Otherkin in the Sydney Morning Herald

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Trigger warnings for this article: none that I can think of. Work-safe.

The Sydney Morning Herald (est. 1831) recently ran an article¹ about the vampire subculture’s presence on the Internet, mentioning otherkin as well. “Researcher Danielle Kirby used the ‘Otherkin’, who meet in an online forum and believe they are partially or entirely non-human, to examine the phenomenon. In her paper, she found about 800 members of the Otherkin network, including those who identified as dragons, elves, vampires, fairies and angels. The internet had helped concentrate their underlying broadly neo-pagan beliefs, she said.” This probably refers to Kirby’s essay “Alternative Worlds: Metaphysical Questing and Community amongst the Otherkin” in the anthology Through A Glass Darkly: Reflections on the Sacred.²

- O. Scribner

Sources

1.      Saffron Howden and Alicia Wood. “Dark arts take root in online church.” September 26, 2010. The Sydney Morning Herald. http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/dark-arts-take-root-in-online-church-20100925-15rl4.html

2.      Danielle Kirby. “Alternative Worlds: Metaphysical Questing and Community amongst the Otherkin.” Through A Glass Darkly: Reflections on the Sacred. Frances Di Lauro, ed. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2006.