![]() ![]() With chapters on desire, f*ckability, utility, refusal, and possibilities,ĭiscusses topics of deep relevance to ace and a-spec communities. Brown advocates for the “A” in LGBTQIA+, affirming that to be asexual is to be queerdespite the gatekeeping and denial that often says otherwise. 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 offers new perspectives on asexuality. In this exploration of what it means to be Black and asexual in America today, Sherronda J. ![]() , seen through a lens of perceived lack: lack of pleasure, connection, joy, maturity, and even humanity. For asexual folks, it means that ace and A-spec identity is often defined by a queerness that’s not queer And it impacts the most marginalized among us. It’s intertwined with our ideas about capitalism, race, gender, and queerness. The notion that everyone wants sexand that we all have to have itis false. Everything you know about sex and asexuality is (probably) wrong. ![]()
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