Angled Aroace

An angled aroace is a person that is both ace-spec and aro-spec (though not necessarily strictly aromantic and asexual) who experiences sort form of attraction that they feel is significant enough to warrant a place alongside their aro-spec and ace-spec identities. This attraction can be a tertiary attraction, sexual attraction, or romantic attraction. The term was intended to be used by those who are not strictly aroace (suptiliaromantic and suptiliasexual).

For example, someone who is demisexual, demiromantic, panalterous, would be angled aroace, based on experiencing a form of non-romantic, non-sexual attraction that is significant enough to warrant a place alongside their aroace orientation. As another example, someone who aromantic, greyasexual, bisexual would also be considered angled aroace due to specifying their sexual attraction, while still being ace-spec.

History
The term angled aroace is similar to oriented aroace (which primarily indicates aroace with tertiary attraction), and it was created by Tumblr user Black-aros on March 24, 2019 in response to claims that oriented aroace is only for strictly aromantic asexuals.

Flag
The angled aroace flag was posted by Black-Aros on March 24, 2019, shortly after announcing the term. The yellow stripes were chosen as an opposite of the blue of the oriented flag. The light brown gradient beneath them meant as a visually-appropriate parallel to the gray gradient of the aromantic and asexual flags.

An alternate flag was made by the same person (now Official-AngledAroace) on March 31, 2019. The flag colors were made to look like more traditional Aspec flags, with the bottom two changed to grey and black.

The five-stripe redesign was created by an anonymous wiki user on October 1, 2020. It was designed to mimic the original flag, as to stay true to the symbolism and original meaning, while also making it easier on the eyes. It is also meant to be easier to distinguish between colors.

Coining
"Angled

''So, recently I learned something that hurt a bit, but it was my fault for not knowing. Honestly I was probably the only one not in the know?? Cuz like it just seems like something everyone else knew apparently. But yeah: oriented AroAce is only for people who are flat out aromantic and asexual. And so I’ve decided instead of being upset I would coin my own term that I hope will become as close to me as that label had been for the short while I thought it was mine, and that this could become cemented in the aspec community. I’m calling it Angled AroAce. Examples of how to use it would be: Bi Angled AroAce, Lesbian Angled AroAce, etc. Angled AroAce is a term for arospec aces, aro acespecs, and arospec acespecs. If we want to be specific, you would say for example: Bi Angled Demiro Ace, Lesbian Angled Aro Grayce, etc. I myself would be a Bi Angled AroAce, and to be specific, a Bi Angled Aro(spec) Grayce. I chose the word Angled because it is a synonym with oriented and also I liked the triple A of Angled Aro Ace. I chose a synonym to oriented because these concepts of oriented aroace and Angled aroace are similar, obviously. That is all I had to say about that and I hope I have made a good contribution to the community.''

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- Black-Aros, 2019