Black Cottagecore

A lot of white lesbian cottagecore, you have to be told that it's lesbian cottagecore in order for it to register as something even slightly different than just a reenactment of a dream of white femininity from the 19th century. For me, the reason why race enters as the dominant category through which I want to interpret cottagecore is because by definition, a white woman's body cannot because of the historical association. There is a sub community within the cottagecore movement of black women doing cottagecore and it's black women embodying a kind of femininity that has been historically denied to them. So there's that kind of by valence going on here.