Citations:aro-ace

English citations of aro-ace, aroace, aro ace, and aro/ace

Adjective: "(slang, neologism) aromantic and asexual"

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• 2016, Laura Chan, "My sexual preference is nope", Dalhousie Gazette (Dalhousie University), 12 February - 18 February 2016, page 16:

  My pal Ky, an aro/ace combo, told me that after he found a community he could connect with, he became more radically honestly about being himself.

• 2016, Megan Swett, "Celebrating Queertober and the LGBT+ community", The Journal (University of Illinois, Springfield) 19 October 2016, pages 1 and 3:

  Stidham's QPP, himself, is not aroace, and is involved in a romantic and sexual relationship outside of his queer-platonic relationship with her.

• 2017, Ariel Scott, "Stop Saying It's Asexual Because That's Not What It Means", ShOUT Zine, pages 11-12:

  However, when I came out as aro ace, my experience was one of being strongly 'othered'.

• 2018, Angelica Beneke, "Choosing 'other': Navigating self-identity through intersectional thinking", The Hofstra Chronicle (Hofstra University), 6 March 2018, page A6:

  Hi, I'm a multiracial intersectional aro ace feminist. Nice to meet you.

• 2018, Maggie O'Rourke-Liggett, "We Get It, You're Asexual", Paper Cloud, Spring 2018, page 25:

  I was reminded again how casual Asexual and Aromantic erasure is when the CW announced that Jughead Jones – a canon Aromantic Asexual character whose coming out in the comics two years ago meant so much to both communities – will not be portrayed as AroAce in their show Riverdale.

• 2018, Miriam Francisco, "'Sounds Fake but Okay': Asexuality on Campus", The Michigan Daily (The University of Michigan), 5 December 2018, page 6B:

  As an aro-ace college student, Sarah sometimes worries that her friendliness might be taken as flirtation.

• 2019, Danika Stone, Switchback, unnumbered page:

  Vale turned over the rest of the way. "Ash, I'm aro-ace."

• 2020, Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex, page 126:

  Lauren Jankowski, the aro-ace fantasy writer, wants to write about friendship, but has been told by literary agents that asexuality and aromanticism won't sell because they're not compelling enough.

• 2020, Joey Paul, Cramping Chronicles: The First Twinge, unnumbered page:

  I wouldn't tell him you're aro ace either.

• 2022, Ray Stoeve, Arden Grey, unnumbered page:

  "You're aro-ace. We're not." He shrugs. "You can't understand what it's like, to fall in love, to want to be with someone like that."

Noun: "(slang, neologism) a person who is aromantic and asexual"

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• 2016, Megan Swett, "Celebrating Queertober and the LGBT+ community", The Journal (University of Illinois, Springfield) 19 October 2016, pages 1 and 3:

  Stidham considers herself an "aroace," or an aromantic asexual.

• 2019, Aidan Wayne, Play It Again, unnumbered page:

  “Oh no you fucking won't, if I don't want said virtue. You'll make yourself scarce, like a good sex-repulsed aroace.”

• 2019, Hannah Lyons, "Pride", Rabelais (La Trobe University), Edition 2 (2019), page 30:

  I am the space between the word and the meaning,

  The difference between theory and practice

  (this aro/ace wil cut your hands)

• 2019, Grace Christiansen, "Deadman's Hand", Debate, August 2019, page 15:

  Walking through the world as an aro-ace, I experience a sense of isolation in my own feelings, or lack thereof, towards sex.

• 2020, Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex, page 163:

  (As aro aces say, not being romantically or sexually interested in others doesn't protect you from being treated badly if you're deemed romantically or sexually unworthy yourself.)