Toward Asexual Geographies: Void-Publics And Spaces Of Refusal

This chapter brings together the fields of geographies of sex and sexualities and asexuality studies in order to move toward asexual geographies. Queer theoretical and geographical scholarship consistently collapses multiple aspects of queer social life into the category of the sexual. Appreciating both the nonsexual and the spatial aspects of what we know as “sexuality,” described here as “queer nonsexual geographies,” constitutes a re-location of scholarly attention away from compulsory sexuality. In an attempt to encourage spatial inquiry in asexuality studies, this chapter surveys three queer geographies in turn: spaces of refusal, the anti-geography of the counterpublic, and the void. These geographies render spatial extant positionings of asexuality as lack and as multiplicity, thereby extending the potential of asexuality's negative ontologies into new spaces of and for relating.