Reviews tagging 'Acephobia/Arophobia'

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

41 reviews

literarycryptid's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexism, Homophobia, Colonisation, Slavery, Sexual harassment, and Acephobia/Arophobia

alexxcp's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

This was a really good book, highly recommend to anyone.  It was a bit of a tough read but worth the effort. I appreciate that it included a land acknowledgement.  It included. Historical timeline of a sexuality mentions, which was really interesting, and had a really unique perspective that I hope other people check out.  I appreciate also the trigger warning headers at the beginning of sections that warrant it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and Acephobia/Arophobia

zombiezami's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Gave me a lot to think about. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Religious bigotry, Bullying, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Rape, Fatphobia, Acephobia/Arophobia, Sexual violence, and Racism

Moderate: Slavery, Colonisation, and Medical content

Minor: Homophobia, Animal cruelty, Lesbophobia, Biphobia, Animal death, Mass/school shootings, and Transphobia

White supremacy

mmccombs's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

This was both a personal and scholarly exploration of not only asexuality, but human sexuality as a whole. This book covers compulsory heterosexuality, anti-Blackness and it’s intersections/similarities/differences with acephobia, how capitalism demands our sexuality to be “productive,” and how this harms us all. I felt that this book was very strong in the beginning, offering very compelling and thoughtful examinations on incredibly complex social structures. After about the halfway point, I began to feel like things started to slide out of focus. I thought the chapter on Octavia E. Butler and other possible ace ancestors was interesting but entirely out of place, it almost felt like it’s own thing. I guess I liked the more academic/ lit review aspect of this book, though I imagine others will be more drawn to the historical connections and stories! All in all I think this is essential reading that goes beyond “Ace 101” (which is largely white and geared towards allo folks). This book left me feeling a lot less lonely and much more valid in my asexuality in a way other works haven’t, and has challenged a lot of my own internalized white cisheteropatriarchal ideas about sexuality, so for that I will be forever grateful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Acephobia/Arophobia and Racism

Moderate: Rape, Sexual harassment, and Sexism

lettuce_read's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Misogyny

Moderate: Homophobia, Biphobia, Rape, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Colonisation, and Lesbophobia

kirstenf's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence, Sexual content, Rape, Acephobia/Arophobia, Racism, Violence, Homophobia, Biphobia, Transphobia, Lesbophobia, Hate crime, Colonisation, and Sexual assault

atomicbritt's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Acephobia/Arophobia

elenushka8's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Acephobia/Arophobia

Moderate: Racism and Rape

caseythereader's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

Thanks to North Atlantic Books for the free advance copy of this book.

 - REFUSING COMPULSORY SEXUALITY not only digs deeper into how asexuality is viewed and why it is often rejected by allosexual people, it also shows clearly how acephobia is closely intertwined with many other social constructs, from racism to capitalism.
- This book is quite academic and took me awhile to get through, but it's more than worth it to devote a chunk of time to it. Brown has written a seminal work here, and I think scholars, educators, and thinkers will be referring to it for a long time to come. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Slavery, Transphobia, Acephobia/Arophobia, Biphobia, Colonisation, Fatphobia, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Bullying, Misogyny, and Religious bigotry