Did I create this display to celebrate Aromantic Visibility Day? Nope, this is how my dolls dress every day...
(Between my doll dresses, backpack, jewellery, bookmarks and writing, aromanticism looms large in my creativity. Visibility, though, isn't just about pride colours or fictional representation. It's about making space for the diverse experiences, fears, needs and hopes of aromantics living in communities that struggle to reckon with our existence.)
I have to say that it's incredibly disheartening to hop online this morning and see the glut of posts promoting "Aroace Visibility Day".
It's also incredibly disheartening to see this content posted without correction in comments/replies/responses.
Aromantic Visibility Day is about, gasp, aromantic visibility. That does not mean shining a light only upon one kind of aromantic and shoving the rest of us back into the dark. It does mean making space for allosexual, non-sam and not-asexual aros by not erasing us from our own community, events and activism.
Yes, you can and should post aroace content on Aro Visibility Day!
All I'm asking is that you acknowledge that this day of visibility encompasses all aromantics by using the correct name. A name that doesn't exclude aromantics who are not also asexual.
That's it. That's all.
