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
Queenie, N/ACompulsory sexuality, or why dating and being asexual can be very confusing, especially if people keep giving you dumb puberty books2012asexual; Carnival of Aces; compulsory sexuality; corrective assault; heteronormativity; identity; primary source; repulsion/aversion; Tumblr; virginity
AtaliaThings Aces Can Learn From Kink: Part One2013asexual; Carnival of Aces; consent; heteronormativity; kink; relationships
yingchen, yingtongAn aromantic manifesto'zine; aromantic; consent; counterpublics; heteronormativity; intimacy; liberalism; neoliberal; oppression; politics; privilege; queer; whiteness
Erin Lavender-StottQueering singlehood: Examining the intersection of sexuality and relationship status from a queer lens2023amatonormativity; aromantic; asexual; family; friendship; heteronormativity; LGBTQ; queer; queer theory; single
Hannah TesslerThe Stability of Singlehood: Limitations of the Relationship Status Paradigm and a New Theoretical Framework for Reimagining Singlehood2023allonormativity; amatonormativity; aromantic; aromantic spectrum; asexual; celibacy; heteronormativity; relationships; single
Tabby ShieldmaidenMy Future2023amatonormativity; aromantic; autism; Carnival of Aros; family; heteronormativity; marriage; relationships; Tumblr
Canton WinerQueerness includes asexuality2023allonormativity; amatonormativity; asexual; heteronormativity; normativity; queer
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. BrownNeverland2022amatonormativity; asexual; Black; black conscious asexuality; colonialism; compulsory sexuality; dehumanization; discrimination; family; heteronormativity; heterosexuality; infantilization; intersectionality; marriage; normativity; race; relationships; sex; sexusociety; single; virginity; whiteness
Sherronda J. BrownDesire2022allonormativity; amatonormativity; asexual; capitalism; compulsory sexuality; corrective assault; disability; discrimination; femininity; frigidity; gender; health; heteronormativity; HSDD; masculinity; mental illness; normativity; orgasm; otherness; pathologization; patriarchy; pleasure; psychology; repulsion/aversion; self-identification; shame; whiteness
Sherronda J. BrownFrigidity 2022corrective assault; femininity; feminism; frigidity; heteronormativity; heterosexuality; history; HSDD; marriage; masculinity; orgasm; pathologization; repulsion/aversion
Sherronda J. BrownUnfit 2022allonormativity; asexual; Binary; Black; black conscious asexuality; compulsory sexuality; femininity; feminism; gender; heteronormativity; heterosexuality; lesbian; masculinity; normativity; patriarchy; race; sex; trans; transgender; whiteness
Sherronda J. BrownUnhuman2022allonormativity; amatonormativity; aromantic; asexual; black conscious asexuality; dehumanization; heteronormativity; heterosexuality; media; nonhuman; psychology; race; representation; sex
Sherronda J. BrownRefusal2022aromantic; asexual; asexual resonances; Black; black conscious asexuality; categorization; compulsory sexuality; femininity; gender; heteronormativity; history; identity; masculinity; queer
Sherronda J. BrownPossibilities2022allonormativity; amatonormativity; asexual; black conscious asexuality; compulsory sexuality; heteronormativity; identity; normativity; orientation; otherness; queer; self-identification
Elizabeth BrakeCritiques of Marriage: An Essentially Unjust Institution?2012amatonormativity; feminism; heteronormativity; heterosexuality; love; marriage; monogamy; morality; oppression; philosophy; polyamory; race; relationships; sex