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@muiren @shonalika just watched this minutes ago. Reminds me of the sinister undercurrent in cottage core as discussed by Trash Discourse.
The music recs near the end of shonalika’s vid are great.

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@chipchirp @shonalika
As a musician and performing artist at the dawn of punk and goth, I was savaged for daring to express these same observations throughout the late 1970s and into the 1990s when the demands of family meant taking a corporate job.

The attached image to the left taken by my father pre-Internet, smartphones and filters, was my daily wear at the time. Despite Black musicians being foundational to punk, it was then, as now, seen as white music. And as I evolved a Goth identity inspired by Afro-Caribbean Mysticism, I did experience overt racism by Eurocentric Goths.

I'm joyous to see more dark skin and features in the life, but pained that taken as a whole, so little progress has been made over so long a time.

@chipchirp @shonalika
As a musician and performing artist at the dawn of punk and goth, I was savaged for daring to express these same observations throughout the late 1970s and into the 1990s when the demands of family meant taking a corporate job.

The attached image to the left taken by my father pre-Internet, smartphones and filters, was my daily wear at the time. Despite Black musicians being foundational to punk, it was then, as now, seen as white music. And as I evolved a Goth identity inspired...

Pam

@muiren oh hey I follow you on bsky as well.

I’ve enjoyed the music that overlaps goth heavily for decades, but had a hard time overcoming gatekeeping and of course my own internalized transphobia.

Pam

@muiren anyway, it is weird and sadly limiting for genres to become entrenched in nonsense. You made music, which is badass, it’s a shame certain people like you are made to feel as they don’t belong when they just vibin and creating things.

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