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Brown, Sherronda J.
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Sex -- Social aspects -- United States.
Asexual people, Black -- United States.
Asexual people -- United States.
Asexuality (Sexual orientation)
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Brown, Sherronda J.
Sex -- Social aspects -- United States.
Asexual people, Black -- United States.
Asexual people -- United States.
Asexuality (Sexual orientation)
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Refusing
compulsory
sexuality
: a
Black
asexual
lens
on
our
sex-obsessed
culture
/ Sherronda J. Brown ; foreword by Hess Love ; afterword by Grace B Freedom.
by
Brown, Sherronda J.
North Atlantic Books, 2022.
Call #:
306.762 B879r
Subjects
Sex -- Social aspects -- United States.
Asexual
people,
Black
-- United States.
Asexual
people -- United States.
Asexuality (Sexual orientation)
ISBN:
9781623177102 (trade pbk)
Description:
xiii, 223 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"For readers of Ace and Belly of the Beast: A
Black
queer feminist exploration of asexuality -- and an incisive interrogation of the
sex-obsessed
culture
that invisibilizes and ignores
asexual
and A-spec identity. Everything you know about sex and asexuality is (probably) wrong. The notion that everyone wants sex -- and that we all have to have it -- is false. It’s intertwined with
our
ideas about capitalism, race, gender, and queerness. And it impacts the most marginalized among us. For
asexual
folks, it means that ace and A-spec identity is often defined by a queerness that’s not queer enough, seen through a
lens
of perceived lack: lack of pleasure, connection, joy, maturity, and even humanity. In this exploration of what it means to be
Black
and
asexual
in America today, Sherronda J. Brown offers new perspectives on asexuality. She takes an incisive look at how anti-Blackness, white supremacy, patriarchy, heteronormativity, and capitalism enact harm against
asexual
people, contextualizing acephobia within a racial framework in the first book of its kind. Brown advocates for the “A” in LGBTQIA+, affirming that to be
asexual
is to be queer -- despite the gatekeeping and denial that often says otherwise. With chapters on desire, f*ckability, utility, refusal, and possibilities,
Refusing
Compulsory
Sexuality
discusses topics of deep relevance to ace and a-spec communities. It centers the
Black
asexual
experience -- and demands visibility in a world that pathologizes and denies asexuality, denigrates queerness, and specifically sexualizes
Black
people. A necessary and unapologetic reclamation,
Refusing
Compulsory
Sexuality
is smart, timely, and an essential read for asexuals, aromantics, queer readers, and anyone looking to better understand sexual politics in America."--Publisher.
Genre:
2SLGBTQIA+
Holds:
3
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Status
Central Library
Adult Black Nonfiction
306.762 B879r
Core Collection - Adult
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