#aceweek2018

It’s Asexual Awareness Week and I want to try an experiment. 

Ever since June, this blog has been posting pictures of aces spotted at Pride events, in order to show that we exist and we belong.  Now I want to show where we exist, namely, that we’re everywhere.

Here’s what I want to do:  I’m going to start with some blank maps and I want to fill them in.  But I don’t just want to color in the states or countries when someone says “I’m in Nebraska!” or “I’m in Lichtenstein!” or wherever.  I want pictures of visible aceness in all of these places.  Ace flags at famous monuments, demi t-shirts on the street, gray-ace chalk markings at Pride, that sort of thing.

I’m going to need your help for this.

Here’s what I need you to do.

Grab an ace, gray-ace, or demi flag or acey clothing of some kind.  (It’s okay if the flag is printed or hand drawn!)

Go outside.  If you can go to a famous landmark or nice view of some sort, that would be great, but you don't have to.  A local park would be fine, even the sidewalk in front of your house would be okay in a pinch.  (If you already have a good picture, you can just send that in.  If you don’t have or can’t take a picture, an artist’s rendition of what it would be like to take an ace flag to someplace awesome in your local area will be suitable.)

Take a picture of the aceness wherever you are.  You don’t have to be in the picture if you don’t want to, but some visible ace symbol has to be.

Submit the picture to acespotting, putting your state/province/country in the caption.  You can do that here:  https://acespotting.tumblr.com/submit  And make sure you give me your location, since that’s the point of this experiment!  Province/Territory in Canada, State/District/Commonwealth/Territory in US, and Country anywhere else.  (If you’re logged in, your username will be associated with the picture, so if you don’t want that, you can either log out or use an “Incognito” or “Private” browser window to submit anonymously.)

I’m also going to need your help to track down aces in obscure places and convince them to participate.  California will be easy.  Nunavut will be hard.

I’m hoping that we can completely fill the Canada/USA/Mexico map by the end of Ace Week.  I’d also like to get at least half of Europe filled in.  And as amazing as it would be to get every single country on the world map represented, I think I’d be happy to get something on every continent.  (Who knows someone in Antarctica?)  And if your place isn’t really on the map (Like, say, Puerto Rico...), send something in anyway and I’ll get it added.

Enough talking.  Let’s get these maps filled in!

Things You Should Know About Asexuality

Here’s a little video I made for Asexual Awareness Week.  Feel free to share it with your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, local corvids, and anyone else who should know a few things about asexuality!

The official NYC Pride account retweeted my video on asexuality.

Now it’s starting on Tuesday.