Projects – Page 4 – The Ace and Aro Advocacy Project

February 21, 2021February 23, 2021

Creating Change 2021 – Race and Aspec Identity

Developed by members of TAAAP for Creating Change 2021. This session discussed how white supremacy, colonialism, and compulsory sexuality impact the ability of racial minorities to claim and find joy in ace and aro identity. It also covered how the aspec community has perpetuated racism and how it can move forward towards inclusion, justice, and healing.

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February 21, 2021February 21, 2021

Creating Change 2021 – Amatonormativity and Relationship Anarchy

Developed by members of TAAAP for Creating Change 2021. This session focused on understanding and deconstructing amatonormativity, with a critical examination of monogamy as a patriarchal, sex-negative, capitalist, colonial, coercive institution. It also looked at ways to resist society’s amatonormative expectations in our lives and our communities, such as through relationship anarchy.

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February 11, 2021March 14, 2021

February ’21 TAAAP Pride Chats – ASAW and Amatonormativity

This February, we’ll have two Pride Chats – one focusing on Aromantic-Spectrum Awareness Week on February 21-22, and another on amatonormativity, relationship anarchy, and poly-a relationships on February 27-28. As usual, anyone can come to these chats; they are not limited by identity. We will be open from 9:00 am to 11:59 pm Eastern each day we host the chat.

January 23, 2021January 23, 2021

Creating Change 2021

TAAAP is proud to present several sessions at the Creating Change conference for the fourth year in a row, with Aces and Aros and the Aromantic-spectrum Union for Recognition, Education, and Advocacy, including a workshop, caucus, and the first-ever Day-Long Institute! This year, because it will be entirely virtual, nobody has to travel at all to join us. Also, the registration fees this year have been reduced to $50, or pay what you can. You can register here: https://www.thetaskforce.org/creatingchange/register.html. The dates are Friday, January 29-Sunday, January 31.

We plan to upload session materials and transcripts, though only of the informational parts and not of any personal audience information, for many of these sessions after the conference.

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021

January ’21 TAAAP Pride Chats – Hopes and Resolutions

This past year, 2020, has been a difficult year for many of us for many different reasons. The January TAAAP Pride Chat will look to the future to think about hopes and resolutions for 2021. These can be for aro and ace communities at large, or personal. Let’s start out the year thinking positive!

December 19, 2020December 23, 2020

December TAAAP Pride Chats – Models of Attraction and Orientation

The December TAAAP Pride Chat will focus on models of attraction and orientation, including the SAM (Split-Attraction Model), as well as understandings and models of orientation that do not center attraction, and any other potential ways of understanding attraction and orientation. We at TAAAP support any person using any kind of model, or no model at all, to identify their attraction or orientation. We also will require that all participants in the conversation respect others’ personal choices and feelings surrounding any particular attraction and orientation model or lack thereof, including people who object to there being a binary of SAM and non-SAM. This discussion will explore why people use the SAM, use something else entirely, or use none.

November 19, 2020November 19, 2020

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.

October 16, 2020October 16, 2020

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/.

September 18, 2020September 18, 2020

September TAAAP Pride Chats – Platonic Attraction

The September TAAAP Pride Chat will focus on platonic attraction and its spectrum, including aplatonicism and its inclusion in the aro and ace communities. Some members of the ace and aro communities find the experience, or non-experience, of platonic attraction to be a defining part of their identities.

August 18, 2020August 20, 2020

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.