Welcome (back!) to Aggressively Arospec Week!

The people at #AggressivelyArospec are delighted to bring you this event for the second time!

#AggressivelyArospecWeek is a week-long event that aims to promote the creation of fancontent relating to the aromanticism-spectrum by arospec creators.

Have you ever felt, as an arospec person, that fandom was only interested in romance? That it didn’t care about arospec characters? That it didn’t care about your own experiences? Well, WE care. WE are interested.

From June 19 to June 25 2017, submit your fanfictions, fanarts, fanvids, headcanons, playlists,… that feature your favorite arospec characters by tagging them as #AggressivelyArospecWeek (in the first five tags). They can be characters who are canonically arospec or that you headcanon as arospec, from any fandom whatsoever. The point is for arospec people to give themselves the representation they deserve and get an opportunity to share it with others, but mostly it’s also to have fun! We can’t wait to see what you all can come up with.

“Am I Arospec?” PowerPoint for Arospec Awareness Week.

Transcript below.

I made my pride flags (asexual, aromantic, agender and nonbinary)

The concept of “special snowflakes” or even further than that, the “your identity is canceled out by other facets of it” is the same.

Claiming invisible identities have “straight (conditional) privilege” and then saying they ought to be treated as/practically are straight because of that “privilege.”

Seeing identities devoid of any attraction or genders that….don’t have any gender, and saying they are “just straight,” or “just cis,” because wow, default.

Claiming some identities are invalid because “everyone is like that,” basically establishing a norm and saying everyone functions that way (showing the belief of a default in the first place.)

The one in particular I see most, the claim that other non het orientations can’t “un-straight you,” because only being gay can apparently. Because obviously everyone is simply straight and un-straighted.

The prejudice against m-spec people as “traitors” or some such drivel because they are “half het,” or that “opposite” gender partnered ones are straight with a twist.

The prioritization of the cis default in the language they choose (such as “SGA,” And the concept of “straight passing privilege,”) and binary view of attraction, where you’re either gay or you’re straight, regardless of your actual identity.

An example in context: