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
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
Anna KurowickaThe Queer Identity for the Twenty-First Century? An Exploration of Asexuality2015a-fluidity; asexual; autism; AVEN; categorization; coming out; community; essentialism; feminism; identity; intimacy; LGBTQ; masturbation; media; pathologization; psychology; queer; romantic; sexusociety
CJ Deluzio ChasinReconsidering Asexuality and Its Radical Potential2013aromantic; asexual; AVEN; categorization; community; compulsory sexuality; demisexuality; essentialism; feminism; gatekeeping; gold star asexual; gray-asexuality; HSDD; nonsexual; pathologization; politics; psychology; self-identification
Ela PrzybyloAsexuality and the Feminist Politics of 'Not Doing It'2011aromantic; asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; celibacy; compulsory sexuality; essentialism; feminism; gender; history; HSDD; intersectionality; intimacy; love; nonmonogamy; pathologization; politics; queer theory; romantic; sexual liberation; single
Randi GressgårdAsexuality: from pathology to identity and beyond2013asexual; AVEN; categorization; community; essentialism; gender; identity; orientation; pathologization; politics; psychology; queer; queer theory; self-identification; social construct
Agata Pacho'Cake is Better than Sex'--Aven and Asexuality2017aphobia; asexual; AVEN; cake; community; essentialism; infantilization; online community; pathologization; performativity; politics; representation
CoyoteTop 6 Mistakes in the Academic Field of Asexuality Studies2022allosexual; asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; community; definitions; essentialism; orientation; split attraction