AVENUES
JANUARY - MARCH 2021
WIN TER 2021
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LETTER FROM THE EDITORS
AVEN turns twenty years old in March 2021! This issue is all about celebrating AVEN and asexual visibility. We heard from a lot of aces through AVEN and our social media. Honestly, the response was overwhelming! We are so glad to have all of you in the ace community. Remember that all asexual people are valid and accepted here. Keep up the good work! Make sure to keep an eye on AVEN and AVEN’s social media for updates on other anniversary events. scarletlatitude Editor in Chief HAVE A COMMENT FOR OUR EDITORS? FILL OUT OUR “LETTER TO THE EDITORS” FORM! HTTPS://FORMS.GLE/ZNFQRTXBSH5U9TBI8
EDITING TEAM Editor in Chief: scarletlatitude Layout: kikuka Co-editors: kikuka, scarletlatitude, Kimmie BENEVOLENT PT OVERLORD: Puck
CREATIVE TEAM kelico, MichaelTannock, ben8884 CONTRIBUTING WRITERS/ ARTISTS Kelly, Custard Cream SPECIAL THANKS TO: Interview: kelico, OptimisticPessimist, skyworld, Ben8884, Iam9man, Will, Purple Red Panda, Mizzletoe, ryn2, Tunhope, Anonymous, Midland Tyke, Kimmie, Tja
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REMINISCING OLD AVEN BY KELLY AVEN is twenty years old! It has grown so much in that time. I found AVEN perhaps the same way many others did—by surfing the ‘net and stumbling on a forum about asexuality. Way cool, I thought. I lurked for a while and finally joined in May 2005. I was the 4052nd member. That was huge! It had over four thousand members then. AVEN has over 130,000 members now. Then, as now, just a small fraction of AVEN’s membership were active members. And the active members knew each other. We had threads for “The Person Above Me”, where someone would post a fact about the poster above them, and then someone would post a fact about them. That is because we really did know each other, even if we never met. But we did have meetups. Since there seemed to be few enough of us around, we would travel and meet each other. I ended up traveling to New York, Las Vegas, Cape Cod, Argentina, Europe, Asia, Australia, and other places to meet other AVENites. We now have a huge section of the forum dedicated to meetups. I became part of the team in 2006 after winning a Moderator election. Soon after, I was a temporary Administrator, because there was a repeat of the 20/20 episode where several AVEN members were on TV discussing being ace. At the time, it was a novel idea. The rerun of the show boosted our membership, and we needed all hands on deck to handle the new members. I became a permanent Admin soon after. But much of that work went to deleting spam accounts that would join each night by the dozens. Coleslaw eventually updated the software to block the spam accounts. When a member reached 1,000 posts, they would be in the Atrix. It was just a label, but we had stories of the underground maze, the Minotaur that lived there, and the snack bar hidden somewhere in the Atrix. With 500 more posts, one would finally get out of the Atrix. Not everyone made it. One memorable incident that occurred early in the AVENverse that would probably not be allowed today was that two popular members—Jesh (the bunny) and ghosts—swapped names. That
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AVEN eventually became ten years old. We were no longer new anymore—we were becoming mainstream. There were now Asexuality conferences around the world, asexual characters in fiction, medical recognition that asexuality was not a disease or a problem that needed fixing. And we have a lot of other forums for and by asexuals. AVEN continued to grow. I and others in AVEN have more online friends because of it. AVEN seems a bit different now than in the olden days, but it is still my favorite hangout. We had themes and memes. At times, many of us were characters in Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog. We had places in AVEN known as Qqaazzakhstan and Qqaazztralia. Another time, many of us changed our avatars to cheese, and Daleks, and cheesy Daleks. Did you know that the AVEN forum used to be all purply, with a bit of pink? We also had a thread for transmen and transwomen. Then about ten years ago, Teagan started a thread for nonbinaries and such, called TransWhatevers of AVEN. It quickly grew to the most popular thread. That spawned a TransYada forum of its own. AVEN didn’t always have a Board of Directors or a Project Team. We used to not have a report button, so Moderators had to stumble onto issues to handle. We used to have just a few threads and categories. These continued to grow. We now have a Gender Forum, a Gray Area, Intersectionality, and other new forums. We did not always have an asexual flag. But ten years ago (2010), we had a contest for it. We voted on the candidate flags, and the flag that one has been used worldwide ever since.
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TELL US HOW AVEN (OR ASEXUAL AWARENESS IN GENERAL) HAS IMPACTED YOU. AVEN has helped me realise that I wasn’t alone. - Anonymous It’s given me a place a certain comfort in perspectives. Even if knowing that it exists - Robert
to find others similar to myself. There’s finding people who share traits and you aren’t active within a community, is powerful.
AVEN has made me realize how normal I am. I’ve always felt like a fish out of water when it comes to this subject, as I’ve never met any other asexual people. Now I have a community, now I have answers I had long sought concerning my romantic orientation, and now I can share this information with my family and friends. - Emily Workman For me, AVEN has helped me come to terms with not only my asexuality, but also my aromanticism and gender. AVEN has provided me with invaluable resources that have helped me an incredible amount, as well as given me the ability to connect with others like me. For this, I am forever grateful. - Anonymous Discovering I am asexual, especially as someone in already in their early-mid thirties, was probably the most significant personal discovery of my life. It hasn’t impacted me so much in terms of my day-to-day, but it has given me an encouraging sense of clarity. I can now live on my own terms, regardless of how the world would expect me to otherwise. - Osiyo Waya My sister and I are both part of the asexual community (I’m Demi and she’s Ace). We both felt a little different growing up and AVEN has been so helpful in both of us finding ourselves. - Priscilla Asexual awareness has enabled me to put into place all the conversations that I could not quite understand and had to be careful how I took part in them. It has enabled me to Q uestions
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understand that there are other people who completely relate to my view of relationships. - Alison Asexual awareness has impacted my life a lot, from finding out about asexuality to being a part of my life and something I’m working on. If it wasn’t for sites like AVEN, I would never have found out that asexuality existed and probably would not have realized that I am, in fact, asexual. Since discovering this about myself, I’ve tried to make this process easier for others by contributing to awareness and educating those around me about asexuality. - Christa When I first realized I was ace, I read through the welcome lounge posts and cried my heart out. I was frustrated and sad as a kid for being constantly misunderstood - that I don’t like physical interaction meant I was cold and antisocial. Even though I grew up in a different country and have very different cultural background than most American users, somehow I found those stories relatable and the fact that we found each other and are carrying on with our lives was very reassuring. - jiseon_arthur The increasing visibility of asexuality has made me feel more comfortable with my own asexuality. I know that regardless of what others think, my identity is valid. But it helps when I hear or see asexuality casually mentioned online, by coworkers(!), or in the same spaces where other LGBT+ labels are used. When I first found out I was asexual, I had no one to talk to about it, and didn’t really see it mentioned anywhere outside of AVEN. Since then, it’s become more mainstream. We have more ace characters, more ace merchandise being sold by companies, and more recognition of asexuality in general. It’s uplifting. - Anonymous When my friends mentioned I might be asexual and should look into it more, I didn’t realize I would hit the jackpot with AVEN. Happy to say that things are looking much brighter now that I discovered a piece of myself. - Megan
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Asexual awareness has helped me realize who I am. For a few years now I had always known there was something different about me. That was until I discovered the asexual community and put two and two together, realizing that part of me. It’s like how GLaDOS discovered she’s Caroline except I won’t delete my asexuality. I’m happy to finally discover that part of me and I hope to be a good influence to other aces. - Kiki Freeman In general, asexual awareness has been lifechanging. I used to think I was defective and feel alienated from people because I could not understand the motivations and feelings of the people around me. Realizing that asexuality is a real orientation allowed me to make sense of my struggles and feel better about myself. AVEN is just a nice reminder that I am not alone in my experiences and that it is okay to not want the same things as the majority of the population. - Anonymous AVEN has helped me lead my life down the path that it was always meant to go down. If I had not discovered AVEN, then I’m almost sure that I would have taken the wrong path in life. Being part of the asexual community has made me so much happier than I could have ever imagined. - Emiliano J. Segovia
WHY DO YOU THINK ASEXUAL AWARENESS AND VISIBILITY IS IMPORTANT? I think asexual awareness is important because ace people need to know they aren’t alone and that there are others out there like them. I think asexual awareness is also important because it can shine a light on issues concerning the asexual community. - Anonymous Clarity of validation. Plain and simple. People want to be acknowledged, or at the least not be dismissed. - Robert
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Exposure to something in a positive light helps us learn to understand it without automatically judging it. A lot of people don’t know what asexuality is, so spreading positive awareness is essential for our community to be able to grow without being ostracized by everyone else. - Emily Workman Asexual awareness and visibility is so important, as it has helped me be able to learn more about myself and the wonderful, diverse world around me. - Anonymous Aces have so little representation in the media that there are so many misconceptions about us. My sister and I have gotten so many ignorant comments throughout our lives. That’s why we 6 working hard to add more representation in our art. - Priscilla I read the book “Loveless” by Alice Oseman and so much of the main characters confusion resonated with me from how I felt at that time, but in the 1980’s those type of conversations were not ones that were available for me to take part in. To have that recognition of experience that is relevant to you makes a difference. Visibility is important because otherwise people can feel very isolated with feelings they cannot share because they do not really know a way to explain them. - Alison So many reasons, primarily that asexual visibility allows people to know and accept themselves. It’s easy to feel as though there’s something wrong with you when you grow up in a society saturated with amatonormativity. Amplifying voices that challenge these assumptions makes anyone who doesn’t fit into this model feel more comfortable with themselves and their identity. Also, this journey never really ends, I know that I personally am constantly working on accepting and loving myself. I’m constantly in need of asexual voices and opinions in my life as I grow and change. This is why we need asexual awareness. - Christa
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In allonormative world, people tend to make assumptions about what other people want in their relationships and don’t have honest conversation (even with themselves). As an ace in a longterm romantic relationship, learning about asexuality and trying to unlearn aphobia with my partner, made our relationship even stronger. It was definitely scary to ask questions about what we are expecting out of our relationship and what that means to each other but knowing that asexuality is an orientation not a choice gave me a courage to initiate the conversation. (If my partner did not accept my aceness, that is their problem, so I had nothing to lose.) - jiseon_arthur I think it is important to recognize that not everyone fits the norm, and that it is okay. I think that some people live their entire lives feeling broken or confused when there isn’t really anything wrong with them, so visibility of the asexual community is really important. - Anonymous Asexuality awareness and visibility is important because people need to know who this ‘invisible’ orientation is so they can help any friends or family who might be ace. I mostly hear about gay activism but asexuals are also discriminated against unfortunately. Everyone is valid no matter what! - Kiki Freeman Not many in the LGBTQ community bring light on this. I only saw it when I did research, but other than that, no one really speaks about it - Maria I think there are a lot of lonely and unhappy people out there who do not realize that they are asexual because it has never been presented to them as a potential option. If people do not know that asexuality is real, asexual people will live their lives feeling they are broken or “wrong” and sexual people will continue to perceive asexuals as immature, cold, mentally ill, etc. Parents need to know that it is possible that their children will not want to have a traditional relationship and know that it is okay and normal. People need to be told as they grow up that it is okay for them to not want sex and being obsessed with sex does not make someone any more mature or normal. Because few people know of asexuality, asexuals will continue Q uestions
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to be treated with contempt and confusion until there is more visibility. - Anonymous The existence of the ace community might be uncommon, but because of that it leads to people to want to spread their existence and possibly help other people realize their real identity might be something they completely ignored because of our society. Being visible in society when it comes to our orientation is so much more important than people realize. - Emiliano J. Segovia
WHAT DO YOU WISH PEOPLE KNEW ABOUT ASEXUALITY? That asexuality isn’t a choice. - Anonymous I wish people would realize that asexuality is not as big of a deal as they think it is. That is, it’s not a threat to their very existence as an allosexual person. I’ve read some pretty terrible stories on AVEN about friends and family who refused to accept that someone they knew could ever NOT experience sexual or romantic attraction. Just let us live our lives in peace, please? - Emily Workman I wish people knew that asexuality is not weird, it’s not a “malfunction” or “disease,” it’s a sexual orientation and should be treated as such. It does not make someone immature or a special snowflake. It’s just an orientation. - Anonymous That we exist. That there is nothing wrong with us. That we have the capacity to feel love and emotion just as strongly, albeit with less strings attached. - Osiyo Waya Asexuality is about not having that sexual attraction that seems to initiate so many relationships. It does not mean asexuals are incapable of loving relationships. - Alison Q uestions
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Asexuality is a spectrum. Just like any other identities, there is no harm learning more about asexuality even if you are not in the spectrum. In fact, everyone should know more about asexuality regardless of their sexual orientation. - jiseon_arthur Asexuality is just the tip of the iceberg; it has so much more going on underneath the water. - Megan I wish people would take the time to understand asexuality, because some people are acephobic and say that we’re just child molesters which is certainly not true. Some people say we need to go get ourselves checked at the doctor and I’m sick of hearing CRAZY lies like this. We may be asexual, but we are one of you. We’re human too. - Kiki Freeman There is a misconception that asexual people are lonely and prudish people. Realizing that I was asexual made me far less lonely; I realized I felt isolated simply because society had shamed me and pressured me for not dating and feeling the same way as everyone else. So I guess that I want people to know that asexual people are normal individuals who are just as capable of leading fulfilling, happy lives as anyone else. We are not all lonely; some of us find love and form life-long relationships. Asexual people are just people. We just want acceptance and respect like everyone else. - Anonymous Despite all the discrimination and rumors against the ace community, I can full-heartedly say that every ace person I’ve met so far have been nothing but kind and amazing people. Not only that but meeting these type of people make you realize that sex is not the only way people can express love. - Emiliano J. Segovia
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MEMBER HIGHLIGHT: MULTI-MEMBER QUESTION AND ANSWER INTERVIEW BY SCARLETLATITUDE
For this issue, I asked the same questions to several different AVEN members. Here are their answers!
1. WHY IS ASEXUAL VISIBILITY IMPORTANT TO YOU? Asexual visibility is important to me because without it, there would be so many people out there still clueless as to where they fit in this world. I was never like my peers. I didn’t feel “broken,” per se, but I could never see myself like anyone else. I learned about asexuality when I was 25, so that is somewhat late in the game when it comes to knowing about one’s sexuality, but if there was more visibility, kids would learn about asexuality when they were also learning about other sexualities. It’s so important to have an identity that feels right, to find a community of people that can relate to you. That’s what makes asexual visibility important not just to me, but to many, many other people. - kelico Before I discovered Asexuality, I had no clue that Asexuality existed and that there were out there who understood me. Discovering Asexuality was like a lightbulb moment, suddenly it all made sense. If I had known about asexuality at a younger age, I definitely would have identified with it, and ace visibility is so important
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to me because it’s so important that people know this orientation exists and know they aren’t alone. - OptimisticPessimist Asexual visibility is important to me because it brings more awareness to people who happen to be different, but also recognizing that people who are different are still people and have more in common that one might think. - skyworld It’s important to me because I think it’s important to asexuals to know that they are valid and belong. - ben8884 Without asexual visibility I’d still feel like a broken heterosexual. I want to do my bit to help others not feel broken for years. - Iam9man So the general public would know that there are people who, for some unknown reason, aren’t sexually attracted to others. Then maybe asexuals wouldn’t face negative responses (“You’re a late bloomer” or You haven’t met the right person” etc.) when they come out to allos. - Will I think it’s important to normalise asexuality, and I can’t be the only person who has gone through life without realising they were ace. - Purple Red Panda So asexuality becomes accepted as a normal identity. - Mizzletoe It’s important that everyone be aware of the full range of human sexuality, both to frame their own experience and to realize others may be coming from very different places. - ryn2 So that people are more understood by both themselves and by others. - Tunhope
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To me as an individual, it isn’t that important. I’m well into my 60s and have found my spot in life as an asexual. But I didn’t reach that conclusion until quite recently. I’m sure life would have been different (better or worse who knows?) had I realised just how much different I was to the general population at an earlier age. So, the beneficiaries of increased asexuality awareness are those struggling to understand themselves sexually and that inevitably means a lot of people who are at the lower end of the age scale. They deserve to have better information available to them than was available even 15 years ago (never mind 50 years ago). Medical practitioners should be fully aware of asexuality, for example. - Midland Tyke It is important for people to see that they are not alone with how they feel. - Kimmie. Asexual visibility is important to me because I’d like for others who are asexual or questioning to know that they’re okay, even if others might think they’re weird or different for not having or being interested in sexual relationships, nor experiencing sexual attraction, etc. - Anonymous AVEN member It’s not, honestly. At this stage of my life, it’s good to know who I am, but I don’t need recognition, or acceptance. - Tja
2. WHY DO YOU THINK WEBSITES LIKE AVEN ARE IMPORTANT? They bring together individuals that can relate about a part of their identity that so many don’t understand. It’s important to have a community of people that can share experiences and knowledge about something like asexuality because the visibility is still lacking in media, schools, etc. So, to have a website where you can find thousands of aces all in one place? That is highly important. Websites like AVEN educate
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people outside of the forum community as well, via interviews and social media, which can spread far and wide, helping immensely with visibility. - kelico Websites like AVEN are really important for helping with awareness and understanding of asexuality. It gives people the resources to learn about asexuality, for people to discover themselves and they are a support system for many people. - OptimisticPessimist Websites like AVEN are very important because in the age of the internet, it’s easier to find information. Someone can come and ask questions/advice. There’s also that community that is incredibly helpful for people not to feel alone with people who actually relate. It’s also a great place for someone to figure themselves out. - skyworld It’s important because it has given me a chance to meet other asexuals and learn about asexuality. - ben8884 AVEN provides a safe space where people can research and discuss their experiences without fear of being attacked. There are also many years of discussions which people can browse through; it is very validating to find someone with the exact same experiences as you. Because AVEN has been running for so long, if you’re on the ace spectrum, chances are someone has already posted about experiences similar to yours. - Iam9man For me it (AVEN) provided an answer to a question I hadn’t thought of asking, ‘Why am I not interested in sex?’ - Will AVEN has given me a space to work through stuff relating to my sexuality and I get to hang out with fellow a-spec folx and allies. - Purple Red Panda To hang out online with people I can be honest to about my asexuality and who will be accepting. - Mizzletoe
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Sites like AVEN help connect people with information, and with others facing - or already past - similar challenges. They also foster camaraderie. - ryn2 For education and social support, to be online with like-minded others who are non- judgmental. - Tunhope Education about asexuality for anyone who might be involved, from parents and other family members, to individuals themselves, to friends and medical practitioners (both physical and mental). Socialisation - because any minority group (and asexuals definitely are a tiny minority) benefit hugely from interacting with others who face/have faced similar issues. To have ‘safe’ friendships where no sexual element will enter is a relaxing and freeing thing. - Midland Tyke I think asexuality websites, like AVEN, are especially important for questioning youth, who might be worried about being different from their peers. - Anonymous AVEN member It’s nice to be sociable with like-minded people. - Tja
3. HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE ACE VISIBILITY/ACTIVISM CHANGE IN THE NEXT TWENTY YEARS? I’d say we are on the right track, but what I would like to see is more asexuality in the media in the next 20 years. From TV shows to movies to books, there are so few asexual characters. We’re far off from our other LGBTQIA+ counterparts as far as representation and visibility go. To have asexuality mentioned in sex ed. in school would also be something I’d like to see. Educating youth on various sexualities, including asexuality, would include a lot of kids that feel out of place and unsure of them-
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selves...they can learn about labels that fit them, so they don’t go through life thinking they’re strange or alone. - kelico We’ve definitely come a long way but further to go. I’d love to see asexuality covered in sex-ed, if young people know asexuality at a young age, they’d know it exists and know all about It. It’d save a lot of people discovering it later in life and feeling like there’s something wrong with them. We need more understanding from health professionals about asexuality, so I’d also love to see more awareness and understanding in that area, so that patients get the right support and aren’t tried to be fixed. Media wise, there are ace characters, not loads and some that aren’t always good representation either, so I’d like to see more good representation and also to see asexuality treated as the real orientation it is. - OptimisticPessimist Hopefully ace visibility/activism in the next 20 years, it’d generally be more recognized and for people to not really bat an eye -- normalized. Twenty years is a long time and a lot can happen between then. Though, slowly but surely, more diversity is being showed in TV shows and movies (hopefully in a positive and respectful light), and hopefully there would be more characters people can relate to. I hope for a brighter future that people who happen to be different in any way can feel like they don’t have to hide themselves among the majority of people that would likely be more accepting. - skyworld I would like to see more representation on TV and also in sex ed. - ben8884 I hope that eventually specific asexual activism will become less and less necessary as asexuality becomes naturally part of conversations whenever orientations are discussed, but until we get there, I’d simply like sites like AVEN to become more visible and to be part of the conversation whenever other groups or networks need information about asexuality. - Iam9man
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In 20 years, if not sooner, asexuals are just regular folk and don’t have to be closeted. - Will I’d be happy to see asexuality as an accepted and understood identity. - Purple Red Panda I would like to see it gradually become less important as asexuality becomes more understood. - Mizzletoe I would like to see the less-common sexualities and genders considered more and more mainstream, meaning advocacy becomes less and less necessary. - ryn2 I’d like to see representation in a broader range of ages. - Tunhope I’m not a natural activist. I’m a little embarrassed and just a little disappointed in myself at my lack of activism (on asexuality and other issues) but that’s the way things are. Pushing for greater representation of asexuals in, for example, TV shows doesn’t interest me at all. So, for me, it’s all about education, education, and education. The rest will follow. - Midland Tyke The best way it could change would be that the asexual label is not needed, because it is just one sexuality, among others. - Kimmie. - I hope that in the next 20 years, science might discover how asexuality (and other sexual orientations) develops in the body. - Anonymous AVEN member For those who need it, I hope visibility/acceptance is the norm. - Tja
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