#Cottagecore Tik Tok and Queer Ecology
Last year, I bit the bullet that my Vine-loving millennial heart had been resisting for so long and downloaded Tik Tok, an app where users can create short-form videos organized around shared hashtags called ‘communities’. Immediately, I was enamored by the #cottagecore community – its gentle pastural aesthetic full of users who seemingly spend their days in pastel-decorated cabins, take long walks through the woods to forage for flowers and other goods, and bake rustic yet g