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.
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AuthorsTitleYearTags
Nikki Hayfield, Thom Winter-Gray"Can I be a kinky ace?": How asexual people negotiate their experiences of kinks and fetishes2021aromantic; asexual; asexual continuum; BDSM; definitions; fantasies; fetish; intersectionality; kink; masturbation; qualitative methods
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
Lisa OrlandoThe Asexual Manifesto1972asexual; feminism; fetishization; gender; intimacy; morality; nonsexual; objectification; patriarchy; political theory; politics; relationships
Hilal KasikciFrigid transgressions: Unveiling the queer potentialities of asexuality2015aromantic; asexual; asexual reading/theory; capitalism; compulsory sexuality; feminism; fetishization; friendship; identity; intimacy; monogamy; neoliberal; nonmonogamy; objectification; pathologization; queer theory
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
Liza BlakeDildos and Accessories: The Functions of Early Modern Strap-Ons2011early modern; fetish; gender; nonhuman; queer theory
Sherronda J. BrownRefusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture2022adolescence; antiracism; aphobia; asexual; asexual reading/theory; Black; capitalism; compulsory sexuality; controlling images; corrective assault; definitions; dehumanization; femininity; fetishization; frigidity; gatekeeping; gender; history; infantilization; intersectionality; masculinity; monstrosity; nonhuman; objectification; pathologization; queer; race; reproduction; reproductive futurity
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
Sherronda J. BrownUtility 2022Black; black conscious asexuality; compulsory sexuality; dehumanization; fantasies; fetishization; morality; race; representation; sex; sexual violence; stereotypes; whiteness
Sherronda J. BrownBlack Asexual insights2022aromantic; asexual; Black; black conscious asexuality; discrimination; fetishization; invisible; otherness; race; representation; stereotypes