theaceandaroadvocacyproject: Our article featuring older aces (aces over age 35) is on our site! Rea
theaceandaroadvocacyproject: Our article featuring older aces (aces over age 35) is on our site! Read here: https://taaap.org/2021/10/26/ace-week-21-older-aces/ As a lot of asexual community building and organizing happens online, it can sometimes feel difficult to find aces who aren’t Gen Z or millennials. Without an image of older asexuality, younger aces may feel lost, and people outside the community wrongly stereotype our identity as a trendy thing for youth. But older aces are out there, and deserve to be seen and heard! Thank you to all who contributed to this article. [ID: Two graphics with quotes from the linked article and the heading “”Older Aces”. The quotes are: “ I feel like my very existence can sometimes help shut down exclu’s and haters. If I see a validity fight in progress on Twitter, I can just step in and say, “I’m a 51-yr-old, never-partnered virgin. Care to argue with me whether asexuality exists?” - Camilla. “So many mainstream articles paint asexuality as a thing exclusive to White women in their 20s, and because of that I feel like it’s easier to write off the existence of older aces.” - Bob O’Boyle. “There’s a big ace future out there for all of us.” - Cody.“I grew up in a time when it was not safe to be LBGTQ so when I wear the rainbow I have a tendency to watch my back.” - Joshua Godfrey. “I grew up asexual in a vacuum. There was no internet to influence or guide me. I just went my own way because it was all I knew how to do.“ - Camilla. “Now, I see my age as a bonus. I get to assume a mentor role, and educator role. And that suits me. I get to be what I didn’t have when I was young.“ - Cody. End ID.] -- source link