becauseproperteaistheft:

kibbsy:

total-pukeoid:

vesuvii:

Every punk should read this. It addresses the shittiness of punks “acting poor”, which is super prevalent in punk culture. 

thanks sea! this rules and is what i’ve been thinking about a lot. stoked to read this!

^this.

The racial and class facets of the sub-urban identity are deployed by L.A. punks to re-create themselves in the image of street-smart kids who are skeptical about the trappings of bourgeois America. In doing this they hoped to tap into a more “authentic” lifestyle equivalent to “real,” “hard,” “tough,” all those qualities associated with a life on city streets-than the one they thought themselves being forced to replicate. However, it is the contradictions in punk’s practice of tapping into the aura of the Other that will be the crux of this essay. Underpinning punk’s appropriation of otherness is the theory that social categories are fluid constructs that can be accepted, rejected, or hybridized at will, and this belief disrupts the notion that identity is fixed, that there is anything natural or concrete about one’s subjectivity.

I believe we call that “Upper Crust”.

(Source: lionza, via brainguts)

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