ciswashed:

The ace community is also notoriously white & racist. It completely ignores the nonconsensual sexualization of non-white bodies. The role that colonisation has played in creating a completely separate sexual history for its victims, including forced asexuality and forced sexuality. How non-white ppl are viewed as inherently sexual from even a young age—barred from being seen as innocent, pure, and nonsexual in a way that white people can without repercussion. Locked into hypersexualised standards, fetishisation, and even desexualisation that erases their ace experiences.

White aces ignore their privilege in this discourse, and even listening to one group of non-white aces is different from another—there is no homogenous experience. It’s different for native aces, black aces, (non-white) Latinx aces, Asian aces, etc. There is a way to be ace besides being white & ace. There is a way to be ace besides being white & ace.