"Is Your Humanity Alterhuman?"

Written by Machina on May 13th, 2025.

This post was written in response to a question by Sora/leo9ish (@through-lines) on Tumblr:

Actually, I’m curious—do individuals who are both nonhuman and human consider their human identity orthohuman (i.e. Not Alterhuman)?

I technically am also human and nonhuman, but my human identity is firmly rooted in my fictionkinity. Most folk I see talk about being human in relation to their “current” self or body or what have you—not a ‘type, like mine is.

So while my humanity is unambiguously alterhuman (depending on who you ask), the same doesn’t clearly hold up for others.

But does being nonhuman affect your humanity? Do you consider your humanity a part of your alterhuman identity?

We wrote a detailed enough answer that it gets its own spot in the writing archive.

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