[Image ID: 2 flags, both with 9 equal horizontal stripes. Each stripe is a different colour. The order of colours goes; black, purple, pink, orange, white, green, teal, blue, and black. The flag on the right is dimmer/less saturated than the flag on the left. End ID.]
An alt Aspec flag meant to be more inclusive. Most aspec flags out there only include aro and ace, maybe apl sometimes. The other aspec identities are typically forgotten about. That's why I made this.
Each colour represents something different. Here is what they represent:
Black - Anattraction. Those who do experience some form/bit of attraction/gender but are still aspec.
Purple - Aexual
Pink - A-Aesthetic, Aemotional, it's also in a few Atertiary flags
Orange - Asensual
White - lack of (white is the absence of colour in paint)
Green - Aromantic and Agender
Teal - Aqueerplatonic and Apresential
Blue - Analterous and Aplatonic
White & Black also represent the diversity of the aspec community and the broadness of the aspec label. They also represent every other aspec label not otherwise represented by the colours
Here is a third 5-striped (pentastriped?) AAA design. Amber and Indigo come from merging the orangish & bluish sections of the popular “sunset” AroAce flag and tweaking them to be equidistant on the color wheel from agender’s central green stripe. This harmony creates a pleasing balanced design but the colors need some adjustment still. Symbolic meaning attributed to the colors from related flags could include:
Amber(-orange) - Aromantic spectrum, connection & community
Amber and Indigo are tertiary colors equidistant from green on the color wheel and blend into the neighboring hues orange and blue. These three equally spaced colors represent each of the A’s in the triple-A flag. The original aromantic flag had an amber/orange stripe which was later replaced with light green. Indigo is the complement to amber and is the neighboring color to violet which traditionally represents asexuality and could have a similar meaning here.
Expanding this basic 5 stripe form creates 9-striped and 7-striped versions.
9-striped AAA flag.
IR(Black) | Amber | Yellow | Lime | Green | Cyan | Blue | Indigo | UV(Black)
Adding yellow, lime, cyan and blue make a gentle tertiary color gradient balanced on neutral green. Color theory wise, green is perfectly positioned as the central color as it is neutral - dividing warm colors from cool ones. Green is also holds the central position in royGbiv & other electromagnetic spectra.
Below is the 7-striped version with lime + yellow merged into chartreuse yellow and cyan + blue merged to azure blue.
7-striped AAA flag.
IR(Black) | Amber | Chartreuse yellow | Green | Azure blue | Indigo | UV(Black)
This simplified version works as well as the 9 striped one in conveying balance and cohesion since the colors are equidistant and analogous.
I liken rainbow-like flags to electromagnetic spectra and usually add an infrared band above and an ultraviolet band below to indicate expansiveness and awareness of different modes of perception. This can be conflated with the black stripes of the agender flag. Plus the black just creates a nice aesthetic frame.
I haven’t really seen a flag that has been widely adopted for the greater aspec community as a whole, and I thought to throw my own hat into the ring because why not.
More about the flag in the break below
I thought of moving away from stripes as a different approach for a pride flag, seeing as most, if not all, were composed of stripes in one way or another. The compass rose in the middle is a symbol of how we all experience attraction in different ways (this isn’t really symbolic of any specific plane or planes of attraction), as I think it would be central to a flag that represents an entire spectrum of identities to have something that symbolizes such an idea.
I thought it was best to stick to the black/grey/white/green/purple as I think it would be counter-intuitive to introduce another color scheme. After all, this is a flag that is supposed to communicate to others that it includes all ace and aro people, so changing it up would just be more confusing. The green and purple are on opposite sides of the quadrant to show that asexuality and aromanticism are their own separate and independent identities, with both the black and grey quadrants connecting them to represent the aroace and grey aspec communities, respectively.
My hope is that this flag can be used for a variety of purposes, including being a unifying flag that represents the aspec community as a whole, and doesn’t attempt to sweep one community aside. Perhaps even used in place of the ace and aro flags to represent the aspec community as a whole. I hope that this flag, or any aspec flag for that matter, when flown says this:
We are welcoming to all aspec identities
This is a safe space for all people who identify as aspec
We understand that ace and aro identities are their own independent identities, and that we respect someone’s alloromantic or allosexual identity in tandem with their aspec identity
We also understand that sexual and romantic identity exists on a spectrum, and we recognize those with grey aspec, demi, or microlabel identities as a part of our community
We also recognize the aroace-spec community, of those whose lack of attraction intersects with aromanticism and asexuality, and how there are those who experience this with differing levels of attraction
Of course, I can’t stop someone from using this flag who will ignore those points, but I hope that there will be at least some who take these into account.
Lastly, this is the first time this flag has gone public, so I ask that you simply give me credit. No need to tag me, just at least give me a little shoutout. And you have permission to use this in pride merch without asking me, just in case there was ambiguity.
Definition: nullitive/anattractional version of equaric, plurian and diamoric.
Coined by @lgbtqiarchive | A-spec symbol (stylized aloe vera) by @sapphic-squirrel
It has to do with having a nullitive identity or experiencing null attraction, just like pluralian has to do with m-spec community, nullian/nullic is with aspec communities. I could had used aroace sign (♠ace of spades) but I feel this one includes tertiary non-attractions too.
Nullarians aren’t essentially omniaspec/panaspec, they just don’t experience a form of attraction, not necessarily all types of them.
[images description: three stripes flags, first with black, grey and black, second with gray, white and black, both having aloe veras in the middle. end ID]
¡Agender Spec Flags! ¡Happy Pride month Agender Avengers!
🔋🔋🔋 🔋🔋🔋 🔋🔋🔋
I tried to design as many agender focused multi-identity flags as I could for pride month. These all have 7 stripes margined in black or darker colors. The first AAA (Agender Aromantic Asexual) vertical row was mostly designed by others (FormicaRufa and aro-ace-agender-space have their lovely AAA flags included).
I tweaked a popular unattributed AAA sunset flag to have more equidistantly related colors (like the spectral flag) and have been calling it the "Green Flash Sunset" flag.
The "Green Flash" is an amazing atmospheric phenomenon occasionally seen at sunrise or sunset where one can glimpse a momentary brilliant flash of spectral green light. This extra-special flash and color balance tweak evolves the Aroace Sunset flag into the AroAceAgender Green Flash Sunset flag. The name was just too fitting not to use. This same effect is more fluidly seen in both the Spectral and Tertiary AAA flags where the colors blend seemlessly without white separations.
The Greenscale AAA flag and AroAceAgenderSpace's AAA flag use traditional Agender, Aromantic & Asexual colors for those who prefer established traditional color symbolism.
Other flags I am proud of here are the AroAge(agearo), AgeAce (aceage), Anonbinary, Agenderqueer and Transagender flags. They were fun to make! Feel free to use them if they work for you.
Please don't forget the "A" in LGBTQIA! "A" stands for Agender, Aromantic & Asexual, not ally. We A-specs are here and part of the community! Again, have a wonderful pride month!
