There Is Pain In This World But Not At This Con

June 7th, 2024

Friday, June 7 at 6:00 PM EST
Presented as part of the Furality Umbra conference in VR

What can the furry fandom teach the wider world about safety, community, and resilience? Ån (Systems Design Lead at VRChat) and Shibco (co-founder of New Design Congress) lead a conversation about how the social and technical savvy of furries has created a "third space" between the digital and physical, in stark opposition to the doomscrolling mainstream.

• The Para-Real | “It’s Weird, Okay!? I Get It’s Weird!”: Embodying the Self in the Para-Real
  Joe Hunting's A Wider Lens followed by an interview by Shibco

• Fur & Loathing
  Nicky Woolf podcast on the 2014 Midwest Furfest chemical attack.

• Nov 2023: Fur/Help on Dogpatch Press
  LGBT refugees seek asylum with FUR/HELP while Russia limits human rights

• On Furry by yerf / Yerfology
  One of the earliest comprehensive works of independent reflective scholarship on furry.

• Further reading: A Furry Zotero
  A raw collection of papers and sources related to furry, fandom studies and social software systems.