Han O'Flanagan is a PhD student in English Literature at Lancaster University, UK, working on asexuality in Gothic literature.

CLSR PhDs Isobel, Kristin and Charlotte are convening this workshop! Check it out and send your abstracts👇👇

Less than 1 week to submit an abstract to the European Geographies of Sexualities Conference! 📣 Deadline: 16 March. If you research sexualities/LGBTQ+ and space/place, you're more than welcome! MORE INFO and to submit: sites.google.com/view/egsconf... Pic: EGSC in Brighton 2024. 🌈🎓

Happy 25th Birthday AVEN! Thanks to everyone who contributed to our community over the years, whether through our forums, our other social media, our conferences and our wonderful volunteer teams!

We are going live with the Aspec Podcast!! Join @jancheta25.bsky.social, Heidi from Aurea, and Willow from the @aroaceresearch.bsky.social network for a really important discussion about amatonormativity! www.twitch.tv/tyeewhyee/

Did you know that My Fair Lady was never meant to be a love story? We had a great event yesterday discussing aromanticism, love stories, and the aro/ace origins of My Fair Lady with @jtwelsch.bsky.social and @kristin-kaeuper.bsky.social!

Today we observe the second Soul Ace Day. Created by Kimberly Butler, Marshall Blount and Alyshia Rodgers, Soul Ace Day celebrates the activism, art and culture of african american asexuals. acedadadvice.substack.com/p/celebratin...

Looking for your hot takes on love ❤️‍🔥 What have you learned about love by thinking about aromanticism? 🤔

What starts after Valentine‘s Day? Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week! Find out below what we can learn about love from aromanticism 👇

Why Aristotle would hate Valentine's Day❤️🕯️🥀 Janset Özün Çetinkaya and Ian James Kidd explain why and lay out the Greek philosopher's five steps to true love. Read: tinyurl.com/k7wvusyh @uk.theconversation.com #philosophy #love #romance #ValentinesDay #ValentinesDay2026

I presented a new PhD output at the Marginalised Ruralities conference today. Queering the trope of ‘settling down’ in the countryside by thinking about the lesbian home-making (and home-sharing!) practices I encountered during fieldwork & putting forward the concept of ‘queer rural domesticity’.

It's been a year since we launched our Ending Conversion Practices campaign, last Valentines Day. Billboards across Scotland showed our campaign highlighting the harm & heartbreak that conversion practices cause. Nobody should be made to change or suppress who they are or who they love in Scotland.

Only a few tickets left, for what should be a very fun #AroWeek event @thebookishtype.bsky.social with my talk on My Fair Lady, then conversation about aro/ace representation with @kristin-kaeuper.bsky.social, founder of @aroaceresearch.bsky.social

Am Sonntag geht es los mit einer vollen Woche an Aro Week Events🐸💚 Wir freuen uns sehr endlich das fertige Programm veröffentlichen zu können! Merkt euch Termine vor und kommt schon auf den Discord Server ✨ #aro #aromantic #arospecawarenessweek #AroWeek2026 #aroweek #aspecgerman #arospec #aspec

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The 2026 NWSA Aro/Ace sponsored CFP is now up! Please complete the Google Form by February 20, 2026, 11:59pm PST to be considered for the panel! Please share widely! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Excited to see you in Atlanta, Maya

Call for Papers, please circulate! Ethics of queer in/visibility Heidelberg, September 30 - October 2, 2026 queer-in-visibility.de Keynote speakers: J Calder (Linguistics, University of Colorado Boulder) Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social (History, University of Warwick)

Sex and relationship advice can send messages that limit what aspec people can aspire to and ask for in relationships.

Some interesting thoughts on labelling sexuality and medicalising asexuality in here! (around 34min)

Interesting read on the different (sometimes conflicting) functions of identity labels!

Introducing: Dr Silja Kukka Silja is a researcher in Literature and Gender/Queer Studies at the University of Oulu, Finland, who works on #fanfiction and #asexuality.

"When you are constantly bombarded by romance in everyday life, it can feel as if love as an asexual person is not good enough."

Introducing: Rachel Bayer @rachelbayer.bsky.social is a Geographer at University College Dublin, Ireland, working on asexualities and queer geographies, and compulsory sexuality.

The Love Tank is co-producing the Queer Health Survey, the UK's first inclusive health survey of queer communities. Ace and Aro people are urged to take part, and you must be 18 or over and in the UK. forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Join us to celebrate #Aromanticism Awareness Week and #QueerHistoryMonth in Leeds! Date: Thursday 19th February 2026 Time: 7-9pm Venue: The Bookish Type, Leeds thebookishtype.co.uk/products/sho...

Introducing: Dr Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social is a cultural geographer and queer theorist at Tampere University, Finland. They work on queer and film studies, platonic relations, ‚nonsexualities‘, emotion and affect, and geographies of sexualities.

New publication out by Sven Walter and Kira aus dem Bruch that explores affective injustice through the ways Aces are „otherized“ by our culture of allonormativity - congrats! doi.org/10.1007s1140...

I'm looking for male-identified (cisgender or transgender) asexual people who also identify as gay for an exploratory research project. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This conversation with aspec sex educator Aubri Lancaster @acesexeducation.bsky.social was a really enlightening one.

Happy Holidays from the Aro/Ace Research Network! 🎄

The holidays are a time for love, happiness, and our favourite cheesy #Christmasromcoms 🎄 But they often reinforce questionable ideas about #love and #relationships. So should we stop watching them? Find out here 👇

In a world where emerging sexualities are dismissed as “made up,” “online-only,” or “Western inventions,” seeing ace identities emerge across continents is a reminder of what so many asexual people already know: Asexuality is everywhere. Read more about the ace findings here:

📅 January 5–7, 2026 📍 Victoria College 🎥 In person/livestreamed What does it mean to do asexual history? This three-day conference bridges early modern studies and asexuality studies to explore compulsory sexuality, disability, race, and queer histories. 👉 More info crrs.ca/crrsevents/e...

Very interesting developments but sadly still no data on asexuality! 📊 The "other" category increased from 0.7% in 2019 to 1.1% in 2024 though. 📈

Some of our network members attended the workshop “On Asexualities: Crossdisciplinary Perspectives” at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social Berlin last weekend: laurin.tirpitz.me/event/acewor... A huge thank you to Laurin Tirpitz and Ela Przybyło for organising such a fantastic event!

Read 10 oberservations from the On Asexualitues conference by @lukebrunning.bsky.social here 👇

Want to avoid reinforcing compulsory sexuality in your research? Catch up on asexualities and aromanticism research with Megan Carroll and Maya Wenzel in the newest ASA journal, Sex & Sexualities. #asexual @mcsociology.bsky.social @acefeministmaya.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Introducing: T.N. Hutchinson T.N. Hutchinson is a PhD researcher in Literary Studies at the University of York. They work on decadence studies, aestheticism, and Victorian/Edwardian literature.

The Diversity Reading List in Philosophy also has great general philosophy resources - go check them out! @diversityread.bsky.social is an amazing project dedicated to diversifying and decolonising the philosophical canon.

Not many philosophical texts engage with asexuality & aromanticism, but here are some philosophical publications by @lukebrunning.bsky.social and @nmckeever3.bsky.social:

Today is World Philosophy Day! 🧡💛🤍🩵💙 Here is why philosophers should care about the asexual and aromantic spectrum (aspec) 👇

Introducing: Dr Helena Esser @helenaesser.bsky.social is an Independent Scholar in Germany. Her area of research is Victorian and neo-Victorian gender and popular culture, with specific publications on steampunk and Ouida.

Introducing: Claudia Sterbini @claudiasterbini.bsky.social is a PhD Researcher at the University of Edinburgh, working on the construction of stigmas of asexuality in nineteenth-century sexology and literature.

Introducing: Wenmei Bai Wenmei Bai is an Independent Researcher in Geography working on queer geographies, asexual domesticities, and queer/asexual futurities. She is part of the network organising team and will help with the newsletter & communication!

The Aro/Ace Research Network has a new organising team! Thanks everyone for volunteering and we‘re looking forward to see what we can achieve together - many exciting plans to come!

Introducing: Dr JT Welsch @jtwelsch.bsky.social is Director of Liberal Arts and Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Industries at the University of York. He works on asexuality, creativity studies, creative industries, creative writing, queer history, and creative-critical practice.

I'm so proud to share my first asexuality research paper with @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social as their Visiting Fellow! We investigate public attitudes towards asexual people, unearthing some concerning (and some hopeful) findings! 💜🤍 Check out the paper: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/asexual...

Delighted to have worked with leading asexual campaigner @theyasminbenoit.bsky.social on this new research. Our experimental study suggests misconceptions about asexuality may be common, and that asexual people are likely to face greater hostility than other groups www.kcl.ac.uk/news/asexual...