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
Chase Aunspach, Casey Ryan KellyIncels, Compulsory Sexuality, and Fascist Masculinity2020asexual; AVEN; celibacy; community; compulsory sexuality; gender; homosociality; masculinity; nonsexual; online community; platonic; politics; queer; sexual violence; sexusociety
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
yingchen, yingtongAn aromantic manifesto2018amatonormativity; archives; aromantic; capitalism; jealousy; love; monogamy; political theory; politics; primary source; queer; romantic; social construct; trans
Carter VanceUnwilling Consumers: Towards a Historical Materialist Concept of Asexuality and Compulsory Sexuality2018asexual; asexual reading/theory; capitalism; feminism; neoliberal; political theory; politics; queer theory; theory
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
Nathan SnazaAsexuality and Erotic Biopolitics2020antiracism; asexual; asexual reading/theory; biocultural; colonialism; compulsory sexuality; intersectionality; kinship; literary analysis/theory; literature; political theory; queer; queer theory; race
Justin Smith"[T]he happiest, well-feddest wolf in Harlem": Asexuality as Resistance to Social Reproduction in Claude McKay's Home to Harlem2020asexual; asexual reading/theory; asexual resonances; Black; capitalism; community; intersectionality; literary analysis/theory; literature; political theory; politics; queer; race; reproduction; sexusociety
Matt Dawson, Susie Scott, Liz McDonell"'Asexual' Isn't Who I Am": The Politics of Asexuality2018asexual; asexual continuum; categorization; community; disability; discrimination; interdisciplinary; LGBTQ; online community; politics; queer
Tiina VaresAsexuals negotiate the 'onslaught of the heteronormative'2021amatonormativity; asexual; community; New Zealand; politics; qualitative methods; queer; queer theory; romantic; sexusociety; single; split attraction
Breanne FahsRadical Refusals: On the Anarchist Politics of Women Choosing Asexuality2010a-fluidity; anarchy; asexual; definitions; feminism; identity; pathologization; political theory; politics; sexual liberation
John GuilloryThe Bachelor State: Philosophy and Sovereignty in Bacon’s New Atlantis2006bachelor; celibacy; community; early modern; friendship; gender; history; homosociality; marriage; masculinity; philosophy; politics; protestant; religion; university
Anna KurowickaWhat Can Asexuality do for Queer Theories?2014asexual; asexual reading/theory; marriage; political theory; politics; queer; queer theory; reproductive futurity; theory
Margaret Rose McDowellAgainst Compulsory Sexuality: Asexual Figures of Resistance2022allosexual; archives; asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; Black; Boston Marriage; celibacy; compulsory sexuality; dehumanization; erotics; feminism; gender; intimacy; literary analysis/theory; literature; media; politics; pop culture; queer theory; race; reproductive futurity; sexual liberation; sexusociety; single; TV; world building
Lisa OrlandoThe Asexual Manifesto1972asexual; feminism; fetishization; gender; intimacy; morality; nonsexual; objectification; patriarchy; political theory; politics; relationships
CJ Deluzio ChasinReconsidering Asexuality and Its Radical Potential2013aromantic; asexual; AVEN; categorization; community; compulsory sexuality; demisexuality; essentialism; feminism; gatekeeping; gold star asexual; gray-asexuality; HSDD; nonsexual; pathologization; politics; psychology; self-identification
Marcelina SzubaWe're Here, We're Queer... Or Are We? Queerness, Asexuality, and Communicative Capitalism on Tumblr2018aphobia; asexual; capitalism; gatekeeping; gender; identity; LGBTQ; neoliberal; online community; performativity; political theory; politics; privilege; queer; queer theory
Chelsea ReynoldsThe 'Woke' Sex Discourse: Sexuality and Gender in Online Consumer Magazines2020amatonormativity; aromantic; asexual; BDSM; bisexual; capitalism; coming out; feminism; gay; gender; gender fluidity; intersectionality; intersex; kink; LGBTQ; media; neoliberal; nonbinary; nonmonogamy; politics; pop culture; queer; race; sex education; sexual violence; trans; whiteness
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
Sherronda J. BrownBlack folks don't need a nuclear family to be legitimate2020aphobia; aromantic; Black; marriage; politics; queer; romantic; whiteness
Milica Batričević, Andrej CvetićUncovering an A: Asexuality and Asexual Activism in Croatia and Serbia2016asexual; asexual reading/theory; community; compulsory sexuality; definitions; discrimination; gatekeeping; HSDD; identity; intersectionality; intimacy; LGBTQ; politics; queer; queer theory; religion; self-identification; visibility