"A Women's Thing" article about Furries, starring me.
10 years ago
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Click Once a Day to Feed a Stray! So, I kept this under total and complete wraps except from a few of my furry FB group co-Admins, because I know how much the fandom loves the media, BUT a few months back an old friend from high school approached me about doing an interview for a quarterly paper she works for called "A Women's Thing"; the theme of the issue was "Play", and after seeing all of my Facebook posts about the fandom and fur suiting and etc, she thought it would fit in perfectly with the theme.
So we did the interview at a Starbucks, we must have talked for an hour or more just about furry itself (and another two hours spent catching up on life since high school.) A few days later she texted me saying her editor thought it would be amazing to get photos as well, and so on a beautiful 80 degree day I spent three hours dancing around a rooftop in Brooklyn both in and out for fursuit, for a total of almost 600 pictures.
I just received the issue in the mail today - the article came out AMAZING. It shines such a great light on Furries, debunks the myth that all we do is have sex in costume, and focuses a lot on the warm, welcoming nature of the community and all the fun of fur meets, conventions, and fursuiting.
I have to see if I can get permission to post the article here - they ended up not using pictures of my human self, but the title page of the article has a great picture of me in the Ralph suit. But forget about me, really - the article is just so great. More than I could have hoped for.
So stay tuned, if I get the ok to post the article here I will (since their site is a subscription one I believe.) And hopefully if and when that happens, you guys will love it as much as I do.
So we did the interview at a Starbucks, we must have talked for an hour or more just about furry itself (and another two hours spent catching up on life since high school.) A few days later she texted me saying her editor thought it would be amazing to get photos as well, and so on a beautiful 80 degree day I spent three hours dancing around a rooftop in Brooklyn both in and out for fursuit, for a total of almost 600 pictures.
I just received the issue in the mail today - the article came out AMAZING. It shines such a great light on Furries, debunks the myth that all we do is have sex in costume, and focuses a lot on the warm, welcoming nature of the community and all the fun of fur meets, conventions, and fursuiting.
I have to see if I can get permission to post the article here - they ended up not using pictures of my human self, but the title page of the article has a great picture of me in the Ralph suit. But forget about me, really - the article is just so great. More than I could have hoped for.
So stay tuned, if I get the ok to post the article here I will (since their site is a subscription one I believe.) And hopefully if and when that happens, you guys will love it as much as I do.
KateWalker

~takewalker
WOOT
Gadas
~gadas
Well damn that's good to hear, I wanna read it now. Gimme!
Lysozyme
~lysozyme
rabbi-tom
~rabbi-tom
Excellent, as long as they don't Vanity Fair the article, this will be Golden.
jargon-kitty
~jargon-kitty
Aww, that's awesome! Hope we get to read it soon! ^w^
SebiaCee
~raptorc
Impressive
KyleTheWeasel
~kyletheweasel
Neato!
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