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"In this way, goth aims to upset those models of identity that posit selfhood as wither beneath or before the play of signs. Goths such as Willis, Melton, and Constantine grasp gender and sexuality as fashion, as style, as look — never as essence or interior. Goth identity works by means of performative affiliation — through highly stylized forms of affect-producing bricolage."

— Michael du Plessis “‘Goth Damage’ and Melancholia, Reflections on Posthuman Gothic Identities” anthologized in Goth, Undead Subculture. ed. Goodland and Bibby (2007)