If you’re online or out amongst the young people these days, you’ve seen a goth kid. Maybe they’re casual, just adhering to an all-black color palette. Maybe they go big, the teased-up bat’s nest of hair, stark-white face paint, thick dark eyeliner and contouring creating a high-contrast, high-impact look. Maybe they’re more mysterious, with a long, black jacket and quiet demeanor evoking a plague doctor or perhaps channeling some vampirism. Whatever the look, goth is in – and it’s everywhere. However, a lesser-known part of the whole shtick is actually not even about aesthetics. For most Goths, there’s a personal ethos in following the culture. Exploring where that comes from is truly the root to understanding what being “goth” is all about. Goth has always had a little punk hiding in there, and that’s why the Goth Renaissance isn’t following the typical 20-year trend cycle – it's not just a look. It’s a movement.
Policing is Anti-Queer
by Ashley Stahl When New York assemblymember Zohran Mamdani apologized this month for calling the NYPD “anti-queer,” it revealed far more about our country’s relationship to policing than it did about him. The fact that an elected official felt compelled to apologize to police for stating an obvious truth: that law enforcement has always been … Continue reading Policing is Anti-Queer
October News Briefs
The War on America Begins After the September 10 assassination of racist debate bro Charlie Kirk, the regime has gone on the offensive. An executive order declared Antifa (short for anti-fascist) a domestic terrorist organization. Trans folx have also been targeted. The regime then issued National Security Presidential Memo-7, which declares that “anti-capitalist, anti-Christian, and … Continue reading October News Briefs
America’s Mom Meddling in GarCo Custody Case
by Jacob Richards On August 25, right-wing anti-trans election denier Sherrona Bishop interviewed Garfield County parents Heather and Brent Fitzke about a recent court decision which gave temporary emergency guardianship rights of their transgender son to two local LGBTQ+ activists, on her podcast. Screen shot from Bishop's podcast/doxxing platform. The child is seventeen years old, … Continue reading America’s Mom Meddling in GarCo Custody Case
It’s Crime to be Gay!?
We have a duty to make sure that everyone regardless of race, religion, disability or sexual orientation be treated with equality. And right now, our nation, along with many other countries, is denying our human right to exist. We all must protect each other, and if any of us are not free, then none of us are free. So, I encourage you to stand up, vote, protest and live as who you truly are.
The Twilight of American Democracy
The Republican Party has, after a period of brief and impotent internal dissent, become nothing more than the political tool of Donald Trump.
Leaving a Legacy: The Revolutionist and Community Mourns the Loss of Aiden McVay
There are so many cliches that we as a society use to rationalize when people die young: “a flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long,” “only the good die young,” “they were one of God’s favorites,” “they are in a better place now,” etc, etc. And Aiden would have hated all of them.
Thousands Come Together With PRIDE
This is why pride was originally a riot. This is why we need to have pride all year round. This is why pride is important. To stand up and be brave, to be authentically ourselves, to celebrate, and have hope for the future.
Welcome to the House of Romanova
Don’t listen to all the other voices, of course take the advice. Take the love. Take the criticism. But at the end of the day, it’s your art. And there’s no definition to drag. And don’t let anyone tell you a definition to drag. And allow that grace to love yourself in every performance. Don’t be too hard on yourself.
September News Briefs
A Mesa County jury found Peters guilty on 7 out of 10 charges related to her willful breach of election security in a tinfoil-hat attempt to prove election fraud as part of the election denial movement after the 2020 election. Tina’s defense was largely paid for by Mike Lindell, the MyPillow guy, reportedly to the tune of $800,000. The lengthy trial has seen many far-right personalities flock to Grand Junction to bask in the crazy.
The Revolutionist 