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
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
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
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
Sav SchlauderaffLearning to re-claim my body and my asexuality2020archives; disability; identity; literature; poetry; primary source; queer; trans; trauma
Megan ColeTraumatic Pregnancy, Queer Virginity, and Asexual Reproduction in Margaret Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure2021amatonormativity; asexual; asexual reading/theory; early modern; feminism; gender; history; kinship; literary analysis/theory; literature; marriage; nonsexual; queer; queer theory; representation; reproduction; trauma; virginity
Danielle Cooper, Ela PrzybyloWhat Makes a Crush?2013asexual; crush; intersectionality; jealousy; literary analysis/theory; literature; Maori; pathologization; queer; romantic; squish; trans; trauma
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
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
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
Adrienne ColborneChasing Aces: Asexuality, Misinformation and Challenges of Identity2018asexual; asexual continuum; categorization; community; HSDD; identity; LGBTQ; pathologization; queer; romantic; self-identification; split attraction; trauma; visibility
KJ CerankowskiQueer Dandy Style: The Cultural Politics of Tim Gunn's Asexuality2013asexual; celebrity; celibacy; dandy; dehumanization; desexualization; gay; gender; history; identity; LGBTQ; pathologization; queer; spectacle; trauma
KJ CerankowskiIllegible: Asexualities in Media, Literature, and Performance2014asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; comics; dandy; dehumanization; desexualization; erotics; fetishization; gay; gender; gold star asexual; identity; intimacy; LGBTQ; literary analysis/theory; literature; nonsexual; performativity; pop culture; queer; queer theory; sexual violence; spectacle; trauma
KatieThe Colonized Asexual--a response to racial trauma2014asexual; Asian; colonialism; desexualization; discrimination; femininity; politics; race; trauma
Justin GainesR(ace): a-response2014asexual; Asian; Black; friendship; masculinity; race; sex; trauma
Sarah E.S. SinwellAliens and Asexuality: Media Representation, Queerness, and Asexual Visibility2014asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; dehumanization; desexualization; fiction; identity; media; pathologization; queer; queer theory; representation; trauma; TV
queerlyragingI am affected.2019adolescence; aphobia; aromantic; asexual; autotheory; community; erasure; family; friendship; gatekeeping; identity; LGBTQ; literature; love; relationships; representation; romantic; single; trauma; Tumblr
Kristina GuptaGendering asexuality and asexualizing gender: A qualitative study exploring the intersections between gender and asexuality2018asexual; compulsory sexuality; femininity; gender; masculinity; qualitative methods; sex; trans; transgender; trauma; whiteness
Sherronda J. BrownGatekeeping2022allonormativity; amatonormativity; asexual continuum; coming out; community; compulsory sexuality; discourse; discrimination; erasure; fetishization; gatekeeping; gender; heteronormativity; invisible; LGBTQ; media; normativity; otherness; queer; relationships; representation; sex; sexual liberation; sexual violence; trauma