Oct Carnival of Aros: Expression - Looking for Submissions!

[Rising Moon Droplet]

Hey, all -

 

The October Carnival of Aros is up and running! This month the theme is "Expression", about how you express your aro identity and/or pride. You can see the call for submissions and how to share your response here on reddit. A google form is available for those who don't have reddit accounts.

 

Here are some of the prompts to help get you thinking about expression in regards to aromanticism:

 

• How do you verbally express your aromantic identity? How do you explain aromanticism to others? Does the way you talk to aromantics differ from how you might talk to alloromantics?

• How do you creatively express your aromantic identity? Are you a writer, painter, drawer, sculptor, musician, dancer, meme creator? Is your work ever inspired by your aromanticism/aromantic experiences? How so? Perhaps you even want to share one of your creations to respond to this month's Carnival (feel free to boost whatever creative social media you have to promote yourself!).

• How do you express pride of your aromanticism? Have you bought pride merch? Maybe you even make/sell pride merch. Maybe you've participated in a Pride event and expressed some aro pride; how did you share your pride or how did people respond to your expression?

• How is your aromanticism expressed in your relationships? Are you an aro in a romantic relationship; if so, how is your aromanticism expressed in your relationship or how does it impact your relationship? Perhaps your aromanticism impacts how you express yourself in other relationships, such as pursuing a queerplatonic relationship or being a loveless aro and navigating platonic relationships with people who may be very free with telling friends "I love you".

Please feel free to share your thoughts!

I'm actually running this month's Carnival, so if you prefer to submit here on the AVEN forums, I'll stop by at the end of the month to check for responses.

[kelico]

If you would like to remain anonymous, just let them know when submitting your writing. : ) 

 

This study was approved by the Project Team.

On behalf of PT,

kelico