#kinpunk

MOSAIC OF THE UNHUMAN:

a new alterhuman zine themed around how alterhumans express themselves through art

this edition's theme: illuminating your alterhuman identity in the way that makes most sense to you.

submissions due: November 20th

submit to [email protected]

to be uploaded to itch.io for free

GIVE US YOUR BAD ART. WE WANT IT!

GENDER AND SPECIES EUPHORIA IN ONE GO, BIG WAGS

Also face reveal I guess? Howdy! :P

With symbol (left) || Without Symbol (right)

A subculture/term for those in the Otherkin community that are radically inclusive to others using the kin label, and blurring boundaries between otherkin and other kinds of alterhumanity.

Kindpunks are against gatekeeping in the kin community, whether or not one’s personally a spiritual otherkin, casual otherkin, KFF (Kin-For-Fun), kinnie, fableing, kin-related introject, extranths who identify with the label, etc. with focus primarily on otherkin experiences. Supportive of blurring between “identifying with” and “identifying as”. Kindpunks also respect the fact some spaces may be only for talking about non-chosen otherkin experiences, while others are for talking about chosen otherkin experiences. Kindpunks respect the origins of otherkin while also recognizing language changes and evolves over time, and that there has always been blurring between unchosen/chosen and identifying with/as in the alterhuman community.

Kindpunks also recognize every individual has a different experience with kinhood, and respects that. (Ex: Having many kintypes, being able to drop kins/kintypes, being unable able to drop kins/kintypes, rapid or slow (kin)shifting, unchosen otherkin sometimes having problematic characters/kintypes, current-life beliefs (such as being only partly human), a kin having a problematic source and recognizing that, complex relations with identity, having a kinlist, listening to kin playlists, having fun and/or being serious with your identity, etc)

Who's included?

Spiritual, Religious, Clinical Lycantrophy, Psychological, Blurkind, KFF, etc. All good faith self-identified otherkin/kin/kinnies are within this community. This includes ALL kinds of otherkin labels.

Other non-otherkin alterhumans/ahumans who feel connected to the otherkin community, without necessarily identifying as otherkin themself. EX: Constelic, Endels, Otherlink, Copinglink, etc. (This also includes half-kin/demi-humans, and furries who relate to experiences in the community.)

Who’s NOT included?

Alterhumans who do not identify themselves as otherkin, or adjacent to the otherkin community itself. (Do not assume someone’s otherkin/blurkind, nor assume their personal identity.)

KFF Factkin. Especially if said “kin” is currently living. You can deeply relate to someone, however you cannot BE them unless you were reborn from a past life/alternative universe. (If you are Factkin, it’s also generally good faith to specify you’re not trying to claim you’re this universe’s (currently) living counterpart. Especially if you’re neurotypical.)

KFF against serious Otherkin. Kindpunk is about solidarity. If you’re ableist/saneist/anti-alterhuman by calling serious kin (Psychological/Spiritual/etc.) delusional, you’re not kindpunk nor are you welcome in the kin community.

Otherkin who are against the use of other community terms. Kindpunk is about blurring boundaries in the community, however also respective the terms other choose to describe themselves.

You use being otherkin (and other-wise nonhuman) as an excuse to perpetrate/support pro-contact zoophilia, abuse, “consang”, racism, queermisia, etc.

Practically anyone who uses otherkin, kin, kinnie, etc. in bad faith.

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Why? My personal experience.

TDLR; Gatekeeping in the kin community directly mirroring gatekeeping/exclusionist rhetoric in other communities I’m in. The reason I coined this term is primarily because I’m against exclusion in any community (Of course respecting closed identities is also a focus point, such as indigenous and racial identities, religion-based identities, neurodiverse identities, culture/practice locked identities, etc), and my personal experience as someone who’s blurkind, I fit multiple types of alterhumanity AND otherkin (Mostly Spiritual Otherkin and KFF.)

As someone who’s queer with “contradictory” labels (and plural), every “reason” I’ve seen for excluding KFF from exploring and having fun with identity, has directly mirrored exclusionist behavior I’ve seen in the queer community. (Ex: “Using the wrong term” = invalid experience (Mirrors mspec gay discourse), Only one definition of a term is valid (Mirrors lesbian discourse), being x isn’t fun/you can’t have fun with identity (Mirrors Xenogender discourse), etc.)

My experience as blurkind, my first experience with the otherkin community was somewhat bitter, gatekeeping left and right on whether or not someone’s experience is “valid” enough to call yourself otherkin left a bitter taste in my mouth because my experience, even as my experience as kin has the origin on reincarnation, it ALSO always has had a casual due to another origin of my kin identity being for fun, whether or not I gained memories or not. For me, a lot of the “reasoning” behind exclusion in the community is the exact same as I experienced while growing up while first learning about transmed/truscum/tucute/“trender” discourse. It’s valid to take your identity in any way, whether it be serious and/or for fun.

Even though I’ve begun to use other alterhuman community terms for my experience, such as other-hearted and nonhuman in general, my first experience was with the kin label, and such holds much more prevalence in my mind versus others.

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This term was originally posted April 4th, 2022.

This term was originally coined as Kinpunk, however has been changed to Kindpunk after harassment from various sources. (Plus the fact there's apparently has already been two separate coinings of kinpunk.)

[ID] Two flags with nine horizontal stripes, the fifth stripe is the thickest, the first third seventh and last stripes are the same size, and the second fourth sixth and eight stripes are super skinny. In the middle of the first flag there's a circle that's pale egg sour white with the otherkin symbol/elven star over it, the circle is outlined on the top by light bright green, and on the bottom by persian pink. The colors from top to bottom are: dark cerulean, eastern blue, paris green, light bright green, pale egg sour white, persian pink, deep fuchsia pink, barney purple, indigo. [/End ID]

Original flags by @synanthropic