Furry Nation: The True Story of America's Most Misunderstood Subculture

Joe Strike

Oct 2017 · Cleis Press

About this ebook

Winner of the 2017 Ursa Major Award for Best Non-Fiction Work!

Furry fandom is a recent phenomenon, but anthropomorphism is an instinct hard-wired into the human mind: the desire to see animals on a more equal footing with people. It’s existed since the beginning of time in prehistoric cave paintings, ancient gods and tribal rituals. It lives on today—not just in the sports mascots and cartoon characters we see everywhere, but in stage plays, art galleries, serious literature, performance art—and among furry fans who bring their make-believe characters to life digitally, on paper, or in the carefully crafted fursuits they wear to become the animals of their imagination.

In Furry Nation, author Joe Strike shares the very human story of the people who created furry fandom, the many forms it takes—from the joyfully public to the deeply personal— and how Furry transformed his own life.

Ratings and reviews

I feel like these authors who go out and do their research on their subjects, they tend to be very... 'Neutral'? But the great things about it is that they find clues, notes, sometimes they find things that prove that some things that 'haters' like to use as inspiration and insults are just faked lines in a theatrical play which are supposed to be jokes, fake deaths that are turned to a untrained eye of someone who doesn't know that they are at a play. From the perspective of a 'hater', we seem like a murderer who's killed someone. But it's all fake. They just don't know, and sometimes, they never want to know. It's the saddened truth of what 'anti-furrys' and 'haters' seem to see. I hope that someday we might be seen as human beings, not, for lack of better words, lesser-than-human. Stay safe, fellow furries, and for anyone else, see that we aren't all that those 'haters' say we are. ->Dragon the Furry<

I've never read the books but I'll give you a list of my favorite furries Fluke Husky Majira Strawberry Caffeine Fox Those are the only ones who's names I know but there's a whole lot more that I know and love to me furries have the best sense of humor.🐕🐶🐱🦝🐺

Really Shows What The Fandom Is About! If Your A Hater, Read This! It May Change Your Perspective On Us.

About the author

Joe Strike's articles on film, TV, animation and related topics have appeared in a variety of publications including the New York Daily News, Newsday, and the New York Press. He has been a regular contributor to the entertainment industry website Animation World Network (awn.com) since 2000 and has interviewed countless cartoon luminaries including Hayao Miyazaki, John Lasseter, Brad Bird, and Lauren Faust, creator of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Joe served as a writer/producer of on-air promotional campaigns for Bravo and the Sci-Fi Channel, where he worked with talents like Stan Lee, Ralph Bakshi and the cast of Mystery Science Theatre 3000. He has scripted the Nick Jr. TV series Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! and is the author of the kids' comedy/adventure novel The Incredible Hare.