February is a special month, as it includes Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week! We’ll leave the server open from Sunday, February 18 at 10am Eastern to 11:59pm Eastern Saturday, February 24. (That’s 3 PM GMT Sunday through 5 AM GMT Saturday)
Although it is ASAW, we welcome anyone, aro or not, to join us. Also, you can obviously feel free to expand beyond the topics posted each day – this is meant as a useful starting point.
February is a special month, as it includes Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week! We’ll leave the server open from Sunday, February 20 at 9am Eastern to noon Eastern Friday, February 25, with a break in between to recharge as mods before the regular October TAAAP Pride Chats on February 26 – February 27.
Continue reading “February ’22 TAAAP Pride Chats – ASAW and Crafts/Creativity”Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week begins on February 20th, 2022, but the work for it begins now! In 2021, for the first time, six places in the United States recognized ASAW: DC, Colorado, Michigan, Washington, Virginia, and Minnesota!
We can keep this momentum going – the process for requesting your state to recognize ASAW is fairly simple, and we at TAAAP are here to make it even easier, including a template for submission as well as details on how to submit in every state in the links at the bottom of this page. Submitting a proclamation request to your governor or mayor is a 5 step process:
Continue reading “Aro-Spectrum Awareness Week Proclamation – 2022”As we get ready for a new year, let’s think more about our beginnings! The theme for December’s TAAAP Pride Chat is How you discovered your aspec identity. This can be anything from learning about the identities in the first place, to the journey of self-discovery that many of us are still on; after all, many people don’t just discover one aspec identity but continue to redefine themselves over time. It can also be a good time to discuss any doubts or roadblocks in coming to terms with your identity.
Continue reading “December ’21 TAAAP Pride Chats – Discovering Aspec Identities”This month’s topic is something that many of us connect to very deeply – Building Community. We’ll discuss both what that looks like for individuals on a personal level as well as how ace and aro communities can work to build and support members.
Continue reading “November ’21 TAAAP Pride Chats – Building Community”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.
Continue reading “October ’21 TAAAP Pride Chats – Ace Week and Masks and Costumes”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”.)
Continue reading “September ’21 TAAAP Pride Chats – Being Aspec in the Workplace and Choosing Where to Be Out”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.
Continue reading “August ’21 TAAAP Pride Chats – Intersections with Other LGBTQ+ Identities”Representatives of The Ace and Aro Advocacy Project were featured in prominent news publications several times during Pride 2021, discussing asexuality, aromanticism, and how we celebrate Pride!
Continue reading “TAAAP in the News”
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.
Continue reading “June 2021 TAAAP Pride Chats”