ABOUT ACE DAD ADVICE:

The “Ace Dad Advice” project creates a space where queer kinship is practiced through education, compassion, and everyday acts of care. Through videos, conversations, and community engagement, the project offers the kind of support many ace, aro, agender, and other LGBTQIA+ people may not always receive from traditional family structures: reassurance, guidance, affirmation, and the reminder that they are not alone.

The project reflects what Kath Weston describes as “chosen families” — forms of connection built not through biology, but through care, trust, and shared understanding. Ace Dad Advice embraces that sensibility in a way that feels gentle rather than authoritative, creating community through openness and empathy.

Education is also central to the project’s approach. In bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress, education is conceived as as a practice of freedom. Ace Dad Advice makes conversations about asexuality and aromanticism approachable, affirming, and emotionally grounded. Those who engage in the project are not only given access to information, but they’re also given access to the tools to free themselves from the internal barriers keeping them from their best lives.

The project also participates in what José Esteban Muñoz calls “queer worldmaking”: creating hopeful possibilities for living and relating outside of expectations around sex, romance, and family. By validating ace-spectrum experiences and encouraging self-acceptance, “Ace Dad Advice” helps imagine futures where people can define connection, intimacy, and belonging on their own terms.

At its heart, the work is about care. Whether answering questions, sharing personal experiences, or simply offering encouragement, “Ace Dad Advice” shows how digital spaces can become places of genuine support and chosen community. Through kindness, accessibility, and consistent affirmation, the project demonstrates that queer kinship can be built through communication itself — through showing up for people, listening to them, and reminding them that they matter.