This month we’ve got yet another case of somebody over on Tumblr trying to revive card suit sorting, plus even more people claiming it was only abandoned because of the anti-ace brigade. I…| The Ace Theist
A request for more and better coverage of aro community history, posted for the September Carnival of Aros. Crossposted to Pillowfort. Preview image created using Arrow Tips by Don and Janet, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. Let me begin with a story: Earlier this month, I was contacted by a journalist who had been referred […]| The Ace Theist
A post about looking at sexual orientation as shorthand for potential (in)compatibility, written for the August 2023 Carnival of Aces.| The Ace Theist
Note: if you are reading this after June 8th, 2023 please see a new comment by Kate Wood below. Update March 21st, 2024: the AACAU has now updated the report and posted an apology. Would you be okay with allowing everything you and your community have ever done to be forgotten, like it never even happened? I wouldn’t. […]| The Ace Theist
Surveys are a popular type of project both for formal advocacy groups and casual identity bloggers alike. While professional researchers might have gotten some dedicated training on the subject, there are also a lot of other people who try their hand at it, too, and they might not have encountered much (if any) guidance on […]| The Ace Theist
In all of the talk on QPRs over the years, I’ve run across some occasional disagreement about whether or not “queerplatonic” as a term has room for ambiguity — with both implicit and explicit attempts to define it as a narrow and rigid concept, while treating those definitions as the way it’s always been. Simply […]| The Ace Theist
An infographic that presents a short overview of early anti-ace blogging, 2010-2015.| The Ace Theist
About nine years ago, I wrote and published a blogpost with title "Why I Wear an Ace Ring." At the time, I don't think I could have ever anticipated the reception that post got and is still getting almost a decade later.| The Ace Theist
CBS Elementary centers on a close friendship between a man and a woman that accomplishes something unique: it stays that way. More than that, it tells the story of the evolution of their relationship from initial animosity to collaboration to exceptional intimacy, to the point of treating each other as the most important person in their lives, all while keeping sex and romance out of it.| The Ace Theist
Thank you to everyone who participated in or helped to spread the Gray-Ace & Gray-Aro Survey. This survey was released on July 28, 2022 and ran through September 15th, with the link shared on WordPress, Pillowfort, Tumblr, Twitter, AVEN, Arocalypse, Dreamwidth, Reddit, and various Discord servers. The survey collected 1,404 responses in total. Crossposted to […]| The Ace Theist
In this post I’ve compiled a list of basic problems I consider important to flag and look out for, covering some old recurring mistakes as well as cases where there’s still time to nip …| The Ace Theist
Featured in this post: the coinage and meaning of wtfromantic, the subsequent coinage and meaning of quoiromantic, some discussion over competing definitions, and a sampling of personal reflection …| The Ace Theist
