AUREA

On 12/1/2022 at 2:52 AM, Storm_leopardcat said:

Thank you so much, for responding so quickly, and informing us! I am glad to hear the survey is still going to happen, and much earlier (relatively) than I thought it would be!

Which languages is it being translated in? Perhaps you could ask for volunteers for AUREA, or for (translating) the survey, over here?

Thank you so much for your engagement with the Aro Census! We're working on translating the survey into 21 different languages and are fortunate enough to have most of the volunteers we need already. For anyone who's interested in volunteering we are still looking for additional support in translating  Catalan, Mandarin, French, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Philippine languages, Portuguese, Russian, Malay, Ukrainian and Bahasa Indonesian. You can apply to help with translation here.

If you're interested in volunteering with AUREA, but don't speak any of these languages you can see updates about our volunteer needs by following our social media or checking our volunteer page! 

@Storm_leopardcat @Jigen

Thank you for taking so much interest in the Aro Census! The next census is currently in the process of being translated into different languages. We are hoping to have the survey out by either December 2022 or January 2023, but because AUREA is an all volunteer organization it may take a little longer than planned. We appreciate everyone's patience and understanding as we complete the survey. 

If you want to follow the progress of the census you can check our website or follow our newsletter and social media for updates and the release of the next survey.

On 2/10/2021 at 11:50 PM, eatingcroutons said:

In my anecdotal experience it is true that a lot of aros aren't interested in having kids (myself included), and I can imagine that would absolutely make people who do want kids feel excluded, which sucks. I'm sorry.

I do have a few bits and pieces that relate to choosing to be a single parent in my rather shambolic personal collection of aro-related resources and links, in case any of these are helpful for anyone in this thread:

• This table shows countries where it is legal for a single LGBT parent to adopt
• Things to consider about adopting as a single parent (UK website but the tips are fairly general, with links to examples of success stories)
• Info pamphlet on adopting as a single parent (in the USA)
• Single Mothers By Choice, a network for, well, what the name says

Googling "single parent by choice" also brings up a bunch of communities, articles, and resources about choosing to be a single parent for whatever reason. Although these aren't generally aro-specific, maybe @AUREA could look into adding something representative to their General Resources, similar to the inclusion of Unmarried Equality? (Or if there isn't anything gender-neutral and representative, maybe a link to SMBC with a note that people may be able to find similar local groups by Googling?)

This is actually decent start to a collection of resources, and a wonderful idea for an addition to AUREA's resources! Thank you so much for the suggestion! We are currently looking into the resources you've shared, as well as possible others we can add to our website that might be able to help single aros looking to be parents. If anyone has such resources they'd like to share, please feel free to message us with them. 

Here's the round-up for our Aromantics Create Pride event. Take a look at all the wonderful entries!

https://www.aromanticism.org/en/news-feed/aromantics-created-pride

Submissions for Aros Create Pride are now closed! We'll send out e-mails to participants within this week.

Submissions close soon!

The event is meant to connect participants (i.e., all participants must submit something and give feedback), but we will be posting a full list of the pieces at the end of the event for everyone to view and comment on. We also want to mention that any kind of original work can count as creative - baking, flower arranging, pen doodling, etc. We have space in the submission form for those things, so long as they fit in the general length requirements. You don't have to be a creator in the sense that you create works regularly to participate in this event, and you can create something new between now and the submission deadline as well.

Submission for Aromantics Create Pride are now open! We will be accepting works until the 6th of July. 

AUREA is hosting a creative works event also: Aromantics Create Pride. It is our intention to boost the work of aromantics while also ensuring people get a positive comments and attention for their work. Just a simple: create a thing, praise a few things, and get some praise for your thing in return. 

For AUREA's one year anniversary we are launching Aromantics Create Pride! Submit your creation, leave a few comments on others' work, and in return have your work shared around the community and receive comments of your own. Learn more about the event and how you can take part here: https://www.aromanticism.org/en/news-feed/aromantics-create-pride

Thank you @Coyote @LauraG and @Mark for your feedback.

On 3/29/2020 at 10:38 PM, Coyote said:

"Do you consider yourself aromantic (on the aromantic spectrum)?"

• Related to this way of defining "aromantic" as a term, they told me this:
• "if any kind of arospec descriptor or orientation == aromantic, full stop, and if relating to arospec stuff to the extent that you disidentify with alloromanticism in any way == arospec, then I am unclear what 'partly, relate more to aromantic than alloromantic' is looking for"

 

We'll try to straighten it out logically, though we wanted the option for an answer for people who do feel that way.

On 3/29/2020 at 10:38 PM, Coyote said:

"Do you consider yourself cognitively/intellectually disabled?"

• They were confused about separating this from the neurodivergence question.
• It's unclear what exactly this question is asking about, and it's also unclear whether the conditions covered by this question are supposed to be mutually exclusive with the following questions on mental health issues and neurodivergence.

 

We'll define those terms in the next edition - intellectual disability, neurodivergence and mental illnesses.

On 3/29/2020 at 10:38 PM, Coyote said:

"When you asked someone out, have you often felt uncomfortable in a way that felt different from expected nervousness?"

• Answer options here included always options, usually options, and a never option.
• No option given for sometimes one way, sometimes another/no particular pattern.

 

Noted, we'll include some middle ground options.

On 3/29/2020 at 10:38 PM, Coyote said:

Some of the sex questions:

• "I've had sex with one or more..."
• "I usually have/had sex with one or more..."
• "This question applies to a pattern of sex life over an extended period of time, not sex with multiple partners at a time. I usually have/had sex..."
• Given the last one, they weren't sure what the difference was supposed to be between the first two.

 

First was meant to ask about the entirety of sexual history - all partners in relation to the participant, the second is meant to capture more common patterns in the person's sexual life. Those are based on the participant's relationships with  the people they have sex with. The last one asks how many people participants usually have sex with at a time.

On 3/30/2020 at 4:45 AM, LauraG said:

Suggestion for the future: please include "neither yes nor no" as an option on future surveys whenever there's a yes/no/unsure question (for me personally, this was an issue on the "is your partnership romantic" question, but I'm sure it will be a thing for others on other questions)

We'll add that.

4 hours ago, Mark said:

This is also the case with racial categories and terms to describe urban areas. Including, those such as Singapore, where the country comprises a single city state.

This may prove impossible to correct in a survey that's meant to be international.

4 hours ago, Mark said:

This seems an odd omission. Since I'd have expected those preparing the survey to be familiar with countries, such as the USA, which have a huge range of population density. With both isolated single dwellings and huge cities.

There are names assigned to each category, such as village or big city, but almost all categories also have objective, numerical brackets. Village (less than 999 people) covers single dwellings.

4 hours ago, Mark said:

The caveat to always include an "other" option applies here.
There also may be people who live on ships, military bases, etc.

We'll add that.

1 hour ago, Guest time-is-ticking said:

if i live on the country-side, what do i choose? i don't live in a village.

Please do choose village still, because it is the smallest option we have

This year, AUREA is leading the new Aro Census: a community-wide survey of people on the aromantic spectrum. The purpose of the census is to gain knowledge and through this, a better understanding of the aromantic community.

Participation is limited to persons identifying on the aromantic spectrum. If you are interested in potentially participating, follow this link for more information: https://forms.gle/zvit4Yvjfy6N1gGW7.

We'd like to reach aromantic people who aren't in touch with aro communities through social media, so please share with others who may be interested.

We have also previously suggested another option. @Momo has agreed to handling the technical end of things, while finances would be covered by several people.  @Lokiana and @Magni have offered to be moderators indefinitely, although ideally we'd like to take on dedicated mods who could devote their time more fully to the forums, as both Lokiana and Magni are committed to other projects. The downside of this plan is that this team would have less experience running a forum specifically. The upside is that we're in touch with aro communities and our members have been active on the forums. It would also stay unaffiliated with AVEN, it's culture, and asexual communities in general by keeping the forums separate. There were originally hesitancies over whether we should take over as AUREA, as we don't wish to monopolize the aro communities, or let our offer be just be a few members lending a hand.  In light of the developments however, it is possible for the AUREA team to take over maintaining the forums. We'd like to know what other offers are on the table eventually, too, as maybe there is one that would be more beneficial to the community.

AUREA was founded independently of the forums and combining them isn't possible right now. We're however talking to other groups about how to save the forums if no one takes over the responsibilities of Phoenix by March 29th.

Once again we are putting together a collection of aro thoughts and experiences!
 

As you may or may not know, the 'R' in AUREA stands for recognition, and we want to recognize just what it means to be aromantic. The future is an uncertain thing and as aromantics our paths will likely divert from what is considered the norm - tell us what your future looks like. 

If you'd like to share your thoughts write about your plans, a dream, a reality, or something in between. This piece will be titled 'My Aromantic Future', and you can click the link for more detail and/or to submit an entry: https://forms.gle/U6XvVwBDJnVtJNLk8

Edit and update: HERE is some ASAW information up on the AUREA site. More to come when the ASAW-dedicated site launches.

AUREA is working with representatives from Aro Official (who has run ASAW online in the past) and from aro and a-spec advocacy groups like TAAAP to get an official ASAW website up with resources and information. Part of what we're doing is contacting publications and different groups to help spread the word. We'll be boosting ASAW events happening online and offline, so if there are people here who are doing things, definitely let us know @AUREA. Individual aros are also always welcome to reach out or join us. It's important that we, as individuals, reach out in ways only individuals can, while AUREA and other formal organizations do their part as well.

On 12/14/2019 at 1:43 PM, eatingcroutons said:

Seriously though, AUREA cites the original coiners of the term and a comprehensive etymological history.

We do, in Basic Terms in the Glossary there's the Queeplatonic Relationship entry and at the bottom there are links to the website where the coining took place and a link to @Coyote's Genealogy of Queerplatonic post on Pillowfort.

20 hours ago, Coyote said:

Anyway, AUREA has been brought up a couple times now, so that's got me thinking, maybe I should ping @AUREA and ask for an official response. Or, alternatively, they do have those monthly "What's been going on in the community?" posts that it could be slotted into. Dunno how much of an audience they've built up for themselves yet, but hey, could be worth a shot.

Should anyone be interested in words used in the aromantic community and their meaning and history, we put together the Glossary with links to posts where such words or phrases were first used if possible. This is the case with the Queerplatonic Relationship entry too. This thread shows that the topic of the origins of QPRs is still one that aromantics are interested in talking about and we'll link to it in January's Whats's Going On post.

3 hours ago, sennkestra said:

Unfortunately as far as @AUREA, detailed aro community history (including the adjacent history of things like queerplatonic) with sources is actually something that don't really have much on in their resources yet, especially one that really explains the issues mentioned here (although that's understandable, because it's a missing resource almost everywhere). Does anyone know if there's a best way to nominate resources for the site (or at least the periodic "what's going on" linkspams?) I think some of the posts like the original Queerplatonic Geneology post might be good to include somewhere, and I also have another post about the history of early aro community spaces (c. 2010 to present) that I'm putting together at the moment. That might be easier than trying to start from scratch.  (I'll shoot an email over eventually, but figured I'd ping them here as well in the meantime)

You can always reach us through the e-mail, contact@aromanticism.org and we'd be grateful for tips about interesting topics, like that post about early aromantic community history for example

We don't have any resource collecting aromantic and aromantic adjacent history in our Resources section, because there doesn't exist a single comprehensive resource on this exact topic that we could lead people to. When it comes to the history of words, we collect the history of that in the Glossary where possible, so that people can have contact with the source. This is the case with the Queeplatonic Relationship entry and at the bottom there are links to the website where the coining took place and a link to @Coyote's Genealogy of Queerplatonic post on Pillowfort.

We are putting together a collection of aro thoughts and experiences.

As you may or may not know, the 'R' in AUREA stands for recognition, and we want to recognize just what it means to be aromantic. Being aromantic is such a personal thing, and there’s so much more to it then can be summed up by a simple definition like “experiences little to no romantic attraction". We want to showcase that.

Write about your identity, a dream, a reality, or simply what it’s like to you to be aromantic. This piece will be titled 'My Aromanticism', and you can click the link for more detail and/or to submit an entry:  https://forms.gle/c9z5YBPL4ZTupKoU9

We've made an AUREA-specific account (this one) to respond to anyone on Arocalypse from now on. This is to make it easier for you all to talk to the Team and understand what's coming from the official organization and what's just coming from us as individuals.

You can ping the Team by typing @AUREA.