BEASTPUNK

Being Unabashedly Animal

A wolf with its tongue out.

What is Beastpunk?

Beastpunk is a subculture/term for anyone who identifies as partially or entirely as a nonhuman creature in an integral or intrinsic way, regardless of the origin or perceived nature of their identity, and who:

  • Embraces and celebrates their nonhumanity and animality, and (if applicable) the overlap and entanglement between one's human and nonhuman identity

  • Embraces abnormal instincts and behaviors related to their own and others' nonhumanity, so long as no active harm is done to another non-consenting individual or any real life animal

  • Interacts with their nonhumanity and displays it in socially unconventional or undesirable ways, and accepts and celebrates others doing so as well

  • Revels in the history of animal-people and beast-folk in all ways known: from the alterhuman community, from mythology, and from cultural or spiritual backgrounds relevant to the person in question

  • Throws respectability politics into the dumpster, lights it on fire, and dances around the burning corpse of the god "Cringe" in the moonlight

  • Is, unabashedly and genuinely, animal

Who can use Beastpunk?

This term is meant to be a reclamation of animalistic nonhuman identity, especially regarding individuals who may experience their nonhumanity in eccentric, "feral," or otherwise socially unacceptable or even stigmatized ways.Beastpunk is open to endels, clinical lycanthropes, and others who experience nonhumanity in ways related to their mental health and physical bodies, although it is not open to self-identified p-shifters and p-shifter packs.Fictherians and fictional nonhuman creatures are also included in Beastpunk, which is meant to be explicitly pro-fictionkin and fiction-based identities; theriomythics, folcintera, and mythkin are also included in Beastpunk. Any and all nonhuman creatures, regardless of source or origin, are included.Anyone who's ever been told that their animality is "too much," or that they're taking their identity as a nonhuman creature "too seriously," or who has lost previous words/groups they've used to define themself due to terminological drift, KFF appropriation and re-defining, or others gatekeeping their identity's authenticity is welcome to take up this term. Because of this, Beastpunk is not open to self-identified "Kin-for-fun"-ers nor any other anti-otherkin and anti-fictionkin groups.Although Beastpunk promotes the acceptance of nonhuman instincts and behavoirs, it is not for self-identified "zootherians," "zoosexuals," "zetas," and similar pro-bestiality identities, because being Beastpunk NEVER includes celebrating or supporting intentional, unecessary harm to another non-consenting individual or any real life animal.

Beastpunk Resources

BEASTPUNK: Being Unabashedly Animal: Page's introductionary piece defining and explaining Beastpunk.

A gray flag with three diagonal black stripes. The center-most stripe includes the moon cycle in white.

The Beastpunk flag is a gray flag with three diagonal black stripes. The center-most stripe includes the moon cycle in white.Monochrome coloring is colorblind-friendly and accessible. It represents the presentation of a single color in different values and intensity: something that always remains the same fundamental color, while simultaneously able to be viewed as drastically different depending on compounding factors. Nonhumanity for many is like
this, something that is both foundational while never necessarily being wholly static in presentation or perception.The use of the moon cycle on black stripes is meant to harken back to tales of werewolves and the early Were community, with the black of the stripe representing the night sky. The three diagonal black stripes are also meant to reference back the to the three arrows often used as a symbol of political resistance against Nazism, as all forms of punk are inherently against fascist ideology and Beastpunk is no different.“Beastpunk” arose as inspired from the word “beastfolk” that came from discussions in the OtherConnect Discord server and was inspired by Anomaly’s original coining of the term “kinpunk.”