Ace advocacy means:

-validating different types of relationships & not having sex be the defining factor of relationship health/romance/love
-listening to academic and autoethnographic research both
-fighting anti-intellectualism so we can deepen conversations about amatonormativity

7 / 7 🧵

Ace advocacy means:

-trans rights bc your gender does not have to be defined by others’ attraction
-trans rights bc ppl’s reasoning for acephobia sound just like transphobia
-trans rights bc one of the side effects may be infertility & ppl are cruelly exclusionary to the infertile

6 / 7 🧵

Asexual advocacy means:

-caring for widows and divorcees who left dangerous situations
-making more time for community outside nuclear family
-gay marriage rights because repopulation and gender roles isn’t how you measure love
-trans rights cuz you do get to choose yourself

5 / 7 🧵

Asexual advocacy means:

-ending genocide
-alleviating pressure on genocide survivors to HAVE to repopulate as much as possible to make up for immense tragic loss
-decolonizing religion so we stop prioritizing & idolizing marriage/repopulation as THE way to know Love
-deconstructing purity

4 / 7 🧵

Asexual advocacy means:

-ending misogyny that declares “she was asking for it”
-ending toxic masculinity and freeing healthy masculinity
-believing sexual assault survivors
-equality and friendship across genders so we actually understand one another better and feel less alone

3 / 7 🧵

Asexual advocacy means caring about:

-reproductive rights
-informed and inclusive sex education
-fighting censorship as even books by asexuals are still considered “pornographic”
-ending conversion therapy & corrective rape
-therapy that focuses on actual recovery of actual issues

2 / 7 🧵

E il "devi ricordarti come funziona l'Italia" dimostra solo come molte persone non vogliano far uscire il Paese dallo stallo economico e culturale che ci affligge da anni.