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Furry Studies @furrystudies.org · 01/11/2025

That’s a wrap on Furry Studies 2025!! Tears of joy pouring from our tired brains. So much love for all our presenters and attendees. Hoot hoot and happy Halloween everyfurry! 🥰🥰🥰

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Furry Studies @furrystudies.org · 01/11/2025

Such an amazing discussion in panel 3. We’re on the home stretch now, get ready for our artist panel discussion, the last programming for Furry Studies 2025!! 😭🥳😭🥳😭

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Furry Studies @furrystudies.org · 24/10/2025

The conference is just around the corner! Here is another highlight of one of our wonderful presenters, Eduardo Lactaoen. We asked our presenters to tell us a little bit about their experience with furry for these posts. Tune in on October 31st to see their amazing work at our conference!

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Furry Studies @furrystudies.org · 21/10/2025

We are so honored to be hosting @vinson.infurnation.com as our keynote speaker this year. Look forward to his keynote address kicking off our conference at 9:15am PST on October 31st!

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Furry Studies @furrystudies.org · 19/10/2025

And now for our second mod for the panel, and the final member of the panel session - Tommy Bruce (@attyboy.bsky.social)!

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Text: Tommy Bruce is an artist based in Portland, OR. His work explores the formation of identity through work with the furry community. His work has been exhibited at galleries across the United States and internationally. He has advocated for the value of the furry community through public presentations, exhibitions. and programming for more than a decade.

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Furry Studies @furrystudies.org · 19/10/2025

We aren't done yet though! No panel worth its salt would go anywhere without moderators. So, say hi to the first of two mods for the Artist Panel Discussion - Brett Hanover (@lordpook.bsky.social)!

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Text: Brett Hanover (Auryn) is a filmmaker and new media artist whose work explores neurodiversity, queer virtual communities, and transformation. Their films have been exhibited at venues including the SXSW Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, Cinematheque Francaise, and many furry cons and DIY spaces. Hanover recently co-curated Room Party, a group exhibition of contemporary and experimental furry art, at Bunker Projects in Pittsburgh. They currently teach digital art and photography at the University of Memphis.

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Furry Studies @furrystudies.org · 18/10/2025

The fourth panelist for our Artist Panel Discussion session, and perfectly rounding off our quartet of panelists, is outsidewolves (@outsidewolves.bsky.social)!

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Text: "outsidewolves" is the nom de fur of Jesse England, an interdisciplinary artist from Portland, Oregon, USA. His artwork exists both in the field of contemporary media art and in the realm of furry comics and illustration. Both areas of expression seem to be slowly converging.

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Furry Studies @furrystudies.org · 17/10/2025

The third artist joining the Panel Discussion is also the one behind the redesign of our mascot, Minerva, for this years conference! That’s right, it’s Zephyr Kim (@notyet-here.bsky.social)!

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Text: Zephyr Kim is a Korean-American visual artist based in Portland, OR. He earned a BFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2023. In 2024 they founded Animal-in-Residence, an artist residency program in Portland, OR that serves emerging artists working at the intersection of contemporary art and furry subculture.

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Furry Studies @furrystudies.org · 15/10/2025

The second incredible artist joining the Panel Discussion is none other than Julia (@cat09tails.bsky.social)!

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Text: Julia (CAT09TAILS) makes funny comics about being a transsexual lesbian stoner dog woman. She's the star of a cartoon "Julia, the cartoon". Her secret is that she knows how to have fun.

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Furry Studies @furrystudies.org · 14/10/2025

Time to say hi to the first of the four panelists of the Furry Artist Panel Discussion - Glopossom (@glopossum.com)!

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Text: Glopossom is a Seattle-based furry comic artist and illustrator whose work mostly focuses on queer sexuality, kink, and the trans experience. She has been an active and enthusiastic member of the furry community for nearly 20 years, and drawing for as long as she can remember! Beyond comics, Glopossom dabbles in illustration, painting, product design, ceramics, and music production.

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Furry Studies @furrystudies.org · 13/10/2025

More highlights? More highlights! Over the next few days, we're going to shout out the amazing artists joining us for our Furry Artist Panel Discussion, happening from 5:45-7.15pm PST at our 2025 conference later this month!

Promotional graphic for "State of the Art: A Furry Artist Panel Discussion" happening on Friday October 31st at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma and Online from 5:45-7.15pm PST.
The image has pictures of the four panelists and the two moderators with the additional text: "Reserve tickets for virtual or in person conference attendance at https://furrystudies.org".

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Furry Studies @furrystudies.org · 10/10/2025

Last, but absolutely not least, from the Artist Lectures ... say hi to Lane Linecum (@uglygirlswag.bsky.social)!

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Text: Lane Linecum is a Creature currently living in Pittsburgh, PA. He is an Artist who also writes, curates, and teaches. In 2025, he co-curated Room Party, an exhibition of contemporary and experimental Furry Art at Bunker Projects, where he also completed an artist residency. Before that, Linecum operated Toxic Metal Press, a Risograph micropress for comics and zines, from 2021-2024. Outside of organising large art projects, his hobbies are practicing handicrafts, webmastery, and attending furry conventions.

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Furry Studies @furrystudies.org · 10/10/2025

Time for artist number two from our Artist Lecture session, we're thrilled to introduce you to Mark Zubrovich (@zubrovich.bsky.social)!

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Text: Mark Zubrovich is an artist living in NYC, born on Long Island. His father is a deacon in the Catholic church, and for much of his life his mother works at a corporation that made and distributed Halloween costumes. Zubrovich graduated from SUNY Purchase with their BFA in 2015, and has had solo shows with Richard Heller Gallery in Los Angeles and the James Black Gallery in Vancouver.

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Furry Studies @furrystudies.org · 09/10/2025

The first artist to be highlighted is I.V. Nuss!

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Text: I.V. Nuss is a German writer whose family grew up near one of the biggest and most beautiful nuclear plants in Russia. She won multiple awards and was most recently nominated for the prestigious WORTMELDUNGEN literature prize. Her new book R-O-N=O deals with transsexual aesthetics of death, and Furry, and was awarded the literary grand prize of the German Literature Fund.

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Furry Studies @furrystudies.org · 09/10/2025

It's not long now until #furrystudies2025 in Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma! From now until the conference, we're going to regularly share info for the speakers at the conference, starting with the first artist session!

Graphic for the Furry Studies 2025 Artist Lecture Series, happening on Friday October 31st at 1-2pm PST. It has three images of the artists with added text: "Reserve tickets for virtual or in person conference attendance at https://furrystudies.org/. Furry Studies 2025, Friday October 31st at Pacific Lutheran University".

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Furry Studies @furrystudies.org · 31/07/2025

While we’re getting the schedule in place and setting up the registration system for the conference, we thought we would share this new art for 2025 with a fresh Minerva from the amazing @notyet-here.bsky.social! Look how gorgeous they are! 😍🦉

Stylised anthropomorphic owl holding a scroll and shield with the majestic Mount Rainier in the background. The overlaid text reads: “Furry Studies 2025. Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma. 31st October.”

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Furry Studies @furrystudies.org · 18/10/2024

Good morning Rotterdam! Registration is open for Furry Studies 2024 at the Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam!

Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam photographed from the outside. There’s a small pond filled with plant life in the foreground and a modern building in the middle to background.

Picture of a screen detailing the Furry Studies Conference 2024 in Rotterdam featuring the owl mascot Minerva against a blue background.

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Furry Studies @furrystudies.org · 06/06/2024

Hello academic fluffs! We’re pleased to announce that the deadline for submissions of abstracts for Furry Studies 2024 has been extended to 24th June 2024. Plenty of time to get those ideas in!

Graphic for Furry Studies 2024 happening in Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam on 18th October.

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