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194696 https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.2.N.194696 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ All Rights Reserved 2024 203 pages Doctoral Dissertation Academic theses Text eng Brandley, Ben LeMaster, Loretta Arizona State University Partial requirement for: Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2024 Field of study: Communication This dissertation addresses the barrage of violence against asexual people of color by tracing the ways allonormativity operates through discourses, both at macro level cultural messages as well as manifestations in intra/interpersonal interactions. Through critical qualitative interviews with 33 asexual people of color, this dissertation explores how asexual folks respond to allonormative messages towards wellness and healing. The interview data is analyzed through two findings chapters. In the first findings chapter, I employ both a typology of allonormativity rhetorics towards strengthening a distinct critical theoretical framework for communication scholars. In the second findings chapter, I utilize word association that provides psychosocial attunements to various types of allonormative discourses and their social and material effects across macro and micro levels of the participants’ lives. Based on the data from the two findings chapters, the fourth and final discussion chapter unpacks the significance of this research to the academic archives. In particular, I discuss three contributions this dissertation makes by 1) centering asexual people of color, 2) extending knowledge of asexuality studies, and 3) aceing the field of human communication. Communication A Communication Approach to Asexual People of Color’s Experiences with Allonormativity