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.
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AuthorsTitleYearTags
Laina Y. Bay-Cheng, Rebecca K. Eliseo-ArrasThe Making of Unwanted Sex: Gendered and Neoliberal Norms in College Women’s Unwanted Sexual Experiences2008feminism; gender; neoliberal; patriarchy; qualitative methods; repulsion/aversion; sexual violence; trauma
Kelsey BorresonWhat it Means to be 'Aromantic' According to Aromantic People2022aromantic; asexual; AVEN; comics; friendship; identity; media; platonic; queerplatonic; repulsion/aversion; romantic
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
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
Mark CarriganThere's more to life than sex? Difference and commonality within the asexual community2011asexual; asexual continuum; AVEN; community; definitions; identity; pathologization; qualitative methods; repulsion/aversion; self-identification; split attraction
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
CJ ChasinAsexuality and the Re/Construction of Sexual Orientation2019aromantic; asexual; categorization; compulsory sexuality; definitions; gender; identity; LGBTQ; neoliberal; pathologization; queerplatonic; repulsion/aversion; romantic; split attraction
Daniella Cooper, Ela PrzybyloAsexual Resonances: Tracing a Queerly Asexual Archive2014archives; asexual; asexual reading/theory; asexual resonances; celibacy; history; intimacy; kinship; literature; queer; queer theory; repulsion/aversion; sexusociety; single; theory
Andrew Clinton HinderliterThe Evolution of Online Asexual Discourse2016archives; aromantic; asexual; AVEN; celibacy; demisexuality; gender; gray-asexuality; LGBTQ; online community; qualitative methods; repulsion/aversion; romantic; split attraction
Anna KurowickaAsexual Affects: What Abjection, Anxiety, and Shame Have to Do with Asexuality2015asexual; asexual reading/theory; celibacy; compulsory sexuality; death; identity; LGBTQ; mental illness; pathologization; psychology; queer; queer theory; repulsion/aversion; trauma
Queenie, N/ACompulsory sexuality, or why dating and being asexual can be very confusing, especially if people keep giving you dumb puberty books2012asexual; Carnival of Aces; compulsory sexuality; corrective assault; heteronormativity; identity; primary source; repulsion/aversion; Tumblr; virginity
Ela PrzybyloAce and aro lesbian art and theory with Agnes Martin and Yayoi Kusama2022amatonormativity; archives; aromantic; art; art history; asexual; asexual reading/theory; asexual resonances; Boston Marriage; categorization; compulsory sexuality; definitions; desexualization; disability; discrimination; erotics; feminism; gay; gender; identity; indigenous; LGBTQ; nonbinary; queer; race; repulsion/aversion; split attraction
aro-neir-oA CARNIVAL OF AROS - RELATIONSHIPS2019aromantic; Carnival of Aros; platonic; queer; queerplatonic; relationships; repulsion/aversion; romantic; Tumblr
YardsardsSurvey: for people who id as aro: how do you feel about romance2023aromantic; fiction; media; repulsion/aversion; romantic; Tumblr