The prospect of dating has never even crossed your mind, and now you’re a “girlfriend for sale.”
"Just" friends?
Does my friendship really mean so little? And my body so much?
Grey
Just because I’m asexual doesn’t mean I escape this body, its consequence and expectation.
The words you didn't have yet
You learn new words and labels that you relate to. You find that other people think the way you do.
The Puppet
I have always been a real boy. Even with some strings on me.
Open Fields and Gray
My love holds me across distance.
Vol. 3, Issue 4: Redefining Relationships
AZE works to redefine how relationships are understood, featuring the creative expressions of authors who question and challenge dominant understandings of relationships in Western society.
What is love?
A blank canvas ready to be painted without fear
Secret Garden
The three paintings can be arranged in any order and orientation to symbolize the potential fluidity of human sexuality and gender during a person's lifetime.
A meditation on Love
Reminder: I do love / I love with the kind of intensity / that makes your stomach sick
That's not it
After I tell you what I mean by ‘aromantic’, you have your arms around me.
back in a nanosec
I guess we’ll be riding that boat / for a long time, won’t we?
Romantic Machinations
It’s fair to say the machinations of romance elude my understanding and feel undoubtedly non-applicable to me.
Hopeless Aromantic
It blows my mind that someone would have that type of attraction to me because I would never have that type of attraction to them.
The Friendzone in Fandom
There are a wide variety of aro experiences, and there are many aro fans who enjoy reading shippy and/or romance-focused fanworks.
aro ace
In between the words, there are four bunny rabbits stitched onto the fabric.
An Aromantic Person Apologizes to Their First Date
I saved us both a lot of pain / by breaking your heart / before anything could really begin.
A Letter to M
I’m in love with you. And you don’t have to be alarmed at me saying this because you know what I mean.
Eukaryotes
This illustration is not a reliable or even useful teaching tool, but neither is science when encumbered with white ideology.
Seven Steps
You are excited, you tell yourself, because you're in love.