What is this mysterious Otherkin phenomena? Here's a little 101!

There is a particular way marginalised identities are often dismissed. They are called phases, coping mechanisms, and internet subcultures. Something aesthetic, performative, or juvenile; something you’ll surely grow out of once you get a job and a sensible haircut. Therianthropy is almost always treated this way in many respects and by people from across the political spectrum. And yet UK equality law is not concerned with whether a belief is fashionable, comfortable, or legible to the majority.

The Alterhuman Archive is an ever-expanding collection of nonhuman and alterhuman-related information, writings, and creations, meant to function as a community resource and memory bank.

Folks have been getting confused about the meaning and purpose of the umbrella term and identity label "alterhuman." Often, people wrongly claim it doesn't include groups that it was originally...