notification before.)
But wait! There’s more! The troll assumed I’m #gay myself but as long-time followers of me all know, I’m actually #aromantic and #asexual (#aro-#ace), which is a HUGE difference. But since when do #homophobes care about such details, amirite? 🤡
“If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”—Sun Tzu, The Art of War
PSA to everyone to not use brave browser @brave, the CEO of Brave Software is bigoted (donated to anti-lgbtqia+ organizations trying to ban gay marriage in the past and still has never addressed it or apologized) and was also against the Covid Lockdowns and is anti-vax. Using brave browser contributes to oppression of LGBTQIA+ ppl and contributes to brave software financially through ads and other means.
I recommend anyone still using brave browser to switch to ungoogled-chromium as a non-bigoted degoogled chromium-based browser alternative. @floccus is a good browser extension to use on ungoogled-chromium to sync your bookmarks.
I'm Nate, a 28yo 🇧🇷 transgender man, very autistic and going also through a lot of stuff, but I believe sonic the hedgehog will heal me fr
oh, yeah, I post a lot of my daily thoughts, I look like a little lad without graduation but I do have one, an IT grad, I love the silly computers a lot :neocat_cool: I'm still looking for a job btw :neocat_cry:
the tags below are just related to things I'll mostly follow here :neocat_flop: so...
Happy Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week! Here's the Aromantic flag displayed through VGAPride on my Pentium running MSDOS. #aromantic#aromanticspectrumawarenessweek
To anyone out there, feeling confused or pressured because people expect you to fall in #love, to have romantic feelings, but those feelings just never come for some reason: You are not alone. It's okay. Maybe #romance just isn't your thing.
But that doesn't mean you're broken. Society expects from us we will all seek out romantic relationships eventually but in reality, that's not true. There are many exceptions. And it still works out in the end.
The concepts of #romance, romantic #love, or feeling romantically attracted to people is foreign to me. When I was young, I just knew I would never want to marry or go into a romantic relationship with anyone. It just didn't feel right to me. I was right. I am #aromantic. I'm not the only one.
And guess what? I like the way I am. 🙂 I don't feel I'm missing out on anything.
ℹ️ This is the start of my little series for Aromantic Spectrum #Awareness Week. #ASAW
Hiii, we're The Fox Collective, we just migrated to wetdry.world from strangeobject.space. We are #plural (DID system), #autistic and polyfragmented to hell and back :3
Collectively we go by Fox and it/fox pronouns but our main host Kit goes by it/star/he. We are #transmasc and #aromantic
You may have already seen that our special interests are #englishlanguage and #greekmythology specifically. We also enjoy art, psychology, accessibility in public spaces and online (because we don't see it being done well a lot), anarchy, positivity, cats, foxes, and reading.
We will always have talk about ableism, mental health, and physical health behind a content warning. We won't boost images that have bad or no alt text.
Our girlfriend is on Fedi too, she is @GnomedDev the cutest catgirl around
We block freely if you hold beliefs that are spreading misinformation, are directly bigoted, or if you evade filters. Oh also we are a minor, so "minors dni" just fuck off for a couple months
Time for another #introduction since I just moved here. This instance looks great, so I'm hoping it will be my last move.
I'm a #Christian woman first of all. My #faith has been a little shaken by all the #chronicIllnesses I've dealt with, but I'm still a Christian. I'm also #asexual and #aromantic. I've just recently figured this out so I'm still getting used to it.
I'm totally blind, #ActuallyAutistic, and have a very long list of health issues including multiple #RareDiseases. I also live with anxiety.
I'm currently studying for a certificate in #Braille transcription. I originally wanted to be an #accessibility tester, but the course to teach this is more intensive than my health will allow, and I thought I might be good at working with Braille.
My interests include working with #technology, reading both Braille #books and #audiobooks, and #gaming.
I live in Texas, not far from San Antonio, with my Mom, stepdad, 6 #dogs, and lots of #cats. I have a 9-year-old #MiniaturePinscher named Squeaker who I'm very attached to. He's the #dog in my header photo.
🏳️⚧️ Auch diesen September waren wir wieder zusammen auf der trans* Pride Stuttgart. ⚧️
Dort haben wir uns für Aufklärung und Toleranz eingesetzt. Ein großes Thema war der Streit für ein faires, echtes Selbsbestimmungsgesetz. Vielen Dank an alle, die dabei waren.
Looking for a new sci-fantasy read? How about one with an #AroAce protagonist? You can get the ebook of A SPARK IN SPACE by Janina Franck now for just $0.99!
I've been absent here for a while. One of the reasons is I've really been pouring all my free time into leading the second #RiversidePRIDE in Southern California. We just held our Pride festival this past Sunday. I'm beyond elated and proud of what we've accomplished. We hit our target of bringing in over 4,000 attendees, doubling last year's attendance. We exceeded our goal of 100+ exhibitors by having 119 unique exhibitors on the floor. We had a line-up of 36 entertainers and speakers. The diversity of content and inclusion of many different segments of the community was amazing. It was overall a smashing success.
We are a 100% volunteer-powered organization, and we will use this joy and energy to sustain us and keep going! So grateful for all of our volunteers, sponsors, and supporters all around.
I think one think I loved about reddit's #aaaaaaacccccccce subreddit was how inclusive it was. No matter what part of the #LGBTQ spectrum you were, your posts were often well recieved by everyone there. I hope to continue that on #kbin's aaaaaaacccccccce community
I wanted to take a break from #WritingWonders in August, but I think I am addicted. 😂
I would like to spend more time with all my side characters because I think I would learn a lot, but if I have to choose, I choose Raffi because I think she's the most fun to hang out with.
We could play games on the entertainment system, chat about the state of the universe, and make fun of Mister Galahad, in a good-natured way, of course.
Raffi's theme song came along only days after she first appeared:
"I'd rather go blonde" by Eleanor McEvoy
"I'd rather be hit, I'd rather be hung
Than out on a date where you come along. I'd leave all my goods, I'd go and abscond
I'd rather be jailed, I'd rather go blonde"
The lyrics fit her #asexual and #aromantic orientation and straightforward personality and the melody has her sheer, unadulterated joy of living and power to make stuff happen.