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otherkinnewsThis is your community, and Otherkin News has always been meant for many voices, since it was created in 2009 as a Livejournal Community (now Dreamwidth Community). Don’t assume that regular posters here are the only ones meant to write for it. This space is for you to share about current events too! If you find a scoop, you’re welcome to go ahead and write about it here for yourself. Our moderators check to make sure that submissions are on topic. If it’s your first post here or your submission doesn’t get approved on the same day, notify a mod by email to make sure they see it soon.
During the past few years, moral panics about therians have been spreading all over the world. We’re seeing urban legends of that kind since December 2021, when Republicans in the US started saying furries use litter boxes in public schools and started proposing laws against it in 2023. Last year, Russia started proposing bans against quadrobics and spreading unsubstantiated rumors that a quadrobist child had attacked someone in a park. (A colleague who hasn't posted here informs me those rumors spread through other former Soviet nations). This year in Argentina and other Latin American nations, variations on the same rumor about a violent quadrobist child circulated with so much visibility that the Associated Press wrote about it. The development of these urban legends are now complicated by language barriers and as well as AI-generated misinformation, as in some viral videos of quadrobists fact-checked by Mala Espina Check. Especially if you’re fluent in relevant languages, I encourage you to please post to here with your own article, a round-up of news links (cite your sources properly!), or your own clearly-marked opinion piece. Just sign into Dreamwidth and submit your post to us in this form.
[Edited February 28, 2026 to add links.]
During the past few years, moral panics about therians have been spreading all over the world. We’re seeing urban legends of that kind since December 2021, when Republicans in the US started saying furries use litter boxes in public schools and started proposing laws against it in 2023. Last year, Russia started proposing bans against quadrobics and spreading unsubstantiated rumors that a quadrobist child had attacked someone in a park. (A colleague who hasn't posted here informs me those rumors spread through other former Soviet nations). This year in Argentina and other Latin American nations, variations on the same rumor about a violent quadrobist child circulated with so much visibility that the Associated Press wrote about it. The development of these urban legends are now complicated by language barriers and as well as AI-generated misinformation, as in some viral videos of quadrobists fact-checked by Mala Espina Check. Especially if you’re fluent in relevant languages, I encourage you to please post to here with your own article, a round-up of news links (cite your sources properly!), or your own clearly-marked opinion piece. Just sign into Dreamwidth and submit your post to us in this form.
[Edited February 28, 2026 to add links.]