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
Simone ChessAsexuality, Queer Chastity, and Adolescence in Early Modern Literature2018adolescence; asexual; asexual reading/theory; celibacy; early modern; gender; history; infantilization; literary analysis/theory; literature; masculinity; queer; queer theory; Shakespeare
Tamara DeutschAsexual People's Experience with Microaggressions2018aromantic; asexual; coming out; corrective assault; definitions; dehumanization; discrimination; gatekeeping; gray-asexuality; HSDD; infantilization; LGBTQ; media; mental illness; pathologization; psychology; repulsion/aversion; sexual violence; split attraction; visibility
Luke Brunning, Natasha McKeeverAsexuality2021aphobia; asexual; asexual continuum; asexual reading/theory; categorization; definitions; demisexuality; infantilization; injustice; morality; philosophy; relationships; romantic; split attraction
Alex HendersonLet's Talk About Love, Tash Hearts Tolstoy, and the Asexual Coming- of-Age Story2019adolescence; aphobia; asexual; celibacy; dehumanization; fiction; infantilization; literary analysis/theory; literature; media; online community; pathologization; queer; romantic
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
Benjamin Marks"Sick, Dead, or Lying": A critical textual analysis of asexuality in popular culture2017aphobia; asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; community; compulsory sexuality; dehumanization; disability; identity; infantilization; LGBTQ; media; online community; pathologization; queer; race; representation; TV; whiteness
Andrew Grossman"Why Didn't You Tell Me That I Love You?" Asexuality, Polymorphous Perversity, and the Liberation of the Cinematic Clown2014adolescence; asexual; chastity; dehumanization; film; infantilization; love; masculinity; media; mythology; North America; orientation; pathologization; pleasure; politics; psychology
Megan MilksStunted Growth: Asexual Politics and the Rhetoric of Sexual Liberation2014anarchy; aphobia; asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; BDSM; celibacy; dehumanization; feminism; gender; identity; infantilization; literature; media; pathologization; political theory; politics; queer; queer theory; reproductive futurity; sexual liberation; sexusociety; trans; virginity
Agata Pacho'Cake is Better than Sex'--Aven and Asexuality2017aphobia; asexual; AVEN; cake; community; essentialism; infantilization; online community; pathologization; performativity; politics; representation
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
arokaladinI Don’t Want to Be Associated With the Community That Hurt Me2019allonormativity; aromantic; asexual; Carnival of Aros; community; erasure; infantilization; intersectionality