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.
growing up aromantic
i don’t get it. logically, conceptually, i understand it.
To reclaim simplicity
I didn’t make it complicated, someone else decided that simple things did not include me.
Vol. 3, Issue 3: Aromanticism
AZE features the creative expressions of aro-spectrum authors for its aromanticism issue. Authors explore and critique how romantic expectations constrict our lives and relationships.
"love with no body"
And yet, at the same time, wanting it didn’t involve my body. No physical desire to speak of. It was never a necessary component. I just wanted to be close.
Aesthetic Attraction Is Poetry
I'll love you / and paint / your rainbow beauty / in a thousand words / or less.
STOPLIGHT
Every boy I’ve wanted to love
is a map I’ve torn before arrival
because I worried they’d leave me roadside when I say
this is the farthest I want to go.
Leaving Manhood
However, since I lacked the language to explain my desires, I felt shame for not having those experiences. Because having sexual and romantic relationships proves one’s masculinity to others, I never felt accomplished as a person.