* This brand of androgyny is a different sort from that which proliferated in hair metal, which Robert Walser reads as patriarchal and misogynistic in Running with the Devil. Joshua Gunn explores this aesthetic’s simultaneously empowering and oppressive gender politics.¹²

* The “male gothic” as a literary practice also exists, as described by Anne Williams in Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic, but instead of it being an opposite coding of the body, it concerns the panopticon of the male gaze, which she asserts (by way of Luce Irigaray) is incapable of perceiving anything genuinely outside of its maleness.

* Comte de Lautréamont, the pen name of Isidore-Lucien Ducasse, was also the inspiration behind the title of Nurse With Wound’s 1979 debut Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella.

* As just one instance of this wider event, consider the first all-female compilation record to emerge from the underground scene, 1986’s Femirama.