In honor of Women’s History Month, we’ve published an article highlighting the experience of women, women-aligned, and feminine-aligned ace people: https://taaap.org/2022/03/26/ace-women/
Thank you to all our contributors!
[ID: “I wish [allos] knew that just because women are asexual, it does not correlate to religion, purity culture, or what society has told us.” - Jasmine. “I’m white, which means that it’s easy for my asexuality to be read as “purity” that must be “protected,” a privilege that non-white ace women don’t have access to. In order to be a good ally to all in the ace community, I have to actively disrupt the way white supremacy has always wielded white women’s purity as a favorite weapon.“ - Brooke. "When I finally began to define myself as ace, I didn’t question or change my gender identity, but it did make me feel more comfortable about where I was.” - Jessie.
“Society often views feminine people as not being interested in sex as "the norm,” often leading people to believe that the label is just me trying to be a “special snowflake”. When really, that statement is both factually wrong and invalidating.“ - Kaye. "A recent viral tweet challenged Mexican women not to "hit the wall” at age 22, as if we have to stay consumable.“ - Tori R. "People often don’t take my asexuality seriously, because they think that the only reason I haven’t had sex is because of religious celibacy, while in fact, asexuality and not experiencing sexual attraction play a big, possibly even bigger, part in that.” - Passant. End ID.]
