Butons by Riotcakes icons!

So I was browsing Etsy and came across Riotcakes, a store which had some really iconable queer and feminist buttons, so I decided to go ahead and make those icons!

I don't mind about being credited myself, but please do credit the original artist!

Sample:


( Icons through the cut! )

Aspec article ideas up for grabs

So, since coming to terms with being possibly aro/ace, I’ve found myself looking more critically at the amount of a-spec relevant media produced by general LGBTQIA groups and blogs, and overall I’ve been… not impressed. I always had a feeling that a-specs were overlooked, but when being a-spec is possibly my full identity, it really can’t be ignored.

My main issue honestly is that a-spec identities are just never afforded the same depth that others are. People can write five-part essays about lesbian fashion, but a-specs rarely garner a mention beyond the occasional ‘asexuality exists!’ 101 article. (And aromantics are lucky even to be mentioned in that.) But there is just so much to the aspec experience - our lives are just as complicated and deep and contadictory as anyone else's! And this oversimplification of asepc existence - this treating of aspecs as 'boring' or one-dimensional or otherwise unwarranting of in-depth thought - is part of how aspecs are dehumanised, and how oppression of us is justified.

So, to try and combat that in at least some small way, I thought I’d write up a list of topics relating to a-spec identity or experience which I’d love to read more articles on, which may serve as inspiration for others if necessary:

( This is...VAGUELY ordered. Sometimes. A bit. Mostly stream of consciousness, though. )