Events

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Join us for our Aro/Ace Talk Series this summer!

Every week on Friday at 3 pm (UK time, exception noted in schedule), we will be joined by researchers, academics, and activists who will give us insight into their projects and current topics in aro/ace research. We are very excited to host such amazing panelists and discuss their research together with the wider aro/ace community!

The talks will take place online on zoom and there is no registration required!
They are free and open for everyone to attend – find the link to join below.

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Schedule

5 June
Space, Place, and Asexuality: Introducing Asexual Geographies
Rachel Bayer and Joe Jukes

12 June
Aromantic Sense of Belonging to Queer and Aromantic Communities
Alex Jacquemot-Krupp

19 June
"If only there was more": Aceness in Online Fandom – A Case Study of Baldur's Gate 3
Polina Smirnova

26 June
Panel on Asexual Activism
Yasmin Benoit, Sally Ogongo and Sofía from Aces Uruguay

3 July
The Queerly Platonic: Studying Love, Friendship, and Pleasure
Theressa N Kenney

10 July
Asexual SI*t: A Reading & Discussion About the So-Called Contradiction
Sophie Gusenko

17 July
Rest, Rot, Redaction: Dwelling on Ace and Aro Refusals
KJ Cerankowski

24 July
Between Erasure and Agency: Disabled Asexual Lives in India
Malavika and Bibhuti M. Kachhap

31 July (1pm)
Global Asexualities and Aromanticisms: Scholar-Activist Reflections on the Erotics of Editing
Ela Przybyło and Yo-Ling Chen

7 August
TBD
lanna Hawkins Owen

Reading Group
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Past Events

  • Shouldn’t It Be Loverly?
    The Aro/Ace Origins of My Fair Lady

    19 February 2026 | 7pm | The Bookish Type, Leeds (in-person)
    An Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week Event

    The 1956 musical and 1964 film adaptation of My Fair Lady are among the most referenced love stories in modern media. At this event for Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week, Dr JT Welsch (University of York) will explore the roots of this romantic classic and what it reveals about the erasure of asexual and aromantic (aro/ace) experiences from (queer) history. 

  • Laurin Tirpitz and Ela Przybyło organised a workshop “On Asexualites. Crossdisciplinary Perspectives” on 6&7 December 2025 in Berlin. Many network members attended, presented, and had productive discussions with other asexuality studies scholars, activists, and community members.
    Workshop Website: https://laurin.tirpitz.me/event/aceworkshop25/

  • 21 October 2025, 10-12 a.m.

    The first activity of the network was an online networking meeting for members to introduce themselves and their research, exchange ideas, and shape the direction of the network.

  • The Aromanticism & Asexuality Research Network was launched to coincide with Ace Week (19-25 October 2025).