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.

  1. Select the tags you are interested in the advanced filters such as affect, adolescence. Tags were manually assigned by our research team to each resource to ensure they are relevant.
  2. If you want to further specify your search results, you can also select the category (article, book chapter, etc.) and type of resource (academic or community).
  3. Search up the term you are looking for in the search bar. Your results will be filtered based on the tags, category, and type you've selected.
  4. You can also check and uncheck different types of information you want to see in the table such as Press, Disciple, Editors, etc.
  5. Additionally, Boolean Search functionalities are also available incuding AND, OR, NOT, Parentheses (), Quotation Marks "", Question Mark "?" and Asterisk "*". You can read more about these operators here.

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AuthorsTitleYearTags
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
Cynthia BarounisVulnerable constitutions : queerness, disability, and the remaking of American manhood2019asexual; crip; disability; disability theory/studies; gender; literary analysis/theory; literature; masculinity; North America; pathologization; politics; queer; queer theory
Benjamin KahanCelibacies: American Modernism & Sexual Life2013asexual; Black; Boston Marriage; celibacy; friendship; gender; marriage; philosophy; queer; race; religion; spinster
Andrew Grossman"Why Didn't You Tell Me That I Love You?" Asexuality, Polymorphous Perversity, and the Liberation of the Cinematic Clown2014adolescence; asexual; chastity; dehumanization; film; infantilization; love; masculinity; media; mythology; North America; orientation; pathologization; pleasure; politics; psychology
SiggyWhy I don't talk about race anymore2014asexual; Asian; Carnival of Aces; North America; queer; 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
Laura KipnisAgainst Love2004amatonormativity; capitalism; celibacy; family; feminism; heterosexuality; intimacy; jealousy; love; marriage; monogamy; North America; philosophy; pleasure; politics; queer theory; relationships; shame; social construct