Artsygaystuff - Just An Artsy Gay

just a reminder that if a person of color tells you that something you do is racist it is in your best interest to listen to them and self crit rather than argue with them if you truly want to be an ally, if you’re really committed to the struggle, listen to the voices of poc who go out of their way to educate you and stop fighting them lmao

Let’s talk about the fabulous aromantics out there

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A hidden-message ring, from the 1830s.

Mmmm. There’s a lot of posts telling ace people that it’s okay to want and have sex and telling aro people that it’s okay to want and be in a relationship, and those are great and important and true but also.

It’s okay to never want to have sex. It’s okay to never be okay with sex, to have a completely sex-free relationship, to never feel comfortable having sex because you’re partner enjoys it, to never find any sort of joy in sex.

And it’s okay to never want a serious relationship. It’s okay to not want to date and it’s okay to want to spend your life single. It’s okay to never be in a serious romantic relationship and it’s okay to never be in a serious platonic relationship and you never have to have a romantic or platonic partner no matter what anyone says.

It’s okay. You’re okay.

[ID: The business handshake meme. A person on the left, labelled “amatonormativity unfairly devalues many different kinds of love”, shakes hands with a person on the right, labelled “it’s okay for aros to not feel connected to any kind of love”. Their hands are labelled “ideas that can coexist and support each other”. End ID]

Mushroom measuring spoons (from cracker barrel)