Searchable Bibliography

Our searchable bibliography will allow you to browse and easily find a list of curated sources pertaining to aromanticism, asexuality, and its related subject matters. To maximize the relevancy of the search results, these are our recommended steps to using the bibliography.

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AuthorsTitleYearTags
Elina Valovirta"Caribbean Passion"--The Hypersexual and the Asexual Woman as Reparative Tropes2014asexual; asexual reading/theory; Black; death; desexualization; feminism; gender; intersectionality; literary analysis/theory; literature; queer theory; race; religion; reproduction
Justin Smith"[T]he happiest, well-feddest wolf in Harlem": Asexuality as Resistance to Social Reproduction in Claude McKay's Home to Harlem2020asexual; asexual reading/theory; asexual resonances; Black; capitalism; community; intersectionality; literary analysis/theory; literature; political theory; politics; queer; race; reproduction; sexusociety
Daniela CutasEditorial: On Love2018amatonormativity; autism; Black; colonialism; friendship; gender; love; marriage; morality; nonmonogamy; philosophy; queer; race; reproduction; romantic
Margaret Rose McDowellAgainst Compulsory Sexuality: Asexual Figures of Resistance2022allosexual; archives; asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; Black; Boston Marriage; celibacy; compulsory sexuality; dehumanization; erotics; feminism; gender; intimacy; literary analysis/theory; literature; media; politics; pop culture; queer theory; race; reproductive futurity; sexual liberation; sexusociety; single; TV; world building
Brittney MilesTheorizing Conscious Black Asexuality through Claire Kann's Let's Talk about Love2019asexual; asexual reading/theory; Black; black conscious asexuality; controlling images; gatekeeping; gender; intersectionality; literary analysis/theory; literature; narrative; queer; race; trauma
Ianna Hawkins OwenStill, nothing: Mammy and black asexual possibility2018asexual; asexual reading/theory; Black; controlling images; gender; history; intersectionality; literary analysis/theory; literature; race; silence
Chelsea ReynoldsThe 'Woke' Sex Discourse: Sexuality and Gender in Online Consumer Magazines2020amatonormativity; aromantic; asexual; BDSM; bisexual; capitalism; coming out; feminism; gay; gender; gender fluidity; intersectionality; intersex; kink; LGBTQ; media; neoliberal; nonbinary; nonmonogamy; politics; pop culture; queer; race; sex education; sexual violence; trans; whiteness
Sherronda J. BrownBlack folks don't need a nuclear family to be legitimate2020aphobia; aromantic; Black; marriage; politics; queer; romantic; whiteness
Justin Leonard Clardy'I Don't Want to be a Playa no More': An Exploration of the Denigrating effects of 'Player' as a Stereotype Against African American Polyamorous Men2018amatonormativity; Black; nonmonogamy; polyamory; queer; race; romantic; sexual; stereotypes
IlyA Place of Whiteness2011antiracism; AVEN; black conscious asexuality; Carnival of Aces; race
Ianna Hawkins OwenMore: Cake, Feedism, and Asexuality2022asexual; asexual reading/theory; Black; cake; community; erotics; feminism; food; queer; queer theory
Sherronda J. BrownSex is not what makes us human2020asexual; Black; dehumanization; race; sex; whiteness
Benjamin KahanCelibacies: American Modernism & Sexual Life2013asexual; Black; Boston Marriage; celibacy; friendship; gender; marriage; philosophy; queer; race; religion; spinster
Justin GainesR(ace): a-response2014asexual; Asian; Black; friendship; masculinity; race; sex; trauma
SiggyInterview with Ianna Hawkins Owen2013asexual; AVEN; Black; disability; discrimination; race; whiteness
queerascatThe Intersections of a Black, Non-binary Ace2015asexual; Black; desexualization; identity; intersectionality; media; nonbinary; race; representation; stereotypes
Ianna Hawkins OwenOn the Racialization of Asexuality2014asexual; asexual reading/theory; Black; controlling images; gender; history; intersectionality; pathologization; race
Sherronda J. BrownRefusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture2022adolescence; antiracism; aphobia; asexual; asexual reading/theory; Black; capitalism; compulsory sexuality; controlling images; corrective assault; definitions; dehumanization; femininity; fetishization; frigidity; gatekeeping; gender; history; infantilization; intersectionality; masculinity; monstrosity; nonhuman; objectification; pathologization; queer; race; reproduction; reproductive futurity
Michael ParamoExamining the Whiteness of the Ace Community2018asexual; Asian; Black; community; indigenous; Latinx; privilege; race; representation; self-identification; visibility; whiteness
The Ace Couple, Courtney LaneBeing a Jamaican Ace in Catholic School, A "Right to Sex", & Other Allonormative Nonsense ft. Fara2023allonormativity; amatonormativity; aphobia; asexual; Black; black conscious asexuality; Catholic; dating; diaspora; religion