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We can belong to several aesthetics at once: clean girl in the morning, dark academia at night. Is this 'fragmentation of identity' a richness, or another name for never fully belonging to any of the parts?
— video essay topic; 'hyper-compartmentalization of identity' (JELCS research)
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