Introduction

According to the Ecology Global Network there are approximately 360,000 births per day in this world. When someone is born in a hospital one of the first things the doctors do is assign the child a sex based off of the biological parts present. From there the rest of the world takes over in making assumptions about the child’s gender based off of the assigned sex. As Sam Killerman said in The Social Justice Advocate’s Handbook: A Guide to Gender, “Gender identity is our internal response to a social construction that attempts to make a connection between a person’s biological makeup and their eventual role in society.” Gender is a socially constructed idea and often in this society it is assumed that one’s gender matches their assigned sex, or it is assumed that both of the previous match up with the individual’s gender expression. From there people also assume that one’s sexual or romantic orientations fit into neat normative boxes that coincide with gender expression and identity, and sex. In actuality though, these assumptions just are not reliable. With 360,000 births a day there will be some babies that are not born just male or female, there will be some babies that don’t identify as men or women, and there will be some babies that are not attracted to the opposite sex. The goal of this blog is to define and discuss a few of the many identities and orientations that people possess and to show that as a society we simplify topics we should not. There is beauty in diversity, so let’s shine a light upon it.


http://www.ecology.com/birth-death-rates/

Monday, April 13, 2015

Aromantic

   The society we live in is in love with the very idea of love. We have entire holidays devoted to love (i.e. Valentine’s Day). It is often assumed that a strong and lasting romantic relationship will be near the top of each person’s list of life goals. Although, some people just don’t feel these impulses. Some people do not experience romantic attraction. This orientation is called aromantic. People that are aromantic are completely capable of caring for other individuals or having emotional connections, but these relationships are purely platonic. 

    There is however a whole spectrum of romantic orientations that are similar, but not necessarily interchangeable with aromanticism. To name a few, there are demiromantics (people that only experience romantic attraction after a close bond has been formed), grayromantics (people who rarely experience romantic attraction), akoiromantics (people that experience romantic attraction but lose the attraction once it is reciprocated), WTFromantics (people that are unsure where they stand on the spectrum between aromanticism and romanticism or they cannot differentiate between platonic attraction and romantic attraction), and romance-repulsed (they experience romantic feelings, but some or all romantic gestures are repulsive to them). 

https://lgbtq.unc.edu/asexuality-attraction-and-romantic-orientation
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