#alove

Because it still bothers me that people use A-spec like it only means asexual, here’s a list of all the identities under the a-spec umbrella. If I missed one, please tell me and I’ll add it.

scrolling through posts on multiple platforms on aroace day is hell. 'they still love their friends' WRONG 'they still love their family' WRONG 'they still feel love' WRONG 'they still form deep connections' WRONG.

can we please get more representation for everyone who is afamilial, aplatonic, asensual, anaesthetic, and/or alove/loveless? can we please stop forgetting that the a in lgbtqia+ stands for them too?

It's not that I don't want pride to be about love, or that I think "love is love" is a bad sentiment or anything. It's that I think pride should be about more than just love. It should also be about self-discovery. About understanding. About acceptance. About fighting for our rights, fighting to be respected and allowed to exist in society as we are without the fear of being ostracized or hurt for it. I want that respect and understanding to be based on all my being, and not just a hypothetical romantic partner I may or may not have.