Deep platonic relationships make up the core of my life.
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Resent Us, The Government™ Says
Hello, I’m from the Aphobic Government™, where we are still stuck in our imperialist era.
The History of Dismissing Platonic Love Goes Back Centuries and Still Matters Today
What is less known is that there is a deep history of dismissing platonic love that actually goes back centuries.
How the Gender Binary Influences Attraction
The definition of Gender Expression vs. Gender Identity: Gender expression is based on a person’s appearance (or how they express their gender through their appearance), while gender identity is how a person defines or labels their gender.
Growing Up Acespec: A Speculative Approach to Queer Time
Acespec development infers growing without a qualifier: not growing sideways or growing into anything in particular, but just growing—directionless and aimless by societal standards perhaps, but growing still, in unexpected ways.
Asexual/Aromantic Concerns, Gay Spaces: Anti-Amatonormativity and the United Kingdom Gay Liberation Front
This shows that amatonormativity is not only a concern of theorists, or of modern-day asexual and aromantic activists; instead, it has been a thread through gay liberation from the roots of the movement.
What is Aesthetic Attraction?
Through these realizations, understanding aesthetic attraction may transform how a person understands their identity in relation to others.
Asexuality/Aromanticism and Autism: two sides of my same coin
I omitted the explanation that I am asexual and aromantic, but I didn’t want to enter into a discussion with a professional that could pathologize me further, especially with the queerphobic atmosphere I perceived, so I let it be.
What Could Happen?: Autism, Aromanticism, and the Problem with “Social Skills”
Looking back, I understand it better now. I was being taught how to be “attractive.” And I was being taught how to be alloromantic and straight.
Biromantic Demisexual Masculinity Software Release Notes
Masculinity™ is a prescriptive software platform that allows the user to socially establish, both internally and externally, their identity as “male” in their private and personal lives.
The Double Edged Sword: Being Asexual and Arospec at Christian College
School was great in some ways, but it wasn’t easy being ace there.
Aromanticism in times of asexuality
And, let’s be honest, if you think about queerness in pop culture, you probably mostly think about queer romantic subplots, as if that is all that there is to being queer.
Alice Oseman and the Revolutionary Power of the Platonic Love Story
Georgia does not experience romantic or sexual attraction, but she is not loveless
Why Amatonormativity Matters
How can one unlearn ideals that they don’t even know they have?
Aceing Agender Relationships
This heteronormative overly sexualized subconsciousness is damaging even for cisgender people.
Siren Seeking Sailor
You may hear that us sirens eat the bodies of the shipwrecked. Many do. I've simply never found it appealing.
attraction detracts
I wish attraction and wanting to have a significant relationship weren't so inextricably linked together, and the latter wasn’t assumed to fail without the presence of the former.