- you don’t need to have a jacket with patches
- or army boots
- or dyed hair or piercings or tattoos
- you definitely don’t need to be skinny, white, male, cis, or straight
- all you need to do is like punk music
- don’t bother pretending to like bands you don’t; you’ll either get into them or you won’t and either way that’s okay
- if someone knocks you over in the pit and doesn’t apologise, don’t be afraid to call that fucker out
- make friends in the line for shows, you meet cool people that way
- graffiti is fine, but don’t steal shit if you don’t need it
- only you get to decide if it’s punk, fuck what anyone else says
- it’s more than okay to listen to nicki minaj now and then
- don’t worry abt being embarrassing: you are, and that’s fine
- do yourself a favour and listen to more female fronted/poc bands
- don’t let white cis men in the scene tell you shit