Taking the past out of the pastoral
TikTok’s queer ‘cottagecore’ culture and performative placemaking
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21877252 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathryn Ryan (0000-0003-3740-8520, American University), Antoaneta Tileva (0000-0002-2515-4781, American University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 165-176 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2055-5695 • E-ISSN: 2055-5709 |
| Publisher | Intellect (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1386/qsmpc_00077_1 |
| OpenAlex | W4312244378 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 9 |
TikTok’s ‘cottagecore’ subculture has been fertile ground for the growth of a new queer rural imaginary. Through performative elements such as food, dress, imagery and Sapphic sentiments, queer women on TikTok curate an idyllic and idealized vision of rural queer life and lay claim to it. Cottagecore as a performative practice allows queer people to revel in a fictional frontier lifestyle for their own enjoyment, without concern for its actualization. This article outlines the way in which queer TikTokers play/pretend the pioneering landscape, which previously has been dominated by hetero voices. By populating these virtual spaces and queer-coding forms of dress and performance, they claim their right to belong in frontier and pioneering narratives and figuratively, if not literally, stake claim to the rural terrain
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Frontier · Literature · Narrative · Performative utterance · Performativity · Queer · Sociology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Media, Gender, and Advertising
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |