1st Edition
Asexualities Feminist and Queer Perspectives, Revised and Expanded Ten-Year Anniversary Edition
Introduction: Ten Years of Asexualities
Megan Milks and KJ Cerankowski
Part I: Beyond Sexuality, Beyond the Human
1 Sexuality is Over. Long Live Asexuality: Post-Sexuality in the Post-Post Era
Maria Markiewicz
2 Asexual Ecologies
Joela Jacobs and Nicole Seymour
3 Ace-Ecologies: The Asexual Erotics of Loving Kin
Ela Przybyło
Part II: Asexuality, Identity, and the Political Sphere
4 Radical Identity Politics: Asexuality and Contemporary Articulations of Identity
Erica Chu
5 "There’s No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship": Asexuality’s Sinthomatics
Kristian Kahn
6 "Jarek, Get on Tinder": Anti-Nonsexual Slogans at Polish 2020 Abortion Protests
Anna Kurowicka
7 A Brief Manifesto Against Asexual Respectability Politics
Nathan Bernstein and Maximus Jenkins
Part III: A/sexologies: Measuring Desire
8 Asexual Desires? Mismeasures in the Sexual Sciences
Jacinthe Flore
9 Between the Bedroom and the Laboratory: Clinical Intimacies, Paraerotic Potential, and Therapeutic Excess
Alyson K. Spurgas
10 Deferred Desire: The Asexuality of Chronic Genital Pain
Christine Labuski
Part IV: Asexualities in Place and Space
11 Toward Asexual Geographies: Void-Publics and Spaces of Refusal
Joe Jukes
12 (SA)fe Sp(aces): Conjugality and Sex in Online South Asian Asexual Discourses
Yash Gupta
13 Erasure, Camouflage, Exceptionalism, and Cultural Criticism: Asexuality and Masculinity Threat
Canton Winer
Part V: Reading Asexually
14 Subjective Limits of Imagination: Race, Gender, and Sex in the Archives
Justin Smith
15 Compulsory Sexuality and Asexual/Crip Resistance in John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus
Cynthia Barounis
16 "What to Call that Sport, the Neuter Human …": Asexual Subjectivity in Keri Hulme’s The Bone People
Jana Fedtke
17 Toward an Asexual Narrative Structure
Elizabeth Hanna Hanson
Part VI: Asexual Kinship and Platonic Intimacies
18 Asexual Kinship: Capitalism, Reproduction, and an Imperiality of Asexuality
Eunjung Kim
19 #Platonicintimacy: Asian North American Asexualities and Their Fairytales
Theresa N. Kenney
20 Girltalk: Reflections on Testosterone, A/sexuality, and Libido
[sarah] Cavar and Ulysses [Constance] Bougie
Part VII: Ace Solidarities/Ace Futures
21 Asexuality and Disability: Mutual Negation in Adams v. Rice and New Directions for Coalition Building
Kristina Gupta
22 Toward an Ace- and Aro-Friendly Society: Reconstructing the Sexual Orientation Paradigm
CJ DeLuzio Chasin
23 Toward a Global Asexual Solidarity Beyond Identity
Yo-Ling Chen
24 "Freedom Lovers": Blackness, Asexuality, Abolition
Ianna Hawkins Owen
Coda: "Never Enough": Then, Now, and Tomorrow
KJ Cerankowski and Megan Milks
Biography
KJ Cerankowski is the author of Suture: Trauma and Trans Becoming (2021). He is Associate Professor of Comparative American Studies and Gender, Sexuality, & Feminist Studies at Oberlin College.
Megan Milks is the author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body (2021) and Slug and Other Stories (2021). They teach writing and gender studies at The New School and Pace University.
