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Cottagecore was born on Tumblr as a queer escape from heteronormativity, then became material for tradwife and ecofascist rhetoric. If the same pastoral image can be both liberating and reactionary, does an aesthetic's politics live in the image, or in whoever uses it?
— video essay topic; Polyester 'From Cottagecore to Tradwife', GNET research
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