Aros And Aces Of Color

a space for all ace and aro people of colour

[greetings-inferiors]

I swear I’m ace, all of the likes of hydrated ganon are purely me respecting the male physique

[graces-of-luck]

Carnival of Aros: Call for Submissions March 2021

The Carnival of Aros is a monthly blogging carnival with themes related to aromantic and aro-spec identities and experiences. More information can be found here.

Theme/Prompts

This month’s theme is on intersectionality and inclusivity within the aromantic community. You are welcome to use the prompts below, but feel free to take this in whatever direction you feel necessary.

Prompts below:

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[aspendrawaw]

Thank you Griffin for ace Fitzroy Maplecourt ♠️💖💜

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[cushfuddled]

I find it really frustrating sometimes that you can speculate about a long-dead person’s sexuality like, “Maybe they were gay” or “Maybe they were bi” and people will be like “Huh yeah I guess they could’ve been” but the second you say “Maybe they were ace” they’re like

hoW D A R EYOU

HE JUST!!!! HAD HIGH STANDARDS!!!!!! 

[cushfuddled]

This New Yorker article calls T.S. Eliot’s sex life “a sad and desolate place.” The author declares, “Eliot was…almost certainly a frustrated virgin” when he married his first wife (who he proceeded to sleep a room away from, by the way). The same article explains that Eliot was “in love with” his next partner…and never had sex with her. He was also never sexual with his THIRD partner. The article concludes that T.S. Elliot was SURELY not sex-averse (GOOD HEAVENS NO!) but rather wrote sex as bad because “For Eliot, bad sex was the symptom of a failure of civilization, and it is a fallacy to conclude that, because sex in his poems is disgusting, Eliot was disgusted by sex.”

That’s genuinely how people talk about T.S. Eliot. We all make fun of articles that say things like, “This female author divorced her husband and lived with her CLOSE FEMALE FRIEND for the rest of her life.” But for some reason when I say, “As a sex-repulsed asexual person I relate to a lot of T.S. Eliot’s poetry because so many of his works are caught between an almost hopeless desire for affection and a terrified disgust for sex,“ that’s considered UNINTELLECTUAL. Obviously I’m grossly misinterpreting the TRUE BRILLIANCE of T.S. Eliot’s poetry. When I look up T.S. Eliot’s love life and say, “Maybe T.S. Eliot was like me,” that’s shoved away with “NO! HE COULDN’T POSSIBLY BE LIKE YOU! HE WAS JUST P I C K Y!!!” 

Just…would people PLEASE stop rushing to dead people’s “defense” just because I “accused” them of DARING to POSSIBLY be asexual????

[coolcurrybooks-deactivated20230]

Three Essays by Black Asexual Women

“Romance Is Not the Only Type of Black Love that Matters” by Sherronda J. Brown

“The bonds that Black womxn share amongst ourselves are unlike any other. It is with Black womxn that I am able to be completely and unapologetically myself. It is with Black womxn that I have been able to foster a sisterhood, kinship, and camaraderie that fulfills me and will never let me be alone.”

“As a Black Woman, Celebrating Pride This Year Has Been Hard” by Yasmin Benoit

“Now is the time to remember that queer culture wouldn’t exist without Black culture and Stonewall wouldn’t have happened without Black trans women. Even if none of that were true, it wouldn’t make our struggle any less significant to the LGBTQ+ community. All Black Lives Matter, no ifs, no buts, no justification. That includes Black trans lives, Black gay lives, Black bisexual lives, Black asexual lives, Black non-binary lives. That’s what I’m going to make some noise about, and you should too.“

“The Hardships of Being an Asexual Woman of Color” by Kimberly Steele

“I feel like growing up as a black cis female, I wasn’t given many choices with any kind of way to have a healthy relationship with sexuality. It’s almost like everyone, no matter what race they were or what religion they followed, was raised to view sex and sexual situations the same. That method didn’t work for a great number of people of color, and I feel like my relationship with sex (well, lack of a relationship to it) is part of that.”

[fuckyeahasexual]

Read Full Article Here

[historicallyace]

Happy Pride, here’s an important article for us to read, talk about, and work on.

Warnings for discussion of sexual/reproductive violence, antiblack racism, and fetishization.

“Black asexuals deserve to have more visibility and clarity, and Black people deserve to embrace our sexualities outside of the confines of prescribed hypersexualization.”

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【LGBT+!】〉

(These are free to use with credit!)

[acesartemis]

[fuckyeahasexual]

YALL. Gabriel picolo, major dc artist and a latino man, came out as ace on twitter. This is HUGE for the latinx ace community. Not being straight makes you 'less of a man' in many latinx cultures. Not being into women, not being into any gender, not having 'adequate' sexual desires (that need to be restrained til marriage if poss, but absolutely MUST be there) makes you a huge outcast, and being ace fulfills all 3. I hope many other latinxs see this and feel less alone

My partner showed me this tweet because I’m not on twitter anymore and the comments were had stuff like other aces saying stuff like “I meet you in person and you complicated my ace ring” and stuff like that. So it’s excited to see that he felt comfortable being even more public than he had been before. And look at this freaking gift to our eye balls??

[alexkraliekin-deactivated201908]

Some LGBTQ+ Muslims for pride !! Y’all are very valid and I hope you have a good pride month !

If anything I’ve done is offensive or you want a flag that’s not here, feel free to message me or send an ask !

Please DNI if you are: nsfw, truscum/transmed, exclusionist, anti mogai, anti anti, etc etc

[strawberry-crocodile]

Scalding hot take apparently: if a demographic says “I don’t feel safe in the cisgendered heterosexual society, I need space in the LGBT community” and you say “I’m sorry, you’re not oppressed enough, get out” you’re a fucking asshole.

[strawberry-crocodile]

What this post is about;

Ace/aro people getting called “cishet”

Bisexuals getting called “straight passing”

Straight trans people getting told they’re not oppressed

What this post is not about;

Pedophiles

[fuckyeahasexual]

Read Full Article Here

[opheliasriverspirit]

Hey loves!! So I started a discord server for black LGBTQ+ people!!

If you want the link dm me!

But know some ground rules!

1. This server is 18+ so no minors allowed!

2. This is a safe space for ALL BLACK LGBTQ+ individuals. We will not tolerate any form of discrimination which includes but is not limited to misogyny, ableism, colorsim, transphobia, biphobia, acephobia or lesbophobia. This server is a safe space and we would like to keep it that way.

3. In order to join you must dm me and have your dms open!

I really hope that you’ll join and enjoy a safe space for us!!

[aesthetiicly]

sex education season 2, episode 4

[bobblydoctor-deactivated2020090]

So apparently being sexually attracted to people is like?? A real thing??

That's wild man

Imagine wanting to have sex with someone

[spaceinvaydr]

I don’t have to imagine because I fucked your mom last night

[fuckyeahasexual]

Ik this is just a stupid joke reply and might not be that deep(tm) but also this is.... such a weird, annoying and unwarranted reaction to someone probably just venting ON THEIR OWN BLOG about about how they dont understand the concept of sexual attraction like OP isnt even shaming anyone for feeling sexual attraction???

Like yall really need to understand that not all posts are meant to be "made fun of" and put into your cringe compilation or whatever lol people are allowed to post random thoughts and things on their blogs without becoming the subject of intense mockery. I dont think youd like it very much if some rando reblogged any of your vent posts with the intention to make you look cringey. Please behave like decent fucking human beings lol this isnt even mostly about ace discourse its about yall thinking yall can talk to strangers on here in weird ways and then think THEY are cringey for telling you to stop behaving like a freak lol.

[fernlets-deactivated20190714]

support aces of colour who are struggling to reclaim their sexuality while being actively fetishized, hypersexualized, and/or desexualized based on their race and intersections of neuro-atypicality, physical disability, etc.

[fernlets-deactivated20190714]

i’m op of this post (i’ve since changed my url) and the amount of bloggers who have reblogged this and tagged it with some variation of “thank you” shows you how important it is to recognize people of colour who are on the ace spectrum