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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Amy N. Antonsen, Bozena Zdaniuk, Morag Yule, Lori A. BrottoAce and Aro: Understanding Differences in Romantic Attractions Among Persons Identifying as Asexual2020allosexual; aromantic; asexual; asexual continuum; AVEN; categorization; gender; identity; nonbinary; online community; psychology; qualitative methods; romantic; science; self-identification; split attraction; trans; visibility
Kelsey BorresonWhat it Means to be 'Aromantic' According to Aromantic People2022aromantic; asexual; AVEN; comics; friendship; identity; media; platonic; queerplatonic; repulsion/aversion; romantic
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
Erick BurdockVillains, victims, and virgins: Asexuality in the films of Alfred Hitchcock2018asexual; asexual reading/theory; asexual resonances; AVEN; celibacy; corrective assault; dandy; death; desexualization; gay; gender; HSDD; identity; intimacy; LGBTQ; masculinity; media; otherness; pathologization; queer; queer theory; representation; repulsion/aversion; romantic; sexual violence; trauma; virginity
Dominique A. CanningQueering Asexuality: Asexual-Inclusion in Queer Spaces2015aromantic; asexual; AVEN; bisexual; community; community-building; gatekeeping; identity; LGBTQ; online community; otherness; passing; queer; romantic; split attraction
Xu Guo, Day WongConstructions of Asexual Identity in China: Intersections of Class, Gender, Region of Residence, and Asexuality2020aromantic; asexual; China; coming out; HSDD; identity; intersectionality; LGBTQ; mixed methods; online community; pro forma marriage; romantic; single; social construct; trans
Jordan WindholzThe Queer Testimonies of Male Chastity in All's Well That Ends Well2019bachelor; early modern; identity; literary analysis/theory; literature; marriage; masculinity; protestant; queer; queer theory; reproductive futurity; Shakespeare; single; virginity
Essi VirtanenThe Representation of Queer Identities in Terry Pratchett's Discworld2022amatonormativity; aromantic; asexual; asexual reading/theory; fiction; gender; identity; literary analysis/theory; literature; marriage; nonbinary; queer; queer theory; representation; romantic; virginity
Zach Schudson, Sari van Anders'You have to coin new things': sexual and gender identity discourses in asexual, queer, and/or trans young people's networked counterpublics2019asexual; bisexual; categorization; community-building; definitions; gender; identity; nonbinary; online community; romantic; self-identification; trans
Alok Vaid-MenonWhat's R(ace) Got To Do With It?: White Privilege & (A)sexuality2014asexual; asexual reading/theory; colonialism; gender; history; identity; intersectionality; masculinity; narrative; political theory; politics; privilege; queer; race; South Asian; trauma; whiteness
Elijah G. StuckiCompulsory Sexuality and Amatonormativity in Higher Education: A Photovoice Study with Asexual and Aromantic Students2019amatonormativity; aromantic; art; asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; colonialism; coming out; community; community-building; compulsory sexuality; corrective assault; definitions; dehumanization; disability; gender; HSDD; identity; intersectionality; kinship; LGBTQ; mental illness; nonbinary; otherness; pathologization; queer; race; romantic; sexual violence; social construct; trans
Mark Alan SmithBypassing the Asexual Paradox: A Strategic Retelling of the History of Asexuality2017asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; celibacy; compulsory sexuality; death; early modern; history; identity; medieval; psychology; queer; queer theory; religion; reproductive futurity; sexusociety
SiggyAce Tropes: Allo Savior Complex2017aphobia; asexual; asexual reading/theory; fiction; identity; literary analysis/theory; literature
Sarah Selena"The Purest, Most Innocent Kind of Love": Summer Bird Blue and Asexuality2021aromantic; asexual; asexual reading/theory; fiction; identity; literary analysis/theory; literature; media; psychology
Matt Dawson, Susie Scott, Liz McDonnellNegotiating the boundaries of intimacy: the personal lives of asexual people2016aromantic; friendship; identity; intimacy; narrative; passing; psychology; qualitative methods; relationships; romantic; social construct; sociology; split attraction
Sav SchlauderaffLearning to re-claim my body and my asexuality2020archives; disability; identity; literature; poetry; primary source; queer; trans; trauma
Mark CarriganThere's more to life than sex? Difference and commonality within the asexual community2011asexual; asexual continuum; AVEN; community; definitions; identity; pathologization; qualitative methods; repulsion/aversion; self-identification; split attraction
Joseph De LappeAsexual Activism2016asexual; community; HSDD; identity; LGBTQ; online community; pathologization; psychology; queer
Evelyn ElgieBeing and Doing: Interrogating Dominant Narratives of Asexual Kinship in an Amatonormative Culture2017amatonormativity; aromantic; asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; colonialism; identity; indigenous; intersectionality; intimacy; kinship; nonmonogamy; nonsexual; online community; queer theory; queerplatonic; romantic; social construct; sociology; split attraction; theory
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