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A professional headshot of Franchesca Nicole Lazaro, a Filipino-American woman with short curly dark hair and bangs, smiling at the camera. She wears a dark brown button-up blouse and a brown skirt, accessorized with beaded bracelets and earrings. Her left hand is raised near her face in a relaxed pose. The photo is taken against a warm, brown-beige gradient background

Franchesca Nicole Lazaro is an emerging editor based in Seattle, Washington, who focuses on literary fiction, memoir, and nonfiction exploring history, technology, media studies, feminism, and literature and perspectives from women, asexual voices, and religious backgrounds.

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

Here at the beginning of Black History Month, my Substack this week shares a few of the fascinating individuals and historical icons of Black Queer History.

You can read more below! ⬇️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #QueerHistory #BookSky #History

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Black History is Queer, Trans, Intersex, and beyond the binary. Black History is Afro-Latine and migratory. Black History is Disability & Neurodivergence history.

Black History is Intersectional.

Therapist member Ashabi's Black History is "unapologetically Asexual, Queer and has always been here."

Mentioned it on Twitter already but the actual real option to be Asexual (or Aromantic) in the new Tomodachi Life genuinely means a lot. It's easily one of the most ignored sexualities in most media so getting recognition like this just feels great yknow

reposting here for any fellow artists who wanna maybe participate :3

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Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream introduces nonbinary gender options and flexible dating preferences, allowing Mii characters to be queer, aromantic, or single.

Book cover with title "The Heart Devourer's Song" over illustration of a smiling bard and stern hunter standing underneath pink blossoms.

THE HUNGER GAMES x DAUGHTER OF THE MOON GODDESS where a fox demon bard seeking to become human joins the deadly race up a wish-granting mountain—but falling for a demon hunter may cost her everything.

🏳️‍🌈Asexual MC
🌦️Devious sunshine x softhearted grump

#questpit #A #F #OWN #Asian #LGBT

You Need to Learn About Sex…Even If You’re Not Having It Reflecting on the sex education I received growing up, it was all too apparent that any discussion of asexuality was completely absent.

New on the blog! Here are four reasons why it makes complete sense for comprehensive sex ed to include discussions about asexuality. ✍️

Read more ➡️ https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/news/you-need-learn-about-sex-even-if-youre-not-having/

An asymmetrical hair bow in purple, white, gray and black featuring a Crow holding a knife colored with the asexual Pride colors

A hair Cascade for when the time for kindness is over. 🐦‍⬛🔪

Pin by @gaybreakfast.bsky.social

Queerplatonic relationships should be normalized.
Having queerplatonic partners should be normalized, too.

First-of-its-kind aspec representation looks like Lola A little inside look at LOVE LOOKS LIKE LOLA, the first aroace picture book.

The first picture book to feature an #aroace character! I love this!

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#blackaces #blackace #blackasexual #blackaromantics #asexuality #asexual #aroace #acearo #aromantic #booksky

Assemblée nationale Enregistré à la Présidence de l’Assemblée nationale le 21 janvier 2026. PROPOSITION DE LOI visant à mettre fin au devoir conjugal Article 1er Le code civil est ainsi modifié : 1° (Supprimé) 2 (nouveau) Le premier alinéa de l’article 215 est complété par une phrase ainsi rédigée : « Cette communauté de vie ne crée aucune obligation pour les époux d’avoir des relations sexuelles. » Article 2 L’article 242 du code civil est complété par un alinéa ainsi rédigé : « Le divorce pour faute ne peut être fondé sur l’absence ou le refus de relations sexuelles. »     

Devoir conjugal : La loi abolissant explicitement la « devoir conjugal » a été votée à l'Assemblée nationale (1ère lecture).

Pour énoncer que le mariage ne crée « aucune obligation pour les époux d’avoir des relations sexuelles »

Et interdire tout divorce pour absence/refus de relations sexuelles.

When Allosexuals Advise Asexuals Critiquing a Dear Abby column

The latest thing I wrote, because I saw the Dear Abby column syndicated in magazines I read online via my local library.

#asexual

In my ongoing search for research at the intersection of asexuality and theology (ie. updating my syllabus), I came across this gem. jmt.scholasticahq.com/article/1219...

This International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we have heavy obligations to survivors — and to the memories of 6 million Jews & millions of others murdered by Nazi hate.

TONIGHT!

Winterviews begins series 5 with our first episode and guest @amandaheadlee. We'll be talking all about asexual representation within horror, so come hang out with us at 8 PM EST on youtube. Link below (clickable link in my profile)!

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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.

ICE OUT NOW Our nation is at a crossroads. It's time to get ICE out of everywhere, once and for all. Ready to defend your rights? Read. ICE Out of Everywhere National Day of Action: Saturday 1/31 No Housing for ICE #DontServelCE Anti-ICE Primaries Build Toward General Strike

ICE Out of Everywhere January 31 What to do: Join rapid response protests in your community this week, leading up to ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE national day of action on Saturday January 31 (01/31) when we stand in solidarity with Minneapolis, Minnesota (MN) where CBP executed Alex Pretti and ICE murdered Renee Good. To What End? Large crowds shouting "ICE Out" and "Chinga la Migra" slows down operations at ICE detention facilities & complicit offices. Protests deter corporations and government officials from further supporting/funding ICE. Protests also display solidarity with Minnesota and immigrant communities across the country. When & Where Rapid Response Protests Jan 25th -30th 2026 TBA in your local community ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE January 31, 2026 At ICE Detention Centers, Field Offices, Complicit Businesses, and Congressional Offices Resources mobilize.us/3q=ICE

No Housing for ICE What to do: Going forward, no place shall house ICE without public outrage aimed in their direction. Boycott Hilton brand hotels. Cancel your points account. Coordinate noise disruptions outside of known hotels housing ICE agents. To What End? Everywhere ICE goes destruction and death follows. If we do not let ICE settle and coordinate they can not effectively operate in an area. Resources Toolkit to stop local hotels from housing ICE bit. ly/nohousingforice

#DontServeICE What to do: Don't Serve ICE! And don't let them be served either! If you see ICE in a business or establishment, LEAVE and tell the owners WHY you are leaving. If you own a business DO NOT serve ICE or any law enforcement seeming to support ICE operations. No dining, no gas, no hotels, no service. When & Where Do this anywhere you see ICE agents. Post and share stories of your refusals. Use hashtag #DontServelCE To What End? #DontServelCE makes normal life inaccessible for ICE agents and their supporters. If they want to participate in society they must stop their criminal behavior. Resources bit.ly/dontserveice

The 50501 Movement is mobilizing for the ICE Out of Everywhere National Day of Action on January 31st.

We are also organizing the No Housing for ICE boycott, the #dontserveice movement, and the Primary Pro-ICE Dems campaign.

Sesame Street Instagram: Big Bird snuggling a smaller bird. Offering comfort in Scary Times: After a violent event, children of different ages will have different needs. These age based strategies can help them feel safer and more secure.

Sesame Street is now offering tips for parents on post-trauma comfort because the federal government is physically and mentally abusing our country's children.

Twitch Twitch is the world

btw thanks for the 190 followers on Twitch :3
can we get to 200 before my 1st vtuber anniversary on 2.2.?

twitch.tv/AkatiusPielinki

#twitch #fintuber #vtuber #aroacevtuber

YouTube video by Meghan Sandor-Schielke Asexuality and Kink: Why Do So Many Aces Love It?

pssst watch this bc ur favorite asexual content creator said so (pls i need people more educated on asexuality & quickly)
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“Because what sits at the heart of this fascist pushback on queer lives is the effort to remove our humanity from us…Living as ourselves everywhere we can, emphasizing our humanness in every facet of our work on the planet, pushes back against that.”

Aspec Reading Bingo: trans aspec books. Below are six book covers Pluralities by Avi Silver Painted Flock by Claudie Arseneault The Story of the Hundred Promises by Neil Cochrane Power To Yield by Bogi Takács Unbury the Bones by Coyote JM Edwards The Stones Stay Silent by Danny Ride

Aspec Reading Bingo: trans aspec books. Below are six book covers: Mazarin Blues by Al Hess Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White Awakenings by Claudie Arseneault The Thread that Binds by Cedar McCloud The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy The Unbalancing by R. B. Lemberg

It's Aspec Reading Bingo Day -- in which I recommend books for the delightful prompts put together by nerdydreamer107 and queerbooksupremacy over on Instagram💙

Today's prompt is TRANS ASPEC BOOKS; ALT text will have a full list

♠️🌈📚

I've been seeing a lot of memes of a similar caliber and I had an idea for my own

#Meme #Asexual #Lesbian #Queer #LGBTQ

Screenshot of QueerAF explainer. Text that reads: Social media ban is "reactionary measure" that will harm LGBTQIA+ youth, campaigners warn.

UK politicians are lining up to support a social media ban for young people.

What about LGBTQIA+ people who rely on these platforms for connection?

Understand the potential harms 👇🧵

We all know ICE at this point are a bunch of insecure cowards w fragile egos. Maybe if they found out that the ace of spades is used by aroace ppl, we can pull an uno reverse on their bullshit. Lord knows they aren't the type to differentiate between asexuality and celibacy.

Incel cards.

This week's schedule:

Monday: We will be diving into Enshrouded.
Wednesday: No stream
Friday: We will be back to Heartopia
Saturday: It's finally here my Hear Me Out Cake stream is here... Small note this was pretty difficult and reaffirmed my asexuality.

50501, we want to take your lead. Now is the time to act in solidarity with the resistance in Minnesota and fight for the abolition of the nazi paramilitary force that is ICE. Tell us: How should we move next?

White letters that say "Education" over a purple background and the logo of the Ace Community Survey Team (four squares colored with the asexual flag colors. The last one has a white tick over it).

Among ace respondents, one third had completed an undergraduate degree (33.5%), while one in five had completed a graduate degree (21.1%) and 3.7% had completed a vocational or trade program. Nearly a quarter (22.8%) had completed some form of higher education, while 13.4% had completed secondary education and 5.4% had completed less than secondary education. These results roughly correspond with the age of participants, where 37.3% of participants were within the age range of traditional college students (18–24) and 38.7% of participants were in the traditional age range of those immediately post-college or in graduate school (25– 34).

Today is International Day of Education

As part of the 2024 survey, we asked our respondents for their highest level of education

Full report and most recent translations are available in our bio.

#asexual #asexuality #ace #acecommunitysurvey #demisexual #demisexuality #graysexual #graysexuality