Happy Xenogender Visibility Day! I Love Y'all And Y'all Are Valid As Fuck!!

happy xenogender visibility day! i love y'all and y'all are valid as fuck!!

Why ace and aro activism is still needed (Cw//aphobia + one mention of transphobia which is marked so that part can be skipped)

These are all things I’ve seen said recently about ace or aro people. Many of these come from Yasmin Beniots Instagram account.

- people still believe that being aro or ace is equivalent to being a sociopath

-Still considered a medical disorder in many places

-In many places it is not legally recognized as a romantic or sexual orientation, meaning it can be harder to charge aphobia fueled hate crimes as hate crimes and conversion therapy for asexuals isn’t recognized as a form of conversion therapy

-the idea that an ace or aro person can be “fixed” by someone is still very prevalent

-ace and aro people are still called groomers (just look at some of the responses to Jaden animations coming out)

-people still believe it just straight up doesn’t exist

-religion is used to look down upon us as “our purpose in life is to get married and reproduce”

-people believe that we’re making it up because we “have no game/cant pull”

-the idea that aroallo people are predators or other things along those lines (especially towards aroallo men)

-people still believe that heteroromantic asexuals and aromantic heterosexuals are “just straight”

-people still believe that asexuality and aromantism are the same thing and erase the identities of aroallos and alloaces

-(Cw// transphobia) and one of the wildest theories I’ve seen popping up lately, which I literally can’t even put into words so I’ll just put a comment from Yasmin Benoit that an aphobe left: “After 9 years of pushing ‘affirmative care’ Stonewall needs a way of explaining young people who have no libido and cannot function sexually” or another comment which says “Frankenstein gender medicine damages or destroys sexual function. That’s why asexuality needs to be normalized 🚩”. Essentially they’re saying that transitioning ruins one’s ability to be sexual and that asexuality was an excuse made up to hide that.

People who deny the existence of aphobia are ignorant. I have had people message my mom saying she’s going to hell for supporting me. I’ve had queerphobes with speakers and microphones follow me and my friends around at pride screaming at us that we’re going to hell. I’ve had people time and time again try to erase my identity, telling me I haven’t found the right one, and other things like that. Just because the discrimination we face isn’t the same as, for example, what a lesbian may face doesn’t mean our discrimination doesn’t exist.

https://www.tumblr.com/lailashaqoura/751169831487799297/donate-to-help-them-to-survive-organized-by-ahmed?source=share

Please help us by sharing the post on your page so that we can collect donations and get out of the war. You are our hope. I will be very grateful to you . ❤️🙏🏼

unfortunately i can't donate but i hope that the people who are seeing this post can donate and help you. i hope i can help you by sharing this. i've already shared your pinned post and i really hope everyone will donate and help you get out of the war. i'm really sorry for all you've been through and for the fact that the governments aren't helping you, but never forget that there are lots of people who support palestine and that want y'all to be free and to be happy and live a normal life. i promise you isnotreal will pay for all the things they've done to you and your people. from the river to the sea, palestine will be free! 🇵🇸🍉. i hope my words have made your day a lil better and that you'll get out of that situation as soon as possible. ❤️

This brave Palestinian journalist in Khan Younis shares his work with his dog which did not leave him during the hard times..

He says: “This dog starved and dehydrated when I starved and dehydrated due to the lack of food and water in #Gaza. So that, I feel its pain which is similar to my pain.”

please, let's deromanticize kissing!

can we deromanticize kissing or are we still too deep in amatonormativity for that conversation :/ ?