Full Talk Script: Building Real Community In The Furry Fandom

Hello, Public and Patrons!

If you got to show up to our talk at Eurofurence 2023, we are especially thankful that you made your way to this post. I'll leave the rest of this one to Sasha:

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Thank you so much to everyone who showed up to our talk at Eurofurence! This was a brand new talk that's a deeper dive into some of the topics brought up in our 'How Could We Organize in the Furry Fandom?' talk, specifically that of communication, conflict resolution, and community building.

It was in many ways the scariest talk we have ever given because of the sensitivity of the subject matter and how important it is to us! So to have one of the most enthusiastic receptions we have ever received was a real honor. We also really appreciated all the contributions offered in the Q&A.

We had multiple requests for a release of the script, so that people can review it in their own time, especially those who aren't native English speakers or have limited hearing or processing ability. Thank you for your patience as I put that together, it's now available here:

TALK SCRIPT

If you would like to see a full slideshow version with the 90+ drawings we did to accompany the slides, that's available here for patrons of any tier. (EDIT: This is where Sasha linked to my Patreon. I'll instead link to Sasha's.)  We may release the full slideshow publicly at some point in the future, but have some edits we want to do before then.

You can also catch the talk live at any furry convention we'll be attending over this next year! The talk is approved for Biggest Little Fur Con and is tentatively slated for Tuesday, October 31st at 7-9pm in the Ruby Room.

As always, we welcome feedback on our talks, including constructive criticism! Feel free to comment here, email us, etc.

And lastly, thank you again to everyone who supports our work-- we put this talk together from scratch in about six weeks, and it was probably a combined 100+ hours of work between the two of us. None of that would be possible without those of you who support our work and enable us to invest so much time and energy into these things.

We have a lot more planned on this front over the next year, so follow us here or elsewhere for future updates!

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Thanks to Sasha for writing that out. PC issues kept me from publishing this as early as I would have liked, but I'm glad we get to at least start out October on a great note over here.

Love,

-J