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
Tiina VaresAsexualities, Intimacies and Relationality2019aromantic; asexual; AVEN; crush; definitions; demisexuality; friendship; gray-asexuality; intimacy; marriage; monogamy; narrative; nonsexual; online community; platonic; queerplatonic; repulsion/aversion; romantic; self-identification; split attraction; squish
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
Luke Brunning, Natasha McKeeverAsexuality2021aphobia; asexual; asexual continuum; asexual reading/theory; categorization; definitions; demisexuality; infantilization; injustice; morality; philosophy; relationships; romantic; split attraction
Mark CarriganAsexuality2015a-fluidity; aphobia; aromantic; asexual; asexual continuum; asexual reading/theory; categorization; celibacy; definitions; demisexuality; discrimination; essentialism; gatekeeping; gender; gray-asexuality; HSDD; identity; LGBTQ; pathologization; psychology; queer; self-identification; split attraction
CJ Deluzio ChasinTheoretical Issues in the Study of Asexuality2011asexual; asexual continuum; categorization; community; definitions; demisexuality; gender; nonbinary; psychology; self-identification; split attraction; theory; trans
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
Amanda L. MolletAsexuality & Asexuality Studies2021asexual; asexual continuum; AVEN; definitions; demisexuality; gender; gray-asexuality; identity; online community; race; representation; split attraction; whiteness
Andrew Clinton HinderliterThe Evolution of Online Asexual Discourse2016archives; aromantic; asexual; AVEN; celibacy; demisexuality; gender; gray-asexuality; LGBTQ; online community; qualitative methods; repulsion/aversion; romantic; split attraction
CJ Deluzio ChasinReconsidering Asexuality and Its Radical Potential2013aromantic; asexual; AVEN; categorization; community; compulsory sexuality; demisexuality; essentialism; feminism; gatekeeping; gold star asexual; gray-asexuality; HSDD; nonsexual; pathologization; politics; psychology; self-identification
Megan CarrollAsexuality and Its Implications for LGBTQ-Parent Families2020asexual; AVEN; community; demisexuality; disability; gender; gray-asexuality; HSDD; intersectionality; intimacy; LGBTQ; pathologization; race; romantic; self-identification; trans; whiteness
Ela PrzybyloIntroducing asexuality, unthinking sex2016aromantic; asexual; AVEN; community; compulsory sexuality; definitions; demisexuality; gatekeeping; gray-asexuality; intersectionality; queer; romantic; sexual violence
AdrianMy Relationship Anarchy2013asexual; Carnival of Aces; dating; demisexuality; polyamory; relationships
AdrianCommunicating Demisexuality2013asexual; Carnival of Aces; demisexuality; language
ArfLanguage, Identity, and Labels2013asexual; Carnival of Aces; demisexuality; language
Melanie YergauAuthoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness2018a-fluidity; asexual; asexual reading/theory; autism; demisexuality; desexualization; disability; disability theory/studies; gender; gender fluidity; gray-asexuality; neurodivergent; nonbinary; orientation; queer; queer theory; reproduction; split attraction; squish
Daniel CopulskyAt the Intersection of Polyamory and Asexuality2019asexual; demisexuality; gray-asexuality; identity; intersectionality; nonmonogamy; orientation; polyamory; relationships; romantic
Daniel Copulsky, Phillip H. HammackAsexuality, Graysexuality, and Demisexuality: Distinctions in Desire, Behavior, and Identity2021aromantic; aromantic spectrum; asexual; asexual continuum; demisexuality; gender; gray-asexuality; identity; masturbation; relationships; romantic; self-identification; split attraction
sydney khooFree Toy Included2017adolescence; aromantic; asexual; Asian; celibacy; dating; demisexuality; family; fanfic; food; kink; love; marriage; masturbation; orgasm; relationships; religion; sex
Blue Ice-TeaPlatonic Dating, or, as I Like to Call it, “Dating”2019amatonormativity; aromantic; Carnival of Aros; dating; demisexuality; friendship; relationships
The Demi DeviantMixed-Orientation Relationship Struggles (Part 1 of 3)2019aromantic; Carnival of Aros; demisexuality; gray-asexuality; poetry; relationships