Asexuality is often defined by absence—an absence of sex, of attraction, and sometimes, even, of desire. This chapter takes a queer rhetorical approach to rethinking the role of absence in shaping our understandings of (a)sexualities, revealing how dominant and compulsory framings of sexuality rely on a colonial apparatus that demands certain kinds of erasure in the fabrication of categories and their boundaries. Drawing on analogies in the figuring of silence and absence, this chapter investigates what may be uncovered as actually present in purported absences, positioning asexuality as a queer refusal of order, linearity, and composition.