Asexual Awareness Week
| Asexual Awareness Week | |
|---|---|
| Date | During October |
| 2015 date | October 19th to October 25th |
| 2016 date | October 23th to October 29th[1] |
| Frequency | Annually |
| Related to | ITOV (add link) |
Asexual Awareness Week occurs in the later half of October, and is created to both celebrate asexual, aromantic, demisexual, and grey-asexual pride and promote awareness.[2]
Goals
The goals of Asexual Awareness Week include the following:
- Promote the realisation that sexual and romantic attractions such as asexual, aromantic and similar exist,
- Help people who fall under these categories understand that they are not broken or alone,
- Help other people understand what these sexual and romantic attractions are to help dissolve misunderstandings,
- Promote the understanding that love and sex are not intrinsically linked and that the lack of one does not make the other any less meaningful,
- Promote the understanding that aromantics can still experience non-romantic love,
- Spread the understanding of the discrimination and violence that people who fall under these attraction categories face,
- Help decrease the violence they face such as corrective rape,
- Help people understand how they can be supportive
- Advertise support groups for those who might need it
Observances
Asexual Awareness Week is an international week organized by the Asexual Awareness Week (AWW) organisation to help increase people's understanding of the sexualities and romantic spectrum that fall under the 'Ace Umbrella'. These can include asexual, aromantic, demisexual, and grey-asexual among them. It is designed to help promote understanding of what these sexualities are and the current issues people face. This is conducted by using the dedicated week to promote relevant material online, through LGBT groups, and media outlets. This media includes pamphlets, articles, interviews, documentaries and videos.[3][4] A number of university unions also promote the week.[5][6]
Asexual Awareness Week and Transgender Day of Visibility are different from the better-known Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR); TDOR specifically remembers the deceased.
References
- ↑ "Asexual Awareness Week â€" Asexuality SF". Asexualitysf.org. 2015-10-14. Retrieved 2016-10-05.
- ↑ "AAW - About Us". asexualawarenessweek.com. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
- ↑ Nichols, JamesMichael. "'Everything's A-Okay' -- Celebrating Asexual Awareness Week (VIDEO)". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
- ↑ "AsexualAwarenessWeek". YouTube. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
- ↑ "Leeds University Union". Leeds University Union. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
- ↑ "First-ever Asexual Awareness Week at U of T". The Varsity. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
External links
- Asexual Awareness Week home site
- "Asexual Awareness Week", PRISM blog, University of Mary Washington People for the Rights of Individuals of Sexual Minorities, October 17, 2014
- Lily Zheng (November 4, 2014), "How to ace sex: Why enthusiastic consent doesn't cut it", The Stanford Daily