Of the Air (cele/celes)

pronouns: cele/celes

Plural. This is why we use we. Trans{gender and species}.

We aren’t human, thank you!

We are also ace- and aro- spec, so don’t direct sexual or romantic things at us. Even if it’s meant as non-romantic or non-sexual just don’t say we are loved or you love us etc.

Don’t call yourself any familial (dad, mum etc) words at us, it is extremely traumatic for us.

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  • Not to rush into relationships. That we can choose who to have relationships with and what that looks like. We aren’t indebted to anybody for any reason whatsoever in terms of relationships, and they don’t have to look like what others expect or even what we expect unless we have had that discussion explicitly.

    We also wish we knew we were many things to do with our identity earlier: Demi*, relationship anarchists, polyamorous, transgender and transspecies, plural etc.

    We also wish we learned how to love ourselves, probably the most important one of all, but we’re just learning now.

    *demisexual, demiromantic, demikinky, demisensual and demiaffectionate.


  • We’re ace-spec and find the concept of attraction difficult for most people, except if we have a strong emotional connection to them.

    However we also find the deliniation between like and love difficult too, we don’t really understand the desire or ability to split feelings and what we’d like to do with a person based on a mere label such as ‘friend’ or ‘partner’. This is part of the reason we chose to identify as relationship anarchists and discuss explicitly with each person what they and us are okay with and do so ocassionally over time too.

    We also, not based on attraction but societal values and ideas, don’t see any relationship we have with anyone or anymany automatically important or successful. For example ‘familial’ relationships, like any relationship, if the others connected to us wish to have such a relationship go well then they have to work at it as much as any relationship, regardless of label or assumed worthiness to a certain type of connection or things they are allowed or not allowed to say and/or do.

    So yes, we can be ‘friends’ with anyone or anymany, but the label alone means very little.



  • Sex work etc is not selling the body as no organs etc are usually collected.

    Also sex work has existed before money. It is a legitimate form of work, nurturing, care and a vital function of society, it’s only ‘bad’ because of laws against it and cultural attitudes, people should have the right or not to choose to pursue it if that is what they wish, for whatever reason.

    Also also, most people don’t make that much money from it, so it’s likely not always for that reason alone.