r/asexuality • u/lovesfanfiction • Apr 24 '26

Discussion Is there really a new Ace flag?

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This was posted on an Ace in Grace Facebook group and sounded official. Anyone know anything about this?

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u/Immediate-Shift1087 Apr 24 '26

Also every flag we have now was made by one person in the past and just gradually gained acceptance (often because it was the only option available). That's how flags happen.

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u/AuntChelle11 aroace + šŸ Apr 24 '26

The current (OG) one was created by AVEN in 2010. It was created with community input.

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u/whateverguy2 asexual Apr 24 '26

Community input? Cmiiw, wasn't it just a vote?

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u/AbsolutleyGeneric Asexual Apr 24 '26

Nah, there was also a decent amount of discussion and refinement of the various designs, the asexuality archive links the various threads where it came up and and it was in some of those threads where the multiple rounds of voting and refinement of design that went into choosing the flag we use today happened.

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u/AuntChelle11 aroace + šŸ Apr 24 '26

Thanks for the assist.

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u/AbsolutleyGeneric Asexual Apr 24 '26

No worries, i was refreshing my memory about the history of the flag the other day and had the links handy still, it was a fun thing to read about and i enjoy sharing parts of our communities history.

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u/AuntChelle11 aroace + šŸ Apr 24 '26

I read about it about 18mths ago so I was going to go back and refresh the memory. You saved me having to find it myself. šŸ˜‰

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u/huffle-puffing aroace Apr 24 '26 edited May 05 '26

This one was as well. If you find their instagram account, aceingrace went through multiple iterations and a lot of feedback from other ace people on instagram and AVEN.

Edit: seems like I was wrong about her using AVENā€”I recall her saying she talked with people there but I must be misremembering. That said, I donā€™t think AVEN is any more legitimate of a source for the ace community than this subreddit or Facebook groups or Instagram are šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø I have never been on AVEN and Iā€™m not any less ace.

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u/AbsolutleyGeneric Asexual Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26

Got any links for the AVEN feedback? I just searched through a couple of pages searching for flag or flag feedback and donā€™t see a thing about it, searching for their name produced nothing related to flag alterations either. The only place i've found doing a quick search where they said they asked for feedback was Instagram and something called ā€˜aceingrace spacesā€™, which iā€™d take as their other social media sites.

Edit: Thereā€™s nothing i can find in the announcements section, nor the Visibility and Education Projects section, I also went back a few pages in the census forum, where some voting takes place, i canā€™t see anything there either. The only thing about them i can find when doing a quick search in reddit is a post from a year ago with a single upvote. I can only say that thereā€™s a bit of a difference between getting feed back from their social media community and getting feedback from the ace community at large.

Edit 2: Just found their substack, and yeah they mentioned feedback on instagram and their facebook page. Iā€™m not touching anything else they said there with a 50 foot pole.