Year 2 of Lockdown, Day 21

[elisi]

OMG!

today, april 6, is the first EVER international asexuality day. as a queer ace person, i want to make a thread about asexual history and help educate people. i’m tired of acephobia. allies and non-aces, read through and rt. #IAD

— keira ☃️ happy IAD !! (@keira0P) April 6, 2021

There is a ton of useful information in the thread, do head over to Twitter & read!

Guess this is as good a time as any to say that I am probably somewhere on the ace spectrum? It like, makes no real difference to anything in my life (I am very happily married), but I guess standing up and being counted matters.

<3

Comments

[jerusha]

Hooray! As someone who is also on the ace spectrum I offer you a solidarity fist bump!

[desdemonaspace]

I wonder if my first husband was ace? Hmmm. Now you've got me thinking.

[elisi]

:D Go us, we have an official day!

[elisi]

Alas I can offer no opinion... :)

[shadowscast]

LOL, I'm just catching up on my DreamWidth friends list now, so belatedly: happy international asexuality day!

I'm doing most of my fannish hangouts now on an Umbrella Academy fandom Discord server, and somebody there brought our attention to the day and then a bunch of people (including me, woot!) identified themselves as being on the ace spectrum, and it was amazingly validating. I didn't know that it was actually the first ever such day, though (I thought I'd just been out of the loop for not hearing about it before).

*twirls you*

[shadowscast]

PS: Thank you again for that time you told me about Todd's asexuality arc in Bojack Horseman! That remains very meaningful to me, as the first time I saw asexuality explicitly represented in media.

[a_phoenixdragon]

Indeed!!

*HUGS*

[elisi]

<3

[elisi]

LOL, I'm just catching up on my DreamWidth friends list now, so belatedly: happy international asexuality day!
And the same to you!

I'm doing most of my fannish hangouts now on an Umbrella Academy fandom Discord server
I wondered where all the TUA fans were.

somebody there brought our attention to the day and then a bunch of people (including me, woot!) identified themselves as being on the ace spectrum, and it was amazingly validating.
Oh wow. That's great. :D

I didn't know that it was actually the first ever such day, though (I thought I'd just been out of the loop for not hearing about it before).
Same here.

[elisi]

You are most welcome! And yes, I struggle to think of other examples. Well.

Here is a clip from Sex Education. (No spoilers, but it's so nice to see representation.)

<3

[classics-lover.livejournal.com]

WOO! Ace solidarity!

[elisi]

Ahahahaha your icon! :D

Testing again, just in case

[(Anonymous)]

Can I just say, the asexual flag has the *best* colour scheme. Most aesthetically pleasing flag right there, end of story.

(Like, pansexuals, what the fuck is that, my eyes)

[classics-lover.livejournal.com]

I have it on a t-shirt as well, I got so many compliments on it back in the before times XD

Re: Testing again, just in case

[elisi]

Long week, late comments...

Can I just say, the asexual flag has the *best* colour scheme. Most aesthetically pleasing flag right there, end of story.
Heh. I'm not going to argue.

(Like, pansexuals, what the fuck is that, my eyes)
They are simply fabulous, and not afraid to show it. ;)

[elisi]

Quite right too!