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#2411 DISCUSSION: Celebrating the Asexual/Aromantic Plus Community

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Happy Pride Month! Today we discuss the A in LGBTQIA+. Even within the LGBTQIA+ community, Asexual and Aromantic identities are often overlooked


This post aims to share information on these communities and builds that celebrate Asexual and Aromantic people.


#2411 DISCUSSION: Celebrating the Asexual/Aromantic Plus Community. Even within the LGBTQIA+ community, Asexual and Aromantic identities are often overlooked. Image of 2 minifigures standing on a white LEGO brick wall. One is built from parts the colours of the Aromantic flag, the other the Asexual flag. Both are holding a plate-built flag corresponding to them. Happy Pride Month! Heart shape with stripes making up the Progress pride flag. In today’s post, we’re going to be educating about these communities and sharing builds that celebrate Asexual and Aromantic people.

Why is this important? The LEGO community is diverse, and we believe the way to help everyone feel they can belong is to celebrate and educate about those who are often excluded and ignored. Image of heart with stripes making up the progress pride flag. Why are Asexual and Aromantic identities often overlooked? QUOTE: “Many LGBTQIA+ identities have action to celebrate, like, loving someone of your own gender, but Asexuality and Aromanticism are kind of about inaction- not being attracted… Inaction is much harder to notice. We sort of stick out less. That makes it easier for people who are anti-LGBTQIA+ to pretend we don’t exist, which in turn means not many people know about us.” -Anonymous Asexual and Aromantic people make up ~1% of the total population. Source: rcsgd.sa.ucsb.edu/resources/lgbtqia-informational-resources/asexual-aromantic Image of LEGO pie chart with a very small slice. Being a relatively small demographic, knowledge of this community is not widespread.

Identities in the “A plus” What does it mean to be Asexual? (Source: Asexuality.org) Asexual, or “Ace”, people do not feel sexual attraction to others. They can still feel romantic attraction. Image of a plate-built Asexual flag (stripes from the top down are black, grey, white, purple). What does it mean to be Aromantic? (Source: Aromanticism.org) Aromantic, or “Aro”, people do not feel romantic attraction to others. They can still feel sexual attraction. Image of a plate-built Aromantic flag (stripes from the top down are bright green, lime green, white, grey, black). People in the Aromantic and Asexual communities often find support and intimacy in their lives through close friendships rather than from a romantic/sexual partner. People who are both Aro and Ace can be represented using this flag. Image of a plate-built AroAce flag (stripes from the top down are orange, bright yellow, white, bright blue, dark blue).

What is being Demisexual or Demiromantic? Demisexual (see right) and Demiromantic (see left) people only feel sexual or romantic attraction to people they have a close emotional connection to. Image of plate-built Demisexual flag (stripes from the top down are white, purple, grey, with a black triangle on the left). Image of a plate-built Demiromantic flag, the same as Demisexual but with a green stripe rather than a purple one. Abrosexual/Abroromantic people find their sexuality is fluid, their attraction varies over time.(Source:lgbtqia.fandom.com/wiki.Abrosexual) Image of a plate-built Abrosexual flag (stripes from the top down are bright green, sand green, white, dark pink, red). These labels have come about more recently as more people with these shared experiences have found community with one another on the internet and as society has become more accepting.

MOCs Because of the abbreviation “Ace”, many Asexual people use playing card Aces as a symbol for themselves. Chris Blakely on Flickr makes use of the printed 1 x 2 tile from the CMF Jester! Image of Jester CMF holding playing card Ace of Spades. Part 3069pb0337. Image of Everyone is Awesome people but the set has stripes of the Asexual colours and the figures of the Asexual colours are dancing. One of them is holding the Ace of Spades printed 1 x 2 tile. @shanzy_h is Aromantic, so marked the occasion of Valentine’s from her perspective with a series of habitats, the last one being about 15th April, the unofficial “Singles’ Day”, or “Half-price Chocolate Day”! Image of a small room with boxes of chocolate scattered on the floor. One wall is the Aromantic flag, the other has “Singles Day” written on it. A happy person sits in the middle with cats and a book.

Monopoly on TTV Message Boards uses an assortment of Bionicle and Hero Factory parts to make these additions to her Pride Bat collection. Image of a large bionicle/hero factory style robot figure of a humanoid bat in asexual colours. Garlic Bread the Ace Bat. Torso armour pieces adorn the wrists. Part 99021 then fits into a waist hole with a technic axle pin to attach each wing. Part 99021 is Pneumatic hose connector with axle connector. Image of a large bionicle/hero factory style robot figure of a humanoid bat in aromantic asexual colours. Lemonade the Aro Bat. Lemonade’s hands are upside-down feet, with the heel axle holes used to attach her wings! Image shows small bionicle foot with 2 bars on the front flipped upside-down, with exo force arms used as claws and dragon wing 8x10 going into the axle hole at the back.

Cab~ on Flickr achieved this swirled icing effect on her Ace Cake using a variety of rounded parts. Image of a slice of cake with swirly white icing and layers inside of the Asexual flag colours. Parts marked out as used in the icing are a long minifigure beard, a croissant, minifigure epaulettes, a droid arm, and a large tooth/claw. For more sweet part uses from Cab~, check them out on Flickr and on Instagram (@cab_builds)! Image shows close-up of tiny castles, one made using carrot parts and pumpkin parts, the other using a large cake element.



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