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
Joe JukesTowards Asexual Theory: Practicing a Queer Accountability of the Non-Sexual2018asexual; asexual reading/theory; erotics; nonsexual; performativity; queer; queer theory; silence
Kaiya Jacob, Ela PrzybyloThe Erotic Worldmaking of Asexual and Aromantic Zines2021'zine; antiracism; archives; aromantic; art; asexual; comics; community; community-building; compulsory sexuality; erotics; fiction; intersectionality; media; queer; visibility; world building
Kristina Gupta, Ela PrzybyloEditorial Introduction; The Erotics of Asexualities and Nonsexualities: Intersectional Approaches2020asexual; asexual reading/theory; asexual resonances; community; erotics; feminism; history; identity; interdisciplinary; intersectionality; nonsexual; queer; queer theory; race
Anna Kurowicka"The only story I will ever be able to tell": Nonsexual Erotics of Friendship in Donna Tartt's The Secret History and Tana French's The Likeness2020amatonormativity; asexual; asexual reading/theory; asexual resonances; capitalism; community; friendship; jealousy; literary analysis/theory; literature; love; nonsexual; queer; queerplatonic; romantic
Eunjung KimHow Much Sex is Healthy? The Pleasures of Asexuality2010asexual; autism; desexualization; disability; disability theory/studies; erotics; intersectionality; media; nonsexual; pathologization; TV
Min Joo LeeIntimacy Beyond Sex: Korean Television Dramas, Nonsexual Masculinities, and Transnational Erotic Desires2020asexual; erotics; fetishization; gender; intersectionality; k-drama; Korean; masculinity; nonsexual; romantic; whiteness
Savie LuceAsexual Erasure Undone: A Short Literary History of Asexuality in 19th- to 20th- Century Literary Classics2021aromantic; asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; Boston Marriage; definitions; erotics; fetishization; gray-asexuality; infantilization; literary analysis/theory; literature; masculinity; narrative; nonsexual; queer; queerplatonic; romantic
Margaret Rose McDowellAgainst Compulsory Sexuality: Asexual Figures of Resistance2022allosexual; archives; asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; Black; Boston Marriage; celibacy; compulsory sexuality; dehumanization; erotics; feminism; gender; intimacy; literary analysis/theory; literature; media; politics; pop culture; queer theory; race; reproductive futurity; sexual liberation; sexusociety; single; TV; world building
Joanna Łapińska'The Most Exciting Thing is Not-Doing-It', or Andy Warhol's 'Philosophy of Love' on the Basis of 'Blow Job' and 'My Hustler'2015art; art history; asexual; celibacy; erotics; fantasies; love; media; narrative; pathologization; philosophy; platonic; psychology; romantic; virginity
Aoife SadlierEvoking the Female 'Asexual'2019asexual; erotics; gender; identity; masturbation; queer; queer theory; romantic; silence
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
KJ CerankowskiSpectacular Asexuals: Media Visibility and Cultural Fetish2014asexual; AVEN; comics; dehumanization; erotics; fetishization; gold star asexual; media; otherness; performativity; queer; representation; spectacle
QueenieThat one time I got a story about asexuality published in an erotica magazine, or Queenie rambles about writing fiction2012asexual; Carnival of Aces; erotics; fiction; Tumblr
Ela PrzybyloAsexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality2019asexual
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
Kim TallBear, Angela WilleyCritical Relationality: Queer, Indigenous, and Multispecies Belonging Beyond Settler Sex & Nature2019asexual; asexual reading/theory; colonialism; eco-erotics; erotics; friendship; indigenous; intersectionality; intimacy; kinship; multispecies; nonhuman; nonmonogamy; pathologization; queer; theory
Ianna Hawkins OwenMore: Cake, Feedism, and Asexuality2022asexual; asexual reading/theory; Black; cake; community; erotics; feminism; food; queer; queer theory
Cameron Awkward-RichTrans Study (1) and: Sterile2020erotics; intersectionality; intimacy; LGBTQ; performativity; poetry; primary source; trans; trans theory; transgender
Ela PrzybyloAce and aro lesbian art and theory with Agnes Martin and Yayoi Kusama2022amatonormativity; archives; aromantic; art; art history; asexual; asexual reading/theory; asexual resonances; Boston Marriage; categorization; compulsory sexuality; definitions; desexualization; disability; discrimination; erotics; feminism; gay; gender; identity; indigenous; LGBTQ; nonbinary; queer; race; repulsion/aversion; split attraction
mossy-aroIt's actually so baffling2022alloromantic; aromantic; aromantic reading/theory; erotics; identity; invisible; love; Tumblr