Resources

Publications by Network Members

Philosophy

Brunning, L. and McKeever, N. (2025) The Philosophy of Love, Sex, and Relationships, Polity.

Brunning, L. and McKeever, N. (2021) ‘Asexuality’, Journal of Applied Philosophy, 38(3), pp. 497–517.

Brunning, L. and McKeever, N. (2019) What being asexual or aromantic tells us about sex and romance, Aeon.

Sociology

Cuthbert, K. (2022) ‘Asexuality and epistemic injustice: a gendered perspective’, Journal of Gender Studies, 31(7), pp. 840–851.

Cuthbert, K. (2021) ‘Researching “non-sexualities” via creative notebooks: epistemology, embodiment and empowerment’, Qualitative Research, 22(6), pp. 897–915.

Cuthbert, K. (2020) Disability and asexuality? In: Shuttleworth, Russell and Mona, Linda (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Disability and Sexuality. Series: Routledge international handbooks. Routledge: London ; New York, pp. 366-377.

Cuthbert, K. (2019) ‘“When We Talk about Gender We Talk about Sex”: (A)sexuality and (A)gendered Subjectivities - Karen Cuthbert, 2019’, Gender & Society, 33(6), pp. 841–864.

Cuthbert, K. (2017) ‘You Have to be Normal to be Abnormal: An Empirically Grounded Exploration of the Intersection of Asexuality and Disability’, Sociology, 51(2), pp. 241–257.

Gupta, Y. (2026). Aise Kaisa Pyaar? Asexual intimacies and erotics of relating in online Desi asexual discourses. In Y.-L. Chen & E. Przybylo (Eds.), Global asexualities and aromanticisms. Routledge. 

Gupta, Y. (2024). "Safe Sp(aces): Online Asexual Discourses in South Asia." Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives Anniversary Edition, edited by KJ Cerankowski & Megan Milks, Routledge.

Public Policy

Benoit, Y., Sanders, M. and Hirneis, V. (2025) ‘Asexuality in the UK. Public attitudes towards people who experience little to no sexual attraction.’

Benoit, Y. and Santos, R.D. (2023) ‘ACE IN THE UK REPORT’.

Law

Nevins, A. (2025) Queering Methods Through Absence: the Asexual-Spectrum and the Politics of Not-Knowing, GENDER.ED.

Nevins, A. (2024) Asexual-spectrum identities – ‘invisible’ yet contested | GENDER.ED.

Geography

Bayer, R. (2025) ‘Asexual geographies: the allosexualisation of space in Ireland’, Gender, Place & Culture, 32(8), pp. 1161–1181.

Jukes, J. and Bayer, R. (2025) 'New Directions for Asexual Geographies'. Sexualities, Online First, pp.1-16. 

Jukes, J. (2024) ‘Just Good Friends: Queer Platonics, Pleasures and Friend-er Trouble in Gurinder Chadha’s Bend It Like Beckham’. lambda nordica, Online First, pp. 1-26. 

Jukes, J., (2024) Toward Asexual Geographies: void-publics and spaces of refusal. In: Cerankowski, K.J. and Milks, M. (Eds.) Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives, Revised and Expanded Ten-Year Anniversary Edition. Routledge, pp. 181-198. 

Roe, E. J. and Jukes, J. (2023) ‘Queer Constellations: Reflections on Curatorial and Creative Practice at the Museum of English Rural Life’. Networking Knowledge, 16(1), pp. 3-18. 

Gender Studies

Przybyło, E. (2022) “Ace and Aro Lesbian Art and Theory with Agnes Martin and Yayoi Kusama.” Journal of Lesbian Studies, issue on “Is lesbian identity obsolete?” 26.1: 89–112.

Przybyło, E. (2022) “Ace-ecologies: The Asexual Erotics of Loving Kin.” For tenth anniversary of Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives. Eds. KJ Cerankowski and Megan Milks. New York: Routledge, 37–53.

Przybyło, E. (2022) “Introducing Asexuality, Unthinking Compulsory Sexuality.” In Introducing the New Sexuality Studies (Fourth Edition). Eds. Nancy Fischer, Laurel Westbrook, and Steven Seidman. New York: Routledge. 35–46.

Przybyło, E., U. Bougie, N. Jipson, C. Karn, C. Koenig, J. Marquez, and the class of English 308: Ace and Aro Across Media. (2022) “Reviews Issue: Celebrating Ace and Aro.” Feral Feminisms 10.2.

Przybyło, E. and Jacob, K. (2021) “The Erotic Worldmaking of Asexual and Aromantic Zines.” QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 8.1: 25–48.

Przybyło, E. and Gupta, K. (2020) “The Erotics of Asexualities and Nonsexualities: Intersectional Approaches.” Feminist Formations 32.3: vii – 185.

Przybyło, E. (2019) Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press. Open Access here.

Cultural Studies

Kurowicka, A. (2024) “’Jarek, Get on Tinder:” Anti-Nonsexual Slogans at Polish 2020 Abortion Protests.” In Asexualities Feminist and Queer Perspectives, Revised and Expanded Ten-Year Anniversary Edition, edited by KJ Cerankowski and Megan Milks, 94-110. New York: Routledge.

Kurowicka, A. (2023) ‘Contested Intersections: Asexuality and Disability, Illness, or Trauma’, Sage Publications.

Kurowicka, A. (2023) “Asexual and Genderless Futures.” In The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction, edited by Sonja Fritzsche, Wendy Pearson, Keren Omry, Lisa Yaszek, 72-78. New York: Routledge. 

Kurowicka, A. (2022) “The Ace Art of Failure: Asexuality and BoJack Horseman.” In The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality, and Culture, edited by Emma Rees, 248-260. New York: Routledge.

Kurowicka, A. (2021) “Asexuality.” In The Routledge International Handbook of Social Work and Sexualities, edited by SJ Dodd, 37-55. New York: Routledge.

Kurowicka, A. (2020) “‘The only story I will ever be able to tell:’ Nonsexual Erotics of Friendship in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and Tana French’s The Likeness.” Feminist Formations 32, no. 3, 24-50.

Kurowicka, A. and Przybylo, E. (2019) “Polish Asexualities: Catholic Religiosity and Asexual Online Activisms in Poland.” In LGBTQ+ Activism in Central Eastern Europe, edited by Radzhana Buyantueva and Maryna Shevtsova, 289-311. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 

Literary Studies

Esser, H. (2024) Ouida (Chapter 4). Brighton: Edward Everett Root Publishers.

Kurowicka, A. (2020) ‘“Aliens” Speaking Out: Science Fiction by Autistic Authors’, Arts & Cultural Studies Review, 2020(Issue 3 (45)), pp. 261–277.

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