Episode 237: Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week feat. Stella!

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

It's Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week, and our guest (and current med student) Stella is LEARNING US UP on this oft-misunderstood identity! In addition to being aromantic, Stella also identifies as asexual and queer, but it's the first of these labels that most strongly shapes and affects how she experiences the world. Stella discusses how, to her, being aromantic feels like existing on "a different plane entirely," and not at all like "operating from a deficit" - an incredibly important distinction that alloromantic folks often don't understand. Stella also explains how health providers tend to pathologize asexuality and aromanticism, treating these identities as a problem to be solved rather than trusting their patients' lived experience. It's a fascinating episode that sheds a lot of light on not just aromanticism, but relationships in general. Happy Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week, y'all!

Since this episode first aired, Stella has changed her handle: you can now follow her advocacy page on Instagram at @aspec_meducation! Also, check out The Aspec Affirming Practitioner Directory at https://aspecaffirmingdire.wixsite.com/aspec-affirming-prac!

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0:00.0	Hi everybody.
0:07.6	Oh, hey, y'all.
0:09.7	Hello, welcome to coming out with Lauren and Nicole.
0:13.7	Folks, we are a weekly podcast where we have on queer folks from all walks of life.
0:19.4	We tell, hmm, they tell us the tales of how they came out to friends, family, and the world at large.
0:28.2	Because who doesn't love a coming out story?
0:30.9	It's always nice when almost five years into a podcast, you just screw up the intro that you say every week.
0:37.4	I think that that's a good. I did it with the outro last week. Look at that. Listen, we're learning and growing even now. So we, okay. Now, some of you listening, in fact, maybe most of you listening might not know, but we are right smack in the middle of Aromantic Spectrum Awareness
0:56.2	Week. And the reason why I know this is because our guest today reached out months ago to give us a
1:04.0	heads up. And that guest is Stella. Hello, Stella. Hi. Hey, Stella. We're so excited to have you here.
1:11.6	This is exciting for multiple reasons because also, so Stella is a med student in Australia.
1:19.5	So this is, yeah, we're in different days.
1:24.3	We're recording on one day.
1:26.1	Stella's already a day ahead of us. Stilla's going to be a doctor.
1:30.3	Yeah, Stella's from the future. She's giving us stock tips. We're going to play the market as soon as we finish recording.
1:38.2	Not to mention that Stella also came straight from studying a cadaver.
1:46.0	You said there was something with cadavers.
1:48.6	We had a lab this morning, so we have like slides, microscopes, like donor bodies that were
1:55.7	super grateful for to get to like see actual anatomy on.
2:00.7	And yeah, so I had that this morning and I had lecture before
2:03.8	that so I'm already like done the next day and you're up Tuesday and you're still in Monday and
2:09.7	by the way because I was literally I was going to mention it on this week's pod regardless but this is
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