People Go Goth Because They’re Trying To Look For Intimacy.

let's unpack that.

I was reading Alice Sparkly Cat's Blog and she said something so profound I spent days thinking about it. “People go goth because they’re trying to look for intimacy”. I have never experienced a statement that really moved me like this one did. As a young girl, I had stumbled across an emo/goth phase in middle school that continued throughout high school. I remember hanging out at a friend’s house listening to Evanescence and the trips to the mall to shop at Hot Topic. I remember when black became my go to color, and I couldn’t leave the house without wearing my suspenders. The first thing I learned to do was draw on my black eyeliner, it was a fundamental part of my identity. I was attempting to find my place.

The Goth Subculture is both a music-based art and an identity. The subculture would draw from many art, literature and mythological traditions. As it developed over the last hundred and twenty-four years, it’s become synonymous with all things eerie, dark, mystical and complex …