Asexual Awareness Week – Exploring Asexuality and Its Many Facets

From October 20 to 26, we’re shining a light on Asexual Awareness Week – a time to explore and understand the diversity within asexuality.

By the way, this week was International Pronouns Day. Maybe it passed by unnoticed – or maybe it made you pause for a moment.

Here’s the short version:

For many people, pronouns are just words.For others, they’re the first time they feel seen.

Asexual Awareness Week – Why Visibility Creates Space

October 15. For most, just another ordinary day in October. But globally, October 15 marks International Pronouns Day –a day that invites us to reflect on our own and others’ ways of being through language.Often overlooked, yet fundamental to respectful communication.

Especially within the queer context, it’s not about labels – it’s about recognition.

Not about demands – but about being acknowledged.

And that brings us right into today’s topic:

Asexual Awareness Week, which takes place every year at the end of October,navigates the same balancing act – between visibility and understanding, between existence and acceptance.

And the simple truth:

Just because something doesn’t matter to medoesn’t mean it can’t hold deep meaning for someone else.

After all – not everyone likes football either.

What Is Asexuality?

Asexuality describes a sexual orientation in which a person experiences little or no sexual attraction to others.

That doesn’t mean they don’t want closeness, love, or relationships.

It simply means that sexuality is not a central or necessary part of their interpersonal experience.

Some asexual people also describe themselves as romantic – for example, homoromantic, biromantic, or aromantic –

to express the direction in which their emotional or romantic attraction develops.

Others experience attraction only rarely or under specific circumstances(demisexual, grey-ace, etc.).

In short:The asexual community is as diverse as any other –

and yet it is still often overlooked, misunderstood, or even ridiculed.

Why This Matters – Even If You’re Not Affected

I’m not asexual myself.I don’t personally know anyone who identifies that way.

And that’s exactly why I’m writing this post.

Because visibility doesn’t mean everyone has to be personally affected.

It means creating space where people no longer have to justify who they are –where they’re simply allowed to be.

I hope we learn to listen to the quiet voices, too.That we don’t only pay attention once people have to shout to be heard.And that we begin to understand:

Diversity isn’t always loud, colorful, or expressive.Sometimes, it’s quiet. Subtle. Sensitive.

Looking Ahead: Intersex Awareness Day – October 26

Right after Asexual Awareness Week comes Intersex Awareness Day –

another important reminder to expand our perspectives.

Intersex people are still too often ignored – medically, socially, and legally –

or even “corrected” without their consent.

Here, too, the message is simple:

You don’t have to be affected to care.But you can start asking questions.

You can listen, learn, reflect.

More on this next Saturday, 6 PM CET.

Because visibility isn’t a trend.It’s a necessity.

Stay curious – and if you’d like, share this post with someone who might be hearing about it for the first time.