Spotlight: Fur Science
A lot of you may already have heard that last week, we lost a member of our furry community, Kiri. She was a writer, editor, researcher, and activist, and more than that, a spouse and friend and colleague. She is sorely missed.
FurPlanet is offering several anthologies for free in ebook format this month: CLAW 1, which she edited; Dogs of War 2, in which she has a story; ROAR Volume 9, in which she has a story. I encourage you to pick them up. I taught Kiri in one of my RAWR workshops, and I loved her writing.
But she also worked closely with IARP, the International Anthropomorphic Research Project, and co-authored their groundbreaking 2023 paper on the furry community, “FurScience: A Decade of Psychological Research on the Furry Fandom.” You can find it in PDF form here; I confess I haven’t made it all the way through yet, but it’s an amazing project and I’m so impressed that these amazing people put it together.
Kiri was of course much more than simply the work she made, and if you have the chance to hear some of the amazing stories about her life, I encourage you to listen to them from the people who knew her well. But right now, you can read the stories and research she left behind, and I think she would be well pleased with that.