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m a k i n g t h e s c e n e
See also the various community directories on Otherkin.net, including a "list of lists", personal contacts, gathers, etc.
A remark on conversation trends on lists and boards.
Message Boards, Chats, etc.
The otherkin community on LiveJournal, which I co-moderate, is not very active, but it is alive. There are also the otherkin and otherkin-haven communities on Dreamwidth, which unfortunately are very low-activity (sad, but not surprising - it's a very niche interest on a service with a much smaller userbase than LJ).
I'm more of a reader than a poster in many cases with message boards, but I can sometimes be found at Otherkin Phenomena, Otherkin Alliance, Embracing Mystery, the Dreamhart forums, Life and Pursuits of Happiness, and The Faerie Channel. Various of these have chat features attached to the boards; check individually for any scheduled chats.
I'm no longer active at Otherkin Community, Otherkin Retreat, or Shadowlore, but they're there.
I am a member of two sites on Ning, The Elfin Sisterhood (which is not just for females, despite the name) and Elven World.
'Kin Speak is a relatively new tumblr conceived as an "otherkin cork board", where anyone can anonymously post just about anything (through the submit or ask features). Tumblr has huge shortcomings in the way you cannot reply directly to people and have real threaded discussions, but this one seems to have become a thriving part of the 'kin community in that section of the net. (I would love to see more elven/faery/sidhe types over there; on tumblr especially "otherkin" seems to have become dominated by animal-kin, that is, therians.)
IRC channels to try:
irc.dal.net #otherbeings, #othercreatures, #otherkin irc.therian.net #crossroads irc.furnet.org #otherkin irc.psionicinstitute.org #otherbeings irc.ethereal-forest.net #ethereal-forest, #otherkin irc.draconic.com #draconic irc.sorcery,net #afd
(presumably a dragon channel, as the name seems to refer to alt.fan.dragons)irc.bondage.com #otherkin
Otherkin meetup at Meetup.com may possibly help you find a local group to meet with every month, if one still exists near you since Meetup decided to start charging a rather substantial monthly fee some years ago.
I am the Organizer for a San Francisco Bay Area Otherkin Meetup, which has been meeting on the second Saturday of each month. The meets have usually been in the east Bay so far, but the plan is to move it around so that everyone has a chance to have a meetup nearer to where they live.
Summer Gateways is held annually on Memorial Day weekend. It is organized in part by one of the people who used to run Dancing the Endless Dream on the same weekend. It will next be on May 25th-28th, 2012.. (See also the North Houston Otherkin Meetup page.)
The House Kheperu Open House was originally a vampire get-together but has shifted more towards general metaphysical/energy-work topics, although there are still House-specific workshops. It is held annually in Ohio in May or June, and will next be on June 8th-10th, 2012.
Walking the Thresholds is the oldest still operating 'kin gather, begun in 1998 and held annually in early to mid June at Four Quarters Farm in southwestern Pennsylvania. It was last held on June 9-12, 2011. (I haven't heard Rialian specifically talk about it yet this year, but it will probably be on the 7th-10th of June, 2012.)
A Gathering Echo is held in the Houston, Texas area, annually on Labor Day weekend. It is run by the same people as Summer Gateways. It was last held on September 2-5, 2011. (Again, see also North Houston Otherkin Meetup.)
Crossing the Thresholds, the autumnal cousin of Walking the Thresholds and held annually on the same site in Pennsylvania, was last on September 8-11, 2011.
MythiCalia was usually held in late September in the SF Bay area of California. Unfortunately, it had to be cancelled in 2011 due to a lack of registrations and the event is now on hiatus until further notice. If you are interested in possible future incarnations of this gather, I invite you to sign up for the mailing list.
Otherkin Alliance may be holding a "Kweekend" ("Kin Weekend") in 2012.
Otherkin can also sometimes be found at various other kinds of conventions, such as:
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last updated 1/17/12