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About Us
PLEASE NOTE: After 11 and a half years, the San Francisco Bay Otherkin Meetup has closed as of July 2023. We are no longer having monthly events or annual special events. Information here is in the past tense and is for historical interest only. If you have any questions, contact arethinn at mythsong dot net.
The San Francisco Bay Otherkin Meetup was a loose group of otherkin in the San Francisco Bay area who met once a month for a few hours of food/drinks/coffee and chat.
Our target audience was mythfolk. That meant mythic and theriomythic types of otherkin (otherborn, faeborn): elves, fae, sidhe, unicorns, dragons, griffins, nature spirits, angels, elementals, Tuatha De Danann, celestials, and any other kind of mythical, magical, fantastic, or spiritual non-human folk. However, cousins like therianthropes and starseeds, those who consider themselves fae-blooded or half-elven, and human "elf-friends" were welcome if they identify with a mythic and otherworldly "feel", or even just wanted to talk to some otherkin now and again.
Adults 18+ only. No unaccompanied minors. Minors could only come to meets if their parent or guardian was also present.
Our primary focus was social interaction. We were not a magical study/working group. Our aim was mainly to provide a space to hang out and talk with people whom we knew would understand the idea of having an other-than-human nature, so we could feel comfortable not having to skirt the issue whenever it might arise. Thus, discussions could vary widely at any given meetup. Sometimes we were right on topic with past lives, similarities and differences between kinds of 'kin, awakening, memories, community happenings, magical practices, et cetera; other times we wound up talking about books, RPGs, computer programming, or crafts.
Meetups were on alternating second Saturdays and second Sundays. Prior to the COVID pandemic they were held at various locations around the bay, moving each month so that everyone got a chance to have a meetup nearer to them every so often: San Francisco proper, peninsula, south bay, southeast bay (Fremont/Hayward), and northeast bay (Oakland/Berkeley). By special request we occasionally had meetups in the north bay (e.g. San Rafael) or on dates other than our usual ones. When COVID hit, we switched to using the lightweight chat platform Jitsi to hold our meetups online, and that continued until the meetup shut down in July 2023 (although our last actual meetup was in March).
For nine years running (2012-2020) we hosted a special meetup at PantheaCon on Presidents' Day weekend. We had also intended to start doing a day-trip group picnic, dubbed the Mythnic, beginning in June 2020, but this had to be put off due to COVID and in the end never occurred before the group closed.
Last updated: 8/02/2023