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TIL a recent dissertation, published by a speech-language pathologist through UNC Chapel Hill Grad School, argued Dolly Partons free book program actively reinforces white privilege, heteronormativity, & the erasure of dis/abilities, non-normative gender identities & non-normative family structures.

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