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    "pk": 64534,
    "title": "Is There Room for Queer Chaos at Yazeba’s?",
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    "abstract": "This article explores the aesthetic and philosophical tensions embedded in Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast, a narrative tabletop role-playing game that centers on queer domesticity, found family, and emotional intimacy. Drawing from a personal gameplay experience and broader theoretical frameworks, the essay interrogates how the game’s cozy aesthetic might both invite and constrain queer play. While Yazeba’s champions narrative openness and queergaming practices such as character sharing and metagaming, some of its visual and tonal cues may inadvertently domesticate queerness into normative forms of comfort and stability. Through the lens of aesthetic philosophy and queer theory, the article engages the works of Bachelard, Kant, Adorno, Muñoz, and Halberstam to question whether comfort-centered design can flatten the volatile, messy, and dissonant dimensions of queer experience.",
    "language": "eng",
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            "word": "TTRPG"
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            "word": "Yazeba’s"
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            "word": "aesthetics"
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        {
            "word": "disidentification"
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            "word": "cozy games"
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            "word": "queergaming"
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        {
            "word": "queer failure"
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        {
            "word": "queer chaos"
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            "first_name": "Susan",
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            "last_name": "Haarman",
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            "institution": "Loyola University Chicago",
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    "date_published": "2025-07-04T09:01:00Z",
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