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- ↑ Watts 2015.
- ↑ McNaughton 2011.
- ↑ Northeast Leaf 2020.
- 1 2 3 Liberatore 2020.
- ↑ Hill 2016, p. 315.
- 1 2 Sheridan 2018.
- ↑ Cushing 2007, p. 16.
- ↑ Fitzgerald Rodriguez 2015.
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Another poster from [1978] by San Francisco Bay Area artist Pat Ryan illustrates how the genre was fodder for media in the U.S. counter-culture community by appropriating classic GPCR imagery and icons and transforming it to reflect local issues.
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