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"Sometimes called "A Fourth Orientation", asexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by a persistent lack of sexual attraction toward any gender. This book explores love, sex, and life, from the asexual point of view. This book is for anyone, regardless of orientation. Whether you're asexual, think you might be, know someone who is, or just want to learn more about what asexuality is (and isn't), there's something inside for you"--Page 4 of cover

Introduction: Erotics and asexuality: thinking asexuality, unthinking sex -- The erotics of feminist revolution: political celibacies/asexualities in the women's movement -- Lesbian bed death, asexually: an erotics of failure -- Growing into asexuality: the queer erotics of childhood -- Erotics of excess and the aging spinster -- Epilogue: Tyrannical celibacy: the anti-erotics of misogyny and white supremacy.

"Brave, witty and empowering, this graphic memoir follows Rebecca as she navigates her asexual identity and mental health in a world obsessed with sex. From school to work to relationships, this book offers an unparalleled insight into asexuality."--Provided by publisher

"The Palgrave Handbook of the Psychology of Sexuality and Gender gives a thorough overview of all of the normative - and many of the less common - sexualities, genders and relationship forms including: Asexuality; Bisexuality; BDSM; Gay; Heterosexuality; Kink; Lesbian; Further sexualities; Trans sexualities; Cisgender; Intersex; Further genders; Non-binary gender; Monogamies; and Open Non-Monogamies. The Handbook also considers psychological areas such as Clinical psychology; Counselling psychology; Qualitative research; Quantitative research; and Sex therapy as they relate to sexuality and gender as well as intersectional areas such as: Ageing; Ethnicity; Class; Disability; Health Psychology; and Religion. Contributions from leading scholars and practitioners in this area combine cutting edge research with considerations on both clinical practice and academic study of sexuality and gender for psychologists from student to professor; and from any discipline interested in these ubiquitous aspects of humanity. "--

A review essay on books by: Barbara Meil Hobson, Uneasy Virtue: The Politics of Prostitution and the American Reform Tradition (Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1990); & Robyn Muncy, Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935 (New York: Oxford U Press, 1991 [see listings in IRPS No. 71]). These books explore gender as an element in social policy creation & emphasize the Victorian ideal of womanhood. Hobson's book challenges the Victorian vision of prostitutes as passive victims, which was based on the assumption that women are purer than men by virtue of their asexuality. Given the choices available to poor women, prostitution was sometimes a rational economic decision. Hobson also examines the contemporary situation & questions legalization & other alternatives that consider prostitution as both sex & work, public & private. Muncy's book argues that the Progressive reform movement & the US welfare state were shaped by the experiences of white middle-class women in the 1890s. Jane Addams & the women connected to Hull House lobbied for the Children's Bureau & specific civil service jobs. These reformers worked within the boundaries set by the "cult of domesticity" & Victorian ideals of self-sacrifice. They defined social work as policy making, & child welfare reform was based on their assumptions into the 1930s. In many ways they dominated & set moral standards for other women. Power relations were not challenged. E. Blackwell

"In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity--what it means and how to think about it--for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere."--Provided by publisher

Introduction: The Queer Games Avant-Garde : Reimagining the Medium of Video Games -- Queer People, Queer Desires, Queer Games. Dietrich Squinkifer : Nonbinary Characters, Asexuality, and Game Design as Joyful Resistance -- Robert Yang : The Politics and Pleasures of Representing Sex between Men -- Aevee Bee : On Designing for Queer Players and Re-making Autobiographical Truth -- Queerness as a Mode of Game-Making. Llaura McGee : Leaving Space for Messiness, Complexity, and Chance -- Andi McClure : Algorithms, Accidents, and the Queerness of Abstraction -- Liz Ryerson : Resisting Empathy and Rewriting the Rules of Game Design -- Designing Queer Intimacy in Games. Jimmy Andrews and Loren Schmidt : Queer Body Physics, Awkwardness as Emotional Realism, and the Challenge of Designing Consent -- Naomi Clark : Disrupting Norms and Critiquing Systems through "Good, Nice Sex with Tentacle Monsters" -- Elizabeth Sampat : Safe Spaces for Queerness and Games against Suffering -- The Legacy of Feminist Performance Art in Queer Games. Kara Stone : Softness, Strength, and Danger in Games about Mental Health and Healing -- Mattie Brice : Radical Play through Vulnerability -- Seanna Musgrave : "Touch-Feely" Virtual Reality and Reclaiming the Trans Body -- Intersectional Perspectives in/on Queer Games. Tonia B***** and Emilia Yang : Making Games about Queer Women of Color, by Queer Women of Color -- Nicky Case : Playable Politics and Interactivity for Understanding -- Nina Freeman : More Than Just the "Woman Who Makes Sex Games" -- Analog Games: Exploring Queerness through Non-Digital Play. Avery Alder : Queer Storytelling and the Mechanics of Desire -- Kat Jones : Bisexuality, Latina Identity, and the Power of Physical Presence -- Making Queer Games, Queer Change, and Queer Community. Mo Cohen : On Self-Care, Funding, and Other Advice for Aspiring Queer Indie Game-Makers -- Jerome Hagan : Are Queer Games Bringing "Diversity" to the Mainstream Industry? -- Sarah Schoemann : The Power of Community Organizing -- Afterword: The Future of the Queer Games Avant-Garde.

Unspeakable conversations / Harriet McBryde Johnson -- Ki'tay D. Davidson : a eulogy / Talila A. Lewis -- If you can't fast, give / Maysoon Zayid -- There's a mathematical equation that proves I'm ugly--or so I learned in my seventh grade art class / Ariel Henley -- The erasure of indigenous people in chronic illness / Jen Deerinwater -- When you are waiting to be healed / June Eric-Udorie -- The isolation of being deaf in prison / Jeremy Woody as told to Christie Thompson -- Common cyborg / Jillian Weise -- I'm tired of chasing a cure / Liz Moore -- We can't go back / Ricard T. Thornton, Sr. -- Radical visibility : a disabled queer clothing reform movement manifesto / Sky Cubacub -- Guide dogs don't lead blind people. We wander as one / Haben Girma -- Taking charge of my story as a cancer patient at the hospital where I work / Diana Cejas -- Canfei to canji : the freedom to be loud / Sandy Ho -- Nurturing black disabled joy / Keah Brown -- Last but not least : embracing asexuality / Keshia Scott -- Parenting with a disability makes me feel like an 'impostor' as a mother / Jessica Slice -- How to make a paper crane from rage / Elsa Sjunneson-Henry -- Selma Blair became a disabled icon overnight. Here's why we need more stories like hers / Zipporah Arielle -- Why my novel is dedicated to my disabled friend Maddy / A.H. Reaume -- The anti-abortion bill you aren't hearing about / Rebecca Cokley -- So. Not. Broken / Alice Sheppard -- How a blind astronomer found a way to hear the stars / Wanda Díaz-Merced -- Incontinence is a public health issue and we need to talk about it / Mari Ramsawakh -- Falling/burning : Hannah Gadsby, Nanette, and being a bipolar creator / Shoshana Kessock -- Six ways of looking at crip time / Ellen Samuels -- Lost causes / Reyma McCoy McDeid -- On NYC's paratransit, fighting for safety, respect, and human dignity / Britney Wilson -- Gaining power through communication access / Lateef McLeod -- The fearless Benjamin Lay : activist, abolitionist, dwarf person / Eugene Grant -- To survive climate catastrophe, look to queer and disabled folks / Patricia Berne -- Disability solidarity : completing the 'vision for black lives / Harriet Tubman Collective -- Time's up for me, too / Karolyn Gehrig -- Still dreaming wild disability justice dreams at the end of the world / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha -- Love means never having to say ... anything / Jamison Hill -- On the ancestral plane : crip hand me downs and the legacy of our movements / Stacey Milbern -- The beauty of spaces created for and by disabled people / s.e. smith.