Elizabeth Hopkinson

Thanks to everyone who came to my merfolk talk with @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social last night 🧜🏿🧜‍♀️🧜🏻‍♂️

Elizabeth Hopkinson- Massaged to Death by Mermaids | Centre for Folklore Merfolk of the World and LGBTQIA+ Representation.

It’s tonight!!! 🧜🏿🧜🏻‍♂️🧜‍♀️
7pm online. Get your last minute tickets from @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social

See you then, for Irish merrows, Yoruba Orishas, Andean sirinx, lovelorn Mer-Kings, and… Sappho 😳

www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...

@rosymegglemoth.bsky.social ‘s Baby Kraken Ed is telling me to, “Stop scrolling and get on with rehearsing the talk!”

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Have you all got your tickets for my online merfolk talk with @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social on Wednesday?

I’m getting in the mood by rereading this on BorrowBox 🧜🏿

I love the story of Cuthbert’s otters!

Do these look like mer-cats to you?

They’re not meant to be - I made them myself - but I’m claiming it ahead of my Merfolk talk for @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social this coming Wednesday. 🧜🏿

@sachacoward.bsky.social You’ll be pleased to learn that Bradford Equity Book Club has chosen Queer As Folklore for their next book! 🌈

5 days until Massaged to Death by Mermaids @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social Have you got your online ticket?
🧜🏿🧜‍♀️🧜🏻‍♂️

Less than a week to go!
Today’s mer-pic is Trinidad’s Mama D’leau on the cover of Caribbean Folk Tales by Wendy Shearer. Cover art by Jenna Catton. 🧜🏿
#mermaids #LGBTQIA @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social

Tagging in a few contacts who might be interested in my merfolk talk 🔼🔼🔼🧜🏿
@deedeechainey.bsky.social @owenstaton.bsky.social @sachacoward.bsky.social @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social @rosymegglemoth.bsky.social
It started as an #OFMD talk. Sacha, I have credited you as a resource.

1 week until Massaged to Death by Mermaids online with @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social
Here’s Anna Hopkinson’s artwork of The Ice Queen & the Mer-King, my definining Asexual Fairy Tale. It’s in the talk!! 🧜🏿
#folklore #asexuality #LGBTQIA #mermaids

Are we all mermaided out yet?
Never!! 🧜🏿🧜🏻‍♂️🧜‍♀️

Here’s the illustration of “The Little Mermaid Speaks” from my book Asexual Fairy Tales.
By Anna Hopkinson (aka Jim from yesterday’s post).

My talk will highlight every ace-coded moment in Andersen’s Little Mermaid.
#folklore #LGBTQIA #asexuality

Copies of the Asexual Fairy Tales and Angelio books

I’m an ace author!
I’ve read (and enjoyed) a few of the books on your list, but would like to read more. (Eagerly awaiting the arrival of my copy of Common Bonds 2!)

The Wee Con 2 - Glasgow Edition! An Our Flag Means Death convention planned for the fans, by the fans.

I just backed The Wee Con 2 - Glasgow Edition! on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/fyr...

Just over a week until my online mermaid talk with @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social
Today’s mermaid is receiving a kiss from #OFMD Jim (sort of) who is categorically NOT a mermaid 🧜🏿

Invisible: Asexuality & Aromanticism | Breakout Session A | 2022 Making a Way Conference Asexuality and Aromanticism tend to go overlooked, especially in Christian circles where they are often mistaken for sexual or romantic abstinence. In this session we will correct common…

In this session we will correct common misunderstandings about asexuality and aromanticism, illustrate how those misunderstandings cause lasting harm to Ace/Aro Christians, and discuss what we can do to raise asexuality and aromanticism out of invisibility.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUeR...

Mr Man Stede - Mr Excitable

Here he is!

More merfolk ahead of my online talk on Merfolk & LGBTQIA+ Representation for @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social on 4th March.

Today’s mer-person is - me!! In fancy dress as the Sea Witch from Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid”. Featuring Moana the toy mermaid. 🧜🏿

Legends from Lindisfarne Elizabeth Hopkinson. Prizewinning author of fairy tales and historical fantasy.

Read about Muirgen the Mermaid Saint in Legends from Lindisfarne
#FolkloreThursday
www.elizabethhopkinson.uk/legends-from...

How serendipitous that #FolkloreThursday is highlighting Water Sprits!

Today’s mer-pic is Muirgen the Mermaid Saint of Lough Neath, Northern Ireland (aka LíBan) and her otter. Illustration by Anna Hopkinson for Legends from Lindisfarne.

Details of my Merfolk and LGBTQIA+ Rep online talk below:

Looking forward to today’s talk! 🧜🏿

Don’t ask… 🫣

Celebrating Black Ace Community... with the creators of Soul Ace Day Marshall Blount, Alyshia Rodgers and Kimberly Butler created Soul Ace Day to uplift Black ace voices and experiences.

Today we observe the second Soul Ace Day.

Created by Kimberly Butler, Marshall Blount and Alyshia Rodgers, Soul Ace Day celebrates the activism, art and culture of african american asexuals.

acedadadvice.substack.com/p/celebratin...

On this Soul Ace Day I highly recommend looking up the research and advocacy of ace activist and model, Yasmin Benoit! She’s doing more work for the community than anyone all while facing awful racism, sexism, and aphobia.

Black Ace Culture: A Digital Zine by blackaceculture

HAPPY SOUL ACE DAY to my Black asexuals and aromantics!

To celebrate and learn more, please download Black Ace Culture: A Digital Zine by blackaceculture
blackaceculture.itch.io/black-ace-cu...

#blackaces #blackace #blackasexual #blackaromantics #asexuality #asexual #aroace #acearo #aromantic

There's a new holiday for Black asexuals and I'm here for it - INTO Given that Black asexuals get twice (or even thrice) the amount of grief, I was happy to learn about SoulAce Day

Happy Soul Ace Day to my fellow Black asexuals! Here is a primer on Soul Ace Day that I wrote this time last year www.intomore.com/culture/iden...

Mer-pic of the day on the run-up to my Merfolk online talk with @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social on 4th March.

MerStede & Ed key charm by @neslee.bsky.social check into the Old Ship Inn, Hackney.

(They had a lovely time btw).

And today’s mer-post (see what I did there?) comes from my home village in the Bradford district. Merfolk, fish and sea creatures topping a postbox. 🧜🏿
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Sharing merfolk on the lead-up to my online talk for @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social
Here’s a very enjoyable book I just finished reading. The Mermaid the Witch and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall 🧜🏿
Sapphic love and nonbinary rep!

Cool! When I first read Norfolk, I thought it was the original one in East Anglia (happy memories of both holidaying and working as a student in Overstrand). But this is somewhere in the US?