We were all having a good time and then this bitch had to show up.
What makes her think they have a culture worth appropriating?
>They say straights are appropriating lesbian culture.
>Uses an avatar from an anime/mangs
>formats founded on cultural appropriation…
>formats culturally appropriating American Comics and cartoons.
Seriously… Bring up cultural appropriation, we can get to the point where you can find how ridiculously far we can go with it and see how stupid it is to whine about it.
I hate cultural appropriation discourse with the fury of a billion stars all crammed together in the center of a galaxy.
P.S.A.. can people stop saying “I’m kin with..” because that is wrong?? If you identify WITH something, you aren’t otherkin. To be otherkin you have to actually identify AS that thing. Just something that really bothers me, and I see it everywhere on here.
No, they cant, because they don’t know what otherkin is. Its possible that Tumblr never knew.
Academic Articles Gerbasi, Kathleen C. et al, “Furries A to Z: (Anthropomorphism to Zoomorphism).” Society and Animals, Vol.16 (2008): pp 197-222. (accessed January 28, 2013).
Kulick, Aaron, Pope HG Jr, & Keck PE Jr. “Lycanthropy and Self-Identification.” The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Vol. 2 ( Feb. 1990): pp 134-137 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2405100 (October 14 2014).
Laycock, Joseph P. “We Are Spirits of Another Sort: Ontological Rebellion and Religious Dimensions of the Otherkin Community.” Nova Religio. Vol. 15, No. 3 (Feb., 2012): pp. 65-90 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/nr.2012.15.3.65 (accessed November 24 2013).
Robertson, Venetia Laura Delano. “The Beast Within: Anthrozoomorphic Identity and Alternative Spirituality in the Online Therianthropy Movement.” Nova Religio, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Feb 2013): pp. 7-30 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/nr.2013.16.3.7 (accessed November 24 2013).
Robertson, Venetia. “The Law of the Jungle: Self and Community in the Online Therianthropy Movement.”Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies, Vol 14, No 2 (Dec., 2012): Pp 256-280 http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/POM/article/view/17911 (accessed January 28, 2013).
Magazine Article McNeil, Emma. “The Otherkin.” Fortean Times Magazine. January 2012, 44-46.
Academic Lecture Addie, Trevor. “Therianthropy: A State of Being,” ANTH-331 “Taboos,” American University, March 5th 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMEkuOW5pjs (accessed August 20 2014).
McDougall, Nick. “Otherkin: Heart of a Human, Spirit of a Wolf,” 4:21, Posted on “SBS2Austrailia.” June 4th 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU_E-oXxyQU (accessed June 5th 2013).
Documentary Pemberton, Justin. Animal Imitators. TLC. August 2003.
A few non-academic Books (referring otherkin and/or therians) Cohen, Daniel. Werewolves. Cobblehill Books: New York, 1996.
Konstantinos. Werewolves: The Occult Truth. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2010.
Lupa. A Field Guide To Otherkin. Megalithica Books: Stafford, 2007.
Lupa. Shifting, Shamanism and Therianthropy: Magical Techniques For Your Therioside. Self-published via Lulu.com, 2007.
Yeah… its such a tumblr thing and has only existed for a few years…
Otherkin: Post a small list of how otherkin as a phenomenon predates tumblr, exists outside of tumblr, and has been acknowledged as a thing that exists by academic sources.
Tumblr Users: "I have literally never heard of otherkin outside Tumblr, what the fuck are you going on about"
Has Tumblr been around for 20 years? No? Then sorry.
I know this website is so american-centric but I want to get this out there because the referendum is fast approaching.
On the 25th of May in Ireland, we’re having a referendum to decide if the laws in Ireland that make abortion illegal will be removed or will remain.
I just want to say how important it is that we vote yes, to remove these laws from the constitution.
As of now, abortion is illegal in the Republic of Ireland unless the life of the mother is at risk of death, including suicide. It is also illegal to travel abroad for an abortion or even learn about where they can get an abortion outside of the state. Those who do so can face up to 14 years in jail.
There have been terrible things that have happened to women in Ireland that could have been prevented by allowing them to have an abortion.
One such case is of Savita Halappanavar, who went to hospital with back pains, suffered a miscarriage and died in hospital seven days later. Savita and her husband, Praveen, asked several times for an abortion but were denied because the medical team deemed her life not to be in danger. They were also told “this is a Catholic country”, and so Savita died.
There are countless of other cases and stories of Irish women who have been denied abortions or who have travelled to the UK for abortions.
Every year over 170,000 women leave the country for an abortion or order abortion pills online, risking their lives. Those who leave the country are mailed back the dead foetus.
These women face so much. Only a couple of decades ago, pregnant, unmarried woman were being locked up in laundries, where they were forced to work there for the rest of their lives away from a society that shamed and disowned them. Their babies were often given away or mistreated. They babies that didn’t survive were buried in unmarked graves, as were the woman.
Things like this could have been prevented by abortion. But my country doesn’t seem to care enough about the lives of women to help them and prevent this.
You don’t have to be Irish to reblog this. But please help spread the word and help us vote yes and change our laws for our women
I can’t make heads or tails of who is saying what in this post but I’m just going to say this, from personal experience.
M-shifts are motherf–king real.
Also, I don’t have a human side.
Rereading this over and over and I still can’t make sense of it..
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Just a (fae) phouka kitsune type thing. I’ve been out as otherkin and therian for over 20 years, and been awakened for even longer than that. I’m demi and lean towards female gender.
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Just a (fae) phouka kitsune type thing. I’ve been out as otherkin and therian for over 20 years, and been awakened for even longer than that. I’m demi and lean towards female gender.
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