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AUREA wants to hear your reflections on how you have experienced breaking up as an aromantic! Whether it's a single line or a couple of paragrahs, help us create a collection that showcases what aromantic breakups looks like: https://forms.gle/TjSjyPdBZrgc5fVCA
This form will close on November 18th.
I’ve never fallen in love because I’m too smart to fall for anything.
Shannon, an AUREA News Team member, uses National Coming Out Day as an opportunity to discuss why they chose not to come out.
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The Aromantic Spectrum Union for Recognition, Education, and Advocacy is becoming a nonprofit, and with that comes new opportunities for growth! Let us know what future projects and initiatives you want to see us prioritize here!
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Questions for religious aros:
Does your aromantic identity impact how you conceptualize agape/ holy and divine love?
Has the idea of divine love driven you away from certain spiritual practices?
Do you find the idea of divine love comforting when considering what it means to be loved/experience love as an aro person?
How does being a loveless aro impact your understanding of divine love?
How does being a lovequeer aro impact your understanding of divine love?
Questions for religious aros:
Does your aromantic identity impact how you conceptualize agape/ holy and divine love?
Has the idea of divine love driven you away from certain spiritual practices?
Do you find the idea of divine love comforting when considering what it means to be loved/experience love as an aro person?
How does being a loveless aro impact your understanding of divine love?
How does being a lovequeer aro impact your understanding of divine love?
AUREA is looking for a volunteer grant writer to join our team!
This position involves finding and applying for grants to fund AUREA's many different projects. It's a great opportunity to improve your grant writing skills while supporting the aromantic community!
Learn more about what it means to be an AUREA team member on our volunteer page.
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Question for Pagans and Polytheists
Question for Pagans and Polytheists
The Aromantic Spectrum Union for Recognition, Education, and Advocacy is becoming a nonprofit, and with that comes new opportunities for growth! Let us know what future projects and initiatives you want to see us prioritize here!
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Pantheism: The belief that everything is divine and the divine is in everything.
Panentheism: Similar to pantheism, but believes that divinity goes beyond everything while still also being everything.
Henotheism: Polytheism, but with a "main" deity. Like worshipping one but believing in others.
Pluriform monotheism: Monotheism, but you think all deities are a facets of one deity.
Soft polytheism: Polytheism, but you believe that the deities are more of an archetype rather than a concrete and separate being.
Hard polytheism: Polytheism where you see each god as a distinct and concrete being.
Check out all the different art pieces from Aro's Create Pride 2024!
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The local queer centrum asked us all to support the ban on conversion therapy in the EU initiative, so now it's My Job to do it seriously.
We still need so many signatures. Damn. So. Many. Signatures.
Come on people, we can do this!!
To my fellow European moots and followers, please sign this initiative to make conversion therapies illegal in all the EU.
We need 1M signatures and there's only 100k.
Just in Madrid, more than 1M people attended the PRIDE event. It's time to put our efforts where our words are.
AUREA is looking for web development volunteers! Learn more about this position and what it means to be an AUREA volunteer on our volunteer page.
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AUREA needs to raise $3500 by the end of August to become a registered nonprofit by the end of the calendar year!
Help AUREA become the first aro-spec specific non-profit in the world!
You can donate, find our budget breakdown, and learn more about what becoming a non-profit would mean for us here.
Donations of all sizes help us reach our goal! Donations of $25 or more will receive a link to an aro-spec game session in August.
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AUREA needs to raise $3500 by the end of August to become a registered nonprofit by the end of the calendar year!
Help AUREA become the first aro-spec specific non-profit in the world!
You can donate, find our budget breakdown, and learn more about what becoming a non-profit would mean for us here.
Donations of all sizes help us reach our goal! Donations of $25 or more will receive a link to an aro-spec game session in August.
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I can never tell which of my posts are going to explode (it is never ones I put work in) but I pray to God this one does
The past few weeks I have seen an explosion in doomerism and defeatism about Trump. Some people seem to have just decided to call the election for him for reasons that don't even make much sense
(He was almost shot and that always helps! Look at Reagan and Teddy Roosevelt! Reagan was already president and incredibly popular, and the shooting happened 2 months into his first term; Roosevelt was shot when he was campaigning in 1912....in an election he lost)
Trump has never been popular, he has never won the popular vote, and he has never had popular support. For the past 3 years, especially post Roe V. Wade, Democrats have increasingly overperformed especially in special elections. There were so many polls predicting 2022 would be a Red Wave, that turned out to be false due to faulty and biased polling. I'm not saying a Dem loss is impossible, but it is a lot less of a sure thing than the doomsayers are making it out to be
How does Trump win? Apathy. Despair. Low Turn Out. While many of the "Trump is guaranteed to win" posters I'm sure are real people who are justifiably scared, I think we underestimate just how many are people at home and abroad, who want a lower turnout, who want Trump to win.
I used to hear a joke growing up that "If voting did anything, they would make it illegal" Well considering how hard Republicans are trying to discourage voting and making it hard to do, it must do something.
Spread this far and wide. Tell your friends and your family. Make clear to them what is at stake if Trump wins.
Additionally, here are two volunteer organizations that I help out with
Vote Forward - write letters to encourage turnout
Working Family's Party - an organization working to help progressives win in primaries and general elections. I particularly like working in their text bank program. Want to help in a phone bank but don't like talking on the phone? this is perfect as you send texts to encourage support and voting
Postcards to Swing States (now includes Swing Districts!) https://www.turnoutpac.org/postcards/
Activate America (lots of actions to take, including postcards, phonebooks, canvassing): https://www.activateamerica.vote/
Pizza to the Polls: all about donations but their efforts are fantastic! https://polls.pizza
Blue Wave Postcards: https://shop.bluewavepostcards.org
