Asexuality (ace) studies is an emergent and thriving academic discipline invested in understanding how compulsory sexuality organizes society, naturalizes performances of sexual attraction, and denigrates or exoticizes sexual indifference or repulsion. Aromanticism (aro) studies, an even more emergent field, examines the assumption that a central, exclusive, amorous relationship is normal for humans and should be aimed at in preference to other relationship types. Together, asexuality studies and aromanticism studies provide us critical tools to analyze the normative expectations that structure our society.
Lead
- Liza Blake, UTM English & Drama
Faculty Members, University of Toronto
- Caylen Ferguson Heckel, UTM Visual Studies
- Signy Lynch, UTM English & Drama
Faculty Members, Outside University of Toronto
- Lee Emrich, VIC Renaissance Studies
Graduate Students, University of Toronto
- Marissa Herzig, English
- Theo Northcraft, English/Sexual Diversity Studies
- Anastasia Zabalueva, Classics
Undergraduate Student, University of Toronto
- Lila Varga, English/Sexual Diversity Studies