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

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

This was very good. It was a bit rough around the edges but covered so much ground and had so many interesting things to say that I feel like I'll need to reread it. I had loads of tabs on the pages and scribbled notes (in pencil!) all over it. Having come across comphet already, compulsory sexuality seemed like a really obvious next step that I hadn't really thought about. An interesting lens through which to view the world. I particularly liked the bit about chrononormativity, partly because I just enjoy the word chrononormativity but also because it's just an important point. Fascinating discussion about construction of blackness in contrast to whiteness and the simultaneous desexualisation and hypersexualisation of black women especially. For me though I think actually some of the most interesting parts were about gender and how strongly it is influenced by compulsory sexuality.