Negative0utput drew this for me in the hopes of drumming up interest in my PhD project. I'm a PhD candidate at Aberystwyth University in the department of Theatre, Film and Television studies.

I'm a twenty year Furry, doing a PhD on us (Furries) as a community. To do this, I'm conducting a series of private interviews with willing Furs around the world to gather anonymized data. The keyword being anonymized; even though I'm not asking difficult or sensational questions I want everyone's privacy to be protected. The main reason I'm doing this is because I don't agree with the portrayal Furry gets in the media and I have a lot of criticism for the alarmingly sparse amount of academic work done on our community. So far, everyone that's done an interview with me has found the experience to be fun and positive. I'm not out to make our community look bad or good, I just want to tell our stories in our words.

At the time of this posting I'm at Confuzzled. Doing what I can to gather interviews. My process is non-intrusive, I'm not interested in personal data, and everything gets anonymized before it's transcribed. If you're at Confuzzled and would like to be interviewed feel free to talk to me here on FA or in person. I've done my best to be easy to spot, and the Academic Press badge stands out pretty clearly.

If you have questions or concerns about the interview process feel free to ask or discuss it with me. I'm not above criticism, goodness knows I wouldn't be doing a PhD if I were.

For those interested, but not at Confuzzled I will also be at Anthrocon and Eurofurence this year. I will also be carrying out Skype interviews in a separate process next year.

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