Upwardly mobile goths

by tabithapotts 13th December 2007

written by tabithapotts 13th December 2007

Goths are middle class according to a Sussex University study and are likely to end up as lawyers, doctors or architects. They are also likely to carry on dressing in a Gothic fashion and retain an interest in literature and art in adult life. Despite my teenage foray into Gothdom (the land that fashion forgot) I am neither a lawyer, doctor nor an architect; what happened? Perhaps it’s because I was never brave enough to get tattoos or piercings, or dye my hair.

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Tabitha Potts is a published writer with several short stories in print anthologies as well as online. Recently she had stories long-listed for the Royal Academy Pindrop Award and the Sunderland Short Story Award, one was a Finalist in MIROnline’s Folk Tale Festival and one was Highly Commended in MIROnline’s Booker Prize Competition. She recently completed an MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck with a Merit and has a First in English Language and Literature from Oxford University. She runs Story Radio, a short story podcast, in her spare time (www.storyradio.org) and works as Head of Marketing for a publishing firm, Globe Law and Business.

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