Treat Black Women With Respect Even When They Arent Palatable To You

Treat Black women with respect even when they arent palatable to you

Treat Trans women with respect even when they arent palatable to you

Treat Sex workers with respect even when they arent palatable to you

Treat Lesbians with respect even when they arent palatable to you

Treat Latinx women with respect even when they arent palatable to you

Treat Native women with respect even when they arent palatable to you

Treat Disabled women with respect even when they arent palatable to you

Treat Muslim women with respect even when they arent palatable to you

Treat Jewish women with respect even when they arent palatable to you

Treat Fat women with respect even when they arent palatable to you

Our bodies are not for you, Your allyship should not hinge upon wheather how digestible our words or actions are to you

🌈 It's okay to be romance repulsed.

💛 Being romance repulsed doesn't make you heartless or evil.

🐥 Romance is not the height of human connection, and romance repulsed people aren't "missing out."

🌻 We all have different ways of relating to people, especially those we care about, and that's okay.

☀️ Romance repulsed people don't need to change. They're perfect as they are.

⚡Romance repulsed people's boundaries, especially around romantic topics, deserve to and need to be respected.

🌙 Amatonormativity is an extremely prevelant construct in our society, and it hurts those who are romance repulsed.

⭐ Romance repulsed people are important members of the LGBTQ+ community, and deserve much more recognition than they receive.

🍋 Romance repulsed people are valid no matter their orientation, whether they're aro, demiro, grayro, apothiro, or any other orientation.

🌈 Having pride is for romance repulsed people too, and it's important to support and uplift the pride of romance repulsed people.

hey if you’re disabled or chronically ill & have a hard time standing i want you to know that it’s ok to sit down when able bodied people wouldn’t or aren’t. not just in the context of using a wheelchair but just like. whenever. pull up a stool in front of the stove when you make mac & cheese. kneel on a chair in front of the sink when you’re washing the dishes. going outside to smoke/wait for a cab/whatever? pop a squat on the sidewalk/curb/stoop. get a shower chair. it’s not weird or shameful to minimize your pain & it’s not worth wasting spoons just because “normal people would do it standing up”

TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN!!!!

Doesn't matter if they had surgery or not.

Doesn't matter if they plan to have surgery or not.

Doesn't matter if they're masculine or feminine.

Doesn't matter if they're out or not.

TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN NO MATTER WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE.

Y'ALL HAPPY AROSPEC AWARENESS WEEK!

Being on the aromantic spectrum means that you experience little to no romantic attraction.

The term aromantic can be used as an umbrella term for all arospec identities:

Aromantic

Greyromantic

Demiromantic

Frayromantic

Aroflux

Arospike

Lithromantic

Quoiromantic

Cupioromantic

And many more...

For more informantion about these identities:

https://lgbta.wikia.org/wiki/Aromantic_Spectrum

LGBTA Wiki

Aromantic Spectrum

The Aromantic Spectrum or Aromantic Umbrella is a group of romantic orientations that all fall under the umbrella term of aromantic. People

Arospec people can still be in a romantic relationship or in a queerplatonic relationship or in a sexual relationship or honestly whatever sort of relationship they choose to be in, all of these can be with 1 or multiple partners but they can also do none of those things.

A common misconception is that aromantic people also "have" to be asexual, this is not true. Being aromantic has nothing to do with your sexual orientation so arospec people can still basically be any sexuality.

For example: aro lesbian, aro gay, aro bisexual, aro ace, aro pansexual, aro omnisexual, aro heterosexual, aro polysexual...

This does not mean that allosexual aromantics are sex obsessed or sex addicts!

They can be but being aromantic doesn't equal sex addict.

Aromantic people can be:

- romance repulsed

-romance neutral

-romance favorable

And to finish it I would to remind everyone that:

Arospec ppl are part of the lgbtqiAp+ community!!!

Do you have any tips on how to be more supportive/inclusive of loveless aros?

Drop completely the concept that love is something that makes us human, that it’s something we need, that it’s something everyone wants.

Be very careful of thinking aros need to be more loving or love their friends more or anything like that to “make up for their aro-ness”. A. there’s nothing to make up for because aros aren’t lacking in anything, but also B. that just isn’t every aro person’s experience. Some aros do invest a lot in their friends, but not all. And they don’t have to. Not all aros are close to other people. These aros need to be remembered too.

Be aware that aro or not, some people have a hard time connecting to other people or even feeling love at all. And there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s especially common for neurodivergent people to sometimes have trouble connecting to other people or feeling emotions the way neurotypical people do. Sometimes people who are dealing with trauma also have trouble connecting with, or don’t feel like they love, other people.

On that note, be wary of the concept that there’s any kind of morality to how someone feels love. Morality comes from how we treat people and how we act, internal feelings we have no control over isn’t someone’s morality.

I haven’t seen this in a long time but it used to be common for ace stuff, especially outreach stuff to say ‘but we can still love’ to appeal to heteronormative sensibilities. This hurt all aros, but especially loveless aros. Definitely do not do that and push back against it when you see it.

So I’m not a loveless aro myself, and it’s possible there are more things that could be done to be inclusive that I either haven’t thought of or am not doing. I definitely encourage you to look up what loveless aros say on the subject as well and see if there’s other things you can adopt.

And just a note if anyone wants to know what loveless aro means, the lgbta wiki has an entry on it.

All the best, Anon!