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I. About this blog

Otherkin News is a collaborative, volunteer-run blog for sharing news for otherkin, therianthropes, fictionfolk, plural systems, and all sorts of alterhumans. We’ll talk about current events in our communities, and discuss newspaper articles that are about us. You can post links to news articles you've found that talk about otherkin, or new fictionkin essays that you or others have publicly posted. You can advertise here about your surveys of therianthropes, and your calls for submissions to alterhuman essay anthologies. You can share news that you've found that aren't about alterhumans but that you think are relevant to the interests and experiences of many of us. Everyone is welcome to subscribe and to submit articles to this blog.
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The site LegiScan.com is for tracking US legislation. It lets you arrange to receive email alerts for whether any new bills use keywords you're interested in. It recently notified me of a new one that mentions Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), which is a form of plurality.

General info about the bill and its main purpose: US Congress Senate Bill 2394 is for opposing the rights of transgender youth. This bill is harmful for human rights. Four Republican Senators introduced the bill on July 19, 2023: Sen. Tom Cotton (Arkansas), Sen. J.D. Vance (Ohio), Sen. Josh Hawley (Missouri), and Sen. Marco Rubio (Florida).

How the bill also involves plurality: The mention of DID happens once, on page 2, line 25: "... regardless of any medical diagnosis or indication of gender dysphoria, body dysphoria, dissociative identity disorder, or social anxiety disorder." You can see this line in the PDF of the bill as it was introduced.

Progress toward law: Currently, the bill is at 25% progression, meaning it hasn't passed yet. You can follow its progress on LegiScan here, or on the bill's US State Legislature page. If you live in the US, you can help stop bad bills from becoming laws. To learn how, look up how to provide legislative testimony.

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Content warnings: About access to abortions. Rated PG-13.

Disclaimer: For historical purposes, this article collects some recent events that have been in the news about bills and court cases. All of this is publicly available information. The writers of this article are not lawyers, and this is not legal advice. For legal advice, you must consult with your lawyer.

Summary: Michigan’s state constitution generally protects access to abortion, especially if it’s medically indicated by a physical or mental health condition. Michigan House Bill 4105 specifies some mental health conditions that would count. The list includes dissociative disorders, such as DID. This looks like it's for protecting pregnant people's access to abortion, rather than forcing them to have one, though it doesn't talk about that. Our article about this is about two pages long, including sources referenced.

[Edited to add on May 1, 2023: In the couple days since I wrote this article, my impression of this bill has changed completely. See this post's comments, where we've been exploring it. The bill was written by Republicans who call themselves pro-life. Although they wrote the bill to sound like it further protects access to abortion, it would instead place additional limits on access to abortion. In other social media platforms where we've discussed it, several readers have remarked that the bill sounds like eugenics against people who have any sort of mental health diagnosis.]( Read more... )

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Briefly, some news of interest to otherkin from 2015 that I haven't previously reported on this blog. In chronological order:

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I have an idea for how I could run this blog in a way that I hope would be efficient enough to be manageable. I could post to our Twitter about news articles as soon as I find them. Then, at the end of each month, I could post a digest to here and to our Tumblr. It would just be a collection of headlines, links, and brief summaries, rather than whole articles of original writing with complete citations. What do you think?

As always, there's a lot of news out there and I can't do this alone, so anyone who can help out by posting news links in this blog as they find them would be very much appreciated.

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Content warnings: None.
2013-12-02. Tumblr user PranaFaeryFiend wrote "Magical uses for headmates and fictionkin identities."
(Linked with the author's permission.)

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Trigger warnings: The linked article talks about mental health issues. To a lesser degree, it talks about child abuse and physical handicaps.

In BetaBeat, tech blog section of Observer.com, which is the online companion to The New York Observer, there's a new article about multiples. Reporter Jessica Roy interviewed the JC Klatch system and their housemate Mr. Verrier, the Oure Gaya system and their partner Jan, and psychiatrist Dr. Richard Baer, on what it's like to be multiple. Roy introduces multiplicity, its history, and some authors in favor of healthy multiplicity.

For no particular reason, the article mentions otherkin, just once, with a link to the Gawker article "From otherkin to transethnicity."

Source

Jessica Roy, "Me and You and Everyone We Know: The Many (Many, Many) Faces of Internet Multiples." 2013-03-07. BetaBeat (New York Observer, Observer.com). http://betabeat.com/2013/03/me-and-you-and-everyone-we-know-the-many-many-many-faces-of-internet-multiples or http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_action=doc&p_topdoc=1&p_docnum=1&p_sort=YMD_date:D&p_product=AWNB&p_text_direct-0=document_id=(%20144E5306D6004F18%20)&p_docid=144E5306D6004F18&p_theme=aggdocs&p_queryname=144E5306D6004F18&f_openurl=yes&p_nbid=C50X4BYHMTM2Mjc4NjAyNi45Njg4MTM6MTo3Om5jZDgyMzY&&p_multi=NYOB

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