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does balck have any opportunities on the queen side here?

I guess you can use the black squares counting than white doesn't have bishop.
Na5 is for example a great place for your knight; the pawn will stop to move and you will have a target on b3; also, you are preparing to open the C column. At least, with bishop and Knight you will prevent the pawns to advance and cause you more problems since you can't stop them with pawns.

Else, you can directly start a punch against the white queen with Rc8 (of course, trying to win the C column would be a great starting too)
Depending on white's move, if he doesn't move the queen, you can do a discover attack against their queen moving the knight to d4 for example, and make some threats.

So yes, from my point of view, you have some opportunities an threats on the queen side. However, you may considere than black is clearly the worst side here; black has changed a bishop for rock+2 pawns, so white has more chance to win even with some little mistakes. With this kind of advantadge, if white plays great you are lost anyway wherever side you decide to attack or defend. So, your best chances is than white blunder and you play really great against his blunders.

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