Anyways, I've been planning on making this post for a little while but since I'm currently angry I'll do it now.
A little bit ago I brought up my whole problem with the aro ring to the arospec discord. The problem being that almost every symbol for the aro community comes from the ace community or is derivative of it. Do I like the aro ring? Yes. But I don't like that it's the "aro version" of the ace ring. I'm not asexual. Aromantic does not mean asexual.
So we started coming up with some ideas of other symbols we could use, specifically I wanted something we could still wear because I think that'd be cool and fun, and eventually we landed on something we're pretty happy with!
The aro rose, it's a green rose(or any green flower, but roses specifically). Get it? A-rose?(not my pun, I stole that off the discord).
I also really liked this idea because it's sort of reclaiming a stereotypical romantic symbol, the rose, and taking it to be our own. Also it's green because of the flag(the ring being white bothered me a bit to, because it was meant to be the "opposite" of asexual and that's just...no).
You could make a paper rose, you could embroider a patch, paint some fabric, make a brooch, whatever you want!
This is my current one, I made an embroidery flower and I didn't have green embroidery floss so I just painted it with fabric paint. It's not a rose because that would be pretty difficult for me to embroider but you get the jist. I pin this to my shirt sometimes now :)
Idk if this will take off or not but it's an idea! If anyone else has more ideas for aro symbols like this I'd love to hear it.
