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October ’21 TAAAP Pride Chats – Ace Week and Masks and Costumes

October is a special month, as it includes Ace Week! We’re trying an experiment this month, where we leave the server open from Sunday, October 24 at 9am Eastern to noon Eastern Friday, October 29, with a break in between to recharge as mods before the regular October TAAAP Pride Chats on October 30- October 31.

The Ace Week theme this year is Beyond Awareness, which will be the theme for that week. Even though it is Ace Week, we welcome anyone, ace or not, to join us. The general October theme, in honor of Halloween, is Masks and Costumes: How you use various symbols to show Pride in your identity, or how you conceal your identity.

If you choose to share your super (hero or villain) identity, we cannot promise that it will stay hidden.

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September ’21 TAAAP Pride Chats – Being Aspec in the Workplace and Choosing Where to Be Out

In honor of both the American Labor Day on September 6 and World Beard Day on September 4, the TAAAP Pride Chat will focus on being ace or aro in the workplace, and particularly on how to determine how out to be with your identity. Anyone is welcome to discuss both their experiences in different workplaces, as well as their experiences choosing not to come out or to be closeted in different environments.

(While World Beard Day is a celebration of facial hair on people’s chins, we are also using the common slang for beard, as “a different gendered person dated to cover a same-gendered orientation, often as a way to keep from coming out or staying closeted”.)

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August ’21 TAAAP Pride Chats – Intersections with Other LGBTQ+ Identities

This month’s topic is how ace and aro identities intersect with other LGBTQIA+ identities! This can cover anything from other orientations and identities of yours, to how you participate in LGBTQIA+ communities (or don’t), to how you show allyship. While this topic centers around personal experiences with other LGBTQIA+ identities, the Chats are open to those who are ace/aro/aspec without necessarily identifying as LGBTQIA+ in any way. 

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Careers in Sexuality Conference Workshop

Developed by members of TAAAP for the 2020 Careers in Sexuality Conference. This workshop discussed the ways in which asexual and aromantic people develop and embrace their identities.

This presentation has been adapted so that it can be used by others. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) License (plain text | legal text). If you would like to use this in a presentation where you are being paid to present or some other use outside the scope of this license, please contact us at [email protected] to ask for permission. It may not be presented at the Creating Change conference without permission.

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June 2021 TAAAP Pride Chats

TAAAP Pride Chats

Pride 2021

Happy Pride 2021! This month, in honor of Pride 2021, TAAAP will be hosting two long weekends of discussion, with six different topics.

The overarching topic for the full month is Pride, and we welcome anyone to discuss how they feel or express Pride, and how they feel connected to their ace or aro identity. In addition, everyone is welcome to discuss any topic below on any of the days, so if you are limited to coming on specific days, you can still engage on any of the topics!

The Chats will be open each day from 10 am Eastern through 1:00 am Eastern Daylight Time. (That’s 2 PM GMT through 5 AM GMT.) We will schedule the voice chats when people are available and want to in the server.

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May ’21 TAAAP Pride Chats – Leisure

As many of us start being able to engage in more in-person activities safely, this month focuses on the kinds of and ways that we enjoy leisure activities, and how being aspec might impact those activities. This can be anything from the entertainment we consume, to the people we spend free time with, to the decisions on when to go out vs. stay in, to the activities one might do alone that are expected to be done with a partner of some kind.

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Creating Change 2021 – Helping Professionals

Developed by members of TAAAP for Creating Change 2021. This session was a chance to hear about the levels of knowledge and types of assumptions therapists and doctors sometimes make about ace and aro identities, then discuss personal experiences with barriers to accessing counselors, doctors, and other healthcare professionals who are knowledgeable and properly inclusive about ace and aro identities. Some time in the session was dedicated to brainstorming the best ways for aspec individuals to receive affirming and competent care, as well as brainstorming avenues for educating these care providers.

Because it included personal information from participants, the transcript is general notes of the topics discussed rather than the full record.

This presentation has been adapted so that it can be used by others. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) License (plain text | legal text). If you would like to use this in a presentation where you are being paid to present or some other use outside the scope of this license, please contact us at [email protected] to ask for permission. It may not be presented at the Creating Change conference without permission.

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Creating Change 2021 – Intersections

Developed by members of TAAAP for Creating Change 2021. This session explored how aspec identities intersect and interweave with neurodivergence, disability, and gender.

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