Happy Last Day of Ace Week!
Happy Ace Week!
I know it's the last day, but due to Long COVID among team members and technical difficulties, we weren't able to get to you sooner. Ace people are valid, are loved, are wonderful. The ace umbrella includes lots of kinds of gray-ace. I myself am gray-ace and have found the umbrella concept very useful for me as I find myself shifting farther away from "pure" asexuality. Positivity and validation posts are important, but I also want to take a moment to focus in on crises our community is facing, because ace people are everywhere. We missed posting on Disabled Aces Day earlier this week because we were too unwell to get it set up in time, because of eugenicist "let it rip" policies on COVID that have (further) disabled our team. Did you know the Centers for Disease Control has found that lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals are at higher risk of COVID-19 infection?: https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/cdc-releases-report-confirming-lesbian-gay-and-bisexual-people-at-greater-risk-of-covid-19-illness-calls-for-more-data-collection Bisexual and transgender people are at higher risk of Long COVID than cishet people and cis gay men and cis lebians: https://www.them.us/story/long-covid-trans-and-bisexual-people-healthcare-disparities . I can't find any data on ace people's risk! I've looked extensively. I am also thinking of ace Palestinians as Israel commits genocide in Palestine as I type. Palestinians don't need to be queer to deserve our support, but queer Palestinians by their very existence dispel homonationalist myths perpetuated by Israel and other settler-colonies that back it such as the so-called United States. Ace Palestinians in particular destabilize homonationalism through their very existence. Queer and Palestinian, and queer-in-a-way-other-than-gay and Palestinian, their existence shakes false dichotomies to their cores. Understandings of asexuality vary from culture to culture, language to language, ethnicity to ethnicity. To advocate for the preservation of ace community in all its variations and freeedom to be ourselves in all our variations is to advocate for the preservation and freedom of the Palestinian people.
As Ace Week comes to a close, please practice queer community care by masking to protect each other from COVID, especially when taking action for Palestinian liberation.
Take some time to think what it means to be in global ace solidarity in this moment, especially from the Anglosphere, especially on Turtle Island. Asexuality is not a made up tumblr distraction from these crises. Our asexuality means that we are in connection with ace people everywhere. It is not a distraction; it is a point of connection that we must use to build solidarity. Asexuality and Ace Week aren't distractions from life and death crises: they're purple, black, gray and white threads tying us together. None of us are free until all of us are free. None of us are safe until all of us safe. How do you want to finish your Ace Week?
















