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Thank you to everyone who participated! It was amazing to see all your wonderful gifts and creations, we hope that you had as much fun during this event as the mods did, and we will see you next year for another great event!
A special thank you to our back ups who really stepped up and delivered for us @alwaysbelievand@thepalestcowboy we really appreciated your help! A special shout out to @12timetraveler for their help with the secret santa too!
- mods Hyde and Jay
The Return of @ReclaimYourVoice || 2012 was the first time I stepped away from my photography work to simply enjoy life and my blissful relationship with Paul. Even the idea of @reclaimyourvoice had been shelved because although I felt like it was something I would attempt again at some point in the future, I didn’t have the drive to make it happen anytime soon due to the toll the first one had taken on me.
That summer, Paul introduced me to his friends and among these gifted, conscious poets I found my soul family. I met @freemase@missbrittab@_nattybynature@xvxyphoto@dream_manifestation_specialist@7am1r@lighthaus.i@morgan124875and@randelladjeiwho had coincidentally founded @rise_edt a mere four days after the first @reclaimyourvoiceevent.
I was so amazed by this group of people that I decided to host another Reclaim Your Voice event with two major changes: the first event had been for women only but after meeting these wonderful men I felt I needed to involve them. I strongly believed that women who’d been abused needed to know that kind, caring men like these existed. And this time around I would incorporate spoken word poetry as well because through the work of these artists I came to see what a powerful medium it could be for self expression.
Many more people showed up at the second Reclaim Your Voice event. I was concerned, however, that the women who would be sharing their personal stories of abuse might feel uncomfortable having men in the room. Instead they were overjoyed to see them there, these men who were willing to listen and learn and support. That in itself provided a sense of healing. The spoken word poetry added another level of depth to the event and I was so grateful for the way things were coming together.
Then@Randelladjei stood up to share his poem, but instead of doing so, and inspired by the women he’d just heard share their stories, he spoke for the first time about the abuse he had experienced in the past. In that moment @ReclaimYourVoice stopped being an event solely for women and became a place where all people who had experienced abuse or sexual violence could share their stories.
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Welcome to the seventh edition of #AggressivelyArospecWeek!
#AggressivelyArospecWeek (#AAW) is a week-long event promoting the creation of arospec fancontent by arospec creators. (Arospec = on the aromantic spectrum. If you’re currently questioning whether you are yourself arospec, please feel free to join as well.)
Our event aims to create a space where arospec creators are free to explore their identities through fanwork. We believe that fandom is a great way to share our passions, our interests and to empower one another in our arospec identities. All while having loads of fun!
Please join us from June 19 to June 25 2022 and enjoy a small explosion of arospec fancontent on you dash. Bring it to other people’s dash and help our community share its stories!
You’re welcome to submit any type of content for the event, whether it be fanfic, headcanons, mixtapes, fanart,… Really anything goes!
Any content you submit must be centered around a character’s arospec identity (whether that character is canonically arospec or you headcanon them as such.) Content can be about any fandom whatsoever!
To submit, please make a new post between June 19th and the 25th and tag it as #AggressivelyArospecWeek. You can also submit your work directly to our blog through the askandsubmission boxes. Your post will then be shared on the Aggressively Arospec blog.
We also have a Twitter account, so use the hashtags #AggressivelyArospecWeek and #AAW22 if you tweet about your work on there. You can also mention us in your tweet (@ AArospec) to be sure we don’t miss it and can retweet it. Please, do submit through tumblr if you can though! That is the best way to get your contribution archived with all the others.
Lastly, a collection will be opened on Archive of our Own to round up all the fanfics posted on there. Just search for “Aggressively Arospec Week ‘22″.
We can’t wait to see what you have in store for us this year!
(For more information, check out our About page or our FAQ section. If you need some inspiration, you can also check out the content that was created during out previous events in our #AggressivelyArospecWeektag.)
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