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Have Your Cake and Eat It Too: Supporting Asexual and Aromantic College Students

Have Your Cake and Eat It Too: Supporting Asexual and Aromantic College Students
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Author(s): Amanda L. Mollet (University of Kansas, USA), Shay Valley (The Ohio State University, USA)and Brynn Fitzsimmons (University of Alabama, USA)
Copyright: 2024
Pages: 22
Source title: LGBTQIA Students in Higher Education: Approaches to Student Identity and Policy
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Kaity Prieto (The University of Southern Mississippi, USA)and Andrew Herridge (The University of Southern Mississippi, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-2853-8.ch004

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Abstract

This chapter offers an invitation to learn about and support asexual and aromantic (ace/aro) students. Asexual students and aromantic students are typically defined as students who do not experience sexual or romantic attraction, respectively. Despite the emerging visibility of this community across social media, college educators still have work to do to increase awareness of these identities and to make campuses affirming places. Using traditional academic citations and citations for sources that emerged from ace/aro community knowledge serves to further amplify the brilliance and labor of the ace/aro communities while encouraging academia to continue questioning our epistemic assumptions, particularly around student identities. This chapter provides foundational information about asexuality and aromantism, describes demographics of ace/aro students, shares about their identity development, and offers educators practical approaches for serving and supporting these students, which includes invitations for continuing learning and development on the part of campus administrators.

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