Freedom of Form Foundation

Last year, a flawed, art house movie called 'Wolf' came out from a little known director by the name of Natalie Biancheri in a limited release before then being released more widely on multiple streaming services. It touched a subject matter very central to our purpose at the Freedom of Form Foundation. We wrote reviews and talked about it on social media, but ultimately, our feelings, particularly among those of us who feel species dysphoria the strongest, needed a more thorough opportunity to be explained. This episode of the FFF Podcast is dedicated to that. To really go into the details, we have brought in the long time Otherkin community leader, Alynna Trypnotk, and the equally experienced Therianthrope, Erin Wolfsune, to join our host Athamanatha, who a mere couple of years ago discovered their own otherkin side.

Impassioned feelings and strong language on occasion punctuate the conversation, and this is about a movie rated 'R' in the USA for the inclusion of abuse, nudity and sex, so there is an advisory of discretion and common sense in choosing who to view the referenced movie with. We do not use movie screenshots in this video slideshow for the podcast, for copyright reasons.

Video and audio editing by 'Tabs'

In a continuation from where we left off with the topic of prosthetics in episode 10, we invited one of our friends from the Otherkin community to talk about her views on arm prosthetics, how they might improve and how they interact with her life and with her spiritual perspective as an otherkin person with a deep connection to a few non-human forms, with a nod to the healing power of art.

It's our delight to talk with the inimitable and wonderful Maki Hooves.

Athamanatha Kitsune hosts and Ondrik Birb brings some interesting perspectives and questions too.

Previous episode: 

https://soundcloud.com/freedomofform/an-interview-with-temple-grandin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hk_6S19JP0&t=2s

Previous referenced episode (Interview with Professor Hugh Herr): 

https://soundcloud.com/freedomofform/fff-podcast-episode-10-prosthetics-pioneer-professor-hugh-herr 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elcmw_8WSuU

Links relevant to the discussion (all are for reference and do not count as endorsements):

Neuroprosthetics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroprosthetics

Prosthetics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosthesis

Prof. Hugh Herr:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Herr

https://www.media.mit.edu/people/hherr/overview/

Logical fallacies:

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/special-pleading

HIV mRNA vaccines:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8341208/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33562203/

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/moderna-launches-clinical-trial-of-its-mrna-based-hiv-vaccine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRNA_vaccine

Prions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion

Otherkin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherkin

Morphological Freedom:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological_freedom

Donations:

https://www.patreon.com/freedomofform

https://www.freedomofform.org/involvement/donate/ for all methods.

Our website:

https://www.freedomofform.org

Art of SpectraFox (Maki's kitsune form) by Flinters Roo https://www.furaffinity.net/user/flinters

Art of Maki Hooves getting a prosthetic limb by JenKiwi https://www.furaffinity.net/user/jenkiwi/

Art of Maki Hooves fitted with her prosthetic limb drawn by Maki Hooves (A.K.A. SpectraFox) https://www.furaffinity.net/user/spectrafox/.

Art of Athamanatha Kitsune discovering having 7 tails by Dragonfeathers https://www.deviantart.com/dragondealer. 

Ferret photos by Maki Hooves.

Numerous images sourced from internet searches are used here for humorous or informative fair-use references and are not intended to infringe upon copyright. Should you or your organisation or someone you represent object to their use, please contact the Freedom of Form Foundation first via our website so that we may come to a low cost, sensible resolution with you. Where we can, we use public domain and creative commons licensed images.

Intro and outro music: Huma Huma - Eureka

Recorded 2nd January 2022

Released 30th April 2022

The autism and animal behaviour expert, Professor Temple Grandin, kindly agreed to an online video call interview with Athamanatha Kitsune. We  cover several interesting aspects of her work and how they relate to genetics, animal behaviour, autistic traits and who has them, and coping with being different. The interview was heavily edited and sometimes goes blank while audio continues due to internet issues, but we preserved the order of the questions and answers, and did our best not to change the meaning.

Recorded 11th October 2021

It's time for another podcast episode, this is our 13th. Featuring Tyler L. Jaynes from the Humanity & Beyond podcast, along with our very own Ondrik Birb and Serathin. Continuing the 'space' theme from our 12th episode, we look at how space travel and education will fit together, and how freedom of form will help make that experience more useful. This time, our host Athamanatha Kitsune has a strange case of Unknown-Cause Microphone Echo. It's not easy to remove with our editing tools, feel free to suggest how it can be done on a minimal budget in the comments.

This episode of the Freedom of Form Foundation Podcast is brought to you by science fiction, which has the ability to increasingly transform into science fact over time; and by science facts, which are fiction no more.

This episode looks into the depths of space and how freedom of form might just save the very existence of intelligent Terran life...

Your crew for this voyage are the tea-drinking captain Athamanatha Kitsune, engineer Aleksia Vridos, mysterious multidimensional barkeeper/passenger Alynna Trypnotk, lieutenant Cammy and ensign Ondrik Birb.

  Links for your enjoyment (not exhaustive of all topics due to character limits in the description field): 

https://www.xkcd.com

https://what-if.xkcd.com/30/

https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Sunset_of_Furmankind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wzD84b7WBU - Our interview with Liz Parrish

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Exclusion_Zone

https://www.eneuro.org/content/6/2/ENEURO.0483-18.2019 - Human Magnetoreception

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4896949/ - Portable Magnetosphere

https://www.brighthubengineering.com/marine-engines-machinery/43712-what-is-degaussing-of-ships/

https://accelconf.web.cern.ch/p01/PAPERS/MPPH128.PDF - Lorentz Compensation

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/guide/universe.shtml The universe is big.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4020803 Causality cancellation

https://www.nexusaurora.org

Donations: https://www.patreon.com/freedomofform https://www.freedomofform.org/involvement for all methods.  

Our website: https://www.freedomofform.org 

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/freedomofform

Our delightful volunteer Athena has offered to bring us a regular series of short science chats to complement the FFF podcasts. This one's about retaining humanity and its definitions in a world with freedom of form. We've also upped our video editing game, courtesy of Tabby!

This episode of the Freedom of Form Foundation Podcast  is brought to you by clichés of mad scientists, the letters D, O, O and K  and the number 6Σ. For your lengthy peer review consideration, we have  the opinions of Biochemistry Bachelors degree educated Athamanatha  Kitsune, student Ondrik Birb and Evolutionary and Developmental Biology  PhD SiberDrac Terrian all discussing what science actually IS, whether  it's being directed towards useful endeavours and many meandering  tangents from that. There is evidence that this episode was more of a  fun chin-wag, if you want something more serious, take a look at our  previous episode in which we interviewed Professor Hugh Herr.

Links for your enjoyment:

XKCD on Automation:

Morphological Freedom:

Donations:

Our website:

Twitter:

Guest  appearances from images we found on the internet should be considered  'fair use' and are not intended to infringe anyone's rights. They are  purely to illustrate who it is we are talking about.

Test card image by Splash Alien.

Recorded 6th March 2021

In our tenth episode, Athamanatha Kitsune teams up with Cam Cam (not to  be confused with Cammy). With just an hour of his precious time, they  interview the rock-climber-come-prosthetics-pioneering-professor, the  one and only Hugh Herr from the MIT Media Lab. The professor provides  his thoughts on pushing the envelopes of biomechatronics, the ethics of  prosthetics, freedom of form and terrific tails...