Visibility and education are of vital importance for the asexual community. From its beginnings, the asexual community has been very much a grassroots movement., and this means that visibility and education work is not done by some asexual elite somewhere. It is done by ordinary members of the asexual community and our allies who have made a decision to contribute in their own way, whatever that may be. Vital work is done in everyday conversations with people explaining asexuality to others. It is done when people come out as asexual. It is done in media articles and in talking with the media, in blogging, vlogging, writing articles for magazines, zines, and newsletters. It is done in research on asexuality, in writing papers for class, and in making alliances, especially with LGBT groups. It is done in incorporating asexuality into areas that participants in the asexual community are interested in.

The Project Team (PT) consists of five members dedicated to promoting asexual visibility and education who are elected annually by members of AVEN. The PT has four primary functions.

1) To work with and to provide help to people working on vis/ed projects.

2) To create resources that will be of value to the asexual community, to people wanting to know more about asexuality, and to people working on asexuality-related projects. This includes, but is not limited to, AVENues, Asexual Perspectives, Post of the Week, and working on AVEN’s wiki.

3) To moderate the Visibility and Education Projects forum.

4) To be leaders in asexual visibility and education work.

If you have a visibility or education project in mind that you would like to do, feel free to contact one of the members of the PT to see how we might be able to help you out in working on that project.