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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Authors↑Title↑Year↑Tags↑
Hillary H. Bush, Lindsey W. Williams, Eva MendesBrief Report: Asexuality and Young Women on the Autism Spectrum2021asexual; autism; disability; gender; HSDD; pathologization; psychology; qualitative methods; quantitative methods
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
Matt Dawson, Susie Scott, Liz McDonell"'Asexual' Isn't Who I Am": The Politics of Asexuality2018asexual; asexual continuum; categorization; community; disability; discrimination; interdisciplinary; LGBTQ; online community; politics; queer
Sav SchlauderaffLearning to re-claim my body and my asexuality2020archives; disability; identity; literature; poetry; primary source; queer; trans; trauma
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
Jana Fedtke53X+M³=Ø? [SEX+ME=NO RESULT?]: Tropes of Asexuality in Literature and Film2012asexual; asexual reading/theory; disability; disability theory/studies; HSDD; intersectionality; literary analysis/theory; literature; media; pathologization; pop culture; theory; TV
Karen CuthbertYou have to be Normal to be Abnormal: An Empirically Grounded Exploration of the Intersection of Asexuality and Disability2017asexual; autism; disability; gold star asexual; intersectionality; pathologization; queer; race; sociology; theory
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
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 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
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
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
Amanda L. Mollet"I Have a lot of Feelings, Just None in the Genitalia Region": A Grounded Theory of Asexual College Students' Identity Journeys2020allosexual; asexual; asexual continuum; AVEN; coming out; community; compulsory sexuality; definitions; disability; identity; intersectionality; LGBTQ; online community; race; romantic; self-identification; sexual violence; sexusociety; social construct; split attraction; trans; whiteness
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
Jana FedtkeThe Erasure of Asexuality: Sheldon's Masculinity in The Big Bang Theory2021asexual; asexual reading/theory; disability; marriage; masculinity; media; pathologization; pop culture; reproduction; TV
Kristina Gupta, KJ CerankowskiAsexualities and Media2018asexual; asexual continuum; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; celibacy; compulsory sexuality; definitions; disability; literary analysis/theory; literature; love; media; nonsexual; queer; religion; representation; TV
S.L. Dove CooperSubverting Stereotypes: A Look at Asexual and Aromantic Representation in RoAnna Sylver’s ‘Chameleon Moon’2019aromantic; asexual; death; disability; invisible; marginalization; queer; race; representation; stereotypes