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Dr Kevin Guyan

@kevinguyan.bsky.social
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Author of RAINBOW TRAP and QUEER DATA 🌈 Researching LGBTQ data at the University of Edinburgh 📊 he/him/his ➡️ linktr.ee/kevinguyan

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The truth is that the SNP don’t want the headache of following through on their promises to the LGBTQ+ community, mainly because it would mean addressing the homophobia and transphobia that has been allowed to thrive within their own ranks, writes Mhairi Black ✍️ www.thenational.scot/politi...
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Bloomsbury Politics & Area Studies @bloomsburypol.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Who designs the rules of inclusion? Listen to Kevin Guyan, author of 'Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion', discuss this and more on Queer Lit podcast. 🎧Listen here: bit.ly/4wYaKCb 📘Kevin's book: bit.ly/45YorFl
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Rainbow Trap
Rainbow Trap reveals how the fight for LGBTQ equalities in the UK is shaped – and constrained – by the classifications we encounter every day.Looking across six…
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
One reason (of many) for why organisations collecting diversity data should not abandon the collection of 'gender data' in place of 'sex data'... theconversation.com/biological-s...
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Biological sex is neither binary nor a spectrum – a biologist explains how it’s multidimensional
Each person is a mosaic of sex-related and postpubertal biological traits that vary in their degree of femaleness and maleness.
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The Gender + Sexuality Data Lab is hiring a Research Assistant to join its project, ‘Box Breakers: Improving Organisational Data Practices for Minoritised Communities’. Now open to all applicants | Closing date: 25 Aug | More info: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Quote from Dr Kevin Guyan, Director of the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab, which reads: "The Box Breakers project aims to transform how data professionals understand and represent people whose identities exist beyond conventional categories."
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Refusal is key to whatever happens next! Anyone keen to get something similar started for universities?
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Alice Ross @alice-ross.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Four weeks to go until LAVLANG 32! The programme is UP and it's going to be brilliant! See you in Edinburgh!🪻🗣️🧏🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk
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LavLang32 - Lavender Languages & Linguistics 32
2-4 September 2026: Queer (dis)belonging
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Excellent piece from Jason Okundaye on the Jason Arday story. A lesson from this mess (if any) is the need for more progressive critiques of institutional diversity practices – we cannot leave it to voices from the right to frame the terms of debate. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason Okundaye
The Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye
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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Our Policy & Public Affairs Coordinator Flo has written a guest blog for the wonderful folks over at @lighthousebks.bsky.social about what we can do now in the face of feeling loss and despair at the EHRC's Code of Practice. You can read it here: lighthousebookshop.com/posts/what-c...
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Lighthouse | What Can We Do Now?: A Guest Blog from Scottish Trans
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Somewhat frustrating to see similar 'controversies' around sex and gender play out in Australia ahead of their census on 11 August as happened with UK censuses in 2021/22... What is it about the design of survey questions that so angers those opposed to the existence of trans people!? 🔢
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Interesting story about the unintended consequence of a diversity initiative that requires UK chess teams to include a mix of genders. Yet another example of how efforts to categorise and count identity characteristics are no longer fit for purpose... www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
theguardian.com
Fury as UK’s only all-female chess team promoted – then told they must recruit a man
She Plays to Win face losing one of their female players after being told team must include a male
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
📢 The Gender + Sexuality Data Lab is hiring a Research Assistant to join its project, ‘Box Breakers: Improving Organisational Data Practices for Minoritised Communities’.
Poster for the Box Breakers project showing workers at computers, all cast in a bright, lime green.Quote from Dr Kevin Guyan, Director of the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab, which reads: "The Box Breakers project aims to transform how data professionals understand and represent people whose identities exist beyond conventional categories."
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
applying for a job with a british company and the identity questions are getting very specific
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
'As a storytelling business, the TV industry is not a level playing field for what stories get told and who gets to tell them' 📺 Quoted in this @radiotimes.bsky.social article on whether TV has a problem with LGBTQ+ representation. www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/pri...
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Why is TV getting less queer?
Writer Jon O'Brien shares his thoughts on why the cancellations of I Kissed a Boy, Boots and Gen-V suggest the small screen now has a concerning LGBTQ+ problem.
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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This is tonight! Excited to have @rossbrooks.co.uk and @kevinguyan.bsky.social at the shop. We've had a few dropouts, so if you were thinking of joining us, there are only *two* tickets left!
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Rebecca @beccauk.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Inevitable. Ethical data collection has always been based on self-definition.
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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Shocked to learn that the Scottish parliament has set up a filter to allow the public view the trans status of MSPs. You only have to imagine for a moment what it would mean to allow such a filter for other minorities to see why it's totally inappropriate, and dangerous.
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The Scottish Parliament is one of the most left governments in the west—this shows how insidious the pervasive the moral panic of transphobia is
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The Scottish Parliament's decision to collect and present data based on 'biological sex' has made it harder for researchers to use data to understand and tackle inequalities. 📝 I've written to the Scottish Parliament requesting information on this change: kevinguyan.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
Page 1 of a letter from the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab to Members of the Scottish Parliament Corporate Body. You can read the full text via the URL.Page 2 of a letter from the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab to Members of the Scottish Parliament Corporate Body. You can read the full text via the URL.
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 11/07/2026
Congrats to the Scottish Parliament, who by instantly caving to transphobic demands managed to trash their own data. Congrats to transphobes who, yet again, wrecked feminist policy in order to try and give trans people a kicking. www.thenational.scot/news/2627138...
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Holyrood data row ‘undermines decades of work on women’s representation’
A SCOTTISH Parliament survey has exposed a wider problem with collecting data on the basis of biological sex and could undermine “decades worth”…
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
EXCLUSIVE: A Scottish Parliament survey has exposed a wider problem with collecting data on the basis of biological sex and could undermine 'decades worth' of work on women’s representation, an expert has said 🗣️ Read more: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 09/07/2026
There is growing evidence that a person having their sex questioned over use of single sex spaces is far from "rare and exceptional", as Stephenson claims
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EHRC says 'sex questioning' will be "rare" – but evidence suggests it's increasing
The chair of the EHRC has claimed in a letter to a Labour MP that sex questioning under the updated Code of Practice will be “rare and exceptional”
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Trying to make sense of gender pay gap reporting after the UK Supreme Court ruling on 'sex'? 🔢 @jenitennison.com has written a guest post for the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab explaining why organisations should continue to report gender data. gensexdatalab.business-school.ed.ac.uk/updates/orga...
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I'm chairing the @lighthousebks.bsky.social launch for @rossbrooks.co.uk fab new book: Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life: A History of Sex and Science 🗓️ Tues 14 Jul 🌍 Edinburgh + online 👋 All welcome Register here: lighthousebookshop.com/events/darwi...
Ross Brooks' book: Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Excellent piece from @agcreports.bsky.social on the Scottish Parliament and its mess around sex and gender data 🔢
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 04/07/2026
2/2 Later that day, at 7pm, I'll be chatting about my new book with the brilliant @kevinguyan.bsky.social at Edinburgh's iconic radical bookshop, @lighthousebks.bsky.social. ADVANCE COPIES WILL BE AVAILABLE! 🏳️‍🌈📚🦋🏳️‍⚧️🗃️ lighthousebookshop.com/events/darwi... #books #booksky #histsci #sts #queerhistory
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Lighthouse | Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life: Ross Brooks on the History of Sex and Science
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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
MPs are running out of time to sign the EDM and must act now! Over 100 MPs have signed an early day motion to reject the EHRC's Code of Practice. If your MP hasn't signed yet, it takes two minutes to email and ask them to take action. equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode
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Email your MP to reject the Code of Practice and support EDM 240
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Had a great time speaking about data and desire at the @royalsociety.org 💕 📊 #summerscience #pride #data
A photo of Kevin wearing a brown vest and brown trousers. He is standing at a lectern at the Royal Society in London.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The NHS is £billions underfunded. People are dying on trolleys in corridors & because ambulances take too long, maternity services are understaffed & cancer care is a lottery. But Mary-Ann Stephenson of the EHRC wants the NHS to prioritise spending money on excluding & segregating trans people…
Labour MP and former nurse Kevin McKenna has argued that single-sex wards in hospitals are a good example: in practice, you cannot staff a female ward, a male ward and a separate third one for a trans patient. If there is a side room available, he says, clinical need would dictate its use, so the code is "not going to survive contact with reality".
Stephenson counters: "That is a problem because the NHS is overstretched. There is often a shortage of provision. Hospitals can be crowded. There can be problems finding beds for people. That is not a problem specific to our code of practice."
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Thank you for the lovely review of Rainbow Trap! I'm delighted you enjoyed the book 🌈
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
As an academic whose research focuses on sex and gender equality data, the @scottishgreens.org have made the right call here! The UK's regressive turn to a 'biology-first' approach to sex and gender data is discouraging people from disclosing information. www.scotsman.com/news/politic...
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Scottish Greens refuse parliament equality survey claiming data will be 'weaponised'
Following the election of Holyrood’s first trans MSPs the sex category was removed from the parliament website and now some parliamentarians are refusing to take part
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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Followed by @rossbrooks.co.uk on Darwin & the queer origins of life, chaired by @kevinguyan.bsky.social on Tuesday 14th July from 7-8pm! lighthousebookshop.com/events/darwi...
A black background with a multicoloured butterfly. To the left, the banner reads Tuesday 14th July, 7pm, Lighthouse, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life. On the bottom right, it reads "A History of Sex and Science, Ross Brooks."
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
More than 100 MPs have now signed the motion I tabled alongside colleagues to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations. Please email your MP asking them to sign EDM 240 if they haven’t already.
More than 100 MPs have now signed the motion I tabled alongside colleagues to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations.
This motion is currently the only available mechanism by which MPs can reject the EHRC's Code of
Practice; if debated and passed within the 40-day scrutiny window, it would prevent the EHRC from issuing the Code and bringing it into force. This is unfortunately unlikely, but it is important that as many MPs as possible sign the motion.
Please email your MP asking them to sign EDM 240 if they haven't already.
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
A cameo appearance from Queer Data in the University of Glasgow's Research Strategy for 2026-36 👀
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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · 07/06/2026
I’m so proud of this powerful speech exposing the bigot and fake academic, Michael Foran. He has no place in our communities.
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Last few tickets left for The Queer Data Showcase! 🔢 Hear from a curated group of artists, academics and activists working with queer data. Taking place this Wednesday (10 June) in Manchester. Hosted by Mystika Glamoor. All welcome! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-data...
The host of the 2026 Queer Data Showcase, Mystika Glamoor.
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Fantastic day in Oslo sharing ideas from Rainbow Trap ahead of its paperback release on 11 June 📚 Thank you to the brilliant team at Rosa Bøker for stocking copies of the book (and selling out!) ✨
Kevin with copies of Rainbow Trap
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Camilla Holm Soelseth @supercamilla.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Opening the book "Gender Trap" by @kevinguyan.bsky.social and are met with two wonderful impactful quotes on classification. #librarysky
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
A delight to be in Oslo to deliver a keynote on Rainbow Trap at the 2026 Queer Symposium @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social @bloomsburypol.bsky.social
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
We need to start getting trans people and allies together to start planning civil disobedience in different local areas, targeting venues/organisations that operate a trans-exclusionary policy. Civil disobedience needs to be thought out carefully to achieve maximum effectiveness.
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to join the conversation! A fantastic initiative and I'm delighted that Queer Data was picked to be part of the book club 📖
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
🌈 The paperback edition of Rainbow Trap is out on 11 June. I'm speaking about queer lives, classifications and the dangers of inclusion at talks/events this summer – hopefully see you there! 📚 Rainbow Trap in paperback: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rainbow-t... 📅 Events info: kevinguyan.com/events/
Kevin holding a copy of Rainbow TrapInformation on upcoming events
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Grab your ticket for the Queer Data Showcase – taking place in Manchester on 10 June 🎟️ Featuring a curated selection of short talks by artists, academics and activists working with queer data. 🗓️ 10 June 2026 🌍 HOME, Manchester 👋 All welcome! Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-data...
Event poster for the 2026 Queer Data ShowcaseHighlights from the 2025 Queer Data Showcase in Edinburgh.Highlights from the 2025 Queer Data Showcase in Edinburgh.
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Never underestimate a quine fae the broch! 💚
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Adam @adamcobb.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Joanna Cherry suggesting that Angus Robertson’s downfall was identity politics when he was beaten by LORNA SLATER OF THE GREENS is very funny.
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Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 08/05/2026
First ever Green constituency, a huge moment! I am sure James Kelly will wish to issue a profuse apology to me. I shan't be reading his website for it, mind you. Also I got pelters for saying Angus Robertson was leading a dishonest campaign. This was yesterday. Vindication through. the. roof. ^AF
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Woohoo - what a fantastic result in Edinburgh Central! Well done Lorna Slater and everyone involved 💚
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Have any media commentators noted the electoral effect of Scottish Labour’s anti-trans manifesto? My sense is that for pro-union voters who believe trans people are not second-class citizens, it was a huge turn-off. Anti-trans politics is not a vote winner.
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Very close but an excellent result! 🗳️
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Rebecca Humphreys-Lamford (they/them) @rebeccahlamford.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I'm approaching the end of a placement with the British Film Institute where I've been exploring asexuality in their archives, building a new BFI Mediatheque collection that traces 20 years of asexual British screen histories, and more! Read about my experiences 👉 www.bfi.org.uk/inside-the-a...
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Inside the Archive #68: Reflections on archiving asexuality
This week we hear from PhD researcher Rebecca Humphreys‑Lamford about their experiences undertaking a placement with the BFI to explore asexuality in the archive.
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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Our final @ipsosinscotland.bsky.social poll of the Scottish Parliament election campaign is now live, with the SNP leading on 35%/26% of the const./list votes, Reform and Labour neck-and-neck on 18%/18% and 20%/15%, and the Greens third on the list with 17%:
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Can SNP secure majority as race for second tightens at Holyrood?
Scottish Labour and Reform UK are vying for second place as the SNP remains on course to be the largest party, final poll before election shows
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