Meet our team

Gemma (she/her)

Gemma has spent twenty years in asexual activism – she predates the flag, we like to say! As well as being a full-time single parent, Gemma works in a front-facing role at a major retailer and has 20 years’ experience in customer service. Gemma also works for the Australian Electoral Commission during elections, including as a Polling Place Manager. Based in Sydney, Gemma has a Bachelor of General Studies (Science), focusing particularly on forensics and genetics.

Gemma has twice been a member of AVEN’S Project Team. She represents Australia and AACAU on the committee for International Asexuality Day, Interpride and in other international contexts, and also handles communicating with our local and regional partner organisations. Gemma is the driving force behind Aussie Ace Week, coordinating with participants from across the country. As AACAU builds capacity, Gemma’s goals include building relationships in the Pacific Region, especially reaching out to asexual people in Oceania who may have no support in their country or local area.

Kate (she/her)

Kate Wood is an activist and researcher identifying as Asexual and Queer. Her work focuses on discrimination, violence and hate crime against asexual (and aromantic) people. Herself a survivor of acephobic sexual violence, Kate originally began her research to help inform her activism – she sought the evidence to back up her claim that her story isn’t a rare or one-off incident. What she found was and an often unspoken, unrecorded problem with violence against her community. Kate’s passion is the collecting, cataloguing and sharing of these stories

Kate talks publicly about her own experience as a survivor, teaches Asexuality 101 and works on awareness projects in Australia and internationally. In between her research and activism work, Kate has been studying for her Masters in Museums and Heritage, playing a lot of video games and talking about her dog to anyone who gives her an opening

Mic (he/him)

Mic (he/him) is a UK based ace organiser, who is on the Board of Directors and Project Team of AVEN. Mic's focus is on helping to broaden the conversation to other parts of the world, beyond the English speaking Western areas that have had most ace coverage.

Tildrun (ne/nem)

Tildrun Weber is a Co-founder of Indo.aspec on Instagram (@indo.aspec), an organization dedicated to A-spec education and community building in Indonesia. Ne has been involved in the A-spec community since 2021 and focuses on managing the Indo.aspec discord server as well as collaborative activism with regional and local A-spec or LGBTQ+ organizations. Some examples of nir work are International Asexuality Day 2022 and the Instagram Live talkshow "Mengenal Spektrum Aseksual Aromantis" with Aruspelangi.

In day to day life ne is an undergraduate student, pagan, and collector of fiction podcasts living together with two cats and several succulents.

Christa (she/they)

Christa is a PhD candidate studying genetics and bioinformatics. In their dwindling spare time, they also dance, act, and play saxophone! They have also been helping to organize asexuality conferences since 2020, and recently started volunteering with the Ace Census.

Marisa (any)

Marisa Manuel (any pronouns) is the founder of Ace Chat, an a-spec visibility platform (acechat.org). Along with volunteering for Ace Con, she has served as a coordinator for IAD and Ace Baker. She is currently working toward her PhD in Fiction and hopes to publish more pieces about her asexual journey.

Cheese (they/them)

I am cheese. Enough said.

Ed Space (she/her)

My name is Ed.

I am autistic, dyslexic and never managed to fit in well anywhere.

Sex was a common talking point in the lives of the people I grew up around, many wanted it and it was seen as quite a valuable thing, but for me it never seemed to appeal much. Not completely undesirable but I'd much rather the company that sex can bring than the sex itself.

I sometimes feel out of place in Asexual spaces, many of the Aspecs I've met have faced backlash for not being Allosexual, yet for me this was seen as 'how things should be' indeed the idea of me wanting a family or to have sexual/relationship desires is seen as somehow against the natural order of things, this being due to the infantilization of autistic people (among other people with disabilities) that exists either subconsciously or not.

Anyhow, hopefully this helps.

Lari (she/they)

Lari is a nonbinary ace who is still figuring out where they fit on the aro spectrum. She's previously moderated panels, organised meet-ups, and written stories for the ace community.

Easter (she/they)

Hi I'm Easter! I'm a greyromantic asexual who loves drawing and poetry! I have been part of the asexual community for well over half a year now, and am looking forward to continue learning more about our amazing community and to listen to more people's stories!

Morgan (she/her)

Morgan is a 42 year old aro/ace woman from Newcastle, Australia. She is a poet and author of fiction, and the Municipal Liaison for the Newcastle NaNoWriMo region. She has been using the term asexual for around 20 years now, since around the time it was first added to the Wikipedia. She lives with depression, anxiety, ADHD, two fat tabby cats, and her mother.

Jade (she/they)

My name is Jade, I'm 19 and I have been out as Asexual for 8 years. I'm genderfae, a woman of colour and am proud of who I am. After moving to Sydney, I spent a good chunk of my childhood growing up in a predominately white area, with almost everyone in our Catholic school being cishet, and having the same interests, attitudes and lives. It was tough being so different, but building a community and friend group who accepted me for me has made my life something beautiful and something I take pride in. I hope to help others find community and love in the people around them.

Cobra (any/ask-usually they)

I'm Cobra (any), a neurodivergent disabled person from NSW. I identify as genderfluid and aroace. I helped on the Aussie Ace Week team in 2021. I like a lot different things such as animals, food and headpats. I like learning new things and being creative.

Gina (she/her)

I'm Gina G., a panromantic demisexual screenwriter living in Los Angeles! I'm also a moderator on A Safe Ace Place on Facebook, and part of Ace Los Angeles. I'm obsessed with pop culture, figure skating, soccer/football, and the Miami Heat! And am obsessed with educating the world on anything and everything asexuality.

Pip (they/them)

Pip Ardler is a First Nations Person connected to the land and waters of the Yuin Nation. Pip is aromantic and asexual, as well as agender, and is particularly passionate about integrating a de-colonial, First Nations perspective into queer and trans advocacy. They run a Bookstagram account (@littleblackduckbooks) where they review books from an Indigenous, aspec, trans and queer lens, with the goal to raise awareness and to bridge the gap between mob and the LGBTQIA+ community. Existing across a multitude of identities they believe strongly in the importance of intersectional representation.

They are currently studying a Bachelor of Education and can usually be found reading by the ocean. Their favourite books include Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger, Terra Nullius by Claire G. Coleman and Throat by Ellen Van Neervan

Laluna (any- they/he)

I may contribute and participate in neurodivergent or Asean aces, feel free to asks about aspec in fandom and media too.

Devin (ve/ver/vis)

Devin is a queer, trans, disabled, and neurodivergent asexual activist and educator out of the Midwest US. Ve has been doing Ace activism work since 2009 and has spoken at a number of university campuses and various conferences in that time.

Cove (he/him)

Cove is a trans aceflux and demiromantic individual that loves reading, rock climbing, and is working for his degree in Aerospace Engineering. He has been apart of the ace community for 3 years now, and has been hosting ace and aro themed events for his college campus for the last year while slowly developing his own queer/ace education channel. He particularly wants to give voice to sex positivity from an ace lens, fluctuating identities, and experiencing sex repulsion as an Ace-Spec individual.

A special thanks to the Ace & Aro Collective AU and the Asexual Visibility and Education Network for making this year's Asexuality Conference possible.

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