Status Updates From Refusing Compulsory Sexuali...

Oh boy I'm gonna be so fricken annoying while reading and after finishing this book.

Compulsory sexuality, cisheteropatriarchy, and white supremacy work to prevent us from having true bodily autonomy, self-discernment, or epistemic authority over our own sexuality. (...) If we are granted the freedom to individually determine our asexuality, then asexuality becomes more difficult to utilize as a tool of white supremacy.

"But even as Black people are barred from full entry into white colonial conceptions of gender and sexuality, we are still expected to abide by the social contracts associated with these categories. We are punished for our failure to properly align ourselves with them, even as such alignment would be impossible because these categories have been defined against Blackness itself"

"Black asexuality shatters centuries-old beliefs, upheld by caricatures like, the Jezebel, the Mammy... Accepting the existence of genuine Black asexuality would require those who hold so tightly to these myths to do the work of dismantling them. (...) The Black asexual threatens to upend everything they think they know about Blackness, and everything they think they know about themselves as allegedly superior."