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
Claudie ArseneaultDeath, Stillness, and Exile--Three Prongs of Asexual Imagery in Fiction2017aphobia; asexual; asexual reading/theory; community; death; dehumanization; literary analysis/theory; literature; narrative; otherness; representation; romantic
Melissa Shani Brown, Nichola Lucy Partridge"Strangely Like a Person": Cole and the Queering of Asexuality in Dragon Age: Inquisition2021aphobia; archives; aromantic; asexual; asexual reading/theory; dehumanization; masculinity; media; nonsexual; otherness; pathologization; queer; representation; video games
Nat WrhelThe Acest of Aces: Representations of Asexuality in Fiction2017archives; asexual; asexual reading/theory; comics; dehumanization; fiction; gender; LGBTQ; literary analysis/theory; literature; media; queer; romantic; TV
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
Francesca CoppaSherlock as Cyborg: Bridging Mind and Body2012asexual; asexual reading/theory; asexual resonances; dehumanization; media; otherness; TV
Danielle CorcioneHow television is leading the asexual revolution2016aromantic; asexual; asexual continuum; dehumanization; gay; LGBTQ; media; platonic; representation; TV
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
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
Eunjung Kim"A Man, with the Same Feelings": Disability, Humanity, and Heterosexual Apparatus in Breaking the Waves, Born on the Fourth of July, Breathing Lessons, and Oasis2010asexual; dehumanization; disability; disability theory/studies; feminism; gender; intimacy; Korean; masculinity; media; otherness; pathologization; queer
Benjamin Marks"Sick, Dead, or Lying": A critical textual analysis of asexuality in popular culture2017aphobia; asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; community; compulsory sexuality; dehumanization; disability; identity; infantilization; LGBTQ; media; online community; pathologization; queer; race; representation; TV; whiteness
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
Amanda L. Mollet, Brian LackmanAsexual Student Invisibility and Erasure in Higher Education: 'I Thought I Was the Only One'2020allosexual; asexual; asexual continuum; AVEN; coming out; community-building; dehumanization; gender fluidity; identity; LGBTQ; narrative; nonbinary; online community; qualitative methods; queer; race; romantic; split attraction; trans; whiteness
Claudie ArseneaultAsexuality and Death and Other Associations2017asexual; asexual reading/theory; death; dehumanization; literary analysis/theory; literature; media; narrative; otherness; representation
KJ CerankowskiQueer Dandy Style: The Cultural Politics of Tim Gunn's Asexuality2013asexual; celebrity; celibacy; dandy; dehumanization; desexualization; gay; gender; history; identity; LGBTQ; pathologization; queer; spectacle; trauma
KJ CerankowskiIllegible: Asexualities in Media, Literature, and Performance2014asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; comics; dandy; dehumanization; desexualization; erotics; fetishization; gay; gender; gold star asexual; identity; intimacy; LGBTQ; literary analysis/theory; literature; nonsexual; performativity; pop culture; queer; queer theory; sexual violence; spectacle; trauma
KJ CerankowskiSpectacular Asexuals: Media Visibility and Cultural Fetish2014asexual; AVEN; comics; dehumanization; erotics; fetishization; gold star asexual; media; otherness; performativity; queer; representation; spectacle
Sherronda J. BrownSex is not what makes us human2020asexual; Black; dehumanization; race; sex; whiteness
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
Megan MilksStunted Growth: Asexual Politics and the Rhetoric of Sexual Liberation2014anarchy; aphobia; asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; BDSM; celibacy; dehumanization; feminism; gender; identity; infantilization; literature; media; pathologization; political theory; politics; queer; queer theory; reproductive futurity; sexual liberation; sexusociety; trans; virginity
Sarah E.S. SinwellAliens and Asexuality: Media Representation, Queerness, and Asexual Visibility2014asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; dehumanization; desexualization; fiction; identity; media; pathologization; queer; queer theory; representation; trauma; TV