It was a fantastic couple of days attending the Island Studies conference on folklore, mermaids, islands and magic in beautiful Copenhagen. I learned so much from my lovely new interdisciplinary friends whose work spans the globe and touches on everything from new materialism to terrorism to identity work to Armenian fairy tales to the life and times of a real life working Paris mermaid. I spoke about Kinderculture and the mermaid as feminine credential and trans* pride symbolism for young children. More soon on that! 
I took lots of notes.