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
Sandra AlexanderssonQueer Game Design: What kind of game design practices are favored by queer players?2022aromantic; asexual; LGBTQ; media; nonbinary; nonmonogamy; queer; trans; video games
Kelsey BorresonWhat it Means to be 'Aromantic' According to Aromantic People2022aromantic; asexual; AVEN; comics; friendship; identity; media; platonic; queerplatonic; repulsion/aversion; romantic
Melissa Shani Brown, Nichola Lucy Partridge"Strangely Like a Person": Cole and the Queering of Asexuality in Dragon Age: Inquisition2021aphobia; archives; aromantic; asexual; asexual reading/theory; dehumanization; masculinity; media; nonsexual; otherness; pathologization; queer; representation; video games
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
Emily Burkhardt, Verity Trott, Whitney Monaghan"#Bughead Is Endgame": Civic Meaning-Making in Riverdale Anti-Fandom and Shipping Practices on Tumblr2021asexual; comics; LGBTQ; media; online community; political theory; politics; representation; TV
Nat WrhelThe Acest of Aces: Representations of Asexuality in Fiction2017archives; asexual; asexual reading/theory; comics; dehumanization; fiction; gender; LGBTQ; literary analysis/theory; literature; media; queer; romantic; TV
Kyle WebsterA Textual Analysis of Online Asexual Representation and Visibility on Reddit2018asexual; asexual reading/theory; coming out; community; compulsory sexuality; definitions; LGBTQ; media; online community; performativity; queer; queer theory; representation; visibility
Hendrike Tel"This Work is Tagged 'Asexual Character'": An Analysis of Asexuality in Fanfiction2020aphobia; aromantic; asexual; community; literary analysis/theory; literature; media; online community; pathologization; psychology; quantitative methods; queer; romantic; split attraction; TV
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
Michael CobbSingle: Arguments for the Uncoupled2012art; art history; capitalism; death; gender; LGBTQ; literary analysis/theory; literature; media; monogamy; nonmonogamy; philosophy; political theory; queer; romantic; single; social construct; theory; TV
Francesca CoppaSherlock as Cyborg: Bridging Mind and Body2012asexual; asexual reading/theory; asexual resonances; dehumanization; media; otherness; TV
Danielle CorcioneHow television is leading the asexual revolution2016aromantic; asexual; asexual continuum; dehumanization; gay; LGBTQ; media; platonic; representation; TV
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
Jana Fedtke53X+M³=Ø? [SEX+ME=NO RESULT?]: Tropes of Asexuality in Literature and Film2012asexual; asexual reading/theory; disability; disability theory/studies; HSDD; intersectionality; literary analysis/theory; literature; media; pathologization; pop culture; theory; TV
Kaiya Jacob, Ela PrzybyloThe Erotic Worldmaking of Asexual and Aromantic Zines2021'zine; antiracism; archives; aromantic; art; asexual; comics; community; community-building; compulsory sexuality; erotics; fiction; intersectionality; media; queer; visibility; world building
Lysa Westberg GabrielSlashing the Invisible: Bodily Autonomy in Asexual Fan Fiction2018aromantic; asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; celibacy; definitions; gender; HSDD; literary analysis/theory; literature; masculinity; nonbinary; online community; pathologization; queer; representation
Sara GhalebAsexuality is still hugely misunderstood. TV is slowly changing that.2018aromantic; asexual; comics; media; pathologization; representation; split attraction; TV
Colin Görke"Melted Your Cold Heart Yet?" Amatonormative Masculinity in Casino Royale and Spectre2019amatonormativity; aromantic; feminism; friendship; gender; marriage; masculinity; media; platonic; pop culture; 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
Eunjung Kim"A Man, with the Same Feelings": Disability, Humanity, and Heterosexual Apparatus in Breaking the Waves, Born on the Fourth of July, Breathing Lessons, and Oasis2010asexual; dehumanization; disability; disability theory/studies; feminism; gender; intimacy; Korean; masculinity; media; otherness; pathologization; queer