Origins

What is the project? It is an idea to create a published book anthology of alterhuman short stories, poetry, etc. I will also be looking for artists for page illustrations and covers

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As different facets of alterhumanity gain more of the public eye with each passing year, the more I ask "Ok so, what are we going to Do sociopolitically. When are we going to organize and start advocating for ourselves". Because eventually that will be necessary, and "let's bury our heads in the sand and hope we become obscure again" isn't realistic in any way. We've gotta start organizing and teaming up with our allies (queer groups, neurodivergent groups, mad pride, etc.) that we are heavily intermixed with.

Therianthropy for example, for the longest time has relying on the niche nature of the concept while hoping that they'll always be forgotten about by the public eventually. They keep popping up though, and visibility has been a rising line on a graph, it's never once returned to the obscurity that it had in the 90s-early 00s. By now, a majority of information that (for lack of a better term) "normies" have about therians is all bullshit.

There was an attempt at alterhumans organizing one time in the form of AltH, but they're already defunct and have left nothing behind except "AltH" as a convenient acronym for "alterhuman". Outreach and advocacy just kind of died in the water before getting anywhere.

I've seen the argument "alterhumanity faces no issues on its own, so advocate for other things instead and it'll help us by proxy". On one hand, yes, their fight is our fight. At the exact same time, alterhumanity is its own thing, it doesn't only exist as the sum of other groups. Using nonhuman identity as an example, there are people calling therianthropy a psyop and also trans people believing that nonhuman identity is made up by transphobes and not real. "Let's go along with it and wait for this to blow over" isn't an acceptable conclusion, we need to go "yes we are real, no will not be weaponized".

Adding nuance from our experiences alert:

This may or may not be why we have such hard lines on how we specifically use -genic terms and use -orma as a headmate specific term, and ALSO why when we say "disordered system" we usually mean CDD systems.

Because many many plural communities are online, and we gave yet to see anyone besides ourselves be open and loud about their plurality in an offline space.

Of course there is more nuance, dipped shit (general, not OP&), but singlets don't have that nuanced and assume "plural = traumagenic = CDD" with no exceptions whatsoever.

So. Like. We understand. But also. We're sorry to say it, but when speaking with ignorant majority "normie" crowds and interfacing with the external offline world, you do in fact need to get down to their level, at least a tad.

LIKE WE MEAN. WE AGREE WITH OP BUT WE FEEL THE NEED TO ADD THIS.

We can't get what OP wants unless we start taking baby steps to get that respect. The online discourse would break most peoples' brains we feel like.

Right now, that's how we're seen by outsiders, we like it our not. And yeah, we can keep to ourselves, but the floodgate has already been opened. We are already well-known by people. The least we can try to do is control where the stream goes from this point forward. And that's the beautiful thing about it, isn't it? We have the opportunity (and duty, we like it or not) of making ourselves known by correcting misinformation, educating where we can, advocating for ourselves. We are already known, and we couldn't control the reaction it had on people outside of the community then, but we can take our chance now and use it to stop living in hiding. To show what alterhumanity, otherkinity, theriantrophy, etc means. It's gonna take time, and it's not that realistic to say we will succeed, but we can do it, little by little.

But I want to ask

What exactly are we advocating for?

With Gay liberation its the right to legally and openly love eachother

With Black liberation its freedom

With Gender its about equality

These are all extremely simplified, but you get the point.

What would our movement be about?

While yes, we are verbally abused and slandered by normie humans, I cant particularly think of any cases where an Alterhuman is being systemically and uniquely targeted for being Alterhuman. I dont know anyone who's been fired or evicted for being Alterhuman. And I certainly havent heard of anyone being killed for being Alterhuman specifically. Not to say it definitely doesnt happen, just that I havent heard of it. If it is happening, we just arent talking about it.

And all this isnt to say we shouldnt have a movement, or advocate for ourselves.

Its just to get people thinking- What is our message? What do we want?

Education?

Representation?

More bodily autonomy?

Equal treatment of some sort?

Protections?

Like - what do you think would actually happen to a doctor or lawyer who openly identified as a dragon or angel or dog, statistically? How likely would most employers be to hire someone they knew “thinks they’re a cartoon character”? How quickly do you think I’d get fired for “inappropriate, unprofessional behavior” for the crime of wearing scale makeup and horns to express my draconity, hypothetically? (Because I can say with confidence that it’d be pretty fucking fast.) Never mind if we stopped presenting as a singlet. They barely know we exist and don’t really understand that we’re not just furries, and already they’re trying to pass laws banning nonhuman self-expression in schools and the like. It absolutely is out there, unfortunately.

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