Welcome to aroaceresearch.com
About
The Aromanticism & Asexuality Research Network brings together scholars across Europe who are working on questions related to asexuality and aromanticism.
It is the first UK-based initiative dedicated to connecting scholars, raising the visibility of asexuality studies, and encouraging much-needed work on aromanticism.
Goals
The goal of the network is to support and strengthen the visibility of scholarship on aromanticism and asexuality. It brings together researchers from across different disciplines to share ideas and resources. By providing a space for collaboration, it aims to create a supportive academic community.
Focus
We explore the ethical, social, political, and cultural dimensions of asexuality and aromanticism, investigating questions such as:
How can we better understand the asexual and aromantic spectrum? How are asexualities and aromanticisms* articulated in plural ways along lines of racialization, gender, social class and caste, ability, and across geopolitical locations?
What does it mean to be sexually or romantically attracted to someone? What do asexual and aromantic experiences teach us about the nature of love and sexuality?
What role do and should romantic relationships play in our lives? What alternative ways of conceiving intimacy, love, and partnership might emerge from asexual and aromantic perspectives?
How do asexualities and aromanticisms intersect with other marginalized identities? How does research around ace and aro identities uphold Western, U.S.-centric, and white forms of knowledge production?
This research will not only help us to make sense of asexual and aromantic experiences, but also has wider implications for how we think about identity, sexuality, and intimacy.
* A note on terminology: We use asexuality and aromanticism in the singular when referring to how these terms are commonly understood as sexual orientations and identities within Western contexts. We also want to learn from the diverse perspectives that exist beyond Western sexual taxonomies. We use asexualities and aromanticisms in the plural to refer to these and open the field to voices and frameworks that have historically been overlooked due to the dominance of white, Western perspectives.