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
yingchen, yingtongAn aromantic manifesto2018amatonormativity; archives; aromantic; capitalism; jealousy; love; monogamy; political theory; politics; primary source; queer; romantic; social construct; trans
Day WongAsexuality in China's sexual revolution: Asexual marriage as coping strategy2015asexual; AVEN; celibacy; China; intimacy; love; marriage; mixed methods; nonsexual; pathologization; platonic; pro forma marriage; romantic; self-identification; sexusociety
Matthew WilliamsCold Heart: An Exploration of Aromanticism in Lucy2018amatonormativity; aromantic; friendship; literary analysis/theory; literature; love; platonic
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
Sarah SalihVersions of Virginity in Late Medieval England2001asexual resonances; gender; love; marriage; medieval; nonbinary; reproductive futurity; virginity
Daniela CutasEditorial: On Love2018amatonormativity; autism; Black; colonialism; friendship; gender; love; marriage; morality; nonmonogamy; philosophy; queer; race; reproduction; romantic
Sadie FrickLove is a Many-Splendored Thing: A celebration of the diverse spectrum of love2022aromantic; asexual; love; philosophy; psychology; queer; queerplatonic; religion; romantic; split attraction
Rebecca Ruth GouldFriends & Lovers2020intimacy; LGBTQ; literature; love; philosophy; poetry; primary source; queerplatonic; romantic
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
Anna Kurowicka"The only story I will ever be able to tell": Nonsexual Erotics of Friendship in Donna Tartt's The Secret History and Tana French's The Likeness2020amatonormativity; asexual; asexual reading/theory; asexual resonances; capitalism; community; friendship; jealousy; literary analysis/theory; literature; love; nonsexual; queer; queerplatonic; romantic
Caleb LunaRomantic Love is Killing Us: Who Takes Care of Us When We're Single?2018amatonormativity; aromantic; colonialism; gender; intersectionality; mental illness; platonic; race; romantic
Brittney MilesTheorizing Conscious Black Asexuality through Claire Kann's Let's Talk about Love2019asexual; asexual reading/theory; Black; black conscious asexuality; controlling images; gatekeeping; gender; intersectionality; literary analysis/theory; literature; narrative; queer; race; trauma
Juan MieraIn Our Heart Circle for Two2020literature; love; poetry; primary source; romantic
Kristýna Kaymak Minaříková"But You're Not Alone": Outside of Coupledom2021amatonormativity; aromantic; asexual; bachelor; discrimination; friendship; love; marriage; media; neoliberal; nonmonogamy; pop culture; qualitative methods; reproduction; romantic; single
Michón Neal5 Ways Amatonormativity Sets Harmful Relationship Norms for Us All2016amatonormativity; aromantic; asexual; autism; friendship; intimacy; jealousy; love; nonmonogamy; romantic
Joanna Łapińska'The Most Exciting Thing is Not-Doing-It', or Andy Warhol's 'Philosophy of Love' on the Basis of 'Blow Job' and 'My Hustler'2015art; art history; asexual; celibacy; erotics; fantasies; love; media; narrative; pathologization; philosophy; platonic; psychology; romantic; virginity
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
Adam Key, Brontë PearsonNon-Love Letters: Asexualizing Queer Love and Generosity2021allosexual; asexual; classical; friendship; gender; love; marriage; media; nonsexual; platonic; queer; queer theory; romantic; sexual violence; trauma; virginity
Selena C. BaughImpact of Compulsory Sexuality on LGB and Asexual Media Consumers2019adolescence; aromantic; asexual; bisexual; compulsory sexuality; gay; identity; intimacy; LGBTQ; love; media; pathologization; religion; TV
baegin-aceAn Aro/Ace analysis of Jane Austen's Emma2019aromantic; aromantic reading/theory; asexual; asexual reading/theory; friendship; literary analysis/theory; literature; love; marriage; platonic; queerplatonic; Victorian