GLAM is only for those who will Work It.

(1) To merely appear GLAM is not enough. If one engages the language of fashion only visually without copping the attitude required to communicate the irreverent aspect which is essential to GLAM, whatever subversive potential is present is rendered inneffective. (2) The individual who can be gazed upon without engaging the viewer in a criticism of gender, class, and sexual signifiers and the ways in which they are being used is reduced to a sexual object, divested of power. (3) If is imperative that those who wish to use GLAM understand the power with which they must walk, talk, and perform in order to challenge the limitations the innocent passerby is trained to impose.