arias_hollow | September Carnival of Aros: Change (Reply)

A Carnival of Aros is a monthly blogging event in which a host (in this case, yours truly) comes up with an aromanticism based theme, allowing aromantics to write to the prompt however they see fit. Last month's theme was Open Questions for Aromantic Research, if you want to check that out! To submit your post for this month, write your response on your blog of choice, and then post the link here in a comment by the end of September 30 (my blog is set up to take anonymous comments, so no worries if you aren't on dreamwidth!). Late responses will be taken through October 2.

This month's theme is 'Change'. Our community is a young one, and as such it's constantly growing and changing. Also because of this, we don't have as much history yet as other communities. So I thought I'd give everyone a chance to both reflect on the progress we've made so far, and look to the future and consider what we might be able to do now to see the changes we want happen.

Here's some prompts to get you started, but feel free to ignore them if you want to answer a different way:

What are some of the greatest changes you've seen in the community so far? How do you feel about them?
What's a positive change you want to see for the aromantic community in the future?
What's a negative change you could see happening that you want to avoid?
What experiences have you had in the community that changed your own outlook on things, aromanticism or otherwise?
How did discovering your aromanticism change things for you?
What influence does your aromanticism have on other parts of your life - gender, identity, work, religion, etc.?
What is something you believe we as a community could start doing immediately to work towards certain kinds of change?