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https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/rsz_nd_102_episode_image.png428428“Queer theory in general spoke to me in an embodied way, beyond its important theoretical work, because it revealed for me that beautiful sentences matter and that they can be critical aspects of the reading experience.”