Cemetery Confessions: Goth's Phantasmagoria: It's About Community

The Belfry Network

May 02, 2025•2 hr 8 min

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Episode description

Phantasmagoria, noun a bizarre or fantastic combination, collection, or assemblage

On this episode we chat with Sondra about the connections between the Metal and Goth subculture, why the internet is so upset about ‘fake goth girls’, practical goth fashion, how meaning emerges from community and more!

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Intro: 00:00

WitchHands 2:15

Metal and Goth 5:45

Salem 21:00

Thrifting and Practical Fashion 39:45

Fetishizing Goth 1:00:00

Community 1:18:00

Feedback 1:31:00

Sinister Suggestions 1:50:30

References:-Open Casket -Foxblood -TommyVowles -Die With Your Boots On -Ossuary of Salem -Midnight Hour -Mode Brutal -Junkyard Bat -Bone and Busk -Luciferotica -Dark Angel Co -Shrine -Ipso Facto -Dark Garden -Blackmoon Castle -Never Trust the Algorithm -We Have a Technical -The Harm of Fast Fashion -More Harm from Fast Fashion -Feminists for Sex Workers -Art of Inconvenience -Political Significance of Inconvenience -The Epidemic of Escapism

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