Meanings
- slanguncountablelifestyleThe incestuous ship of the fictional sisters Elsa and Anna from the Frozen franchise.
While other male/male fan pairings were referred to more often than elsanna, it was the first and only female/female pairing that I came across during my search.
2021, Victor Larsen, "'It Makes Me, A Minor, Uncomfortable': Media and Morality In Anti-Shippers' Policing of Online Fandom", thesis submitted to Ghent University, page 432 more examples
Ultimately, Elsanna femslash considers the repressive power of sexual taboo insofar as it can reject that power, electing instead, as Elsa's character sings in the film's coming-out scene par excellence, to "let it go."
2019, Sara K. Howe, Susan E. Cook, “Introduction: Entering the Fringe”, in Sara K. Howe, Susan E. Cook, editors, Representing Kink: Fringe Sexuality and Textuality in Literature, Digital Narrative, and Popular Culture, page 11Fans of the show Supernatural have created digitally manipulated images of its two male leads, the Wincester brothers, in bed together (aka “Wincest”), and fan-fiction stemming from the popular children’s film Frozen (2013) casts the two sisters, Elsa and Anna, as lovers (aka “Elsanna”).
2019, Lara Karaian, “Relative Lust: Accidental Incest’s Affective and Legal Resonances”, in Law, Culture and the Humanities, volume 15, number 3, pages 8–9
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Elsanna. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Elsanna
“Elsanna.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Elsanna. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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