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Today's guest is N3VLYNNN; a multidisciplinary artist, wellness practitioner, and dancer. While working in urban, "progressive" cities, N3VLYNNN was drawn to “queer” art and politics, but it wasn’t long before she began to see things that well, seemed a little weird. For one thing, a man, over six feet tall, who called himself a woman, sexually assaulted her friend.
Well before the peak of gender madness, back in 2013, she made a youtube video called “Transwomen Are Not Female.” The backlash to her foray into gender critical politics was swift and merciless, very nearly wiping her artistic efforts from the internet.
As time went on she noticed “women” were being deleted altogether, even from wellness spaces like community acupuncture. N3VLYNNN’s days of letting it rest and holding space for ‘true trans’ sufferers were coming to an end. She came to understand that transgenderism is a colonial effort, not only in these arts and wellness spaces where women were made to feel privileged and unwelcome, but also in a global sense, where transgenderism is exported to other cultures and indigenous histories distorted or erased.
In 2022 she made another video, this time exploring the stories of black women who were formerly trans-identified. In highlighting black female detransitioners, she was thoroughly deplatformed, with her business and art accounts being locked, deleted or otherwise completely lost to her overnight. Despite this, N3VLYNNN continued to pursue her art, writing and research. In this episode, we dive deep into some of that research, including the push to trans the dead, erasing black women role models like Pauli Murray, who has been lauded as a “nonbinary ancestor.”
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How The Trans Movement is Erasing Black Women from History: Setting the Record Straight about Pauli Murray (Essay)
How The Trans Movement is Erasing Black Women from History: Setting the Record Straight about Pauli Murray (Audio Version)
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SAVE YOUR SPOT! Safeguarding in the Age of Gender Disinformation, Dissociation, & External Validation SeekingRecover Your Instincts & Cultivate Resilience with Amy Sousa, MA Depth Psychology Join us LIVE on Saturday, April 13 or watch the replay
Many of you probably remember Leigh Janet Marshall’s story of childhood trans identification, followed by sterilization and detransition. Leigh is back today for an update on her journey since her appearance on the podcast nearly one year ago.
After the recording, Leigh was met with both heroism and villainization. Peers claimed that she had weaponized her experience to harm 'true trans' sufferers and even condemned her for supposedly using her life experience to ‘fuel right wing extremism.’ The silver lining to the process of sharing her story was the revival of sisterhood in her life but it also came with a difficult period of over-identification with detransition.
Now, she is ‘detransitioning from detransition.’
Leigh reminds us that in politicizing our identities, we remain in our intellect and has written her testimony indulging the overactive, analytical mind in a productive way, while giving her the space to remember that thoughts are not the full truth, and identities are merely waypoints on a lifetime’s worth of shifts and evolution. Through this process of reacquainting with the body, she has also healed from violent panic attacks and disordered eating. Joining ‘the real world,’ in her words, and dropping the stories she held about how others would condemn her for her past, she has made connections ten times over what she lost.
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Upcoming Class: Safeguarding in the Age of Gender Disinformation, Dissociation, & External Validation SeekingRecover Your Instincts & Cultivate Resilience with Amy Sousa, MA Depth Psychology Join us LIVE on April 13 or watch the replay
When nine-year-old Elle found out she was going to be a big sister, she was overjoyed. She helped raise her younger brother and as they grew up, she was happy to act as a support, confidante, and the first-call-in-a-crisis. But when she became pregnant, her brother’s attitude toward his sister changed completely. He never acknowledged her daughter, never wanted to look at or hold her as a baby, and Elle ended up falling out with him. She did not understand why he turned on her until many years later, when her brother called her to let her know that he was ‘a lesbian woman’ now.
He shared that his treatment of her stemmed from his jealousy of her, for one thing he'd never gotten to get his nails done with their mother. Elle began looking into autogynephilia and realized that her brother was living in a porn-sick, sex-obsessed alternate reality. He had quit working and started an OnlyFans, where he dressed up as an underage girl. He spent $14,000 on laser hair removal, plus hormones, and surgeries. He demanded financial support from their mother and let bills pile up until creditors were harassing his parents.
While Elle's parents have extended themselves financially, emotionally and physically to support her brother, finding support for themselves has not been easy in the trans-affirming culture.
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It’s not exactly Millennials' fault that many of us are stuck in extended adolescence. We’re bearing a wound around adulthood that didn’t start with our generation. We’re working under fluorescent lighting instead of under the sun, hustling in the city instead of in the small tribes we evolved from, and striving for the “empowerment” the Spice Girls promised. Endocrine disruptors surround us. We work with screens instead of with our hands. The conveniences of living non-biologically are certainly comfortable, but they come with consequences: we've become soft, immature, our vitality compromised.
Many women in our thirties are rethinking the cultural programming that discouraged us from having our babies at an age that would afford us the energy and resilience to more easily bear the challenges of motherhood, while garnering the support from our own parents. There are plenty of benefits to building up wisdom, life experience, and financial resources before you have kids, but there’s grief too. What happens when we exclusively put our self-worth into our careers or accomplishments instead of embodying the portal of life and death that is our birthright as women?
Today's guest, body worker and poly-vagal nerve practitioner Danielle Evans, helps people heal their nervous system. Danielle shares about her process deprogramming from liberal feminist rhetoric and discusses how the surface of our skin connects to the deepest layers of our nervous system. Danielle reminds us that the body remembers everything from pre-birth to our present moment, and explains how we can self-source safety in our body and quiet the anxious mind.
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Growing up Latter Day Saints, Olivia was held to very strict expectations. The church and homeschooling offered glimmers of women’s spiritual power, but Olivia needed greater freedom of expression. For instance, she chafed at her family’s outpouring of grief when she revealed she was interested in dating women. She tried to be patient with them as they grieved her inevitable separation from them in the afterlife, but she felt rejected. This, along with the restrictions internalized from her childhood, drove her to confuse authentic liberation with the so-called "liberal" ideologies she encountered in adolescence.
It began with RuPaul’s Drag Race. The show seemed misogynist to Olivia, but her friends made it very clear that she’d need to adopt even the most appalling caricatures of womanhood, “trans lesbians” if she wanted to maintain access to her social circle and dating pool. She understood “you either get with this agenda or you die socially,” when she witnessed the ostracism of lesbians who resisted. The logical conclusion of this liberal feminist propaganda was her full indoctrination into another religion, with its own set of patriarchal expectations. Following in the footsteps of her liberal feminist friends, she became a “sugar baby” and started an OnlyFans. Her “manager,” aka her John, soon became her pimp, supplying her with drugs to cope with the effects of being trafficked, all the while filming her degradation for other men to consume. She believed her non-binary identity would somehow protect her from the sexual violence women experience, disassociating from her female body even as men tortured her. It was not until she realized that her choices were exposing not just her, but her girlfriend, to extreme violence, that she knew she had to exit. Olivia has since found her own source of spirituality, bodily integrity, and a reclamation of womanhood through connecting to her matrilineal line and finding the healing power of plants.Follow Olivia on Instagram →
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For Charlie, it all started at age five, jealous of boys, because they got to take their shirts off and stand to pee. By age seven, she had a therapist who told her and her parents that this was symptomatic of something called gender dysphoria. Ecstatic that she would get to ‘be a boy,’ Charlie was ushered down the medical path, with her vital records and name altered at age nine, and later put on puberty blockers and wrong sex hormones. Her family asked her if she was sure she wanted all of this. Her response? “I’ve never been more sure of anything in my entire life.” All twelve years of life experience couldn’t have prepared her for the changes testosterone would bring. At age fifteen, she had started to wonder if the path she was on would prevent her from ever getting married or having a family. It wasn’t until encountering a Reddit thread about complications of testosterone such as bone and heart disease and dementia that it occurred to her that her doctors had never told her that these "life-saving treatments" would have long term negative effects on her health.
The process of coming out a second time, this time as a lesbian woman ready to detransition, was even harder than the first time. After telling herself the story for so long that she’d take her own life if she ever got her period, she developed an eating disorder, to keep delaying womanhood even without testosterone. Now nineteen, Charlie has found peace in her body and within her circle of family and friends, but she wants to challenge people to consider what would have happened if her childhood therapist had recognized her anxiety and depression instead of entertaining the ludicrous concept of being stuck in the wrong body.
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Kristin Hauser joins us today to talk about cultivating female fertility outside of the medical model. She has been working in the fertility space for over ten years, as an acupuncturist and sex and relationship coach. Kristin has seen all manner of fertility issues, from women later in their fertile years, who’ve been working to the point of burn out, to the less talked about, younger women whose cycles were damaged by hormonal birth control. Inventions such as intrauterine insemination, IVF, to surrogacy, are touted by the fertility industry as the best path to motherhood if you don’t conceive within a few months of trying.
As an acupuncturist, Kristin tried to serve women within this model, but soon realized it was out of integrity for her. She encourages women and men to consider their fertility as an extension of creativity, of their physical and spiritual wellbeing, and she uses a variety of methods that never require invasive testing or surgery. In this episode Kristin discusses fertility struggles are a catalyst for sexual reawakening, and how staying out of the mainstream medical model, women can come into motherhood in power.
Kristin's class Restoring Your Fertility and Ovarian Vitality is a great place to start for women who want to truly understand their bodies and improve their fertility with ease and without medical intervention.
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Diagnosed with endometriosis at age 19, Marche was told she would probably never have babies. It was the early 2000s, post women’s liberation and even when Marche found herself expectedly pregnant she considered termination. Before she could decide what she wanted to do, Marche was incorrectly diagnosed with a blighted ovum, and told she’d miscarry. About to start grad school and ridden with grief, Marche took abortifacients, only to find out the day after that she’d been incorrectly diagnosed. A thorough look into Marche’s health history and the ways she was victimized by the medical industry, sets the backdrop for how she became the perfect consumer of the fertility industry.Marche details the dehumanization she experienced during the IUI/IVF process, the tens of thousands of dollars down the drain, the evisceration of love between she and her husband during this time, and how she ultimately shifted her perspective from seeing her attempt to rent her best friend’s womb as camaraderie, to the unjustifiable utilization and commodification of women’s bodies.
Learn everything your doctor or midwife won't tell you about the 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗩𝗙, 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗮𝗰𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗢𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗨𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 →
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On Sunday, June 25 2023, LGBT non-profit whistleblower, K. Yang and I went to Washington Square Park to stand for women's sex based rights amidst thousands of men and women celebrating "Pride". In this episode we discuss the conversations and confrontations leading up to K. Yang getting assaulted by a large mob, what you didn't see on camera and how we think women world wide stand a chance at fighting female erasure.
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Today I get personal with my dear friend Serendipiti Day as we share the stories of our first exposures to porn, how we navigate conversations around porn with potential sexual partners, and how we went from holding a liberal feminist analysis of porn to a radical feminist analysis.
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In 2006, Amanda's doctors told her that her silicone breast implants were a completely safe, permanent solution to change to her silhouette after breastfeeding. She looked down and saw ‘ski-slopes,’ and when she compared herself to other women, she felt she came up short. Her implants were cold, stiff, and eventually began leaking toxins inside her body. As her symptoms worsened, she discovered that her doctors did not have the data to back up claims that her breast implants were perfectly safe, or that her mysterious, autoimmune reactions were coincidental.
Amanda is now a psychotherapist and author of Busting Free, a comprehensive guide to physical and psychological wellbeing for women at any stage of the breast explant process. She works with women on healing the beliefs that lead us to question our value, allowing us to be manipulated by predatory marketing. Breasts are not just about beauty and self-esteem, they stand in for our self-conception as women and as mothers. That’s also why breast removal is pushed so hard on women who dis-identify with their female bodies. We explore how cosmetic surgery, an industry dominated by male surgeons, works to support the sexualization and objectification of women. We also dive deep into the appetitive effect, and the illusion of ‘informed consent.’ Amanda also exposes the conveyor belt from breast cancer to breast reconstruction, and the epidemic of women who experience breast implant illness after being told that breast cancer was the worst fate they could face. Even if you’ve never had breasts implants, you’ll relate to the discussion of the desire to belong based on the shape and size of our bodies.
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Today I speak with Leigh Janet Marshall, a biologist and formerly trans identified woman from the Bay Area. Early exposure to pornography shaped Leigh's understanding of what a woman is and convinced her she was better off as a gay man. Conceived by artificial insemination, Leigh met her father at age 18, and then connected with one of her biological sisters, donor conceived, who was also struggling with alienation from her female body. With Leigh's constellation of early abandonment wounding and female socialization, she coped by becoming anorexic and later bulimic. In an effort to find authenticity, Leigh and her sister committed to transitioning together, but this was not the cure for her despair that she thought it would be. Leigh now recognizes transition as soft suicide; yet another form of self-harm used to express the shame of being a woman. Leigh woke up to the fact that she was targeted for medicalization but not before pursuing sterilization at age 29.
Leigh sees gender affirming care for youth, as blunt a tool for population control as China’s one-child policy. Leigh connects many dots of the transhumanist agenda, from reproductive technology, to pornography, trans ideology, and artificial intelligence, and shines light on how trans ideology is a gateway for population control and the personification of machines.
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Today we continue the conversation around the dovetailing of gender identity and colonization of indigenous populations with New Zealand Maori activist and organizer Michelle Uriarau. Michelle is the co-founder of Women's Action Group Southwest Victoria and Mana Wāhine Kōrero and began her activist work with refugees in Australia. Michelle was radicalized on the issue of synthetic sex because of its potentially genocidal impact on Maori populations. “Indigeneity brings a unique perspective from other women,” she says, “we see gender identity as a second colonization and we are not even sure we will survive it.” Through colonization Michelle notes, "language is removed by force, you speak, read, think, dream in your language. Everything that makes you you is expressed through language, so when it’s removed, can you imagine what that does to you? It leaves you like an empty vessel.’ In this empty vessel, post-modern, western, European, and academic paradigms can be imposed.
Michelle sees a real and present danger to the Maori people, who already experience higher rates of suicide, incarceration, and now with the imposition of gender ideology, sterilization and extermination of future generations. We discuss the organizing strategy and tactics of feminist activists in Australia and New Zealand and break down the violence and media spin following Kellie Jay Keen's Let Women Speak Auckland event in March.
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After last week’s deadly shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee there was a lot of confusion about the sex of the shooter. Was it a man? A 'trans man'? Was it a man pretending to be a woman or a woman pretending to be a man? It makes you wonder if the confusion is actually a critical part of constructing a narrative where trans-identified people can't be held accountable for their actions, and in fact, today's guest Robbie Rose points out that CBS was intentionally not reporting the sex of shooter Audrey Hale, just as the media obscured the identity of trans-identified female school shooter Maya 'Alec' McKinney in Colorado, in 2019.
Robbie returns to the podcast for an enlightening discussion of the profiles of school shooters in recent history. She points out that most school shooters were bullied for being gay (whether or not they were) and that they also often struggled with autism and behavioral problems. Society's answer to mental health issues is to medicate these children and young adults, and Robbie notes that these people are being given a cocktail that has never been tested - one of antidepressants, mood stabilizers, legal methamphetamines and more recently, steroids in the form of synthetic testosterone. Robbies takes us through a concise history of autism, causes of traumatic brain injury and asks why the media never seems to highlight the fact that these people are highly medicated and if trans ideology might in fact be a coverup for widespread legal poisoning.
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Report of Alex McKinney, female 2019 Denver School Shooter on and off meds
Gaslighting Mothers, Transgenderism & Vaccine Injury with Robbie Rose
The MRC-5-Transgender Connection with Robbie Rose
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Today I speak with one of my best friends, Amy Ebert. Amy is a married mother of 5, a writer and musician. Amy asks what reproductive sovereignty looks like on the procreative end (rather than the abortion side) particularly for women in longterm heterosexual relationships and shares her journey from birthing in the hospital, to birthing at home with licensed midwives to then with her 5th baby, birthing freely, unassisted. Amy decided to protect her postpartum bubble after 4 bouts of postpartum rage and depression and recalls questioning the rage she felt as her newborn baby was passed around to 12 different family members. She now acknowledges this as a healthy mammalian instinct but at the time remembers thinking she was just being "too hormonal" or "too sensitive."
Amy describes the societal pressure to bounce back and do it all as a metaphorical anorexia, one of restriction, the practice of internalizing "receiving as a shortcoming," and the "I can do anything you can do, bleeding" mindset, where you might invisiblize yourself and needs as a woman. This she notes is the challenge that comes along with starting to receive from a place of biological vulnerability. The transformation she went through after prioritizing her mental and spiritual health in her 5th postpartum certainly paid off and Amy believes receiving and resting while bleeding during menstruation is a training ground for recovery after birth. We also discuss the pitfalls of constantly looking outside ourselves, for rules, diets and protocols, how Amy parents teenage boys and the bizarre phenomena of men teaching women how to be "more in the feminine."
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Jennifer Lahl, author, documentarian, and founder and president of the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network returns to the podcast today! Jennifer has been fighting assisted reproductive technology for 20 years. Her interest was peaked when her college-aged daughters were targeted for egg selling. It was during the height of the stem cell research craze, and she realized that this profit-driven medical research was being built on the backs of vulnerable young women. Her first film, Eggsploitation earned her the wrath of Big Fertility then, but they’ve hardly celebrated her work since. In her most recent article she asks, “Who Owns the Human Body?” examining the ethical implications of using a brain dead woman’s body as a surrogate. If a woman has agreed to be an organ donor, does it follow that her body could be kept on life support in a vegetative state in order to gestate a child for an infertile couple? What about the wellbeing of the fetus, which will grow surrounded by the sound of beeping monitors instead of the sound of its mother’s voice?
Assisted reproductive technology comes with many ethical pitfalls, and we’ll explore these, as well as the connection to gender ideology in the sterilization of minors. Learn more from Jennifer at the upcoming event It's Bigger Than Texas panel on April 20 in Austin, hosted by Partners for Ethical Care. Jennifer's latest film The Detransition Diaries will be screened the next day. Did I mention I'll be moderating the panel?! It's going to be such an awesome fews days you won't want to miss!Join us in Austin, TX on April 20 for It's Bigger Than Texas
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Ohio Clinic Uterine Transplants
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Nlaka’pamux and Diné Nations scholar and radical feminist Cherry Smiley is done with the academy. She began her academic career studying prostitution and male violence against indigenous women. With the space to study, reflect and write, she grew angry. “As you’re learning and growing, learning from women who came before you, the anger is spilling out everywhere,” she said of her consciousness raising process. It was cold comfort to know that so many of the harms she had witnessed or personally experienced were so much bigger than her. While writing about prostitution and female subordination, she encountered institutional bias against heterodoxy. Whether it was while hunting for a faculty position, or seeking publication for her articles, Cherry found that the academy “only want you if you’re going to do what they tell you to,” and for her, this meant reciting the litany ‘sex work is work’ and ‘transwomen are women.’
Institutional orthodoxy was not the worst of it. The hostility she faced from resource officers and faculty for her ‘transphobic’ politics prevented her from accessing resources after being sexually assaulted and left her feeling alienated and hopeless. Radical feminist texts helped her feel less alone, and as it has for so many women, saved her life. In this episode Cherry discusses what the dominant discourse gets wrong about colonialism and asks why it's always women who are given all the rules.
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When Julia Beck was coming out (first by calling herself bisexual, and eventually embracing herself as a lesbian), most of the other women around her were calling themselves gender fluid or queer. Anything but what they plainly were, which was lesbian. She encountered the SCUM Manifesto, her first radical text, and began to question everything she understood about the order of men and women in society. She began working with Women’s Liberation Radio News and Women’s Liberation Front as her politics became unapologetically lesbian- and female-centered. It was also around this time that she was elected to Baltimore’s LGBT Commission, where she intended to use her seat to defend women's sex-based rights. On this commission, she was smeared by a man who ran the Baltimore trans advocacy group. She was voted off the commission, and he was voted on to replace her. The jury had spoken, and they’d decided a man in a stuffed bra could woman better than an actual woman. Since then, Julia has continued to fearlessly advocate for women’s rights. Join us for this conversation as we ask provocative questions about sexual politics for women.
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A Swags has gender critical women cracking up on Instagram. Her reels skewer transgenderism, homophobia, and misogyny in mainstream culture. “I like to take the ridiculous claims, like how misgendering someone is literal violence, and highlight the ridiculousness of it” she says. However, A Swags didn’t always see the humor in it. For three and half years she identified as genderqueer. Growing up, she experienced discomfort in her female body and classmates would make comments about how she wasn’t feminine enough, like a football player trapped in a cheerleader’s body. When she reached adulthood and entered a liberal arts college, she stopped identifying as a woman. ‘Transness’ seemed to explain why she felt deeply unsettled by her body, to the point where she wanted to cut off her breasts. After positioning herself as a non-woman, she realized her entire paradigm needed to shift. She desisted and her talent for acting emerged as a way to express herself in our woman-hating, lesbophobic society and provided a way to create connections with other women tired of screaming into the void. In this episode we also take a look at the state of the lesbian dating world and how young lesbians can find love today.
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Today I speak with Amanda Stulman, director of Keep Prisons Single Sex USA. In response to the anti-woman organization GLAAD's recent campaign and letter demanding the NYTimes stick to the almighty "pro-trans affirmation" narrative, Amanda Stulman launched her own campaign with LED billboards displaying a series of slides one of which read: "That's right, women's prisons are mixed-sex. This is newsworthy, is it not?"
Amanda discusses the justice system's role in the legalization of medicalizing children, placing men in women's prisons and what happens when the courts abandon all common sense in the name of "trusting the experts." We also get into the challenges of advocating for women's sex-based rights with no institutional legacy support and what amends could look like for NYTimes in the wake of years of gaslighting, underreporting crimes against women and villianizing those who dare to speak out.
Letter to New York Times from GLAAD, other organizations and prominent figures
Discussion and response by New York Times
Petition to oppose pending legislation in New York legislature
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