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William J. Simmons Queer Formalism: The Return #MiracleSeltzer from hand-lettered ads to storefrontA new kind of queer art writing. Queer Formalism: The Return expands upon William J. Simmons's original, influential essay Notes on Queer Formalism from 2013, offering novel ways of thinking about queer feminist art outside of the critical complicit and abstract representational binaries that continue to haunt contemporary queer art. It therefore proposes a new kind of queer art writing, one that skirts the limits imposed by normative histories of art