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Hey y'all! I'm hosting another MA fundraising raid train to help out my lovely friend @shannonbiersack.bsky.social If you'd like to join the raid train check out the description here: raidpal.com/en/event/sha... If you'd like to dono before the train starts: pally.gg/p/shantober-ma #mutualaid

A square infographic. The background is red with some ornate black gothic designs on it. In the center of the graphic is a square frame with a transparent white background. At the top of the frame in bold text is the title, which reads "Shantober Mutual Aid Raid Train". Tucked just under the title and to the right is smaller text that reads "Hosted by Buzbee". The body text reads "Shan is a queer, disabled, BIPOC content creator. Currently, Shan has $600 in debt that she is trying to pay off, as well as a changing roommate situation that is causing her to face challenges with rising living costs. Anything raised to help them prepare for and cover extra living expenses would be greatly appreciated! The goal will be $1,000, with milestone incentives provided for every $100 raised, alongside whatever incentives participating streamers decide on". The date for the train is October 23rd-25th, starting at 8am PDT.

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Max_Confused7 @max-confused7.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just made 24 pride flower pins for my ko-fi store! They're 2.25 in (5.7 cm) wide. Available on my store!!! I have a 99% off sale on everything until October 20th!!! ko-fi.com/maxs_crafts #pride #prideflag #gay #lesbian #pansexual #asexual #bisexual #pridepins #buttonpins #pins #trans #transgender

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Banana's Art (Comms Open) @jbananasaurus.bsky.social · 15h

Here's a timeline, updated to last October, on JK Rowling's frankly baffling plummet into bigotry. www.them.us/story/timeli... There is no ethical consumption of Harry Potter. Period. #nonartpost

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There is NO ethical consumption of Harry Potter.
JK Rowling views engagement with HP to be support for her views.
Those views include attacks on/funding against transgender people, women she doesn't consider female enough, intersex and asexual people, and even Scottish people.
Do not give her free advertising.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you see anyone dressed or claiming to be a federal agent, ICE or otherwise, call the nationwide nonpartisan Election Protection voter hotline at 866-OUR-VOTE, and notify a local election official. We Keep Us Safe!

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just for fun and your knowledge, I'm going to be running a history of queer romance course next year through the Uni of Liverpool. Online and for everyone. I *think* it's the first of it's type in the UK but I could be wrong?

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Melissa Molina | MM Consulting CPA @mmconsulting.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Two banned books, two reasons they matter: Sold (Patricia McCormick)2025's #1 most challenged book, exposes trafficking rather than glorifying it. Gender Queer (Maia Kobabe)challenged 5 times, gives nonbinary/asexual readers a story that reflects them. Both keep getting pulled. 📚

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kay taylor rea @kaytaylorrea.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is probably my favorite Rachel Reid romance. Features neurodivergent4neurodivergent shenanigans that I loved. Much less angsty than most of the Game Changers series, but still m/m hockey romance. A chaotic bisexual forward superstar son of a retired superstar meets a Very Anxious aspec goalie.

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VoteRiders @voteriders.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

TODAY, October 5, is your last chance to register to vote in November's election if you live in these states! 👇 Get the ID and information you need to register, vote, and make your voice heard at VoteRiders.org/VOTE ⭐

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Perkins Library @perkinslibrary.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Based on data from the American Library Association, unfortunately, documentation of challenged books rose to 4,235 titles in 2025, the second highest number ever recorded. 📈 #BannedBooksWeek Check out and read 2025's most banned books by reaching out to Perkins Library.

Book cover: Sold
Description: A series of poems tell the story of a Nepalese schoolgirl who is sold into prostitution. She discovers hope when an American comes to the brothel in India to rescue the girls.

Book cover: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Description: Charlie is a high school freshman reeling from his only friend's recent suicide. He describes making friends with two seniors and growing up with their help.

Book cover: Gender Queer
Description: Started as a way to for the author to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, this memoir is a useful and touching guide on gender identity.

Book cover: Empire of Storms
Description: As monsters emerge from the horrors of the past, and dark forces become poised to claim her world, the only chance for salvation will lie in a desperate quest that may mark the end of everything Aelin holds dear.

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Phenomena Press @phenomenapress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's October 👻 That means it's release month for 'Phantasms & Phenomena' Our paranormal anthology is out just in time for Halloween, and it's perfect for anyone looking for paranormal short stories—all featuring aspec characters! #booksky #queerbooksky

The image is of the 'Phantasms & Phenomena' book cover - which has the title, a subtitle reading 'An Aspec Paranormal Anthology' and 'Phenomena Press' down the bottom. There are two ghostly figures walking through a foggy, spectral forest with a crescent moon through the trees

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 04/10/2026

The next No Kings Day is almost here. Let’s make it clear that We The People won’t let the fascists sabotage the midterms: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

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Banned Books Week @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's finally here! Are you ready to join us in kicking off #BannedBooksWeek?! This year's event is too big for just one piece of art, so we have THREE! #LetBooksBe bannedbooksweek.org

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Infloresce Records @infloresce.com · 28/09/2026

Infloresce Vol. 3 Aphrodisiac Our third collective album, exploring sexuality/asexuality 🌼 Website: infloresce.com/infloresce-vol-3-aphrodisiac 🌼 Bandcamp: infloresce.bandcamp.com/album/infloresce-vol-3-aphrodisiac — Art by @aggelicyiok.bsky.social

Album cover for Infloresce Vol. 3 - Aphrodisiac. A classical art-inspired illustration of a knight in silver armor floating in a pond filled with flowers and lilypads. The knight’s hair blends into the dark water, and her face is content with pleasure as two naked nymphs embrace her, while one of the nymphs gently kisses her lips.

Album and zine now on Bandcamp.

Album cover and zine cover, both based on the same classical art-inspired illustration of a feminine knight in armor being embraced by two nymphs.

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

Trans Authors, For Trans Awareness Month (exact dates Nov 1st-15th), I'm putting together a Trans SciFi & Fantasy Bundle. (Note: its best to submit a book you won't be using for my Trantasy & Queer Fantasy bundle, running Dec 20th -Jan something 😉) Sign up form: is on my discord or I can DM it!

Trans Fantasy & SciFi
Itch Bundle
Nov 1-15th

Eligibility & Genre:
The author is trans -including nonbinary- and the book is some form of Fantasy or Scifi.
Plot-central trans (and LGBTQIA+) themes are welcome, but not required.

Genre NOTE: I am hosting a Trantasy Bundle in Dec (20th-Jan 10th) for fantasy, so if you wish to participate in that too, please enter a different book in each bundle, if possible.

Preorders: Pre-orders are welcome, if your book releases within 5 weeks of the bundle's end date. Please state the release date in your Itch book description, so readers know when they can download your book.

Categories: YA and Adult Fiction, novellas and full length novels.

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LGBTQ+ Equity Center @lgbtqequity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A full schedule of presentations will be released at the beginning of October. To RSVP or sign up to present, go to go.umd.edu/AceWeek. If you’re interested in presenting, you have until October 7th to sign up for a slot. For access needs, accommodations, and questions, please contact lgbtq@umd.edu.

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Asexual Awareness Week Registration

Help the LGBTQ+ Equity Center put together an Asexual Awareness Week Event by filling out this form! The Asexual Awareness Week Celebration will take place on Wednesday, October 28th from 12pm to 4pm.

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Jared Boot-Haury, PsyD, MBA, ABPP (they/them) @jaredboot-haury.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am pleased to share a newly approved fact sheet on asexuality from APA Division 44: Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, which I co-authored with Dr. Alex Luxon. It is available here www.apadivisions.org/division-44/... @avenofficial.bsky.social @asexualityarchive.com 🖤 🩶 🤍 💜

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Mother Frog Slut // Steward of Giant Reptiles @toadcialism.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Friday jewelry thread time! 🦎💎 NEW amazing sparklies at Varanid Paradise, limited quantity restocks of designs that popped off, and vibes for spooky season! Check em out! 🧵 #bsnm #jewelry

Black and fiery blue Czech glass dragon scale earrings

Long earrings with red dragon skin teardrops and black spikes

Bi pride czech glass dragon scale earrings

Long wildberry metallic blue and silver ringmail earrings with spikes on the bottom

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greys 🐰 @greys.is · 02/10/2026

Lol I just got temp suspended on IG for trying to use the 🏳️‍⚧️ emoji for the link to this. If this pisses you off as much as it does for me, please help by sharing it as widely as possible! 🏳️‍⚧️💖 Might add another run if it goes well as an extra 🖕. Trans+ folks will not be censored out of existence.

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flynn the seal 🦭⋆ orcatober 26 @flynntheseal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

hi friends i'd love it if you'd consider nominating me for the following categories: - LGBTQIA+ creator of the year - mental health advocate of the year - charity/mutual aid creator of the year - the self care award or any others that you think would fit <3

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LGBTQ+ Equity Center @lgbtqequity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

To commemorate Asexual Awareness Week, the LGBTQ+ Equity Center will be hosting a celebration on Wednesday, October 28th from 12pm-4pm in 2411 Marie Mount Hall. Join us for a mini-conference of ace presentations, discussions, and activities from members of the UMD Community!

Asexual-flag colored (purple, black, white) flyer with orange accents advertising the LGBTQ+ Equity Center’s Ace Week Celebration, outlining event details as listed in the caption.

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Q Minnesota @qminnesota.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Q Minnesota is HERE! Our first issue is out and our website is live! Read the stories and find a FREE copy near you qminnesota.com Got your issue? Snap a photo and tag us! We’d love to repost and see where Q is showing up.

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🌈📚 FANTASY NOVELLA SERIES May contain... 🧡 Friends meeting in dangerous circumstances 💜 Bonding through board games 💙 A roadtrip in a sentient Wagon 🧡 Aromantic, asexual, and non-binary MCs 💜 Plenty of fantasy mysteries SERIES DISCOUNT TO CELEBRATE THE NEW RELEASE: itch.io/s/200863/fra...

A banner with a title saying “The Chronicles of Nerezia” with banners for nine covers. Arrows go from one to the others, and the background changes as it goes. The last two novellas are blank rectangles. At the bottom is written “Your story is my story…”

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Lady Geeks Media @ladygeeksmedia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Olive's demisexuality, and the way it informs her arc, is one of the most surprisingly beautiful parts of #TheLoveHypothesis. Read all about it in our feature: ladygeeksmedia.com/2026/10/01/w...

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Why We Love That The Love Hypothesis Adaptation Kept Olive's Demisexuality

The Love Hypothesis adaptation acknowledging Olive's demisexuality in canon is everything to us.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

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TenderAsHell❤️ @tenderashell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ace & Aro OFMD Fandom Survey results are in! 💜💚 Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who participated, 157 responses far exceeded my expectations Recommend viewing on desktop instead of mobile if you are able, tinyurl.com/yb695t57 #OFMD #OurFlagMeansDeath #Aromantic #Asexual

Graphic for the Ace & Aro Our Flag Means Death Fandom Survey. The background is a pale blue. The header text is a purple handwritten font. The body text reads: "A community survey for asexual and aromantic fans of Our Flag Means Death, conducted anonymously July - Aug 2026". On the left side of the text there is an image of a green bottle with a letter inside and on the right is a matching purple bottle.

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Rachel Bayer @rachelbayer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Really looking forward to being part of this hybrid session with Academic Aspec* Berlin next week! If you want to learn more and chat about asexual geographies, we'd love to have you! 7pm Berlin / 6pm Ireland.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 29/09/2026

What's on your bookshelf that the Internet Archive doesn't have? There's an app for that. Scan a book's barcode or ISBN to see whether the Internet Archive needs it for preservation and digitization. Scan your shelves. Save a book. help.archive.org/help/donate-... 🧵

Four "Tools You Can Use" Upload campaign tiles arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top left, a cream and yellow tile with a folder icon reading "Upload" and "Contribute digital materials that you have the right to share." Top right, a cream tile with bold black text: "Upload digital materials to help preserve and share knowledge with people around the world." Bottom left, a cream tile with a screenshot of the Internet Archive's Upload files page, with the "UPLOAD" nav link and "Choose files to upload" button circled in red. Bottom right, a cream tile with bold black text, "Contribute digital materials that you have the right to share," and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building.

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Ace Community Survey Team @acecommunitysurvey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Explore where our 2024 respondents are based! Want to boost your country's share in the next survey? Keep a look on our socials... Full report and translations are in our bio #asexual #asexuality #ace #aro #aromanticism #acecommunitysurvey #demisexual #demisexuality #graysexual #graysexuality

Four in ten ace respondents (42.8%) lived in the United States of America at the time of the survey. About one in ten aces lived in Germany (10.4%) and the United Kingdom (9.3%), and 5.5% lived in Canada. Fewer than one in 20 ace respondents lived in Italy (3.4%), France (2.4%), Australia (2.3%), the Netherlands (2.0%), Spain (1.9%), Poland (1.7%), Brazil (1.4%), Finland (1.3%), or Hungary (1.2%). An additional 14.5% of ace respondents lived in other countries

By continent, close to half of ace respondents (48.4%) lived in Northern America, and four in ten lived in Europe (40.5%). About one in 20 ace respondents lived in Latin America and the Caribbean (4.7%), 3.0% lived in Oceania, 3.0% lived in Asia, and only 0.3% lived in Africa. Continents are defined in accordance with the United Nations (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistics Division, n.d.).

To balance the effect of more populous countries producing higher numbers of respondents,
the following table shows the number of ace survey respondents per one million inhabitants in
each country. For example, there were 18.5 aces who completed the 2024 Survey for every one
million inhabitants of Finland.

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Tired Art Goblin @spaceturtleart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am not trans, but learning the word "asexual" was a similar revelation. Suddenly there was a word for this thing I'd been feeling my whole life. Keeping kids ignorant of queerness doesn't stop them being queer, just keeps them miserable.

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York St John University @yorkstjohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Join us as we welcome Yasmin Benoit, model, multi-award-winning asexual activist, writer, speaker, media consultant and researcher, to our York campus for what will be an incredible and insightful event. 👇 www.yorksj.ac.uk/events/upcom...

Black History Month
Yasmin Benoit

"A sexuality, intersectionality and being the "unlikely Face of Asexuality"

Thursday 29 October 5.30 - 7.00 pm

Free to attend

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We actually don't hate this administration enough

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May Barros 🇧🇷🏳️‍⚧️ 📚💙 @ Commissions open! @maybarros.com.br · 28/09/2026

I'm a queer Brazilian writer and artist and my work focuses on aspec representation in fantasy stories. Learn more at maybarros.com.br 💚 🌈📚 💙📚 📢📚

Promo image with the covers of A Study on Magic and Crystals, by May Barros and Journey Home, also by May Barros that says "Queerplatonic Relationships in Fantasy"

The cover of A Study on Magic and Crystals shows he main characters: a fairy with short pink hair, white skin and pink wings; a black human princess with afro hair, wearing a pearly crown and a yellow ballgown, while she makes crystals float between her hands; and a human necromancer with white skin, black chanel hair and a skeletal cat on her shoulder.

The cover of Journey Home shows Amara, a fat witch with long brown hair with a concerned expression, flying on a broom after Luiza, a skinny witch with short ginger hair, who is on the background with a mischievous grin flying in a skate-broom. The background shows two planets.

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BreadPanes 🍔🏳️‍🌈 @breadpanes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've never seen this done, I'd really like to see how asexual people measure up on this.

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Q Minnesota @qminnesota.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meet Q writer Cindy Mundahl (she/her)! In an excerpt from Reclamation: An Asexual & Aromantic Journey to Wholeness, she reflects on letting go of the pressure to find romantic love and discovering belonging in her life. Read it October 1 in Q’s debut issue.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 25/09/2026

Millions of Americans will take action on October 17 to make it clear to the regime that we won’t sit by while they threaten to sabotage the midterms. Join a No Kings event to drive massive early voting and recruit tons of volunteers to help protect our elections: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

(around a map showing the more than 1,000 events planned for the next No Kings on October 17) NO KINGS
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17
MAKE A PLAN TO VOTE EARLY!

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Ace of Hearts @aceofhearts.quest · 26/09/2026

Ace Week starts in less than a month! If you're interested in contributing a fundraising stream in support of @translifeline.org on your own schedule between October 25–31, please fill out our interest check: forms.gle/ggxHnXj4gJz4...

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Ace of Hearts Ace Week 2026 Interest Check

After a wonderful International Asexuality Day raid train in April, which raised more than $250 for Point of Pride, we're thinking about how to celebrate Ace Week from October 25-31, 2026 while raisin...

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Julie Sondra Decker @juliesondra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's so, so odd that so many transphobic people are offended by being called transphobic. They often default to insisting they Just Want Trans People To Be Safe And Happy (by "recognizing" that they're just mentall ill apparently), then every other post is "WOMAN IS ACTUALLY MAN. MAN MAN. MANNYMAN."

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Kate Sloan (she/her) @katesloan.com · 25/09/2026

NEW for premium subscribers: “It’s never really about the sex”: thoughts on One Night Only katesloan.email/archive/it-s... I watched the "sex purge" movie and wrote about its horrifying political implications, plus a few things I liked about it.

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“It’s never really about the sex”: thoughts on One Night Only

“Have you seen the trailer for the sex purge movie?” asked a cinephile friend of mine a couple months ago. When I shook my head, his eyes widened and he...

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phoenix-05 @phoenix-05.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

right.. no evidence exists. hm......

screenshot showing that J.K. Rowling liked a tweet that said "Atleast the Taliban know what a woman is" quoting someone talking about how they were compared to the Taliban for supporting trans people's existence in society

tweet from the utter genius of J.K. Rowling with an image about International Asexuality Day that says "Happy International Fake Oppression Day to everyone who wants complete strangers to know they don't fancy a shag."

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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 24/09/2026

Anyway, how much are you paying for gas in your area? 🙃

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