🚨BREAKING: Filton 4 sentenced as terrorists Amnesty opposes the use of terrorism powers in this case. The defendants in today’s case were sentenced as terrorists because prosecutors want to make an example of them. Today's decision shows how direct action protesters could be treated in the future

Shoutout to the devastatingly resonant zombie apocalypse short story “Lovesick” by Taka Owen in BEING ARO. I really felt the dialogue in this one like a gut punch, and deeply relate as an aromantic. 🖤🩶🤍💚

This visual comic of Murtaza’s words details his experiences of claiming asylum in the UK on the basis of his sexuality. For Pride 2026, we have commissioned this illustrated representation of Murtaza‘s story by Aleesha Nandhra: buff.ly/aCvX0a1

Still buzzing from our @aroaceresearch.bsky.social talk! It was such a pleasure to reflect with @joejukes.bsky.social on why we love geography, and share some of our work with such an engaged audience. If you'd like to learn more about Asexual Geographies, check out our co-written article here:

🌈 We're here, we're queer, and we're trying to put together a third anthology of aromantic SFFH 🌈 Featuring 18 stories and poems with aromantic MCs! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c... #PrideMonth #indiebooks #TBB

Think you might be asexual, or just curious about the ace community? @finleary.bsky.social has you covered: www.scarleteen.com/read/ident...

Society often assumes romantic relationships are the most important ones in our lives, but that's simply not true. Volunteer T. Aquila debunks this idea and has tips for pushing back on it in your daily life. www.scarleteen.com/read/relat...

Did you miss our must-reads the first time around? Get your pride on with Scarleteen classics (and find so much more on our website)!

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ I want to focus on solidarity, community, kindness, and (fittingly) grace this month, after a lot of disappointing (though not surprising) discourse lately. We need to be better than that. More thoughts in the caption of this image on Instagram. For now: new flag! 🖤🩶🤍💛🩷💜

To those who want to celebrate but can't for various reasons - remember, you're not alone. And I wish that someday we, too, will have the opportunity to live peacefully and happily just as we are and with those we love. 💛

Introducing the first of our short stories featured in Common Bonds 3: You, Me and the Sea by Lucie Mason! Absolutely great approach to the mermaids' song from an aro lens~ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...

As this Pride Month begins, I’ve been thinking back to last year. To the meaningful, sweary, & deeply earnest things Con said about queer pride & community, which are so important for us all to really hear, but also to one thing in particular... “Be the fucking person you needed growing up.”

Today is Being Aro's pub day! SQUEEEE! There's a book tour beginning today, but that's not where it ends! If you want to see the part of the book tour where I'll be participating, please register and tune in for tomorrow's stop! 3 PM Eastern is my time. :) www.crowdcast.io/c/beingaro

Lexy Hudson’s latest, “a stunning debut fantasy romance”, follows a decades-spanning asexual love story set in the beautiful yet fickle world of ballet. She shares its journey from idea to book shelf - it's out tomorrow via @titanbooks.bsky.social. britishfantasysociety.org/from-pen-to-...

When I write f/f romantic fiction: "Uhhh that's super weird, why would you write gay stuff? Aren't you asexual?" When I write an asexual character: "Why are you people obsessed with yourselves? Can't you write something that's NOT just shoving your sexuality in others' faces?" Can't win I guess.

Confidential to the folks who think "Golden Age" SF/F writers would be sad about current SF/F writers' lack of excitement over "AI": Why would you think the generation of writers who founded SFWA to defend the rights of working SF/F writers would somehow be cool with the plagiarism machine?

For Nakba Day 🍉 Please check comments to support my friends 💜

Great thread. ♥️ I’m thinking about that trope terms of what was being asked of Grace in Project Hail Mary (which thankfully isn’t the ultimate message of the film), alongside Stranger Things, Squid Game 3, and Nosferatu (with nuance bc at least Ellen had full agency while others were cornered).

This is something I love about anthologies—there is a variety of voices and experiences, and they are in conversation with each other. The opening and ending pieces shape the conversation.

I'm 15 years old, our flamboyantly gay English teacher is walking around the classroom depositing dog-earred copies of Wuthering Heights on each desk. He says, "I hope all of you have been in love at least once by now, otherwise you won't get this book." My asexual ass glances around the room...

Unsolicited writing advice, no 1. Whatever other reasons you may have to write, never lose sight of your joy. Joy is enough of an end in itself.

New month, new art challenge... welcome to #TransArtMay! To start us off, a reworking of an older drawing I was never quite satisfied with. Dedicated to anyone who has ever thought about shedding their skin and starting over 💜

I cannot over emphasise how important this action is. Most MPs don't know this is going on, and by the time the guidance is laid it will be too late. Make sure you email your MP now – and encourage others to do the same.

I need more people to know about the OG zombies!!! It’s ALWAYS been that deep!

Every argument for AI is like "don't fear change!" and "everyone expects this" but what if the wild innovation cutting edge I'm on is abandoning AI as old and outdated for the new, forward-looking, much more sophisticated use of my human brain cells.

OKAY SO I’M NOT CRAZY (I already knew that, but it’s gratifying to see an ally help pull the weight on educating other allos and validate it) When I saw faces I recognized from the ace creator community on tiktok I got nervous but this guy’s cool and actually backing us!! youtu.be/2BAlupTg_VU?...

Happy Asexual Visibility Day 2026! Today on the site we're celebrating Asexual Visibility Day (aka International Asexuality Day) as we do, with books starring asexual main characters or about asexuality! For even more recs, check out last year's post. Children's Love Looks Like Lola by Cory…

Happy International Asexuality Day! To no one's surprise, most of our 2024 respondents were ace, but we welcome people from every sexual orientation to fill our survey. The full report and the most recent translations are available in our bio.

Happy #InternationalAsexualityDay! This is a day for celebration, advocacy, education and solidarity with everyone who falls under the ace umbrella in the #LGBTQIA community around the world. 3 fun facts...

Happy #InternationalAsexualityDay! 🖤🤍💜 We're celebrating all the amazing asexual people in our community! There's no one way to be ace, and everyone has the right to be themselves and live a life free from violence, abuse and discrimination.

It's international Asexuality Day and we're sending love to all of our asexual team members, community members and supporters. There's a really useful simple guide to what asexuality is (and isn't) at www.lgbthealth.org.uk/asexuality where you can learn more.

The UK is a bit of a state 🫠 Take 5 mins to tell us why in survey ✍️ https://goodlaw.social/yi0x

Today is International Asexuality day! International Asexuality Day is marked every year on the 6th April, to educate about, celebrate, and show solidarity with, people who identify in the ace spectrum, including demisexual, grey-asexual and other ace identities.

The two truths: 1) There is nothing wrong with porn, let people safely make it, let people safely enjoy it. 2) If you let people define porn as bad, authoritarians will ALWAYS expand the definition until their hands are around your neck.

Happy International Asexuality Day folks!! Julia Sondra Decked coined the term “invisible orientation “ to refer to asexuality in 2012, and this still very much applies even today, almost 14 years later, especially in regions outside North America and Western Europe.

It's International Asexuality Day today! Inspired by my experiences of coming out as asexual, I have written a zine which provides an introduction to asexuality for those newer to this invisible sexual orientation. Download it here (enter '0' to get it for free): ko-fi.com/s/446bca3822

Hey fellow asexual! In case you haven't checked our A.C.E. app yet: We offer asexual, (a)romantic and physical preference filters, as well as all the regular and lifestyle filters. Incognito mode, no swiping and much more. 💜 #aceday #asexualityisreal #internationalasexualityday #asexualpride

Too many people lack awareness of asexuality and the experiences of asexual people, that can make it hard to be out. "Even though I'm out as trans, being asexual often feels more difficult to talk about. Not many people know about asexuality if they aren't active in LGBTQ+ spaces." Charlie

In our manifesto, we are asking parties to commit to ensuring that LGBTQIA+ people are a key group of consideration when developing policy and practice related to improving living standards. To read more about our manifesto, visit: www.equality-network.org/wp-content/u...

Happy Ace Day! Visibility and representation are so incredibly important across the board, and our stories deserve to be told Keep reading, keep writing, keep sharing them 💜🖤💚

Today is #AsexualVisibilityDay, also known as International Asexuality Day, which is celebrated every year on the 6th of April. Interested in learning more about #asexuality, building up the courage to come out, or want to support a loved one?

Watch the stream and interact with us on YouTube! Due to YouTube’s limitations, we had to split the stream on different links. Find them here- linktr.ee/IADofficial JOIN THE STREAM, SHARE THE HYPE! 🍰 🔥

ACES NEVER SLEEP - ABOVE AND BEYOND! IAD'S 24-hour livestream IS BACK, even longer this time! Yup, it’s official. We’re a bunch of overachievers. Last year we had 24 hours of advocacy, celebration, education and solidarity. A stream lasting a whole day, across borders, timezones and countries.

24 HOURS LEFT TO BACK 'PHANTASMS & PHENOMENA' Our Kickstarter campaign wraps up in ONE DAY! There's still time to back us and help bring fifteen aspec stories to life (or afterlife 👻 ) Support your local asexual ghosts, aromantic werewolves, and aspec cryptids today! Link to back in the 🧵 💚🖤💜

The 'Aces Never Sleep' live stream is in full swing over on YouTube, come along and join us at 10 UTC / 8pm AEST / 6am EDT for the Ace Literature panel as we talk asexuality in books! 💜🖤💚

Man, you ever think how lucky we are to have BOOKS? And how no matter how fast we read or how long we live, we will never run out of fantastic books to read? What a life

I am absolutely delighted to share that I am one of 10 people to be receiving a Decadal Award in a couple of weeks! It's incredible to think that a lot of my work focuses on LGBTQ+ inclusion nowadays. Learning that I'm asexual has really changed my life - personally and professionally.