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- ↑ Telluride Association, home page
- ↑ CollegeBoard
- ↑ TASP, by Reihan Salam of The American Scene
- ↑ "The College Years of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, a Founder of Queer Theory". as.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-10.