click for The PETITION link!
If you follow me on social media you might have noticed I am actively tweeting and posting about a petition and #VerifyAVEN, in this blog I will explain a bit about this for people who have not heard about it, don't really get it or want more information.
when I talk about asexuality I also am talking about aromantics to cause they need more support and arent recognized too.
I started a petition to Verify AVEN, this is mainly about twitter because they are verified on Facebook, only recently joined insta{we will see if they get verified there} and they are on Tumblr but Tumblr does not verify accounts.
I made the petition to see if people agree, and maybe it will get the attention from twitter...
Twitter seems to ignore us, people are tweeting #verifyAVEN daily and they do not react. Meanwhile, they do react to other people. They must have seen the tweets at some point.
Before I go into details more, let's talk about what AVEN is..
AVEN
AVEN stands for asexual Visibility Education network.
they are a resource/nonprofit org and didn't invent asexuality {Asexuality has always been here}, but they are here for ace and aro people. AVEN is 19 years old (20 next year) and is one of the most well-known Asexuality resources.
AVEN is often one of the first places (along with others) many people find and the fact that several other organizations as, Trevor Project, Stonewall, Galop support AVEN too, really touches on why. Also, They tweet in multiple languages, have their site in multiple languages.
and are in close contact with organizations. from many countries.
AVEN is verified on Facebook, Tumblr doesn't have a verification process but they do have a Tumblr account and they recently joined Instagram, so time will tell if they get verified there. Aven is one of the most active visible Ace accounts there are. they are very important for the ace community.
Because they are so important to the community, and are a very official organization,
we think they should be verified and that is also why I named them in my petition.
Verification on Twitter
when can you be verified and how is what I asked at first...
Twitter verifies people who:
who are important and real. It mostly accounts for that fall under, music, acting, fashion, politics, government, religions, journalists, media, sports, business, and other key areas of interest.
How:
The page where you used to be able to request is closed, for over 2 years now. A little while ago they tweeted that if you want to be verified you should react to that tweet but reactions were turned off...
or better said there is no way, but just to tweet twitter with your request.
Other accounts verified
they've verified non-organization accounts too, despite apparently not accepting requests etc.
there is a twitter account that shows newly verified accounts. this shows that people are being verified.
Queer organizations
You might think, well maybe they don't verify queer organizations...
but well, we do see other queer organizations getting verified over the years, and even now that the requests are closest, so it is not like they are not verifying.. that makes why we feel like twitter does not support asexuals and might be ignoring us.
Why do we want this so much?
well... getting verified has a lot of benefits and shows some things.
It shows you are a legit and reliable page or resource.
if people see tweets from AVEN about asexuality and they are verified they know the info is more legit then when it from a non verified account.
besides that, it shows it is the real AVEN twitter account.
besides that, it shows that twitter cares about the ace community, just like they care about other communities.
Other accounts
obviously there are wat more accounts that should be verified then just AVEN,
and I am talking about ace and aro people and organizations.
the reason I am now talking about AVEN only is because twitter already ignores this request and I feel like if we ask for too much at once they might not verify any.
I do think however other that other accounts should be verified too.
because there are also big aro organizations who deserve the verification. one big example is AUREA
there's many who do need to be verified too, but if we can get AVEN verified, then we can then be like, if you can verify AVEN, then you have no excuse not to verify (insert org)
I also started a list on Twitter for accounts that they should verify, if you know some just tweet me and ill add them. the list
what else should social media do?
we often see twitter help out people who face phobic people.
think about homophobia and transphobia.
Twitter does not do anything about aphobes and that makes that aces and aros are often targeted on social media and don't get any help from twitter.
they continue to ignore our calls to deal with the harassment and targeting of ace and aro people on twitter.
If You want to sign the petition you can find it here.
Please share it if you want to, because it might help get more signs.
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♤♡The Ace Mind
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