acespec

acespec

English

Alternative forms

• ace-spec

Etymology

ace (“asexual”) +‎ spec (“spectrum”)

Adjective

acespec (comparative more acespec, superlative most acespec)

1. (neologism) Belonging or related to the asexual spectrum.
   • 2017, Melissa Reph, "You might not like hearing this, but I don't like 'Riverdale'", The Muhlenberg Weekly (Muhlenberg College), 26 October 2017, page 3:

     For the show to completely and utterly ignore this is huge since there are very few representations of aro and ace-spec people in media of any kind.

   • 2020, Will, quoted in "Questions Of The Month", AVENues Newsletter, July-September 2020, page 23:

     Be open to ALL acespec folx! No matter what other identities intersect with their acespec identity and no matter how they behave in whatever types of relationships they may have.

   • 2021, Patricia Kennon, "Asexuality and the Potential of Young Adult Literature for Disrupting Allonormativity", International Journal of Young Adult Literature, Volume 2, Issue 1 (link):

     While there can still be a tendency for allosexual characters in YA science fiction to perform conscious and unconscious microaggressions against ace, acespec, aro and arospec characters, some recent novels manage to challenge the aphobic presumption of compulsory sexuality, and to ultimately create and sustain asexual-inclusive speculative worlds.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:acespec.

Hypernyms

• a-spec