Ela Przybylo
Biographic Data
| ID | 658442 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ela Przybylo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ela |
| FAMILY NAME | Przybylo |
| SIGNATURE | PRZYBYLO E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1502-2953 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Publishing Thoughts from the Bed Sorbonne
In this piece I draw on my experiences as a neuroqueer editor of the peer-reviewed, intersectional, and intermedia independent journal Feral Feminisms and on disability justice to hone a short manifestx on crip publishing. While peer-reviewed journals often demand free, invisible, and feminized labor along with high-speed efficiency, I imagine crip approaches to publishing as necessitating such principles as slowness, anti-fascism, recognition, c…
Walking Together in a Pandemic
In this co-authored reflection by seven graduate students and one instructor, we revisit the “Apocalyptic Feminisms” graduate class taught in Fall 2020, at the height of the pandemic, in which students were asked to engage with interdisciplinary writing on the Anthropocene and to hone their own feminist praxes through going on and documenting their walks. We reflect on the “Walk and Movement Reading Instagram Engagements” assignment, exploring wh…
Fatness, friendship, and “corpu-allyhood” stratagems
The practice, theory, and critique of allyship have been central to feminist scholarship and activism. Identities once not regarded as identities at all but as neutral givens, such as maleness, whiteness, cisnormativity, heterosexuality, abledness, and settlerhood, have all become politicized planes of analysis and action. Yet little scholarship, praxis, and activism has held people with thin privilege accountable for the role they play in fuelin…
Ace and aro lesbian art and theory with Agnes Martin and Yayoi Kusama
This article draws on the field of asexuality studies and the growing work of aromanticism studies to think about whether and how we can theorize lesbian studies from asexual (ace) and aromantic (aro) perspectives. Aces experience "the lack of sexual attraction to others, or low or absent interest in or desire for sexual activity" (Asexual Visibility and Education Network) and aros experience little or no romantic attraction to others. While lesb…
Fleshy Dykey Antimonogamy
Book Review| June 01 2019 Fleshy Dykey Antimonogamy Undoing Monogamy: The Politics of Science and the Possibilities of BiologyWilley, AngelaDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016. xiv + 195 pp. Ela Przybylo Ela Przybylo Ela Przybylo is Ruth Wynn Woodward Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University and the author of the forthcoming book Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality (Ohio S…
On the Politics of Ugliness
Ugliness or unsightliness is much more than a quality or property of an individual's appearance - it has long functioned as a social category that demarcates access to social, cultural, and political spaces and capital. The editors of and authors in this collection harness intersectional and interdisciplinary approaches in order to examine ugliness as a political category that is deployed to uphold established notions of worth and entitlement. It…
Asexuals against the Cis-Tem
Asexual Resonances
This article works on two axes: first, employing queer archiving to push at the parameters of what might "count" as asexuality, and second, addressing feminist and queer inattentiveness to asexuality through rethinking queerness from asexual perspectives. We argue that an attunement to asexual "resonances," however subjective and impossible to measure, makes possible the imagining of a queerly asexual archive, an archive that troubles current und…
Afterword
Afterword: some thoughts on asexuality as an interdisciplinary method." Psychology & Sexuality, 4(2), pp. 193–194
Producing facts
Asexuality, quickly becoming a burgeoning sexual identity category and subject of academic inquiry, relies at this budding moment of identity demarcation on a series of scientific studies that seek to ‘discover’ the truth of asexuality in and on the body. This article considers the existing scientific research on asexuality, including both older and more obscure mentions of asexuality as well as contemporary studies, through two twin claims: (1) …
Crisis and safety
This article provides a discussion of the implications that asexuality, as an identity category emerging in the West, carries for sexuality. Asexuality provides an exciting forum for revisiting questions of sexual normativity and examining those sex acts which are cemented to appear ‘natural’ through repetition, in the discursive system of sexusociety. Drawing especially on feminist and postmodern theories, I situate asexuality as both a product …
Asexual Resonances
This article works on two axes: first, employing queer archiving to push at the parameters of what might "count" as asexuality, and second, addressing feminist and queer inattentiveness to asexuality through rethinking queerness from asexual perspectives. We argue that an attunement to asexual "resonances," however subjective and impossible to measure, makes possible the imagining of a queerly asexual archive, an archive that troubles current und…
Producing facts
Asexuality, quickly becoming a burgeoning sexual identity category and subject of academic inquiry, relies at this budding moment of identity demarcation on a series of scientific studies that seek to ‘discover’ the truth of asexuality in and on the body. This article considers the existing scientific research on asexuality, including both older and more obscure mentions of asexuality as well as contemporary studies, through two twin claims: (1) …
Afterword
Afterword: some thoughts on asexuality as an interdisciplinary method." Psychology & Sexuality, 4(2), pp. 193–194
Fleshy Dykey Antimonogamy
Book Review| June 01 2019 Fleshy Dykey Antimonogamy Undoing Monogamy: The Politics of Science and the Possibilities of BiologyWilley, AngelaDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016. xiv + 195 pp. Ela Przybylo Ela Przybylo Ela Przybylo is Ruth Wynn Woodward Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University and the author of the forthcoming book Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality (Ohio S…
Crisis and safety
This article provides a discussion of the implications that asexuality, as an identity category emerging in the West, carries for sexuality. Asexuality provides an exciting forum for revisiting questions of sexual normativity and examining those sex acts which are cemented to appear ‘natural’ through repetition, in the discursive system of sexusociety. Drawing especially on feminist and postmodern theories, I situate asexuality as both a product …
Producing facts
Asexuality, quickly becoming a burgeoning sexual identity category and subject of academic inquiry, relies at this budding moment of identity demarcation on a series of scientific studies that seek to ‘discover’ the truth of asexuality in and on the body. This article considers the existing scientific research on asexuality, including both older and more obscure mentions of asexuality as well as contemporary studies, through two twin claims: (1) …
Afterword
Afterword: some thoughts on asexuality as an interdisciplinary method." Psychology & Sexuality, 4(2), pp. 193–194
Asexual Resonances
This article works on two axes: first, employing queer archiving to push at the parameters of what might "count" as asexuality, and second, addressing feminist and queer inattentiveness to asexuality through rethinking queerness from asexual perspectives. We argue that an attunement to asexual "resonances," however subjective and impossible to measure, makes possible the imagining of a queerly asexual archive, an archive that troubles current und…
Asexuals against the Cis-Tem
On the Politics of Ugliness
Ugliness or unsightliness is much more than a quality or property of an individual's appearance - it has long functioned as a social category that demarcates access to social, cultural, and political spaces and capital. The editors of and authors in this collection harness intersectional and interdisciplinary approaches in order to examine ugliness as a political category that is deployed to uphold established notions of worth and entitlement. It…
Fleshy Dykey Antimonogamy
Book Review| June 01 2019 Fleshy Dykey Antimonogamy Undoing Monogamy: The Politics of Science and the Possibilities of BiologyWilley, AngelaDurham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016. xiv + 195 pp. Ela Przybylo Ela Przybylo Ela Przybylo is Ruth Wynn Woodward Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University and the author of the forthcoming book Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality (Ohio S…
Fatness, friendship, and “corpu-allyhood” stratagems
The practice, theory, and critique of allyship have been central to feminist scholarship and activism. Identities once not regarded as identities at all but as neutral givens, such as maleness, whiteness, cisnormativity, heterosexuality, abledness, and settlerhood, have all become politicized planes of analysis and action. Yet little scholarship, praxis, and activism has held people with thin privilege accountable for the role they play in fuelin…
Ace and aro lesbian art and theory with Agnes Martin and Yayoi Kusama
This article draws on the field of asexuality studies and the growing work of aromanticism studies to think about whether and how we can theorize lesbian studies from asexual (ace) and aromantic (aro) perspectives. Aces experience "the lack of sexual attraction to others, or low or absent interest in or desire for sexual activity" (Asexual Visibility and Education Network) and aros experience little or no romantic attraction to others. While lesb…
Walking Together in a Pandemic
In this co-authored reflection by seven graduate students and one instructor, we revisit the “Apocalyptic Feminisms” graduate class taught in Fall 2020, at the height of the pandemic, in which students were asked to engage with interdisciplinary writing on the Anthropocene and to hone their own feminist praxes through going on and documenting their walks. We reflect on the “Walk and Movement Reading Instagram Engagements” assignment, exploring wh…
Publishing Thoughts from the Bed Sorbonne
In this piece I draw on my experiences as a neuroqueer editor of the peer-reviewed, intersectional, and intermedia independent journal Feral Feminisms and on disability justice to hone a short manifestx on crip publishing. While peer-reviewed journals often demand free, invisible, and feminized labor along with high-speed efficiency, I imagine crip approaches to publishing as necessitating such principles as slowness, anti-fascism, recognition, c…
Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Human sexuality (6 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (6 works) · Asexuality (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Marriage and Sexual Relationships (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works)