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
pipisafoatOn Asexuality & Coming Out2011Carnival of Aces; coming out
AvailCarnival of Aces Guest Post: “Untitled”2011Carnival of Aces; coming out
LascielMy Ace Realization and Coming Out to the World2011Carnival of Aces; coming out
EowynCarnival of Aces Guest Post2011Carnival of Aces; coming out
pfmoiMy contribution to the carnival2011Carnival of Aces; coming out
pfmoiMy contribution to the carnival2011Carnival of Aces; coming out
C. BougieComposing Aromanticism2021amatonormativity; aromantic; asexual; AVEN; categorization; coming out; definitions; discrimination; dysphoria; friendship; gender; identity; kinship; narrative; online community; poetry; queer; queer theory; relationships; self-identification; social construct; split attraction; theory
Xu Guo, Day WongConstructions of Asexual Identity in China: Intersections of Class, Gender, Region of Residence, and Asexuality2020aromantic; asexual; China; coming out; HSDD; identity; intersectionality; LGBTQ; mixed methods; online community; pro forma marriage; romantic; single; social construct; trans
Kyle WebsterA Textual Analysis of Online Asexual Representation and Visibility on Reddit2018asexual; asexual reading/theory; coming out; community; compulsory sexuality; definitions; LGBTQ; media; online community; performativity; queer; queer theory; representation; visibility
Alok Vaid-MenonWhat's R(ace) Got To Do With It?: White Privilege & (A)sexuality2014asexual; asexual reading/theory; colonialism; gender; history; identity; intersectionality; masculinity; narrative; political theory; politics; privilege; queer; race; South Asian; trauma; whiteness
Elijah G. StuckiCompulsory Sexuality and Amatonormativity in Higher Education: A Photovoice Study with Asexual and Aromantic Students2019amatonormativity; aromantic; art; asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; colonialism; coming out; community; community-building; compulsory sexuality; corrective assault; definitions; dehumanization; disability; gender; HSDD; identity; intersectionality; kinship; LGBTQ; mental illness; nonbinary; otherness; pathologization; queer; race; romantic; sexual violence; social construct; trans
Simone ChessOpting Out: Anorexia, Asexuality, and Early Modern Women2020anorexia; asexual; asexual reading/theory; disability; disability theory/studies; early modern; greensickness; history; intersectionality; literary analysis/theory; literature; mental illness; queer; queer theory; reproduction; virginity
KJ CerankowskiMaking Nothing Out of Something: Asexuality and the Rhetorics of Silence and Absence2022asexual; asexual reading/theory; asexual resonances; celibacy; colonialism; demisexuality; literary analysis/theory; narrative; nonsexual; queer; queer theory; race; silence; sovereignty; virginity
Tamara DeutschAsexual People's Experience with Microaggressions2018aromantic; asexual; coming out; corrective assault; definitions; dehumanization; discrimination; gatekeeping; gray-asexuality; HSDD; infantilization; LGBTQ; media; mental illness; pathologization; psychology; repulsion/aversion; sexual violence; split attraction; visibility
Esther D. Rothblum, Evan A. Krueger, Krystal R. Kittle, Ilan H. MeyerAsexual and Non-Asexual Respondents from a U.S. Population-Based Study of Sexual Minorities2020aphobia; coming out; discrimination; identity; LGBTQ; psychology; quantitative methods; science
Nicolette K Robbins, Kathryn Graff Low, Anna N. QueryA Qualitative Exploration of the 'Coming Out' Process for Asexual Individuals2017aphobia; asexual; asexual continuum; AVEN; definitions; identity; online community; romantic; science; split attraction
Alex HendersonLet's Talk About Love, Tash Hearts Tolstoy, and the Asexual Coming- of-Age Story2019adolescence; aphobia; asexual; celibacy; dehumanization; fiction; infantilization; literary analysis/theory; literature; media; online community; pathologization; queer; romantic
Alaina LearyAsexual Disabled People Exist, But Don't Make Assumptions About Us2018amatonormativity; asexual; desexualization; disability; gender; intersectionality; nonsexual
Christina LangIntimacy and Desire Through the Lens of an Aro-Ace Woman of Color2018amatonormativity; anarchy; aromantic; asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; Boston Marriage; coming out; demisexuality; desexualization; feminism; friendship; gender; gold star asexual; identity; intersectionality; intimacy; kinship; media; pathologization; queer theory; race; romantic; sex education; single; theory; TV
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