“Grandma, would you tell us that old adage again?” “Yes dears. A long time ago, your ancestors used to say: if all the computers in the world shut down, it’s because the furries logged off for a day.” In this season 6 premiere, Hannah and Maia chat about the most maligned subculture on the internet: furries - a group of people with an above-average interest in anthropomorphic creatures, who everyone seems to despise. Thanks to some unflattering depictions in popular media like CSI and the Tyra Show, the world believes furries to be a group of maladjusted sexual deviants. But have furries gotten a bad rap? Is it really sexual deviancy, or a post-humanist movement that has been way ahead of us this whole time? We may very well be f*cking with the wrong group of people (after all, they created their own ISP before the White House did). Tangents include: the emotional power of Aquamarine, Tyra teaching Hannah about Islamophobia, and the Kyle Jenner-ification of My Little Pony.
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SOURCES:
Jessica Ruth Austin, Fan Identities in the Furry Fandom, Bloomsbury (2021).
Eliza Graves-Browne, ”What It Means to Be Otherkin” Vice (2016).
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Dylan Reeve, “Who runs the internet? Furries” The Spinoff (2022).
Venetia Laura Delano Robertson, “The Beast Within: Anthrozoomorphic Identity and Alternative Spirituality in the Online Therianthropy Movement” Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions , Vol. 16, No. 3 (2013).
Joe Strike, Furry Nation: The True Story of America's Most Misunderstood Subculture, Cleis Press (2017).
Allison Tierney, “Furries Tell Us How They Figured Out They Were Furries” Vice (2017).
Ariel Zibler, “The Furred Reich! Furry annual convention cancelled amid community's bitter divisions over rise of alleged neo-Nazi Mr 'Foxler' and the 'altfur' movement” Daily Mail (2017).