shoplifting is obviously so important, and the way we talk about shoplifting is also really important. because: it’s a current of resistance strategies that gets traded orally among women. among men, too, to be sure, but i was thinking about how the punk men i know talk about shoplifting and it’s usually an oblique reference and something about security culture and the exchange stops. which, security culture, for sure, but also women (punx or not) almost never react that way. i have spent literally hours talking shop (as it were) with new and old (not-dude) friends about shoplifting strategy in a way that i can’t or don’t seem to with men, and i couldn’t venture as to why, necessarily (some masculinist ego-driven overblown sense of paranoia, who can say) but anyway, shoplifting is magic in my real world, which is to say, witchery.