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
Erick BurdockVillains, victims, and virgins: Asexuality in the films of Alfred Hitchcock2018asexual; asexual reading/theory; asexual resonances; AVEN; celibacy; corrective assault; dandy; death; desexualization; gay; gender; HSDD; identity; intimacy; LGBTQ; masculinity; media; otherness; pathologization; queer; queer theory; representation; repulsion/aversion; romantic; sexual violence; trauma; virginity
Elina Valovirta"Caribbean Passion"--The Hypersexual and the Asexual Woman as Reparative Tropes2014asexual; asexual reading/theory; Black; death; desexualization; feminism; gender; intersectionality; literary analysis/theory; literature; queer theory; race; religion; reproduction
Aasha Brianna FosterMeasuring Social Invisibility and Erasure: Development of the Asexual Microaggressions Scale2018asexual; asexual continuum; AVEN; compulsory sexuality; definitions; desexualization; disability; discrimination; HSDD; interdisciplinary; intersectionality; LGBTQ; mental illness; pathologization; psychology; race; romantic; split attraction; visibility
Kristina GuptaCompulsory Sexuality: Evaluating an Emerging Concept2015asexual reading/theory; compulsory sexuality; desexualization; feminism; intersectionality; queer; sexual liberation; trans
Emily M. Lund, Bayley A. JohnsonAsexuality and Disability: Strange but Compatible Bedfellows2005asexual; asexual reading/theory; autism; desexualization; disability; disability theory/studies; HSDD; intersectionality; pathologization; romantic; split attraction
Eunjung KimAsexuality in disability narratives2011asexual; community; desexualization; disability; disability theory/studies; intersectionality; intersex; pathologization; queer
Eunjung KimCuring Virginity2017asexual; corrective assault; desexualization; disability; disability theory/studies; nonsexual; pathologization; queer; sexual violence; virginity
Eunjung KimHow Much Sex is Healthy? The Pleasures of Asexuality2010asexual; autism; desexualization; disability; disability theory/studies; erotics; intersectionality; media; nonsexual; pathologization; TV
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
Kristina Gupta"And Now I'm Just Different, but There's Nothing Actually Wrong with Me": Asexual Marginalization and Resistance2017asexual; AVEN; community; compulsory sexuality; desexualization; friendship; identity; nonsexual; otherness; pathologization; romantic
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
Liza BlakeTeaching Premodern Asexualities and Aromanticisms2022alloromantic; aromantic; aromantic reading/theory; asexual; asexual reading/theory; compulsory sexuality; desexualization; early modern; education; friendship; queer; queer theory; race; representation
Ela PrzybyloCritical Nonsexualities2017antiracism; archives; asexual; asexual resonances; celibacy; colonialism; desexualization; disability; erotics; gender; indigenous; intersectionality; kinship; LGBTQ; nonmonogamy; nonsexual; politics; queer; race; religion; single; sovereignty; transnational; virginity
KatieThe Colonized Asexual--a response to racial trauma2014asexual; Asian; colonialism; desexualization; discrimination; femininity; politics; race; trauma
queerascatThe Intersections of a Black, Non-binary Ace2015asexual; Black; desexualization; identity; intersectionality; media; nonbinary; race; representation; stereotypes
Cynthia BarounisCompulsory Sexuality and Asexual/Crip Resistance in John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus2014asexual; asexual continuum; asexual reading/theory; compulsory sexuality; crip; desexualization; disability; disability theory/studies; intersectionality; media; queer; sexual liberation
Kristina GuptaAsexuality and Disability: Mutual Negation in Adams v. Rice and New Directions for Coalition Building2014asexual; crip; definitions; desexualization; disability; disability theory/studies; discrimination; identity; intersectionality; law; pathologization; political theory; politics
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