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
C. BougieComposing Aromanticism2021amatonormativity; aromantic; asexual; AVEN; categorization; coming out; definitions; discrimination; dysphoria; friendship; gender; identity; kinship; narrative; online community; poetry; queer; queer theory; relationships; self-identification; social construct; split attraction; theory
Elizabeth BrakeMinimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law2012amatonormativity; asexual; community; compulsory sexuality; discrimination; gender; injustice; jealousy; law; marriage; monogamy; morality; nonmonogamy; objectification; philosophy; platonic; political theory; privilege; relationships; romantic; sexual violence; social construct
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
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
Esther D. Rothblum, Evan A. Krueger, Krystal R. Kittle, Ilan H. MeyerAsexual and Non-Asexual Respondents from a U.S. Population-Based Study of Sexual Minorities2020aphobia; coming out; discrimination; identity; LGBTQ; psychology; quantitative methods; science
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 ChasinMaking Sense in and of the Asexual Community: Navigating Relationships and Identities in a Context of Resistance2015aphobia; asexual; AVEN; community; definitions; discrimination; friendship; gender; HSDD; intersectionality; LGBTQ; psychology; split attraction; trans
Karen CuthbertAsexuality and epistemic injustice: a gendered perspective2021aphobia; compulsory sexuality; discrimination; feminism; gender; injustice; qualitative methods; queer; silence
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
Amanda L. Mollet, Brian LackmanAllonormativity and Compulsory Sexuality2022allosexual; amatonormativity; aphobia; asexual; celibacy; compulsory sexuality; corrective assault; discrimination; fiction; gender; identity; LGBTQ; nonsexual; pathologization; privilege; religion; representation; sex education; single; trans; TV
Kristýna Kaymak Minaříková"But You're Not Alone": Outside of Coupledom2021amatonormativity; aromantic; asexual; bachelor; discrimination; friendship; love; marriage; media; neoliberal; nonmonogamy; pop culture; qualitative methods; reproduction; romantic; single
Milica Batričević, Andrej CvetićUncovering an A: Asexuality and Asexual Activism in Croatia and Serbia2016asexual; asexual reading/theory; community; compulsory sexuality; definitions; discrimination; gatekeeping; HSDD; identity; intersectionality; intimacy; LGBTQ; politics; queer; queer theory; religion; self-identification; visibility
Lee Yingtong LiSupplementary Context--'Let's Talk about being agender, aromantic, asexual and Asian'2020allonormativity; allosexual; amatonormativity; discrimination; HSDD; LGBTQ
Wendy L. Morris, Stacey Sinclair, Bella M. DePauloNo Shelter for Singles: The Perceived Legitimacy of Marital Status Discrimination2007discrimination; law; marriage; quantitative methods; single
Sherronda J. Brown'Left to hold my grief alone.' Grieving platonic love in a culture of romantic domination2022aromantic reading/theory; care; community; discrimination; friendship; love; non-romantic; platonic; romantic; single; stereotypes
Ela PrzybyloAsexuals against the Cis-Tem!2016aphobia; asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; Boston Marriage; community; compulsory sexuality; disability; discrimination; feminism; gender; gender fluidity; interdisciplinary; intersectionality; LGBTQ; queer; queer theory; race; sexusociety; trans; trans theory; transgender
Raquel ReichardHow Latina 'Spicy and Sexy' Stereotypes Hurt Asexual Latinas2015abuse; asexual; corrective assault; discrimination; gatekeeping; identity; Latinx; race; sexual violence; stereotypes; whiteness
KatieThe Colonized Asexual--a response to racial trauma2014asexual; Asian; colonialism; desexualization; discrimination; femininity; politics; race; trauma
SiggyInterview with Ianna Hawkins Owen2013asexual; AVEN; Black; disability; discrimination; race; whiteness
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