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Happening now: Anthrocon and Room Party show at Bunker Projects, 5106 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh

Anthrocon has competitors for the world’s biggest furry convention, but is unsurpassed in other ways. Their street parade is a wonder of the furry world, uniquely partnered with Pittsburgh and swarmed by cheering residents on a blocked off city street.

Fursuiters make public image by flaunting millions in art at such events, but it’s also about the artists. They’re enjoying how Pittsburgh welcomes furries like nowhere else, with their own art show at a gallery apart from the con.

SEE ROOM PARTY: http://room-party.com. The show has a 6-week run with film screenings, workshops, and informal art-making gatherings. Curators include Brett Hanover (previously in furry news with his movie Rukus.) Brett sent info:

Room Party is the first-ever large-scale group exhibition of contemporary and experimental furry art, featuring over 50 artists working in drawing and painting, comics, photography, installation, video, and new media. Curated by furry artists Lane Lincecum, Brett Hanover, Cass Dickenson, and Paul Peng, Room Party takes its name from the unofficial hotel room parties held during conventions—embodied virtual realities where furries try on unimagined identities, invent new sexualities and artistic expressions, and discover alternative ways of being known. Room Party brings the love and creativity of these events to Pittsburgh’s Bunker Projects, putting furry artists in conversation with the fine art world, the broader queer community, and the contemporary moment.

Mainstream media is cranking out Anthrocon headlines. You can find those on nonfurry channels, but they probably won’t show you all the unique meetings with characters on the scene, like the time Patch O’Furr met a drag queen film maker on a Pittsburgh street corner who was looking for a furry boyfriend.

Furries are on NPR, no matter what the White House wants: new Close All Tabs podcast

Close All Tabs goes “inside the world of furry funerals” for their podcast about internet culture, on KQED, the San Francisco Bay Area’s NPR channel. Host Morgan Sung interviewed Changa Husky and Patch O’Furr about how furries memorialize members who have passed: How the Furry Fandom Says Goodbye.

The show was originally going to feature a certain furry project, until they learned it was corrupt from evidence at Dogpatch Press. Setting it aside and reading the site led them to 2024’s Your fursona has an afterlife: Online community has unique ways to memorialize. That became the new show – proof that hiding bad things doesn’t make good things, and reporting everything can do more good.

Furries are on the Republicans list of “woke” things to attack. A 2025 White House press release put a furry story on a list of media from NPR and PBS as a reason to strip their funding. Hiding from hate won’t stop it; putting this on NPR looks like being an ally to defy bad government.

Public image and The Furry Detectives docuseries trailer from AMC+ 

The Furry Detectives 4-episode true crime docuseries goes public on July 17. Since it was announced in April, Dogpatch Press attended the June theater premiere in New York and saw the show. (Review: all furry viewers agreed it was great and handled a loaded story with skill.)

The show features community members who report abusers, and the exposure of an abuse ring in 2018. The story is current because in 2025, most of the same abusers are still active without consequences. It’s the tip of an iceberg; there are corrupt people involved who hold community influence today, who held it in the 1990’s before the media said anything. This timeline shows the futility of blaming the media for causing bad image, when exposure is how to get to the root of it.

• Soatok’s blog: Furries Need To Learn That Sunlight Is The Best Disinfectant

Being part of society includes the full spectrum of human behavior, and showing it all doesn’t remove the good parts. Remember, The Fandom is a very positive documentary that just turned 5 years old.

More politics and crime news, for a good reason

One complication of putting sunlight on problems is when right-wing bad actors scapegoat furries to throw shade on them for political gain. It’s like two ships passing in the night: REAL problems need attention within, while FAKE ones are invented without.

Furries are on the “woke” attack list of some Republicans in Colorado, who sued a journalist and news outlet for reporting about those attacks. Good news: a Colorado court just dismissed the Republican’s libel lawsuit.

• Colorado’s appeals court dismisses defamation lawsuit over article about ‘furries’ discussion

Here’s a big story that such interference does nothing to help, but never the less is getting progress.

In 2020, an extreme abuser emerged out of furry fandom to target its members. Krystal Scott tortured and killed animals on video to shock them, earning the label “Omegle Cat Killer”, until she was caught and convicted in Indiana. Scott was in federal prison for a few years, then released. Rehabilitation failed and in June 2025, Scott was caught doing the same crimes again.

• Original 2021 story (Updated) The Omegle Cat Killer: A true crime tale of stopping online animal abuse
• June 2025: Woman on federal probation for ‘animal crushing’ found with dogs, cats in Fountain Square
• July 3: Gruesome details of what she was doing.
• July 4: New Animal Cruelty Charges for Woman with Violent History

As long ago as 2019, furry Bewares had first raised alarm about Scott, a year before she got wider notice. She was doing serious crimes that the police didn’t take seriously at first. After Scott went back to the same behavior in 2025, an alert citizen made incredible effort to get her caught and save a lot of animals. The value of reporting it is to help stop the next such incident with the power of community.

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