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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.
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2SLGBTQIA+
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