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Does calling someone 'you're so cottagecore' actually see them, or reduce them to a moodboard? Is aesthetic language the richest way to describe a person, or the flattest?
— video essay topic; 'identity reduced to aesthetic' discourse
practice with this topic
Set the timer (5-30 min), take 20 seconds of prep if you like, start talking. Jot your thoughts onto the sticky-note board.
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