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Commodification, the Problem of Reality and Self-Alienation in the Contemporary Novels of Chuck Palahniuk and Kurt Vonnegut - ProQuest
Gülay ÇALIŞKAN BASANÇELEBİ
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View paper →New Dimensions, New Directions: Asexualities and Aromanticism in the 21st Century
Megan Carroll, Maya Wenzel
Sex & Sexualities·2025
<jats:p>This article offers an overview of the state of the field for asexualities and aromanticism and suggests new directions for research. Our goal is to inspire feminist scholars of sexualities to incorporate asexualities and aromanticism into their own research and push the field forward. We begin by describing the development of asexual and aromantic concepts, with an eye toward the social and political context in which they emerged. We then turn our attention toward intersections between asexuality, aromanticism, and other social inequalities, including sexism, racism, and ableism. Next, we examine asexuality and aromanticism in relation to social institutions: medicine, labor, education, and families/relationships. Finally, we offer questions for scholars to consider regarding the relationship between asexuality, aromanticism, and broader LGBTQIA+ communities. We conclude by offering specific resources to support scholars of asexuality and aromanticism, including secondary quantitative data and mentorship communities.</jats:p>
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View paper →Asexual and Aromantic Perspectives on the Representation of Asexual and Aromantic Desire, Sexual and/or Romantic Behaviors, Identity Development, and Community | ScholarWorks
Helen Martha Everbach
ScholarWorks·2023
This project utilized empirical research to construct a theatrical script focusing on asexual and aromantic people's experiences and perspectives. Using a focus group method, participants discussed their experiences with desire, dating, sex, and the asexual community and shared their perspectives on asexual and aromantic media representations, as well as what kinds of representations should be presented in the performing arts. The data collected from the focus groups was used to generate a script for theater production, using a performance ethnography approach and weaving in participant input throughout the playwriting process. Taking direction from the asexual community, the purpose of this script is to produce a community-centered representation of asexual and aromantic people's experiences that accounts for their frustrations with asexual erasure and misrepresentation in the media and performing arts and centers the diversity of asexual and aromantic experiences. This script adds to the overall canon of theater that is explicitly about asexuality, creating more representation for the asexual community. If this play is ever performed, it has the potential to challenge allosexual (non-asexual) audiences' understandings of sexuality by educating them about asexual people's experiences.
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