Come on #Manchester! You know you want to be there! #asexuality #LGBTQIA #books

Yep! I’ll be there with my Asexual Fairy Tales ♠️🧚 Get your tickets now!

“The crowd in Jerusalem was lashing out at one of their own, erupting in the horizontal violence that often happens among oppressed people” Do read this post; it’s insightful, and so relevant to today’s world.

#TransDayOfVisibility Should be this… … not that.

Are you in Manchester on 22nd April? Do you want to be? I’ll be there with @britfantasysoc.bsky.social and fellow writers, reading stories and poems - and you can, too! Book your place. I think we’ll have some Asexual Fairy Tales ♠️🧚 #fantasy #LGBTQIA www.socialrefuge.com/event-detail...

I can’t be in London but I can show my support. Here I am at home in Bradford with my Hold On To Hope posters. Go show them, people!

Oh, the hypocrisy! Biblical CONTENT: - murder, adultery, war, execution Got to be a ban, right? Biblical VALUES: - act justly, love mercy, walk humbly - love your neighbour as yourself Which are WHERE in your mission?! @authorsabb.bsky.social

Well, there goes half my GCSE/A Level required reading. Also: Jane Austen?!? Surely one of the least explicit writers you can imagine. @authorsabb.bsky.social

Common Bonds 2 gets the Ember seal of approval. @clh2oars.bsky.social #cats #books

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... I’d love to know what fellow aspecs make of this episode. (The series imagines 1 thing suddenly removed from the world). Some positive comments - things we already know as aces - but not one single mention of asexuality.

France has made a powerful step towards challenging the idea that sex is a legal expectation within marriage. What this means for asexual rights, from @theyasminbenoit.bsky.social 

Last night was the New Moon. (That’s why it’s Eid). Today it’s the Spring Equinox. Easter is the first Sunday after the full moon after the Spring Equinox. This is based on the timing of the Jewish Passover (Pesach) as that is when the events of the Easter story took place. 🧵

I’m not even in the US, but as an author of YA LGBTQIA+ fiction, I’m speaking out against HR7661. It affects us all. @authorsabb.bsky.social

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I’m not even in the US, but as an author of YA LGBTQIA+ fiction, I’m speaking out against HR7661. It affects us all. @authorsabb.bsky.social

What do you MEAN the cozy horror anthology in our preorder Kickstarter are special edition?? No one can get illustrated anthologies when after late orders close??? 😱 😱 😱 WAIT—no one can get the stickers I made too???! Ahhhhhh! Get yours NOW!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bey... #books #horror

I’m going!!! My first ever in-person con!

Wishing everyone spring sunshine on this Spring, rebirth and renewal themed #FolkloreThursday. 🌞 This is @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social handing over to @willowwinsham.bsky.social with a spring lamb- good luck to see your first lamb of the year facing you!

Yes! Yes! I’m so proud of us. Carlo, Tammo & Celestina are too. They can’t wait to share their new story with you!

We’re now at 2035/3000! ALL OR NOTHING! Support a queer-run press within 23 hours! 🏷️ #horror, #books #booksky #horrosky, #authorsofbluesky #writing #amwriting #asexual #ace #queersky #authors www.kickstarter.com/projects/bey...

Your last chance to support an Epic anthology, containing an exclusive Angelio story! #books #fantasy #scifi #horror #shortstories www.kickstarter.com/projects/bey...

Last few days of the Kickstarter! Get your ebook or paperback. Includes an exclusive story from the world of Angelio. Carlo, Tammo & Celestina help a lady with a strange illness…

The Man Without Desire is arguably the first asexual male depiction in cinema and this epigraph making a comeback would go so hard. It would be fascinating to see what a modern, more queer and ace informed remake would be like.

Last few days of the Kickstarter! Get your ebook or paperback. Includes an exclusive story from the world of Angelio. Carlo, Tammo & Celestina help a lady with a strange illness…

Here’s another wild copy! In Wuthering West Yorkshire. (Yes, it is so windy today!)

Absolutely gorgeous! Gargamax and His Kits by Celia Winter baublesfrombones.com/gargamax-and...

Seen an an AI summary of More Ace Fairy Tales… 🫥 Themes: Stories often feature, or are inspired by, ancient myths, and, as in some traditional, tales focusing on, or, sometimes, featuring, the, sometimes, featuring, the, or, as in some traditional, tales. And this is why we need human authors.

COMMON BONDS lovers, you can get even more of the good stuff. An entire anthology of short stories and poems that have: 💚 science fiction and fantasy 💚 aromantic MCs 💚 a focus on platonic relationships! Coming March 26, 2026 : buy.bookfunnel.com/yilbsiz3a6 🌈📚

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

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!” @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social

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 🧜🏿

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

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

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 🧜🏿

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...

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. 🧜🏿

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! 🧜🏿

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...

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

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).