Asexual erotics : intimate readings of compulsory sexuality Analyzes queer feminist and anti racist movements; television and film; art and photography; and fiction nonfiction and theoretical texts to explore asexual erotics and demonstrate how asexuality has been vital to the formulation of intimate ways of knowing and being Introduction: Erotics and asexuality: thinking asexuality unthinking sex The erotics of feminist revolution: political celibacies asexualities in the womens 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.