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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks for the fantastic questions!

Since it is Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein opening weekend, AND there’s going to be an Ace Week soon in October, here’s more on my Gothic thesis + WIP “Aromantic Frankenstein.” 🖤🤍💚

#HorrorWritersChat

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AVEN @avenofficial.bsky.social · 2h

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Clifford to deliver Invited Faculty Lecture on asexuality studies - Hastings College

Dr. Cat Clifford, associate professor of English, will give an Invited Faculty Lecture titled “Neither Subject nor Object of Desire: An Introduction to

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Fox (any pronouns!) 🦊🌙 comms 2/3 @divinevulpes.bsky.social · 23h

All of these commission slots are still available! I'd love to make some creepy-cute art for folks this month!! 💖

Fox (any pronouns!) 🦊🌙 comms 2/3 @divinevulpes.bsky.social · 2d

Opening up three (3) Halloween-themed skeb-style commission slots to make a lil extra money this month! These are pay-what-you-want, artistic liberty; you send me a reference, you get a surprise piece of art c: guidelines for price -> product are in the listing!

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Halloween-themed skeb-style comms!

Commission available on Ko-fi.com

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Rosiee "Captain" Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · 1d

ITS A BAT DAMN TIME! 🦇⚰️🩸

Dead & Breakfast is out today! Vampires Arthur and Sal just want to live a quiet retirement running a B&B, but when the mayor is found dead in their garden, they must solve the crime to prove their innocence!

Get your copy: www.rosieethor.com/dead-and-bre...

Rosiee (white, nonbinary, short curly brown hair, octagonal glasses) wearing a sun hat and overalls with sunflowers on them and holding a copy of Dead & Breakfast.

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Lynn Saga🏳️‍🌈✨ @lynnsaga.bsky.social · 1d

How is it 2025 and people still don't understand that people on the asexual spectrum can have sex🤦 like would y'all go around telling people they aren't gay because they had sex with the opposite gender before they came out like really think about it before you say something ignorant

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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 2d

Your daily reminder that Indigenous people predated Columbus in the “new world” by — wait for it — 23,000 years. #IndigenousPeoplesDay 🪶🪶

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AVEN @avenofficial.bsky.social · 2d

But we encourage everyone to join in, whether or not you can donate. Another way to help is to spread the word.

The livestream will take place via YouTube.
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How Aces Win: Reflecting on Key Victories in the Ace Movement

YouTube video by AVEN Livestreams

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AVEN @avenofficial.bsky.social · 2d

We’ll also be using the occasion to raise money to secure AVEN’s future for the next 2 years and allow important upgrades to our software: see our fundraiser.

www.gofundme.com/f/aven-needs...

Donate to Help keep AVEN running for the next two years!, organized by AVEN Project Team

For almost 25 years, AVEN has been working to help ace and aro people… AVEN Project Team needs your support for Help keep AVEN running for the next two years!

www.gofundme.com

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AVEN @avenofficial.bsky.social · 2d

This year we are planning to hold a livestream on Sat 18 Oct to mark the occasion, and the start of Ace Week, and to reflect 25 years of Ace Activism. The livestream is entitled How Aces Win, and will feature AVEN Board members Yasmin Benoit and David Jay among others.

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AVEN @avenofficial.bsky.social · 2d

This year is the 25th anniversary of Haven for the Human Amoeba, the first major online forum for the discussion of asexuality, which preceded AVEN.

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 3d

People celebrating a win: we made a movie with asexual representation about a queerplatonic love!

The comments, for some reason:

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Jen Wang @jeniverseabr.bsky.social · 3d

This is a really good thread that touches upon the aphobia in the queer community because asexuality challenges some folks' idea of sexuality and their personal battle to be accepted.

Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 4d

Happy coming out day. I’m a genderqueer biromantic asexual. Most often this is someone’s punchline or ignored entirely, because people assume I am a woman married to a man.

There’s a lot wrong with that assumption and the effects!

But the worst is usually the way people react to the asexuality.

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Cody Daigle-Orians @codydo.bsky.social · 6d

No matter what happens at SCOTUS, conversion therapy for asexual and aromantic people will still be perfectly legal and culturally accepted. And that has to change,

We won't end conversion therapy without ending it for aspec people, too.

The Supreme Court's consideration of Chiles v. Salazar is a good time to remember aspec conversion therapy is still a perfectly legal practice everywhere.

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flynn the seal 🦭 ⋮ fundraising for wdc @flynntheseal.bsky.social · 3d

trying something out...

selling some of my products on my @ko-fi.com ! the higher price reflects the true cost of the products inc. materials, time spent making etc.

so if you'd like to support me a lil bit extra 🥹

will be doing some ko-fi exclusives too + b-grades!

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Visit flynn the seal's Shop!

I've opened a shop. Come take a look!

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matthewspalmer.bsky.social @matthewspalmer.bsky.social · 4d

I've just launched my (very bare bones) website!

Subscribe to read the first chapter of my YA/New Adult Contemporary Fantasy with an Asexual Protaganist.

Updates and previews coming soon!

#QueerWritersChat #QueerWriters #writesky #writers

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The Portal Bookshop @portalbookshop.bsky.social · 4d

Asexual bouquet! I still don't quite know what merited flowers but happy bookshop day to us I guess :)

An asexual bouquet of flowers, with white, off white, Imperial purple and deep purple flowers

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Ace Community Survey Team @acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social · 4d

Today is the National Coming Out Day.

Find out how "out" our 2022 ace respondents were to different groups.

#asexual #asexuality #ace #acecommunitysurvey #demisexual #demisexuality #graysexual #graysexuality #NationalComingOutDay

53.1% of aces were out to all their current partners, while 26.1% were not out to any of their partners. Almost a quarter (23.0%) of ace respondents were out to all their ex-partners, and 45.5% had not disclosed their ace identity at all to their ex-partners.
29.9% of ace respondents were out to all people in their household, while 22.9% were out to all their parents. Few ace respondents (5.2%) were out to all other family members.
The majority of ace respondents were out to either all (45.5%), most (28.4%), or few (17.4%) of their LGBTQIA+ friends. Slightly more than three quarters (78.5%) of ace respondents were also out to at least a few of their non-LGBTQIA+ friends.
Ace respondents were rarely out to counselors (17.9% to all, 62.4% to none) teachers and school staff (2.4% to all, 81.6% to none), coworkers (3.8% to all, 69.5% to none), and medical professionals (6.6% to all, 68.9% to none).

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Fox (any pronouns!) 🦊🌙 comms 2/3 @divinevulpes.bsky.social · 5d

Update: water heater is dead, $2400 for a new heater & installation :')
I'm hoping I qualify for a decent financing option. For now I'm keeping the goal at $1k, but may change it if need be. Thank you again for all the support so far 💖

Fox (any pronouns!) 🦊🌙 comms 2/3 @divinevulpes.bsky.social · 5d

No goal until I know $$ amount better but just for reference water heater repairs/replacements can run up into the thousands. I'm sure they'll offer a payment plan but I'd like to not be several more thousands in debt if I can help it.

Link for now if you want to donate: ko-fi.com/divinevulpes

Support Fox

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Gayming Magazine @gaymingmag.bsky.social · 5d

So many RPGs promise queer inclusion... but where are the ace stories? 🖤🤍💜
@miladyconfetti.bsky.social explores why asexuality deserves to be told intentionally, not just left to headcanons.
Read the full piece: buff.ly/JIgw4dm
#GaymingMag #Asexual #Gaming #Queer

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Ell Huang 🖤🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 5d

“Frame your life — the life you love — in the language they use to frame theirs.”

Cody Daigle-Orians @codydo.bsky.social · 13d

Getting people to fully accept and affirm your happily single life can be a challenge.

"I'm perfectly content being single. How do I get my friends to believe me?"

There are strategies to get your friends to respect your happy single life.

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Ace Community Survey Team @acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social · 5d

Today is World Mental Health Day.

As part of out 2022 survey, we asked about the mental health diagnosis that applied to our respondents.

#asexual #asexuality #ace #acecommunitysurvey #demisexual #demisexuality #graysexual #graysexuality #mentalhealth #worldmentalhealthday

Over one third of ace respondents (36.2%) reported having been diagnosed professionally with an anxiety disorder, 31.1% with a depressive disorder, 14.8% with ADHD or ADD and 10.4% with autism spectrum.
Similar percentages of ace respondents reported having been professionally or self-diagnosed with PTSD (8.6% professionally diagnosed, 8.3% self-diagnosed), OCD (4.8% and 5.0%, respectively), and any personality disorder (2.4% and 2.0%). In contrast, around twice as many ace respondents had self-diagnosed with an eating disorder and behavioral addiction (9.0% and 2.9% respectively) than had been professionally diagnosed (4.8% and 0.8% respectively).
Under 5% of ace respondents had been professionally diagnosed or self-diagnosed with bipolar disorder (1.9% and 0.8%, respectively), a psychotic disorder (0.9% and 0.7%, respectively), substance-related addiction (0.6% and 1.6%, respectively), and HSDD or SI/AD (0.1% and 0.6% respectively).

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 5d

I only have a few copies left of Have it All and Give it All with the ✨original✨ covers.

You can order both on kofi or etsy!!

I also have sticker/bookmark bundles on kofi!!

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#booksky #sapphic #lesfic #asexual #kofi #smallbiz 💙📚

Visit Beverly's Shop!

I've opened a shop. Come take a look!

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Soulbly @soulbly.bsky.social · 6d

The split attraction model (often abbreviated as SAM) is transforming how people understand, express, and identify their experiences of romantic and sexual attraction.

Particularly important in the asexual, aromantic, and broader LGBTQIA+ communities Read More: soulbly.com/split-attrac...

Understanding the Split Attraction Model (SAM)- Full Guide

Discover the split attraction model—how it separates romantic and sexual orientations, empowering individuals to better understand and express their identities.

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Aspec*German @aspecgerman.bsky.social · 6d

Die wunderbare Sonja Weichand wird uns im Rahmen der #asexualawarenessweek einen kleinen Einblick in ihr kommendes Werk "Die größte Erfüllung“ geben!

#ace #aceweek #aceweek2025 #asexual #asexuell #aspec #acespec #aspecgerman #activism #aktivismus #events #queer #lgbtqia #pride #awareness

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