How We Chat
We use Signal (a free, secure messaging app) for all our community chat spaces – you’ll need to download it to join in!
Our community thrives on face-to-face connections, using online spaces mainly to plan our next adventures and keep in touch. We’ve got several chat spaces running independently, but our mod team stays connected across them all to share info and help each other out. It’s a pretty chill setup that lets each space do its own thing while still staying linked to the bigger picture.
Start Here
🧿 Welcome Portal
Introduce yourself & get to know us.
New members: Open to All
🔔 Events & Announcements
A no-chat space for daily reminders about upcoming events, birthdays, and important community announcements.
Additionally, new fae are encouraged to learn how to get the address to a faerie house, and to understand the room’s seasonal zhuzh.
New members: Open to All
Complete Directory
Note: activity in chat rooms varies. Some, like All Topics, are constantly buzzing, and we recommend using Signal’s mute feature if the notifications get overwhelming. Other chats may lie dormant for long stretches. If you’re drawn to one of those quieter spaces, don’t be shy: spark a conversation! Your curiosity & intentions might just help new flowers bloom in that garden.
🗣️ All Topics Chat
For the discussion of all topics, including heavy & difficult subjects which may be triggering
New members: Approval Required [Welcome Portal Verification]
⚡️ High activity space, muting notifications (for this chat room) recommended
🗣️ Light Chat
For the discussion of all topics, but please avoid heavy & difficult subjects which may be triggering
New members: Approval Required [Welcome Portal Verification]
✊🏿 BIPOC Autonomous Chat
For BIPOC folks in Chicago. Any BIPOC person in the community is welcome! White allies: please respect our autonomy and need for our own space.
New members: Approval Required [IRL Verification]
🏛️ Mutual Exchange Agora
Chicagoland fae give-away, sell, trade, and more
New members: Approval Required [IRL Verification]
🌙 Witch Café
All things witchcraft, magic, spiritual, occult, and mystical
New members: Approval Required [IRL Verification]
❌ Back Room XXX [+18 only]
Sex-positive chat space, what’s posted here, stays here. Posts auto-disappear after 3 days. All pics & videos require a CW.
New members: Approval Required [IRL Verification]
📷 Oracle’s Overnight Photo
A no-chat drop zone for faerie party & event photos taken on the pass-around cameras. Consent from all people in a photo is required to share that photo in chat, or on social media.
New members: Approval Required [IRL Verification]
🥄 Slurp!
For sharing homemade, short-form videos (90 sec or less) to entertain & delight (think TikTok meets Cosmic Soup). Posts auto-disappear after 3 days.
New members: Approval Required [Welcome Portal Verification]
🎵 Singing Circle
Come sing with us! All skill levels welcome. Bring a song to share if you’d like.
New members: Open to All
✡️ Queer Beach Shabbat
Weekly (during the summer) 5:30pm – Dark @ Hollywood Beach. Open to all, no Jewish ritual or experience necessary. Non-Zionist space. Queer, not exclusive to faerie.
New members: Open to All
🌊 Hollywood Beach Chat
To let folks know when you’ll be at the beach, and encouraging others to join you for a kiki on the sand
New members: Open to All
🎬 Seeing Movies
New members: Approval Required [Welcome Portal Verification]
💫 Cosmic Soup! Kitchen
Faerie variety show. For those who want to perform, or work backstage.
New members: Approval Required [IRL Verification]
💞 Virtual Heart Circle
Like Heart Circle, but all digital! Please review the 💞 Virtual Heart Circle Guidelines before joining.
New members: Approval Required [IRL Verification]
🎧 FaeSMR (Faerie ASMR)
New members: Approval Required [Welcome Portal Verification]
💃 Burlesque Minus Cher
New members: Approval Required [IRL Verification]
1️⃣ View Once XXX [+18 only]
Sex-positive chat space, what’s posted here, stays here. Posts auto-disappear after 3 days. All pics & videos must be view-once, and require a CW.
New members: Approval Required [IRL Verification]
⛓ Kinky Workshop Interest
New members: Approval Required [IRL Verification]
New Member Guidelines
For the community’s safety, the moderators of some Chi Rad Fae chat rooms require new members to be verified prior to joining:
Welcome Portal Verification
New members must introduce themselves, and pass through the 🧿 Welcome Portal, or be vouched for by an active local fae, before they’re granted access to these rooms.
IRL Verification
New members must have met a moderator in-person, or other active local faerie (who can vouch for them), before they’re granted access to these rooms.
Event Verification
New members must have met one-or-more active local faeries (who can vouch for them) at a local event, before they’re granted access to these rooms.
Open to All
These rooms do not require verification prior to joining.