Aroace

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Aroace
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Orientation: Romantic and Sexual
Main Umbrella: Aspec


Aromantic asexual, often shortened to aroace, aro-ace, or aro ace, is a term that refers to a individual who is both aromantic/aro-spec and asexual/ace-spec.[1][2] Aroace can be used for any individual who identifies with both spectrums. For example, an aromantic asexual, an aromantic demisexual, an acespike frayromantic, and a lithromantic greysexual can all be described as aroace.

Some aroace individuals may experience other forms of attraction that are neither romantic nor sexual, such as queerplatonic attraction, alterous attraction, or sensual attraction. If they feel that this attraction is significant enough to warrant a place alongside their aroace orientation, they may identify as oriented aroace or angled aroace.

Related Terms

Label Relationship Description Difference
Aplaroace Similar An individual who is aplatonic, aromantic, and asexual. Aplaroace includes aplatonic, whereas aroace does not.
Ay Similar An individual who is neither allosexual nor alloromantic. Ay encompasses identities that are not strictly aromantic nor asexual, such as identities between alloromantic/allosexual and aromantic/asexual.

Subterms

Label Prefixes / Suffixes Flag Description Creator(s)
Angled Aroace Angled AngledAroAce.png[3] On the aromantic and asexual spectrum, but still experiences any other form of attraction to certain genders (such as bisexual demisexual demiromantic, of which may be described as "Bi Angled").[4] black-aros, Unknown
Oriented Aroace Oriented OrientedAroace.png[5] Aromantic and asexual but still experiences any form of tertiary attraction.[6] biaroace
Varioriented Aroace Varioriented VariorientedAroace.png[7] Mismatching aromantic and asexual orientations (such as homoromantic greyromantic asexual).[7] varioriented-pride

Prefixes and Suffixes

Label Prefixes / Suffixes Flag Description Creator(s)
Aroaceflux -flux AroAceflux.png[8] Fluctuating aromantic and asexual attraction.[8] astraldomination
Aroacejump -jump AroAcejump.png[9] Normally alloromantic and allosexual but occasionally experiencing sudden and intense periods of aromanticity and asexuality.[9] luigis-mogai-mansion

History

Flags and Symbols

The most well-known and current aroace flag was created by aroaesflags.[10]

An aroace flag was created by aromagni. Aromagni defined its meanings as: green to represent aromantic individuals and the overall aro community, light green to represent individuals who are on the aromantic spectrum, white to represent solidarity between the aro and ace communities and unity as an aspec community, light purple to represent individuals on the asexual spectrum, purple to represent asexual individuals and the overall ace community.[11]

Alternate aroace flags were created by Pride-Flags,[12] Mod Ama,[13] dog of society,[14] milkshakeflags,[15] itsrainingsomewhereelse and vass-junk,[16] decaykid,[17] Unknown (published by Pride-Flags),[18] Llonnoll,[19] Noxatrae,[20] and lorstarcuttr.[21]

Resources

  1. Gayety Staff. "What Does It Mean To Be Aroace?". Gayety, 11 Jul, 2022, https://gayety.co/what-does-it-mean-to-be-aroace.
  2. "aro-ace". Wiktionary, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aro-ace. Accessed on 9 Mar, 2023.
  3. Pride-Flags. "Angled Aroace (3)". DeviantArt, 11 Mar, 2021, https://web.archive.org/web/20220124020420/https://www.deviantart.com/pride-flags/art/Angled-Aroace-3-872880145.
  4. official-angledaroace. "Angled". Tumblr, 29 Mar, 2019, https://web.archive.org/web/20220511153939/https://official-angledaroace.tumblr.com/post/183794178226/angled.
  5. biaroace. "Oriented Aroace Flag:". Tumblr, 11 Jul, 2018, https://biaroace.tumblr.com/post/175789820577/oriented-aroace-flag-this-flag-is-meant-to.
  6. "LINKS". biaroace, https://biaroace.carrd.co/. Accessed on 25 Dec, 2023.
  7. 7.0 7.1 varioriented-pride. "Varioriented AroAce Flag". Tumblr, 10 Apr, 2019, https://varioriented-pride.tumblr.com/post/184078355275/variorientation-describes-someone-whose-romantic.
  8. 8.0 8.1 astraldomination. "an aroaceflux design". Tumblr, 2021, https://web.archive.org/web/20220922002525/https://astraldomination.tumblr.com/post/611326365790322688/an-aroaceflux-design-based-on-toothcitys-aroflux.
  9. 9.0 9.1 luigis-mogai-mansion. "Aroace-jump". Tumblr, 20 May, 2020, https://web.archive.org/web/20220120220220/https://luigis-mogai-mansion.tumblr.com/post/618617450841489408/new-aroacearoace-terms.
  10. aroaesflags. "Revised aroace flag". Tumblr, 11 Dec, 2018, https://aroaesflags.tumblr.com/post/181034758671/revised-aroace-flag-after-some-conversation-among.
  11. aromagni. "Background: So, I recently designed an aroace flag". Tumblr, 29 Dec, 2018, https://www.tumblr.com/aromagni/181500927879/background-so-i-recently-designed-an-aroace-flag.
  12. lorstarcuttr. "throwing my hat into the ring !!". Twitter, 25 Oct, 2021, https://twitter.com/lorstarcuttr/status/1452447115624398848.
  13. aroace-people-are-lgtbq. "so there are a lot of aroace flags". Tumblr, 23 Jul, 2018, https://www.tumblr.com/aroace-people-are-lgtbq/176182475154/so-there-are-a-lot-of-aroace-flags-being-proposed.
  14. Anonymous. "aroace flag concept (all credit to u/dog_of_society)". Reddit, 2 Apr, 2019, https://www.reddit.com/r/asexuality/comments/b8ec16/aroace_flag_concept_all_credit_to_udog_of_society/.
  15. milkshakeflags. "a new aroace flag since the other ones were kinda cluttered!". Tumblr, 14 Aug, 2018, https://milkshakeflags.tumblr.com/post/177010807070/a-new-aroace-flag-since-the-other-ones-were-kinda.
  16. itsrainingsomewhereelse. "redoing this post for pride month, so!". Tumblr, 26 Jun, 2019, https://itsrainingsomewhereelse.tumblr.com/post/185866937050/redoing-this-post-for-pride-month-so-heres-a.
  17. decaykid. "Aroace Pride Flag". DeviantArt, 23 Apr, 2017, https://www.deviantart.com/decaykid/art/Aroace-Pride-Flag-676709127.
  18. Pride-Flags. "Aroace". DeviantArt, 7 Dec, 2016, https://www.deviantart.com/pride-flags/art/Aroace-646132640.
  19. llonnoll. "¡Aroace flag! The Aromantic Asexual combo breaker.". Tumblr, 20 Jun, 2018, https://web.archive.org/web/20220124035426/https://llonnoll.tumblr.com/post/638012968475443200/aroace-flag-the-aromantic-asexual-combo. Archived on 24 Jan, 2022.
  20. noxatrae. "So I got bored today...". Tumblr, 4 Mar, 2020, https://web.archive.org/web/20220124015918/https://noxatrae.tumblr.com/post/611689228414402560/so-i-got-bored-today-and-then-thought-to-myself.
  21. vixenmatch. "throwing my hat into the ring !!". Twitter, 25 Oct, 2021, https://twitter.com/vixenmatch/status/1452447115624398848.