Reviews with content warning for Acephobia/Arophobia - Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture

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Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown

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peggy_racham's review against another edition

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4.75

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courtneyfalling's review

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informative medium-paced

4.0

I listened to this as an audiobook, and I'm glad I did. Lots of good info and examples to reframe info. Pretty fast; A little repetitive at points, but not annoyingly so. Even if I already "knew" it, it presented a good reinvigoration to inspect how I'm responding to compulsory sexuality and its relations to other forms of oppression in my daily life.

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natanbcpc's review against another edition

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informative reflective

4.25

I feel like the book touches many interesting ideas. Its main point is showing the relationship between acrophobia and anti-blackness.

I wish the book would delve in deeper in some parts. There are some facts and sentences that feel kind of thrown out of nowhere and aren't further explored. Partly because of that, a lot of the book feels a bit disconnected.

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cogowno's review against another edition

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challenging informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

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ghosthermione's review against another edition

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5.0

I read this back in 2022 as an ARC. I had big plans to review it, as it absolutely blew my mind and I highlighted about 500 sentences that were either impactful or resonated with me.
And then i put so much pressure on myself about doing the book justice that I ended up never writing that review.
The gyst of it is, this book should be compulsory reading. Especially for anyone interested in sexuality, race, gender, and the intersection of the three. It felt like it was articulating things I somehow knew but hadn't quite been able to put words to. And then went deeper than that into aspects I'd not even begun to consider.

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workingdaley's review against another edition

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challenging hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

I feel like this is a deeply important read for every queer person, especially Black asexuals. It's deeply important for us to be able to understand asexuality in general, as it's a very misunderstood orientation, but I feel it's especially important to understand asexuality through a Black lens. This book managed to not only speak to some of the thoughts about my asexuality as a Black person that I was only partially able to articulate before reading this, but also speaks a lot to my disconnect with gender and my disconnect with the "human experience" as someone who is Black, asexual, aromantic, agender, and autistic. It also manages to speak to my frustrations with the realization that I've fallen out of the chrononormative structure that's been set out for me. And while my hesitations around marriage and children were going to cause this for me eventually, having it happen so early in my life forces me to really reflect on why life is structured in the way that it is, and what it means for me and my future that I've decidedly fallen off of my pre-determined path. This book has also given me tools to help better navigate consent and trying to work towards a world where we can break free of the allonormative assumption that we should all be desiring sex, and the racist assumption that as a Black person, I am always consenting to sex by my mere existence. I cannot recommend this book to enough people. I really do think that our understanding of queerness is improved when we can acknowledge and analyze the Black asexual lens.

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