#PrideMonth www.elizabethhopkinson.uk

The Angelio Book Club is now on Thursday, 11th June. 📖 still at 7pm (UK time) 📖 still online 📖 still free 📖 still need to book your ticket! Come and chat about Tammo, Carlo & Celestina! Come and chat about Tammo, Carlo & Celestina! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/angelio-bo...

Just pledged to support this. I look forward to reading the stories!

Today is St Melangell’s Day - patron saint of hares and small animals. One of my favourite saints. Read her story in Legends from Lindisfarne www.elizabethhopkinson.uk/legends-from... Artwork by Anna Hopkinson #FolkloreThursday

🚨Bad news. A THIRD National book banning bill has passed committee in the house.🚨 Meet the CHARLIE act that will prohibit the teaching of what they call: equity ideology (not white supremacist jingoistic history) More from @authorsabb.bsky.social when we have it. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Authors, please be aware that there's currently a #BookClub #scam! I've received two messages from two different 'book clubs' this week alone. Here's an article with more info: medium.com/@claude.whit...

Inviting anyone who has read and enjoyed Cage of Nightingales/Masquerade of Finches to come to the first ever virtual Angelio Book Club on 9th June. Ticket are free, but you need one to enter. #Angelio #asexual #PrideMonth #books #LGBTQIA #fantasy #histfic www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1989900067...

TW: Discrimination Today is the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia. We asked our 2024 respondents about their experiences with discrimination. #asexual #asexuality #ace #aro #aromanticism #acecommunitysurvey #demisexual #demisexuality #graysexual #graysexuality

Happy belated #IDAHOBIT :) did you know that the World Health Organisation still lists asexuality (aka "HSDD") as a disorder, and that roughly 1 in 2 asexual survey participants said they'd experienced attempts or suggestions for how to "cure" or "fix" them? Check out my presentation below for more!

May tomorrow’s UK local elections bring us Dogs at Polling Stations and zero R€f0rm councillors!

Angelio books with the old covers are now half price in my Ko-fi shop. Historical fantasy about a castrato and a bird charmer. Ace, nonbinary and multiple disability rep. ko-fi.com/elizabethhop...

Happy May Day!

Angelio books with the old covers are now half price in my Ko-fi shop. Historical fantasy about a castrato and a bird charmer. Ace, nonbinary and multiple disability rep. ko-fi.com/elizabethhop...

Calling partnered asexual (including demi-, gray-, or other ace-spec) folks! 💜 🍰 We’re recruiting for a study on asexuality and romantic relationships (broadly defined). Take part or share with your network! Word of mouth is super helpful. 👉 tinyurl.com/acerelations... Open to any nationality

The Angelio books have NEW COVERS!! (These ones are guaranteed AI free) www.elizabethhopkinson.uk/angelio.html

See you there tomorrow!!

Ace friends! Get your hands on this and support Elizabeth. She's got more than fairy tales, click the link! Some are available on Amazon as well. Get em now!

Are you ready for an evening of LGBTQIA+ fantasy stories and poems with the BFS in Manchester? I’m coming over from Bradford specially with my Asexual Fairy Tales. 💜🖤🤍 Please get your tickets in advance so the shop owners can sleep at night.🌛

Thank you so much for your talk on Rå yesterday. Sorry I had to miss the second half.

Authors Against Book Bans has joined dozens of other organizations, nonprofits, publishers, & stores to issue this joint statement opposing HR7661

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

Ready to oppose the National Book Ban Republicans are moving through the House of Representatives? Use 5 Calls to contact your Representative in the House. They'll find your rep for you and even have a script!

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 🧜🏿🧜‍♀️🧜🏻‍♂️