Publications and Documents

Zines

While I will continue to update this page, I encourage anyone interested in zines to check out the Alterhuman Zine Archive.

Inky Paws #1
Inky Paws #2
Modern Draconity
Psychopompous
Dragon On The Court
HowlCon 2025 Kinsona Zine
My Fur Is Not Your Coat
Nonhuman Unity Zine
The Science of Nonhumanity
Species Affirming Body Mods
How to Microchip Your Pet Puppygirl
An Intro to Therianthropy
Therionyms & Therioilleism
An Intro to Therianthropy

Alterhuman Minizine Jam

Dedicated tag for the event
RUN, DOG, RUN
I Never Knew That I Could be Seen
A Long Time Ago
The Stars Were Made For Falling
Uncreature
Texere
Like Them
On My Experience of Being a Flame Dragon
An Intro to Plurality
While You Were Away
Midnight
Blob
Nonhumanity: On Reasons Why | Euphoria: A Transgeder/Transspecies Zine
To Make a Me
Adventure the Cat
Lighting the Path

Books

GOODBEAST

Academic Publications

Nonhumans are often misrepresented in academia. If the author is not nonhuman themselves, tread carefully. This is primarily about Devin Proctor. I'm adding his stuff, but that doesn't mean I (or most in the community) think it's good or accurate.

Therianthropy in UK Media 2024: A Qualitative Content Analysis
Recent Activity within Popular YouTube Search Results for "therian"
On Being Non-Human: Otherkin Identification and Virtual Space

Surveys

This section is incomplete and is still being updated.

Special thanks to Page Shepard, Orion Scribner, and House of Chimeras for putting most of these together in "So You Want To Run A Community Survey". Please see their essay for more information on these surveys.

THE GREAT AHWW SURVEY! - Feb 20, 1996
A Field Guide to Otherkin - Sep 14, 2005 Survey by Kinfo - 2005 (results unavaliable)
International Furry Survey: Summer 2011
Anthrocon 2012 & IARP 2-Year Summary
Therian Census - Aug 13, 2013 (results unavailable)
Kinmunity Research: 2016 Otherkin Community Survey (results publically unavailable)
Kinmunity Survey - Sep 12, 2017 (results unavailable)
Otherkin, Therian, and Related Survey - April 2, 2019
Alterhuman survey - Dec 18, 2013
Alterhumanity & gender survey - April 6, 2019
A Homestuck Kin Survey- May 21, 2019
Otherkin and System Survey - March 19, 2020
Therianthropy and Gender Experience - May 31, 2020
Species Dysphoria Within Alterhumans (therian/otherkin/kith etc) - October 15, 2020
General alterhuman survey - Oct 18, 2020
Alterhuman and Sexuality Survey - 2020
Therian Community Survey #1 - Feb 25, 2021
The Feelings Surrounding the Words ‘Species Dysphoria’ & ‘Transspecies’ Survey - Aug 13, 2021
POC Survey - Aug 24, 2021
General 'Heartedness Survey - Aug 9, 2021
Robot/machine-identified individuals - Jan 21, 2022 (results unavailable)
Otherkind Survey #1 - April 4, 2022
Otherkind Survey #2 - April 14, 2022
Otherkin Survey - June 24, 2022
On the Fall - Date unknown
Alterhuman/Kin Survey - Date unknown (results unavailable)
Community views on the Simple Intro to Otherkin - Date Unknown

Timelines

Otherkin Timeline
A Timeline of the Alterhuman Community
Timeline of the Transspecies Community
Timeline of the Fictionkin Community
Timeline of the Unicorn Community
Timeline of the Therianthrope Community
Timeline of the Fictionkin Community
History of the term Animal Hearted

Other

ANIMAL Literary Magazine
Theri There
I am Dog(s)
Archived Kinmunity Library
Otherkin Lexicon
Jafira's Draconity / Otherkin Guide