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More zine stuff!
Something I like about the rave community I'm a part of is how much the people involved in the culture vary on a personal level. Some folks have full-time jobs and own houses and others move around a lot and haven't worked for years. Some people are in their 20's and others in their 40's. Appearance is anything from super straight-laced to crust-punk. Some people have anarchist-oriented politics and other folks believe in a governmental system. Yet we all hang out together! Woo! Of any community I've been a part of, rave community feels like the most welcoming of all kinds of people, and one of the most non-secular groups that I've been in. It's all over the board. Which is awesome and frustrating all at the same time for me. I love being in a community that is so non-judgemental, but I have other personal and political needs that I have trouble getting from the rave community.
I can relate with a lot of politics around queer/punk/anarchist sub-culture. And people in those communities have done some amazing things to help disarm oppression and capitalism. But [holy crap] can those communities be secular and based a lot on appearance. Jesus christ everyone whip out your bandanas it's the radical club. There is a real specific appearance surrounding radical sub-culture that will instantly tip-off other folks in the radical club on some level; "oh, person in all black with a bandana is probably more hip with it than dude in baseball cap and sports t-shirt." Boooring. I've had a lot of amazing friends feel excluded from radical community because of that judgement. And it sucks and is kind of ironic to me to see that judgement exist in a community that is defined so often as "radical."
Man that word makes me so uncomfortable sometimes.
Something I like about the rave community I'm a part of is how much the people involved in the culture vary on a personal level. Some folks have full-time jobs and own houses and others move around a lot and haven't worked for years. Some people are in their 20's and others in their 40's. Appearance is anything from super straight-laced to crust-punk. Some people have anarchist-oriented politics and other folks believe in a governmental system. Yet we all hang out together! Woo! Of any community I've been a part of, rave community feels like the most welcoming of all kinds of people, and one of the most non-secular groups that I've been in. It's all over the board. Which is awesome and frustrating all at the same time for me. I love being in a community that is so non-judgemental, but I have other personal and political needs that I have trouble getting from the rave community.
I can relate with a lot of politics around queer/punk/anarchist sub-culture. And people in those communities have done some amazing things to help disarm oppression and capitalism. But [holy crap] can those communities be secular and based a lot on appearance. Jesus christ everyone whip out your bandanas it's the radical club. There is a real specific appearance surrounding radical sub-culture that will instantly tip-off other folks in the radical club on some level; "oh, person in all black with a bandana is probably more hip with it than dude in baseball cap and sports t-shirt." Boooring. I've had a lot of amazing friends feel excluded from radical community because of that judgement. And it sucks and is kind of ironic to me to see that judgement exist in a community that is defined so often as "radical."
Man that word makes me so uncomfortable sometimes.