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Articles

‘Show yourself’: Indigenous ethics, Sámi cosmologies and decolonial queer pedagogies of Frozen 2

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Pages 171-185 | Received 06 Sep 2021, Accepted 16 Dec 2021, Published online: 23 Jan 2022

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