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name: Straight Edge
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date_added: "2024-08-06"
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# Straight Edge

## Visual Elements


Two thick rectangular lines with clean edges crossing one another.

## Cultural Context

Straight edge is the counterculture within the counterculture — a hardcore punk movement defined by what you refuse rather than what you consume. Named after Minor Threat’s 1981 track, adherents mark themselves with an X (originally stamped on underage hands at punk shows to bar them from the bar). In a codex built around 78 drugs and altered states, the straight edge tattoo is the deliberate inversion: sobriety as rebellion. It sits in tension with everything around it, which is exactly what makes it interesting.

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## Justification

Straight edge is the counterculture within the counterculture -- a punk movement defined by what you refuse rather than what you consume. The X tattoo marks sobriety as rebellion, which inverts every assumption about rave and music subculture.
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**Dominant Colors:** Black.
**Date Added:** 2024-08-06
**Introduced By:** Jani / Tez
**Team Notes:** "straight edge" — Tez, Jul 2024, #tattoos
**Sources:**
- https://discord.com/channels/1133935527855399053/1152388368865431582/11745383081315
- https://discord.com/channels/1133935527855399053/1164327631655813160/11757503526671
- https://www.kerrang.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-straight-edge-in-2019