Citations:arospec
Adjective: "(neologism) belonging or related to the aromantic spectrum"
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- 2016, Ashley Mardell, The ABC's of LGBT+, unnumbered page:
- After some research into various arospec (aromantic spectrum) identities, I found the term “wtfromantic” and a whole bunch of people who identified with that.
- 2017, Vanessa A. Vanderzee, "Accessing Health Care on the Asexual Spectrum: A Feminist Analysis of Patient-Practitioner Relationships and Compulsory Sexuality in Medical Discourse", thesis submitted to Oregon State University, page 105:
- Another key narrative which touched on the theme of chronic pain was that of Tumblr user hawkelf, whose personal blog states: “ace, arospec, disabled/chronically ill, geek, artist/craftsperson. she/her. raised rural, city living.”
- 2017, Talia Hibbert, That Kind of Guy, unnumbered page:
- In fact, I've, uh... well, there's this forum for demisexual and other ace/arospec people, and I've been a member for a while.
- 2021, Patricia Kennon, "Asexuality and the Potential of Young Adult Literature for Disrupting Allonormativity", International Journal of Young Adult Literature, Volume 2, Issue 1 (link):
- While there can still be a tendency for allosexual characters in YA science fiction to perform conscious and unconscious microaggressions against ace, acespec, aro and arospec characters, some recent novels manage to challenge the aphobic presumption of compulsory sexuality, and to ultimately create and sustain asexual-inclusive speculative worlds.
- 2021, C. Bougie, "Composing Aromanticism", thesis submitted to the University of Missouri-Columbia, page 20:
- Tumblr user aroacepagans, for instance, conducted a survey in 2019 on the topic of aromantic community needs that garnered 30 responses in total to open-ended questions like “What are the community needs of alloaros?” and “What are the community needs of greyro/ aro-spec folks?”
- 2023 January 19, Vaneet Mehta, Bisexual Men Exist: A Handbook for Bisexual, Pansexual and M-Spec Men, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 189:
- ... aro-spec identities is sorely lacking. This leads to a society that is rife with m-spec phobia, arophobia and acephobia and erasure that can be internalized, causing people to struggle with their identity, which can greatly impact their […]