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Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown
19 reviews
jackieines's review against another edition
2.5
Graphic: Acephobia/Arophobia, Slavery, Racism, and Sexual assault
kylieqrada's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racism, Slavery, and Acephobia/Arophobia
Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence
Minor: Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Biphobia
jugglingcoder's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Acephobia/Arophobia, Homophobia, Misogyny, Rape, Racism, Sexism, and Sexual assault
beals's review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Misogyny, Mental illness, Rape, Xenophobia, Slavery, Sexual content, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Violence, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, and Genocide
mfrisk's review against another edition
4.0
The only reason I’m knocking off a star is it can at times get to be hard to digest all the information as a vast number of topics are covered here and at times it feels more like a research paper than a book. However, I can only hope the author will continue to write and give more space to these topics in further depth. All the topics discussed are worthwhile but some could constitute their own books so it can be hard to absorb all we are learning.
Graphic: Misogyny, Ableism, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Slavery, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Hate crime, Forced institutionalization, and Acephobia/Arophobia
Moderate: Sexual violence, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Domestic abuse, Transphobia, and Toxic relationship
alexxcp's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Acephobia/Arophobia, Racism, and Violence
Moderate: Misogyny, Classism, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Rape, Police brutality, and Colonisation
pipn_t's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and Acephobia/Arophobia
kirstenf's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Sexual violence, Sexual content, Rape, Acephobia/Arophobia, Racism, Violence, Homophobia, Biphobia, Transphobia, Lesbophobia, Hate crime, Colonisation, and Sexual assault
nightnurselit's review against another edition
3.75
Sherronda J Brown explores the oppression of asexuals through the eyes of a black cis female. She describes in depth the history of injustice asexuals have faced, while coinciding the fetishization and hypersexualization of black bodies since colonial times. Black female identifying ACEs as they often call themselves are faced with living in a heteropatriarchial society and are victim to both misogyny and misogynoir. America has historically simultaneously pleasured and profited from the sexualization of black bodies. This book gives examples from the plantation era Jezebel to modern trends on Pornhub. Black women have been demonized and seen as promiscuous to protect the real sexual predators, men. Being asexual and black is not considered normative or natural. ACE women face being infantilized and dehumanized by acephobics who are not actually afraid, just disgusted by things not seen as normal to them. Research has gone into the psychological issues of not desiring sex until recently and have gone as far as individuals deciding corrective r*** was a solution. SA whether coerced or forced is common in ACE women to remedy their “problem”. Many ACEs even have sex to maintain relationships although it is not pleasurable to them. ACEs are neither fully accepted by the straight or LGBTQ communities which are both largely based on sexuality, although some ACEs identify as queer. As a cis hetero black woman I found this work fascinating. I was intrigued to explore an internalized biases and ignorances I had about asexuality. I felt while the ideas aren’t revolutionary, they were ideas I had never considered before. In an oversexed society a woman’s worth can be based on her sexual desirability. I can’t imagine trying to navigate the world with my sexuality being constantly infantilized and dehumanized. I have a new found respect for the perils of living authentically asexual in a heteropatriarchial society. At times this book could be wordy or drag but it it easily consumable. I would not recommend this work to anyone sensitive to SA, r*** culture or racism. This book gives fair trigger warnings but if you are sensitive to those subjects this book was not written for you.
Graphic: Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Acephobia/Arophobia, Colonisation, Misogyny, and Rape