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.

  1. Select the tags you are interested in the advanced filters such as affect, adolescence. Tags were manually assigned by our research team to each resource to ensure they are relevant.
  2. If you want to further specify your search results, you can also select the category (article, book chapter, etc.) and type of resource (academic or community).
  3. Search up the term you are looking for in the search bar. Your results will be filtered based on the tags, category, and type you've selected.
  4. You can also check and uncheck different types of information you want to see in the table such as Press, Disciple, Editors, etc.
  5. Additionally, Boolean Search functionalities are also available incuding AND, OR, NOT, Parentheses (), Quotation Marks "", Question Mark "?" and Asterisk "*". You can read more about these operators here.

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AuthorsTitleYearTags
Zach Schudson, Sari van Anders'You have to coin new things': sexual and gender identity discourses in asexual, queer, and/or trans young people's networked counterpublics2019asexual; bisexual; categorization; community-building; definitions; gender; identity; nonbinary; online community; romantic; self-identification; trans
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
Chelsea ReynoldsThe 'Woke' Sex Discourse: Sexuality and Gender in Online Consumer Magazines2020amatonormativity; aromantic; asexual; BDSM; bisexual; capitalism; coming out; feminism; gay; gender; gender fluidity; intersectionality; intersex; kink; LGBTQ; media; neoliberal; nonbinary; nonmonogamy; politics; pop culture; queer; race; sex education; sexual violence; trans; whiteness
Petra Filipová, Pavol Jozef ŠafárikGendered Discourse and Asexuality in Postmillennial Media2021asexual; AVEN; community; definitions; gender; HSDD; masculinity; media; representation; TV
Rita Alcaire(In)Visible (a)sexuality? Media discourses and representations on asexuality in Portugal2021asexual; media; Portugal; representation
Ben Brandley, Marco Dehnert“I am not a Robot, I am Asexual”: A Qualitative Critique of Allonormative Discourses of Ace and Aro Folks as Robots, Aliens, Monsters2024aliens; allonormativity; aromantic; asexual; monstrosity; rhetoric; robots
Julia FineFrom crushes to squishes Affect and agency on r/ AskReddit and r/ Asexual2023affect; allosexual; asexual; discourse; heterosexuality; language; masculinity; nonsexual; online community; Reddit; social media; squish
Angela ChenAce: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex2020allonormativity; allosexual; amatonormativity; aphobia; aromantic; asexual; asexual continuum; coming out; community; compulsory sexuality; definitions; dehumanization; desexualization; disability; discourse; erotics; femininity; friendship; frigidity; gender; identity; interdisciplinary; intersectionality; intimacy; LGBTQ; literature; marriage; masculinity; media; monogamy; morality; narrative; online community; otherness; queer; race; relationships; self-identification; sex; stereotypes
Sherronda J. BrownGatekeeping2022allonormativity; amatonormativity; asexual continuum; coming out; community; compulsory sexuality; discourse; discrimination; erasure; fetishization; gatekeeping; gender; heteronormativity; invisible; LGBTQ; media; normativity; otherness; queer; relationships; representation; sex; sexual liberation; sexual violence; trauma