Asexual Awareness Week

Asexual Awareness Week
Date During October
2015 date October 19th to October 25th
2016 date October 23th to October 29th[1]
Frequency Annually
Related to ITOV (add link)

Asexual Awareness Week occurs in the later half of October, and is created to both celebrate asexual, aromantic, demisexual, and grey-asexual pride and promote awareness.[2]

Goals

The goals of Asexual Awareness Week include the following:

Observances

Asexual Awareness Week is an international week organized by the Asexual Awareness Week (AWW) organisation to help increase people's understanding of the sexualities and romantic spectrum that fall under the 'Ace Umbrella'. These can include asexual, aromantic, demisexual, and grey-asexual among them. It is designed to help promote understanding of what these sexualities are and the current issues people face. This is conducted by using the dedicated week to promote relevant material online, through LGBT groups, and media outlets. This media includes pamphlets, articles, interviews, documentaries and videos.[3][4] A number of university unions also promote the week.[5][6]

Asexual Awareness Week and Transgender Day of Visibility are different from the better-known Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR); TDOR specifically remembers the deceased.

References

  1. "Asexual Awareness Week â€" Asexuality SF". Asexualitysf.org. 2015-10-14. Retrieved 2016-10-05.
  2. "AAW - About Us". asexualawarenessweek.com. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  3. Nichols, JamesMichael. "'Everything's A-Okay' -- Celebrating Asexual Awareness Week (VIDEO)". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  4. "AsexualAwarenessWeek". YouTube. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  5. "Leeds University Union". Leeds University Union. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  6. "First-ever Asexual Awareness Week at U of T". The Varsity. Retrieved 2016-01-03.

External links

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