Oh great i’m always down for a good cottage core struggle session.

I’ve been calling the queer anarchist version “commune core” instead because that’s really what it is. The driving force for it is always “I am tired of living in a society that hates me and being alienated from the products of my labor, I want to live somewhere with a bunch of my queer friends where we will be self-sustaining so that we won’t often have to interact with or be perceived by cishetero patriarchal society, and where we can more easily defend one another from reactionaries that would love the opportunity to hunt us for sport when society collapses far enough that they can do it openly without repercussions.”

I’m not into it as an ‘aesthetic’ but it is the best small-scale solution to most of my climate catastrophe and societal collapse related fears: I don’t have the space or the resources to adequately support or ensure the safety of my friends and community in a city like the one where I live, and I know that I can’t trust the current society not to throw us under the bus given the opportunity — particularly when resources are scarce — because they’ve done it a thousand times before.

The het version, cottage core, while stemming from the same alienation that occurs under capitalism, is generally less community oriented and more self-centered.