sorry about the seagulls screaming in the background, it was VERY hot and I had to keep the windows open

the deep dive into the history, gatekeeping and exclusion, racism and colorism, uplifting of pallor, flirting with fascism, fetishisation and appropriation, conflicting ideologies and reality, and all-round white supremacist tendencies of the alternative/goth subculture that absolutely no-one asked for

Companion Playlist (curated by myself & Vlad Von Kitsch): [ Ссылка ]

and a second companion playlist for heavier music because why not:
[ Ссылка ]

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CHAPTERS

00:00:00 - Intro
00:03:09 - ‘Music-Based Subculture’
00:12:44 - Freaks & Femmes
00:15:28 - Part 1: Whiteness & Pallor
00:28:01 - Part 2: Innocence, Purity, & Fascism
00:43:51 - Part 3: Where Gatekeepers Go To Die
00:59:15 - Part 4: Appropriation, Appreciation, & the Racialised Experience
01:18:34 - Part 5: ‘Goth Is Goth’
01:31:44 - Outro
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LINKS

Support Me: ko-fi.com/shonalika

Social Media: (functionally only active on instagram/mastodon)

Twitter: [ Ссылка ]_
Bluesky: [ Ссылка ]
Instagram: [ Ссылка ]_
Mastodon: @shonalika@deadinsi.de

Music:

Bandcamp: [ Ссылка ]
Soundcloud: [ Ссылка ]

Podcast: [ Ссылка ] or wherever you get your podcasts ~

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