Queer platonia through the Aromantic & Asexual Lens

Join us for an Open Dialogue on designing relationships through the Aromantic/Asexual lens

We’d like to invite you to an open dialogue on designing relationships where we discuss -

• Support for black Aces & Aros
• Deconstructing romance as a hierarchy
• The grief of building outside the norm, finding & leaning into your people
• How the western socio-cultural climate affects how we define & show up in relationships
• Envisioning & co-creating relationships outside hierarchies

This event was inspired as a reflection of Moyo’s musings as an AroAce folk, in collaboration with the Chakula programme, Tribe & YAC.

It’s a continuation of the Open Dialogue series which seeks to create an open but intimate space to discuss & decolonise our understanding what it is to be human, through spirituality, technology, sexuality & other concepts, allowing us to make space for a new collective reality.

As always, come with courage, compassion & curiosity.

About the Event Organisers & Chaperones:

About Chakula

The Chakula programme is a monthly series of events, workshops and dialogues geared towards supporting and empowering Black and African LGBTQ+ communities at The Africa Centre.

Moyosore Ale (She/they)

Moyo describes themself as a humanist & technologist with interests in technology, philosophy and psychology. They are passionate about the human experiences. They focus on how we merge these three areas in everyday life and the stories we tell around our definitions of “technology” amongst other things like language, sexuality & relationship. She is an artist, pole dancer, storyteller, writer, photographer and on the steering committee for The Chakula program. She is also Vice Chair of the Young Africa Centre. They are interested in African knowledge systems, running initiatives on how we define African systems as technology & spirituality and including them in modern practises.

Young Africa Centre (YAC)

Our vision is a home for the new generation of africans in the diaspora and beyond. Our goal is to continually focus on mobilising the future of African through diaspora engagement on the grass-root level from technology, art, wellness, queer identity, thought leadership, politics & culture (especially focused on young people between the age of 18-35).

TRIBE

TRIBE is a duo curating music, art, and community spaces rooted in care, creativity, and collective power. Centring Black and POC Trans and Queer people, we flow between live music, movement, workshops, and conversations to build slow, lasting networks of joy, resistance, and belonging. We are Inspired by West African teachings like Gidi Gidi Bu Ugwu Eze ("In unity, there is strength"), TRIBE is not just an event series—it’s a living movement for connection, liberation, and shared transformation