Despite its American focus, the topics are universal enough to indulge an international audience. As someone who reads a lot about sexuality and gender, I wondered how much I would actually learn by reading this. Refusing Compulsory Sexuality is by far the most compelling and important book I have read in my lifetime and I will never stop recommending it to others. Brown advocates for the “A” in LGBTQIA+, affirming that to be asexual is to be queer–despite the gatekeeping and denial that often says otherwise. She takes an incisive look at how anti-Blackness, white supremacy, patriarchy, heteronormativity, and capitalism enact harm against asexual people, contextualizing acephobia within a racial framework in the first book of its kind. Brown offers new perspectives on asexuality. In this exploration of what it means to be Black and asexual in America today, Sherronda J. Genre: Nonfiction, Psychology, LGBTQ+, Race REFUSING COMPULSORY SEXUALITY: A BLACK ASEXUAL LENS ON OUR SEX-OBSESSED CULTURE BY SHERRONDA J.
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