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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the various community directories on Otherkin.net, including a "list of lists", personal contacts (warning: many are out of date), gathers, etc.
A remark on conversation trends on lists and boards.
Message Boards, Chats, etc.
The otherkin community on LiveJournal
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, Fae Paradise, Embracing Mystery, Otherkin Community, Otherkin Retreat, Trueform Within, and Shadowlore.
Tysha's Dragon Forum, as you might guess, is a board specifically for dragons and draconic topics. (You have to register to see any content.)
Draconic.net is an IRC server "by dragons, for dragons" (although all are welcome).
Otherkin meetup at Meetup.com can help you find a local group to meet with every month, if one still exists near you after Meetup decided to start charging a rather substantial fee.
For those of you in the San Francisco Bay area, Carpe Noctem meets occasionally, though it is more oriented towards vampires than specifically towards otherkin.
Dancing the Endless Dream takes place annually on Memorial Day weekend (4th or 5th week of May) in southeast Texas, near Houston. (This gather may go on hiatus for 2010.)
The House Kheperu Open House is annually in the late spring or early summer in Medina (near Cleveland), Ohio. It was last held on May 29th-31st, 2009.
Oh-K Go is a gather in Ohio that was last held on August 7th-9th, 2009.
Walking the Thresholds is held each year at the beginning of June at Four Quarters Farm in southwestern Pennsylvania (this year was June 4th-7th, 2009). Its autumnal cousin, Crossing the Thresholds, will next be on September 17th-20th, 2009.
A Gathering Echo is a formerly private gather in the Houston, Texas area that will be having its first public event on September 4th-7th, 2009.
MythiCalia will next be held on September 24th-27th, 2009, in the SF Bay peninsula area of California.
KinSouth Swamp Gather is held each autumn outside of Jacksonville, Florida. Last was October 17th-19th, 2008.
Otherkin can also occasionally be found at furry conventions, such as Further Confusion or Anthrocon, or gaming, comics or sci-fi/fantasy conventions, such as DragonCon or BayCon. You might also try "faery" events like the Faerieworlds Festival in Oregon, Fairy & Human Relations Congress in Washington, or the Fairie Festival in Pennsylvania. In 2007 Lupa presented a workshop on Otherkin at PantheaCon, and I successfully found the folks behind Lost Haven (now defunct) and Otherkin Alliance at one of the parties, so we might be at pagan conventions too, just a little hard to find.