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November TAAAP Pride Chats – Writing

The November TAAAP Pride Chat will focus on writing. We were inspired by both the October activism conversation, which discussed the need for more writing on aspec identities and experiences, and by NaNoWriMo (https://nanowrimo.org/). This includes fiction and nonfiction, writing from participants and writing we admire, explicit and implicit aspec representation.

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October TAAAP Pride Chats – Ace Week and Activism

There will be two October TAAAP Pride Chats: one focusing on Ace Week and one chat on activism. As usual, anyone can come to these chats; they are not limited by identity. Also, we now have a community page on DreamWidth, to provide a platform that may be more enjoyable or accessible than Discord. You can go here to participate on DreamWidth: https://taaappridechats.dreamwidth.org/.

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Workshop at Careers in Sexuality Conference 2020

On October 2, 2020, TAAAP will be presenting an online workshop on the identity development of ace and aro people at the Careers in Sexuality Conference. Our workshop will be from 2:30-3:30 Eastern Time. It is directed towards educators and therapists, but will have useful information for anyone who wants to learn more about aromanticism and asexuality. The home page for the conference is here, and you can reserve tickets here.

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August 2020 Pride Chats – Education and Inclusivity in Schools

In honor of back-to-school for a great deal of the world (even if this year it’s mostly virtual and a little different than usual), the TAAAP Pride Chats’ topic for August will be sex education, inclusivity in schools, and education about aro and ace identities. We’re specifically focusing on what sex education should cover and how it can be improved, how aspec people can be included in school environments, and how to increase awareness and understanding of asexuality and aromanticism.

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The Ace and Aro Advocacy Project’s Statement on Police Brutality

The Ace and Aro Advocacy Project stands in solidarity with all the protesters around the country and the world, demanding an end to the state-sponsored violence against those who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color. We condemn police brutality in all its forms, as well as the prison industrial complex that over-punishes and mass-incarcerates the most marginalized and most vulnerable members of our society.

We remember that our movement began, not with a “peaceful protest”, but with a riot. During the first Pride at Stonewall, fifty-one years ago, queer people of every orientation, gender identity, and race, led by trans women of color, stood together against the police violence in our community. Just as we protested the violence against the disenfranchised then, we still stand together to call for the end of over four hundred years of assaults against Black communities and individuals.

If you would like to support the protesters or try to help change this broken system, consider contributing to ActBlue’s community bail funds, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Equal Justice Initiative, or Black Lives Matter.