Doodlerbird

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Paying homage to the colours in this film and its concept art, it’s all so vibrant and vivid and I love it

doodlerbird

Look at this! The boys look so swoopy and I want to swim in these waters too.

bakedbananners

Proud fish dad 🥺

doodlerbird

Suddenly obsessed with this movie and the art people are making of it. This is A+ material right here.

a-spec-tacular

I think one of the most important things we can do, as we move beyond the initial surge of “ace dis/course”, is begin documenting our community history and circulating that information.

We are a community that’s been damaged, and we will need time and work to heal. A lot of folks came into the community during years of intense strife, fear, and growing shame.

Now, the community is beginning to pick itself back up again. We’re poking our heads out of the closet, and looking around to see if the dust has settled.

In the wake of all that’s happened, it’s more important than ever to talk about where we’ve come from as we decide where to go.

We come from a deep sense of community, from supporting and uplifting one another, and from a place of establishing traditions and finding meaning and connection in our experiences. Let’s talk about that, revive what we can, and move forward from a place of hope for our future and love for our past.

nextstepcake

We already are! Just off the top of my head, here’s some places to start, if you are interested in educating yourself on asexual history (but there’s also so, so much more than just this):

If you’re interested in asexual history, I would recommend checking out the Carnival of Aces on Asexual History as one place to start.

If you want to read a great academic review of early ace community history, you can check out chapter four of this masters thesis. 

Nat Titman (who was very influential in early ace community building and helped write a lot of early AVEN materials) has a transcript of their 2012 London worldpride talk that is also very informative.

See also several videos from other ace conferences: on ace and aro zines as history and community building from the 2019 NYC conference, and History of ace communities part 1, part 2, and part 3 from the 2014 Toronto Conference.

Hexaquark also made a visual timeline of early ace community history.

For more on asexuality in news media, the AVEN wiki has some cool places to start with pre-2000 and 2000s media collections.

The asexual bibliography, which collects research on asexuality, also includes some older works.

For a history of ace history, this article is kinda neat,m and you may be interested in some of the bloggers highlighted.

Also, if you are interested in starting up something more organized, or just want more people to geek out with, try checking out the asexual history interest group mailing list - while it’s mostly inactive at the moment, there are still new people joining every month, and I bet you’d find a lot of people interested in further projects if you shoot out a few messages.

yelenas-lova

just to be clear, the fact that music was nominated for a golden globe is absolutely disgusting. every single (adult) involved in that gross, ableist movie should be sickened by themselves.

for those of you who don't know, music (2021) is a movie being directed by sia about a nonverable autistic girl. not only does it not include any actually autistic people in the movie itself but it also only took advice from autism speaks which is looked at as a hate group by the majority of the autistic community. leaked scenes have also shown the movie glorifying prone restraints which are incredibly dangerous and have resulted in major injuries and even death to disabled people as recently as last year.

autistic people just like me have been incredibly outspoken about how harmful this movie is but the allistic have been mostly silent. we are already seeing reviews calling this movie 'inspiring' and important' and it's absolutely horrific! we need your help calling this out. please stand with us and call out this disgusting display of disrespect to autistic folks.

💛 - your local actually autistic pal

p.s. please, please reblog if you aren't autistic.