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When Connection Stops Being a Label and Becomes an Architecture       For decades, the Western emotional imaginary has reduced human relationships to an apparently clear dichotomy: friendship or romance. Under this logic, emotional life is organized around a relatively stable narrative: desire leads to attraction, attraction leads to falling in love, and falling in love leads to partnership. Yet at the margins — and increasingly at the center as well — forms of connection are emerging that challenge this simplification. The asexual (ace) and aromantic (aro) spectrums not only question the cultural centrality of sexual and romantic desire, but also introduce a far more complex and philosophically intriguing possibility: that love may not be a single, unified category, but rather a shifting assemblage of intimacies, affinities, and forms of connection.   From this perspective, many human relationships no longer fit comfortably within traditional frameworks. There are e...

Cuando el vínculo deja de ser una etiqueta y se convierte en arquitectura   Durante décadas, el imaginario afectivo occidental ha reducido las relaciones humanas a una dicotomía aparentemente clara: amistad o romance. Bajo esta lógica, la vida emocional se organiza alrededor de una narrativa relativamente estable: el deseo conduce a la atracción, la atracción al enamoramiento y el enamoramiento a la pareja. Sin embargo, en los márgenes —y cada vez más también en el centro— emergen formas de vinculación que desafían esta simplificación. El espectro asexual (ace) y arromántico (aro) no solo cuestiona la centralidad cultural del deseo sexual y romántico, sino que introduce una posibilidad mucho más compleja y filosóficamente interesante: que el amor no sea una categoría unitaria, sino un ensamblaje variable de intimidades, afinidades y formas de conexión.   Desde esta perspectiva, muchas relaciones humanas dejan de encajar cómodamente en los marcos tradicionales. Existen vínculos...

Between identity, experience, and necessity: asexuality facing the mirror of the queer umbrella. Is asexuality just another form of dissent within the LGBT spectrum, or a territory of its own that needs no shelter? This text explores an intimate experience shaped by confusion, trial and error, to propose an uncomfortable answer: perhaps belonging is not a matter of definition, but of personal usefulness.   I   An eternal debate with no answer… or perhaps we already know it, but don’t want to admit it.   In any case, I will try to share my personal view on the matter; a view that, I must admit, had been delayed for a long time, lying in wait in my mind, waiting for the right moment to reveal itself.   First of all, I want to make it clear that, regardless of my personal position, I have nothing for or against anyone in this regard. I believe everyone is free to label themselves as they wish, as long as the decision comes from serious reflection and, above all, if thos...