Refusing Compulsory Sexuality

Title: Refusing Compulsory Sexuality Author: Sherronda J Brown ISBN: 9781623177102 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Published: 2022 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Non-Fiction 1683572 Publisher Description: For readers of Ace and Belly of the Beast A Black queer feminist exploration of asexuality--and an incisive interrogation of the sex-obsessed culture that invisibilizes and ignores asexual and A-spec identity. Everything you know about sex and asexuality is (probably) wrong. The notion that everyone wants sex--and that we all have to have it--is false. It's intertwined with our ideas about capitalism, race, gender, and queerness. And it impacts the most marginalized among us. For asexual folks, it means that ace and A-spec identity is often defined by a queerness that's not queer enough, seen through a lens of perceived lack: lack of pleasure