Hooking Up
Feature essay published in Bitch Magazine, Summer 2006

“In a time when burgeoning cultural trends are swiftly commodified, the lifespan and quality of subcultures are both altered and truncated; nothing with even an inchoate potential for profitability remains underground for long. Folks raised on MTV, zines, and the internet have become ad execs who now have corporate resources to fund their cultural savvy for ferreting out the next happening social niche. The same phenomenon that once brought the glue-spiked hair and studded belts of a working-class music movement (punk) to chain stores in the malls of every wealthy American suburb now has Upper West Side hausfraus shelling out generous sums to enroll in striptease aerobics classes at Crunch.”