Routledge International Handbook of Global Asexualities and Aromanticisms

Yo-Ling Chen (they/them) is an independent scholar and activist based in Taipei. Their research has been published in the journals Current History (2025) and Critical Asia Archives: Events and Theories (2024), as well as the edited volumes Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives, Revised and Expanded Ten-Year Anniversary Edition (2024) and On Transnational Anti-Gender/LGBTQ+ Movements: Bridging European and Asian Experience (forthcoming). As an activist, they are involved in transgender, nonbinary, asexual, and aromantic advocacy work locally in Taiwan and regionally across Asia. They are also a contributing editor at New Bloom Magazine and lead convener of the Transpacific Taiwan Transgender Studies Research Collective (2024–2027). Ela Przybyło (she/they) is an Associate Professor in English and Core Faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Illinois State University. They are the author of Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality (2019) and Ungendering Menstruation (2025), as well as an editor of On the Politics of Ugliness (2018). She is also a founding and managing editor of the intersectional, independent, peer-reviewed, open access journal Feral Feminisms.

• Introduction, Global Asexualities and Aromanticisms in the 2020s Part I. Ace and Aro Critiques of the Nation and Citizenship 1. Asexual Nationalism and the Indian Cinematic Imaginary, Heroic Motherhood and Chaste Womanhood in Mother India (1957) and Sati (1989) 2. Japanese Aromantic-Asexual Visual Media and the Crumbling Hetero-Allosexual Nation 3. Beyond Landscapes of Allonormativity?, Imagining Ace Liveabilities in Ireland 4. Asexual Outlaws, AsexArab and the Limits of Sexual Citizenship Part II. Aspec Historicities 5. Anarchival Asexualities, Queer Historiography of Events and Nonevents in Early Colonial and Postcolonial Philippines 6. Historicizing Non-Desire, An Asexual Critique of Adolescent Sexuality in the Late Ottoman Empire 7. “Where Is Your Man?” The Life History of an Asexual Romanian Woman, Unapologetic, Unmarried, and Unbroken Part III. Characterizing Aspec Communities 8. Contextualizing the Demography of Asexualities and Aromanticisms, Global-Local Negotiations in a Japanese Context 9. Asexuality, Gender Diversity, and the Interpretation of Sexual Attraction, Psychometric and Qualitative Perspectives from the Polish Adaptation of the Asexuality Identification Scale (AIS-12) Part IV. Critiquing Compulsory Sexuality and Romance 10. Fail Again, Fail Better, Reconsidering Amatonormativity Post India’s “Failed” Marriage Equality Judgment 11. Home Beyond Allonormativity, Aroace Activism, Law, and Resistance in Mexico 12. Does Japan Have No Future? Compulsory Allosexuality and Asexual Experiences in Koi senu futari (2022) and Sobakasu (2022) Part V. Aspec Loves and Intimacies 13. ऐसा कैसा प्यार? Asexual Intimacies and the Resistive Erotics of Relating in Desi Asexual Discourses Online 14. “Un-Love-able Aliens”, Gender-Expansive Asexual and Aromantic Embodiments in Hong Kong 15. Pragmatic Ambiguities, Searching for Ambiguous A/ro-A/ce Temporalities in Singapore Part VI. Aspec Decolonial and Anticolonial Critiques 16. Loosening the Romantic Grip, The Aromantic Turn to Decolonial Love 17. The Beast and the Nation, Animist Asexuality, Reproductive Nationalism, and Decolonial Asexualization in Nigerian Cinema 18. Decolonial Asexualities: Asexuality, Desexualization, and the Human in Türkiye amidst Feminism, Kemalism, Political Islam, and the Kurdish Movement Part VII. Expanding Aspec Coalitions 19. Marginalization and Belonging, Asexuality within Japan’s Trans Communities in the 1990s to 2010s 20. Ace-ing Disabilities, A Dialogue on Navigating Invisiblization and Finding Affirmative Spaces 21. Killing the Race, Coalitional Intersections of Reproductive Justice and Sexual Agency within Black and Latina Asexualities Part VIII. Asexuality, Aromanticism, and Monasticism 22. Is the Buddha Ace and Aro? Asexuality and Aromanticism in Buddhist Soteriology 23. Celibate Sovereignties, Asexual Agency and Monastic Subjectivity in Himalayan Nunneries Part VIV. Feminist Refusals and Aspec Politics 24. No-CP, Chinese Webnovels, and Aromantic/Asexual Resonance Beyond Identity 25. Where Feminism Meets Asexuality, Asexual Identifications in South Korea 26. 6B4T in China, Marriage Refusal, Radical Feminisms, and Resonances with Asexuality Part X. Manifesting Otherwise 27. Fictosexual Manifesto, The Queer Politics of Animation 28. The Quoiromantic Manifesto, “Romantic Attraction” Doesn’t Make Sense! 29. Durga and Other Poems