#kindpunk

[princessnastyaromanov]

Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao, Hoxha, and Ho Chi Minh were all very whimsical spirits

[eldorr]

Kindpunk

With symbol (left) || Without Symbol (right)

A subculture/term for those in the Otherkin community that are radically inclusive to others using the kin label, and blurring boundaries between otherkin and other kinds of alterhumanity.

Kindpunks are against gatekeeping in the kin community, whether or not one’s personally a spiritual otherkin, casual otherkin, KFF (Kin-For-Fun), kinnie, fableing, kin-related introject, extranths who identify with the label, etc. with focus primarily on otherkin experiences. Supportive of blurring between “identifying with” and “identifying as”. Kindpunks also respect the fact some spaces may be only for talking about non-chosen otherkin experiences, while others are for talking about chosen otherkin experiences. Kindpunks respect the origins of otherkin while also recognizing language changes and evolves over time, and that there has always been blurring between unchosen/chosen and identifying with/as in the alterhuman community.

Kindpunks also recognize every individual has a different experience with kinhood, and respects that. (Ex: Having many kintypes, being able to drop kins/kintypes, being unable able to drop kins/kintypes, rapid or slow (kin)shifting, unchosen otherkin sometimes having problematic characters/kintypes, current-life beliefs (such as being only partly human), a kin having a problematic source and recognizing that, complex relations with identity, having a kinlist, listening to kin playlists, having fun and/or being serious with your identity, etc)

Who's included?

Spiritual, Religious, Clinical Lycantrophy, Psychological, Blurkind, KFF, etc. All good faith self-identified otherkin/kin/kinnies are within this community. This includes ALL kinds of otherkin labels.

Other non-otherkin alterhumans/ahumans who feel connected to the otherkin community, without necessarily identifying as otherkin themself. EX: Constelic, Endels, Otherlink, Copinglink, etc. (This also includes half-kin/demi-humans, and furries who relate to experiences in the community.)

Who’s NOT included?

Alterhumans who do not identify themselves as otherkin, or adjacent to the otherkin community itself. (Do not assume someone’s otherkin/blurkind, nor assume their personal identity.)

KFF Factkin. Especially if said “kin” is currently living. You can deeply relate to someone, however you cannot BE them unless you were reborn from a past life/alternative universe. (If you are Factkin, it’s also generally good faith to specify you’re not trying to claim you’re this universe’s (currently) living counterpart. Especially if you’re neurotypical.)

KFF against serious Otherkin. Kindpunk is about solidarity. If you’re ableist/saneist/anti-alterhuman by calling serious kin (Psychological/Spiritual/etc.) delusional, you’re not kindpunk nor are you welcome in the kin community.

Otherkin who are against the use of other community terms. Kindpunk is about blurring boundaries in the community, however also respective the terms other choose to describe themselves.

You use being otherkin (and other-wise nonhuman) as an excuse to perpetrate/support pro-contact zoophilia, abuse, “consang”, racism, queermisia, etc.

Practically anyone who uses otherkin, kin, kinnie, etc. in bad faith.

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Why? My personal experience.

TDLR; Gatekeeping in the kin community directly mirroring gatekeeping/exclusionist rhetoric in other communities I’m in. The reason I coined this term is primarily because I’m against exclusion in any community (Of course respecting closed identities is also a focus point, such as indigenous and racial identities, religion-based identities, neurodiverse identities, culture/practice locked identities, etc), and my personal experience as someone who’s blurkind, I fit multiple types of alterhumanity AND otherkin (Mostly Spiritual Otherkin and KFF.)

As someone who’s queer with “contradictory” labels (and plural), every “reason” I’ve seen for excluding KFF from exploring and having fun with identity, has directly mirrored exclusionist behavior I’ve seen in the queer community. (Ex: “Using the wrong term” = invalid experience (Mirrors mspec gay discourse), Only one definition of a term is valid (Mirrors lesbian discourse), being x isn’t fun/you can’t have fun with identity (Mirrors Xenogender discourse), etc.)

My experience as blurkind, my first experience with the otherkin community was somewhat bitter, gatekeeping left and right on whether or not someone’s experience is “valid” enough to call yourself otherkin left a bitter taste in my mouth because my experience, even as my experience as kin has the origin on reincarnation, it ALSO always has had a casual due to another origin of my kin identity being for fun, whether or not I gained memories or not. For me, a lot of the “reasoning” behind exclusion in the community is the exact same as I experienced while growing up while first learning about transmed/truscum/tucute/“trender” discourse. It’s valid to take your identity in any way, whether it be serious and/or for fun.

Even though I’ve begun to use other alterhuman community terms for my experience, such as other-hearted and nonhuman in general, my first experience was with the kin label, and such holds much more prevalence in my mind versus others.

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This term was originally posted April 4th, 2022.

This term was originally coined as Kinpunk, however has been changed to Kindpunk after harassment from various sources. (Plus the fact there's apparently has already been two separate coinings of kinpunk.)

[ID] Two flags with nine horizontal stripes, the fifth stripe is the thickest, the first third seventh and last stripes are the same size, and the second fourth sixth and eight stripes are super skinny. In the middle of the first flag there's a circle that's pale egg sour white with the otherkin symbol/elven star over it, the circle is outlined on the top by light bright green, and on the bottom by persian pink. The colors from top to bottom are: dark cerulean, eastern blue, paris green, light bright green, pale egg sour white, persian pink, deep fuchsia pink, barney purple, indigo. [/End ID]

[ID] A DNI (do not interact) banner with a very faded galaxy background. On the left of the banner there’s a flag as with a rounded side, the circle inside it showing an image of a cone tornado at the end of a road, the flag being the (General) Neurodivergent flag. The rest of the image is filled with white text that reads: “DNI (Do Not Interact). Against Good Faith Self Identification Or “Contradictory” Identities, Transmed, Sysmed, Group Arospec under Acespec, Anti-Educated Self-Dx, Call Mspec identities “Bispec”, Anti-Alterhuman, Anti-Otherkin, Anti-Chronosian, Against the term Transandromisia (or similar terms), Anti Aldernic, Anti-Altersex, Pro-Contact harmful paras, TransID,  Anti-Anti, Proship, “Consang”, Anti-SFW Agere, Demonize Cluster B disorders, Anti-BLM, Anti-ACAB” [/End ID]

[thatdykepunkslut]

"Being kind is punk!!!" -person who has never heard a single story about the early punk scene or been to a show before

Like don't get me wrong, I think we should strive to be as kind as we can, but kindness has never been a tenet of punk. Like half the important bands broke up after like half a year of playing because one of the members murdered someone (usually a bandmate). Bad Brains' whole THING was "positive attitude" SPECIFICALLY as a counterpoint to the vibes of the scene.

I think this comes from the conflation of "punk" and "cool" despite the reality of punk being extremely far from the societal ideals of "coolness." Like the scene is an even mix between 50 year old alcoholics, college nerds, and homeless banjo players. I love these fucks but most of the people making edits of like that one pic of the guy letting an infant touch his battle jacket would cross the street to avoid punks in real life.

[hopepunk-humanity]

I've been wanting to start something similar to hopepunk, but I don't know if it's been coined vet?

Would you be able to let me know if you've seen anything related to “kindpunk”?

I wanna make it so that it is similar to hopepunk, in which it’s not about blindly believing kindness will solve the worlds problems but that choosing to be kind can make many lives and possibly the world a better place.

There will be more to it as well and I intend on writing a manifesto as well but I need to see if it’s been coined first, and I was hoping you might be able to let me know if you’ve seen anything

- signed anon e.r.t (he/him, also can be known by the following emotes: 🧸💌🍓 in place of a name—ert is fine as well though)

I have not seen this before, but I do think it’s consistent with what hopepunk already encompasses. Regardless, the world could always use a little more of this energy.

[tucuteboything]

I fucking love alterhumans who are between "identify with" and "identify as", I fucking love alterhumans who are fluid between the two, I fucking love alterhumans who use whatever language they want to use to convey their experience, I fucking love alterhumans that use terms that only partly define their existance

I love ya'll

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

They’re the ones who keep throwing Molotov cocktails into the dumpster as the rest of us are trying to put it out.

America is a dumpster fire and we’re all gonna die eventually. Might as well be nice to each other as long as we’re here. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[kojoty]

Hey can we stop adding the word punk to everything........... Ecopunk solarpunk emoathypunk kindpunk.... These aren't really things..... Just use the words you mean........... It's okay to just use adjectives..... You sound like a massive fucking dork trying to make your ideology seem progressive and subversive by adding 'punk' to the end of it....

[tucuteboything]

I love how anti-KFF cry about KFFers and other alterhuman terms and even some abstract in-voluntary kin terms "hurting the community" while I look into the otherkin tags to find a fucking dude medicalizing alterhumanity/otherkininty by saying it's all just pathology and that they "Respect spiritual otherkin" while in the same breath saying spiritual otherkin are just pathological kin.

Almost like if your community gatekeeps the shit out of random shit with no historical sources ever linked, it causes people to gatekeep even further and medicalize shit.

Time to call these weirdos trying to medicalize alterhumanity (+otherkinity) Altermeds/Kinmeds b/c that's literally what they are 💀

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Paraphrased from my dream, this morning:

Common "Inspirational Poster" slogan: It's not where you start, but where you go, that matters.

My Fevered Brain's Response: It's not just where you go that matters, but the path you take to get there.

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Me in July 2020: (I'm glad I wrote this dream, down, or I never would have remembered it -- I originally posted this on 30 January 2018. Apparently, there were evil Muppets and a cake-decorating contest, and militarized police, if my original tags are anything to go by.

Maybe I WILL make a inspirational poster of this.