Small Cat

What’s covered in this new flag is already covered in the original. More importantly, we don’t need to emphasize on love in order to affirm our experiences as true. That’s just my opinion as an alloace person. The yellow stripe is the only added meaning I can get behind since a lot of queer discussions— be them on Tumblr or on other social media platforms— are largely dominated by white americans. Some of whom could really stand to learn what intersectionality is.

At the same time, people are worrying too much about it “replacing” the current flag. Whether or not that’s the intention isn’t a concern to me because I don’t think it’s going to happen. I still see people using two aroace flags floating around, the original and the black-and-blue one. But usually, it’s the original. That sort of change isn’t happening overnight. These same worries happened when the Philadelphia Pride Flag was revealed, and evidently that did not happen. What did happen was racist backlash against a flag literally designed to confront racism within Philly’s queer spaces. People still rep the usual rainbow pride flag, Gilbert Baker’s pink-and-lavender pride flags, the Progress Pride flag, etc. People have options, the Philly Pride Flag being one of them. I digress.

Personally, I won’t be using it because I like the current asexual pride flag as is. The only addition to this proposed one I like is the emphasis on multiculturalism and intersectionality. Otherwise, there’s not much else I’d consider. No one’s obligated to use it either. I’m sure y’all know that, but I think folks are getting worked up over something that they ultimately won’t see outside of social media for a while. And if they do, they’re still going to see the current one in usage as well. Why? Because very self-contained online discourse over a single flag isn’t going to undo what people are already familiar with.

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