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.
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AuthorsTitleYearTags
Patricia KennonAsexuality and the Potential of Young Adult Literature for Disrupting Allonormativity2021adolescence; allosexual; aphobia; asexual; asexual continuum; compulsory sexuality; fiction; gray-asexuality; identity; LGBTQ; literary analysis/theory; literature; queer; race; romantic; split attraction
Amanda L. Mollet, Brian LackmanAllonormativity and Compulsory Sexuality2022allosexual; amatonormativity; aphobia; asexual; celibacy; compulsory sexuality; corrective assault; discrimination; fiction; gender; identity; LGBTQ; nonsexual; pathologization; privilege; religion; representation; sex education; single; trans; TV
Ben Brandley, Leland G. SpencerRhetorics of Allonormativity: The Case of Asexual Latter-Day Saints2022aromantic; asexual; asexual reading/theory; queer; religion; romantic; trans
Lee Yingtong LiSupplementary Context--'Let's Talk about being agender, aromantic, asexual and Asian'2020allonormativity; allosexual; amatonormativity; discrimination; HSDD; LGBTQ
Liza Blake, Nicholas Brush, Simone Chess, Rachel Chung, Catherine Clifford, Aley O'MaraEarly Modern Asexuality and Performance: An ACMRS Roundtable2020allonormativity; allosexual; aromantic; asexual; asexual reading/theory; Catholic; celibacy; chastity; early modern; food; gender; gray-asexuality; history; intimacy; literary analysis/theory; literature; performativity; protestant; Shakespeare
S.L. Dove CooperWe’re on Our Side: Aziraphale and Crowley’s Thoroughly Queer Relationship in Good Omens2019allonormativity; allosexual; amatonormativity; aromantic; aromantic reading/theory; asexual; asexual reading/theory; erasure; love; media; platonic; queer; queerplatonic; representation; romantic; TV
ask-an-aroWhy We Need the Aspec Community: An Aro Perspective2019allonormativity; amatonormativity; aromantic; aromantic spectrum; asexual; Carnival of Aros; intersectionality
arokaladinI Don’t Want to Be Associated With the Community That Hurt Me2019allonormativity; aromantic; asexual; Carnival of Aros; community; erasure; infantilization; intersectionality
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
Hannah TesslerAromanticism, Asexuality, and Relationship (Non-)Formation: How A-spec Singles Challenge Romantic Norms and Reimagine Family Life2023allonormativity; amatonormativity; aromantic; asexual; family; relationships; romantic; single
Hannah TesslerThe Stability of Singlehood: Limitations of the Relationship Status Paradigm and a New Theoretical Framework for Reimagining Singlehood2023allonormativity; amatonormativity; aromantic; aromantic spectrum; asexual; celibacy; heteronormativity; relationships; single
Ace Film ReviewsFamily: Wondering What Could Have Been2023allonormativity; amatonormativity; asexual; Carnival of Aros; community; diaspora; family; relationships; Tumblr
Sara JakšaCarnival of Aros June 2023: Being aromantic in an allonormative world: Calling for more diverse media representation2023allonormativity; amatonormativity; aromantic; asexual; Carnival of Aros; media; representation; Tumblr
Nothing RadicalManaging Expectations in an Allonormative World2023allonormativity; alloromantic; amatonormativity; aromantic; asexual; Carnival of Aros; friendship; platonic; relationships; Tumblr
Canton WinerQueerness includes asexuality2023allonormativity; amatonormativity; asexual; heteronormativity; normativity; queer