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
Claudie ArseneaultDeath, Stillness, and Exile--Three Prongs of Asexual Imagery in Fiction2017aphobia; asexual; asexual reading/theory; community; death; dehumanization; literary analysis/theory; literature; narrative; otherness; representation; 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
Tiina VaresAsexualities, Intimacies and Relationality2019aromantic; asexual; AVEN; crush; definitions; demisexuality; friendship; gray-asexuality; intimacy; marriage; monogamy; narrative; nonsexual; online community; platonic; queerplatonic; repulsion/aversion; romantic; self-identification; split attraction; squish
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
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
KJ CerankowskiMaking Nothing Out of Something: Asexuality and the Rhetorics of Silence and Absence2022asexual; asexual reading/theory; asexual resonances; celibacy; colonialism; demisexuality; literary analysis/theory; narrative; nonsexual; queer; queer theory; race; silence; sovereignty; virginity
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
Eunjung KimAsexuality in disability narratives2011asexual; community; desexualization; disability; disability theory/studies; intersectionality; intersex; pathologization; queer
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
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
Catherine MeyerA is Not for Ally: Affirming Asexual College Student Narratives2019aphobia; asexual; corrective assault; gatekeeping; gender; identity; intersectionality; LGBTQ; pathologization; queer; race; self-identification; sexual violence; trauma; whiteness
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
Amanda L. Mollet, Brian LackmanAsexual Student Invisibility and Erasure in Higher Education: 'I Thought I Was the Only One'2020allosexual; asexual; asexual continuum; AVEN; coming out; community-building; dehumanization; gender fluidity; identity; LGBTQ; narrative; nonbinary; online community; qualitative methods; queer; race; romantic; split attraction; trans; whiteness
Madeline AndrewsQueering Austen: Mary Bennet, Aromanticism and Asexuality in Pride and Prejudice2022aromantic; asexual; asexual reading/theory; gender; literary analysis/theory; literature; marriage; narrative; otherness; queer; romantic
Claudie ArseneaultAsexuality and Death and Other Associations2017asexual; asexual reading/theory; death; dehumanization; literary analysis/theory; literature; media; narrative; otherness; representation
Lynn O\'ConnachtAromanticism, Asexuality, and the Illusion of New Narratives2020aromantic; asexual; asexual reading/theory; narrative
Elizabeth Hanna HansonToward an Asexual Narrative Structure2014asexual; asexual reading/theory; fiction; literary analysis/theory; literature; narrative; queer theory
Angela ChenAce: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex2020allonormativity; allosexual; amatonormativity; aphobia; aromantic; asexual; asexual continuum; coming out; community; compulsory sexuality; definitions; dehumanization; desexualization; disability; discourse; erotics; femininity; friendship; frigidity; gender; identity; interdisciplinary; intersectionality; intimacy; LGBTQ; literature; marriage; masculinity; media; monogamy; morality; narrative; online community; otherness; queer; race; relationships; self-identification; sex; stereotypes