Teen Gothic

** Please note that i'm merely speaking about my own personal experience and not trying to diminish other people's experience within the community *\*

As someone with Iranian heritage who has been in the scene for a long time, i've never felt unwelcomed at all. I never got racist or ignorant comments thrown at me. Not in real ife, nor online. I honestly never felt like my ethnicity ever mattered. It didn't cross my mind once. And i also never felt like making my ethnicity a part of my goth identity. I was in the goth scene because i loved the music and loved the fashion and lifestyle that came with it. I have also found that out of all the alt scenes, goths were the kindest and chillest people.

I don't know if my appearance played a part in this, as i'm someone who is already naturally quite pale and have natural dark hair. For instance, when i stopped dressing goth, some people still thought that i was a goth.

I'm honestly shocked and also saddened hearing of poc goths who don't feel confident enough in joining the community. And what makes me even more sad and especially angry is when poc goths face scrutiny from other pocs and how they're being accused of acting ''white'', these kinds of ignorant remarks seems to be specifically thrown at black goths and it makes me so sad.

Goth is universal and for everyone. From the dark and ancient mysticism, folklore and sounds coming from the Middle East, to the spooky and eerie tales and aesthetics hailing from New Orleans. Goth has found inspiration from many corners of the world.

Yeah lol

So yeah, brown goths decided to celebrate this day to support and celebrate our presence in goth community and to let people know we belong in the subculture 🙂 Goth subculture has always taken inspiration in aesthetics from desi, brown and Arab cultures, still brown people barely get any representation and often have to deal with r@cism and hate for following certain religions within goth community. So feel Free to support your favourite Brown, Desi, Arab and Middle eastern Goth artists and bands today<3

Check out these brown goth bands to celebrate Brown goth rep day~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmJ7uqe7Vv8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t–7qjX77c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE0gEep-D70

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aCUKS9y2Gc&list=PLEpfc0uyT8lBeAsUL61cd-Rkw2Wnw7xrp&index=4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54B1yuxbwk4

Spinning off of the post about non-english singing goth / adjacent bands-

I'm particularly curious about goth / post punk / darkwave / deathrock bands from around the Baltic sea, particularly around Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, etc.

I lived in Vilnius Lithuania for a quarter of a year in 2014 and fell in love. It was only after I moved away and started doing graphic design for Vampirefreaks LA that I found out Lithuania has a thriving goth subculture. I'd love to explore this more. I plan on going back someday and I would love to be more familiar wirh my music subculture in the area when I go. 🖤

Is there any goth music that’s middle eastern inspired