dance – Thousand Year Picnic

What I Love About the Furry Fandom

I’ve been involved with the furry fandom for 23 years. It’s not a huge part of my identify…heck, lotsa my friends know nothing about it! They might know me as that dumpster diving, freegan, radical activist, hippy dancing guy. But nestled among all those other gems of joyful weirdness, it’s part of my identity too.

I wrote this article to explain, to all the “normal” people of the world…what’s the deal with furry fandom? Why does it exist? And what draws me to it, personally?

This Five Day Dance Workshop Unlocked Something Deep Inside Me

Earlier this year, I took part in Wavelength: Ways of Waves, a five day dance workshop, in the tradition of 5Rhythms. For five days straight, I danced my soul out of its prison. As crazy as it sounds, I feel like it unlocked some secret power hidden deep inside me.

The Dance That Taught Me About Being Myself: An Autistic Person’s Guide to Ecstatic Dance

I’ve been doing ecstatic dance for a year now, and it’s changed my life. I think it has the potential to change so many more lives…especially those of people on the autism spectrum.