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
Amy N. Antonsen, Bozena Zdaniuk, Morag Yule, Lori A. BrottoAce and Aro: Understanding Differences in Romantic Attractions Among Persons Identifying as Asexual2020allosexual; aromantic; asexual; asexual continuum; AVEN; categorization; gender; identity; nonbinary; online community; psychology; qualitative methods; romantic; science; self-identification; split attraction; trans; visibility
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
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
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
Aasha Brianna FosterMeasuring Social Invisibility and Erasure: Development of the Asexual Microaggressions Scale2018asexual; asexual continuum; AVEN; compulsory sexuality; definitions; desexualization; disability; discrimination; HSDD; interdisciplinary; intersectionality; LGBTQ; mental illness; pathologization; psychology; race; romantic; split attraction; visibility
Amanda L Mollet, Brian R LackmanAsexual Borderlands: Asexual Collegians' Reflections on Inclusion Under the LGBTQ Umbrella2018aromantic; asexual; asexual continuum; AVEN; community; definitions; identity; intersectionality; LGBTQ; mixed methods; online community; queer; romantic; self-identification; visibility
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
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
Lily HughesThe Presence of Absence: Asexuality and the Creation of Resistance2011asexual; asexual reading/theory; AVEN; community; gender; history; masturbation; online community; queer theory; romantic; sexual liberation; visibility
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
Sarah GivensPerforming Asexy: Asexual Identity and Neo-Burlesque in Mississippi, Texas, and Florida2019asexual; asexual reading/theory; fantasies; gender; identity; media; performativity; pop culture; queer; representation; visibility
KJ CerankowskiSpectacular Asexuals: Media Visibility and Cultural Fetish2014asexual; AVEN; comics; dehumanization; erotics; fetishization; gold star asexual; media; otherness; performativity; queer; representation; spectacle
QueenieVisible Diversity and Unity in the Asexual Community2012asexual; Carnival of Aces; intersectionality; stereotypes; visibility
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
Michael ParamoExamining the Whiteness of the Ace Community2018asexual; Asian; Black; community; indigenous; Latinx; privilege; race; representation; self-identification; visibility; whiteness
A.B. Foster, A. Eklund, M.E. Brewster, A.D. Walker, E. CandonPersonal Agency Disavowed: Identity Construction in Asexual Women of Color2019asexual; community; gender; identity; intersectionality; qualitative methods; race; visibility
Allie Daisy KingThe Lack of Asexual Characters In Pop Culture Is A Product Of The Male Gaze2023asexual; femininity; feminism; film; nonbinary; patriarchy; representation; TV; visibility
Raavya Raavya BhattacharyyaWhy Asexual Representation in Media Matters2021asexual; film; media; representation; social media; TV; visibility