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How much does a new roof cost? - The roof on our home plays a crucial role in keeping us warm, dry, and safe from the elements. The lifespan of a roof can vary considerably, depending on...1 week ago
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Edition 114: Males in Women’s Jails with Brianna Pressley, Elizabeth Watson & Sekhmet SheOwl - Edition 114 features an interview with Brianna Pressley & Elizabeth Watson of WDI USA and commentary from Sekhmet SheOwl about men in women's prisons. T...2 weeks ago
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2025 - We have recorded at least 51 UK women and girls aged 13 and over who have been killed so far in 2025 in circumstances in which a man or men are primary sus...1 month ago
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“We have a much more empowered and calm school” Amazing feedback from multi-state school tour! - I’ve received some wonderful feedback following engagements with students, staff, parents and community across multiple states so far this year – I thought...2 months ago
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The Paternity of Prostitution - published by AMSA (Alternative Mobile Services Association) on February 4, 2025 I moved to Portland in 2001 as a New York liberal. Witnessing prostitution ...8 months ago
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I’m coming back. - New posts are currently making their way through my mind, but I’ll need a minute to futz around with the site. All the old posts are private until I can si...1 year ago
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Kajsa Ekis Ekman is a Marxist feminist speaking out against gender identity in Sweden - In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Kajsa Ekis Ekman, author of "The Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Woman" The post Kajsa Ek...2 years ago
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Football’s Woman Problem - I haven’t witnessed this much good old-fashioned sexism since the NoMorePage3 campaign brought all the unreconstructed thugs out of the woodwork to call us...2 years ago
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Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!4 years ago
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Missing Person Kristin Snyder: Lost in a Sea of Myths Pt 4 - Next up in our series on the The Lost Women of NXIVM mockumentary is Joseph O’Hara of Albany, NY. O'Hara was an attorney who worked for NXIVM from October...4 years ago
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Tell HUD: protect women’s single-sex shelters! - U.S. residents have until this coming Tuesday, September 22, to tell the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that it should allow shelte...5 years ago
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More than 20 questions - So you’re part of an online movement! Congratudolences. Here are some questions that the interested reader can use for private rumination. You’re welcome, ...5 years ago
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Message to the City — and the Chemo diary continues - Well, today is day, um, 7 of round four of chemo. And I’m nearly a week into my medical leave from work. So far today i took the dog for a walk, went to a ...5 years ago
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Bad Things and Very Bad Things: Feminists Working with the Religious Right - For the past few years, I have not believed that feminists associating with right wing organizations or individuals was a Bad Thing. It wasn’t something I ...5 years ago
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Voice Unheard - This post is tribute to all the exited women who write and speak out. It may appear we are shouting to the wind, but it is bringing about real and permanen...5 years ago
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On Lesbian Identity: More Than Merely A Sexual Orientation, But it Starts There - Being a Lesbian IS a legitimate identity. We created a whole worldwide culture around it. Its an entire Worldview that puts womyn first,foremost, forever. ...5 years ago
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Fuck, I’ve just realized why we need to know who the father is - https://cherryblossomlife.wordpress.com/2019/10/14/fuck-ive-just-realized-why-we-need-to-know-who-the-father-is/ Advertisements6 years ago
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Don’t trust your feelings. They are patriarchy’s strongest weapon. - Feelings come from the most basic part of our brain, the limbic system. This brain area contains many structures that not only faithfully maintain the inte...6 years ago
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When White Women Close Ranks - A brief foreword: It’s been a while since I’ve updated this series of essays on racism in the feminist movement. The racism has kept on happening, as predi...6 years ago
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My Butch Career, a memoir by Esther Newton - I was absolutely delighted to read My Butch Career, a memoir by Esther Newton. I had never heard of Newton before but I saw a recommendation for this book ...6 years ago
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Speech: the power of feminist writing - This is the text of a speech I gave at an event organised by Women Talk Back at the University of Bristol, 28 May 2019. Women Talk Back is the sole female-...6 years ago
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Gay Bars for Grownups? - This is a slightly different topic than what I usually post on. It's not on a lost place for women per se, but a place that is seemingly no longer defined ...6 years ago
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Part Two — Lesbians: “Born this Way” or Making a Choice of Pride? - Part Two Lesbians: “Born this Way” or Making a Choice of Pride? Bev Jo Once upon a time, not that long ago, women and certainly Lesbians knew the differenc...6 years ago
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International Women’s Day is a Scam - Mainstream discourse tells us that if only women would change, everything would be fine. But the first step to liberation is understanding, and there’s ver...6 years ago
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#SpaceWoC: Women of Colour Against the Sex Trade - Originally posted on Sister Outrider: A brief foreword: I believe wholeheartedly in feminist documentation. And so I have decided to write about Space Inte...6 years ago
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Tips Pesan Kaos Family Gathering Berkualitas - Mengadakan gathering bukan cuma untuk mengumpulkan orang, namun panitia harus menyiapkan tema acara dan desain kaos gathering. Pembuatan kaos biasanya meli...6 years ago
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Fixing Feminism - Who broke feminism? And how, and really, why? Is it just feminism, or is the collective fight against oppression equally broken? And isn’t that still a r...6 years ago
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The Annals of the TERF-Wars - Originally posted on Jane Clare Jones: So, yesterday this turned up in my feed, which struck me as something of an, um, mispresentation… and somehow, I end...6 years ago
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Artificial Intelligence Indeed (Ex Machina) - So I first heard of the movie Ex Machina when I read a review (by Chris DiCarlo) in Humanist Perspectives—and was so disgusted that I wrote a letter to the...6 years ago
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The Gender Recognition Act consultation proves women are not full human beings (unless they are men) - After spending many depressing hours considering my response to the recent consultation into proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act (GRA), I have c...6 years ago
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Gender Whisperers - The PM of Australia had some wise words this past month when he tweeted ‘We do not need ‘gender whisperers’ in our schools. Let kids be kids.’ ‘Gender whis...7 years ago
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Open Letter to Stonewall - Originally posted on RADLESFEM Survivor: Open Letter to Stonewall Dear Ruth Hunt Remove the L from LGBT We demand that Stonewall removes lesbians from the ...7 years ago
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Class Signifiers - Class signifiers are all around us. And people use them too, most often by the people who benefit the most. I was thinking today how simple, yet enmeshed,...7 years ago
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Pride (or Gay For a Day) - This is a joint post with Hypotaxis. Hypotaxis and I recently had dinner at a Japanese place, the kind where they seat you with a table full of strangers a...7 years ago
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Trans-Inclusive Feminism Here - All trans people everywhere are 100% welcome and even invited to do whatever they can to stop female oppression. Advertisements7 years ago
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Lesbian Visibility Day - April 26 is Lesbian Visibility Day. Let’s celebrate lesbians. We’re here, we’re lesbians, fuck off we don’t suck dick. Yep, that sounds like a celebration ...7 years ago
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Some basic questions about sex and gender for progressives - 1. Do you believe that being born with the kind of body that has the potential to gestate children – a body with a uterus, ovaries, and a vagina – is of an...7 years ago
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Of Ducks and Drakes: Male Violence Across Species - Mothers Day, several years ago, I went with a friend to feed the ducks (and possibly nutria) at a local park. It was supposed to be a pleasant excursion to...7 years ago
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I should not have to bring up your sister/mother/aunt/wife in order for you to give a fuck…. - The title of this post summarizes my thoughts whenever I have a discussion with men who seem to proudly display their ignorance about the constant attacks ...7 years ago
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‘Punch a TERF’ Rhetoric Encourages Violence Against Women - Originally posted on Sister Outrider: A brief foreword. This is the sixth of my essays on sex, gender, and sexuality. (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 available he...8 years ago
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It’s all about sex - “I just wanted to get fucked like a woman… https://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2017/05/25/the-gay-consolation-prize-by-juno-dawson/8 years ago
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What I Needed: An Open Letter to Therapists from a Detransitioner - Originally posted at Youth Trans Critical Professionals The main thing I wish were different about the therapy I received before and during my transition i...9 years ago
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Semen: Men’s Chemical War Against Women. Appendix: Compounds in Human Semen Which Alter Female Psychology, Behavior, and Physiology. - No-Skip Intro here. Part I here. Part II here. Part III here. Part IV here. Part V here. Table Source: R.L. Burch and G.G.Gallup, “The Psychobiology of S...9 years ago
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It’s ignorant and arrogant to equate the crusade to invade private spaces with the Civil Rights Movement - Guest post by Keely Emerine-Mix Under no circumstances, ever, at any time, is it appropriate to compare the legitimate, factual, courageous, moral imperati...9 years ago
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Owen Jones. Again. - In February 2015, The Guardian published a commentary by Owen Jones on gay rights charity Stonewall’s decision to campaign for trans equality. In his artic...9 years ago
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Women riders risk their lives to reach stranded horses and lead them home. - Note, that the men have already tried a mechanised approach, attempting to remove the 200 horses by boat and failing! Eighteen of the horses have already l...9 years ago
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Gaslighting Culture - Lately I am really coming to terms with the fact that patriarchy is a gaslighting culture, and for the most part, messages do not need to be true in order ...9 years ago
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Germaine Greer (UK) - Originally posted on kittybarber: Video post by @JenderFatigue. Source: Germaine Greer (UK)9 years ago
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The Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize - I was hugely honoured yesterday to be one of two women awarded the Emma Humphreys individual prize, which this year was focused on “women who have challeng...9 years ago
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Michfest Was - Michfest was many things to many people. This is a goodbye. It was a haven. It was a cocoon. It was a place of healing. It was a place of affirmation. It w...10 years ago
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Not Respecting Women’s Boundaries is Rape Culture - Originally posted on loving lily: Recently I was talking to a radical feminist. She was organizing a march or some sort of public event and asked me if I co...10 years ago
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Dear White Male Activists. Collect Your Pigs. Jesus. - white male activists of every stripe, but especially the enviros and liberal progressives like DGR males (no matter what you call yourselves, and no, you a...10 years ago
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Trans* Women in My PTSD Group and Performing Femininity - Originally posted on loving lily: Recently I was trying to get help for my PTSD. After a long wait, I was finally admitted to a publicly funded PTSD therapy...10 years ago
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CouponsTweet is the new discount site.. - It’s startup time and i am going to review a discount site called couponsmonk (The site is now called couponstweet.com). couponstweet is one shop stop for ...10 years ago
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Problem and Solution? Transwomen’s Access to Private Women-Only Spaces - The political demand for transwomen’s access to private women-only spaces is predicated on a certain problem-and-solution logic. It can be summarized like ...10 years ago
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“individualism” and relational deprivation - I’ve been thinking quite a lot about relational deprivation between women in Western countries recently, and even more so since I’ve been spending some tim...10 years ago
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Separating Lesbian Theory from Feminist Theory, by Cheshire Calhoun - Separating Lesbian Theory from Feminist Theory written by Cheshire Calhoun Ethics Vol. 104, No. 3 (Apr., 1994), pp. 558-581 Published by: The University of...10 years ago
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FRANK HAS COME OUT TO ‘PLAY’ - Let’s go back to the beginning, shall we? Let’s imagine a world which never forces someone’s subjective reality on to the rest of us or else we’re ‘offendi...11 years ago
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On Not Shutting the Fuck Up - There are people out there who would love me to shut the fuck up, to roll over and die, metaphorically or literally. The men who used me. The people who le...11 years ago
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WordPress.com / Automattic censors Lesbian and Feminist Blogs - If you are a blogger with multiple million readership, do take notice that Automattic who hosts WordPress.Com will censor you and freeze your blog, suddenl...11 years ago
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Wild Women and The Untamed Heart - It’s been a long time since I posted here. I’ve posted a bit on Tumblr, but have been struggling with what to say on WordPress, so here it is. This blog ne...11 years ago
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Acceptable Losses - It is a fact, not a conjecture, that women are harmed in the making of porn, not just in the making of illegal porn, not just in the making of foreign por...11 years ago
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It’s our feminism, our language, our liberation - Descriptions and defenses (or dismissals) of feminism have filled thousands of books and comprise billions of words in journals, manifestos, novels, videos...11 years ago
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Why so serious, trans men? - I mentioned in my last post that a lot of radical feminist blogs have gone silent. Well it would have been more accurate to say that many radical feminist ...12 years ago
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Interview with a blogger from Radfem-ological Images - Originally posted on radical wind: I had the chance to interview one of the bloggers from Radfem-ological Images shortly after the project ended. Radfem-ol...12 years ago
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Radfem Hub is now an archives - After almost two years of herstorical collective blogging, Radfem Hub is now reopened as an archives. “The Hub” was a collective radical feminist blog and ...12 years ago
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Lawrence University invokes shocking last minute BAN on Earth Day Keynote Speaker Lierre Keith due to her Feminist views on Gender - Originally posted on GenderTrender: In a shocking last minute decision Lawrence University representatives no-platformed Deep Green Resistance founding memb...12 years ago
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Flappers, Suffragettes and Civility on Streetcars - A quarter of a century ago, before Los Angeles became such a busy mart of trade, there was more sociability, more friendliness, more pleasant words and smi...12 years ago
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‘Transilience’ – Joelle Ruby Ryan University of New Hampshire Harassment Campaign Against Women : Call For Action - I am writing this today out of a deep concern for the rights of women, feminists and lesbians to speak publicly about issues that effect us. Specifically, ...12 years ago
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‘Transilience’ – Joelle Ruby Ryan University of New Hampshire Harassment Campaign Against Women : Call For Action - I am writing this today out of a deep concern for the rights of women, feminists and lesbians to speak publicly about issues that effect us. Specifically, ...12 years ago
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Pussy Riot: whose freedom, whose riot? - Recently there has been lots of noise around the arrest of three members of Pussy Riot, a Russian anarchist female punk band. The media almost unequivocall...13 years ago
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Ongoing submission acceptance for Don't Dis My Ability #2 - I am putting together a print-zine about living with disabilities. It is called Don't DIS My Ability and will be the second issue. The only requirement...13 years ago
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Excellent Post on Quantum Consent by Eve Bit First - “The concept of ‘rape’ is almost always discussed and analyzed in terms of the victim (not from the perspective of the victim, but in terms of the victim)....13 years ago
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Nasty and Nice: The F-Word covers the Transsexual ‘debate’ - Recently the F-Word, with much trepidation, interviewed Sheila Jeffreys and Lee Lakeman, for their feminist analysis and insight into the issue of transgen...13 years ago
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Tobit 3-5 - *The Facts (Chapter number: Verse)* 3:7-17 - [The beginning of the book mirrors a similar prayer given by Tobit, who wishes for his life to end because his...13 years ago
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Porn and intercourse - I wanted to share a quote. Porn users have long stated that porn and sex are divorced, that porn has no impact on them, their sex lives, or their view of w...13 years ago
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Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress.com. After you read this, you should delete and write your own post, with a new title above. Or hit Add New on the left (of the admin ...13 years ago
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Second Episode of Feminism Now! is up! - Fans of Dialectical Spin will want to listen to the second episode of Feminism Now! In this show we speak with Jasmine Burnett of SisterSongNY and Trust Bl...13 years ago
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Goodbye Bunny! - The Game is over. I no longer care about posting, and haven’t for a while, so if you wanted to comment, that might be why it didn’t get approved. So yeah. ...13 years ago
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9/11/11 - Thanks to television, several generations of Americans have grown up with violence coming straight into their homes in vivid color — but whereas people my ...14 years ago
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Well……. Hello :-) - Goodness, hasn’t WordPress changed since I was last here?! I’m revisting today via a circuitous route, prompted initially by mention of my ‘Witchy-Woo hat’...14 years ago
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One Radfem’s Experience with Gynecology - This is just an experience babble, because I feel like I have to get it out. Not much political in here, so if you dun like personal stuff feel free to sk...14 years ago
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Transgender non-logic #4739 - Which is quite a peculiar stance for a supposedly mentally stable individual, but there's more; and if you as a transperson take away nothing else after re...15 years ago
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The Falsifiability Talk - We need to talk about falsifiability. This isn’t an easy conversation, so let’s talk first about why we need to talk about it. There are many different com...15 years ago
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Butch Nature & Medical Mythology - *MEDICAL MYTHOLOGY – or, “Pay no attention to that doctor behind the curtain!”* *How are butch lesbians supposed to become who we truly are, by artificial...15 years ago
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Hi, Sisters. - I’m sorry but I’m seriously gonna need a bit more of a longer break away from the Internet. I’ve got quite a few things to sort out in my life right now. B...16 years ago
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