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Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them)

@smrodriguez.bsky.social
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Assc Prof of Gender, Rights and Human Rights @ LSE, Penal Abolitionist, Black disabled QT 🏳️‍⚧️🌍, Author of "The Economies of Queer Inclusion" | all views are my own www.smrodriguez.com

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Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Bring the research into your classroom: connect gender theory, lived experience, and qualitative methods through one study. Read S. M. Rodriguez’s #OpenAccess article in Sociological Inquiry: doi.org/10.1111/soin... #Sociology @smrodriguez.bsky.social
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Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There’s a methods lesson here, too. The study used both in-person and online focus groups, creating an opportunity to ask students how research settings shape group dynamics, participation, and qualitative data collection. 3/4 #FocusGroups #Sociology #ResearchMethods
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Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Undoing gender” isn’t only a theoretical possibility—it can also be understood as lived practice. This takeaway offers a starting point for discussing gendered accountability, legibility, and the rejection of fixed gendered endpoints. 2/4 @socwomen.bsky.social #sociology
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Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How might we teach gender transition beyond binary or linear models? This week’s Teaching Takeaway draws from @smrodriguez.bsky.social’s research on recognition, flexibility, safety, and nonbinary identity journeys. 🧵 1/4 #Sociology #GenderStudies
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Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This article shows how "unnatural" became a discursive tool, used to deposit anxieties about heterosexual sexual harms (esp against children) into a panic about homosexuality. Unnatural = gay and thus able to be policed; natural = hetero and inevitable. Important for queer life internationally
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Matthew Waites (he or they) @matthewwaites.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
From years of collective work, Colonialisms and Queer Politics has been published! Presenting chapter analyses of 11 empires, and their colonial legacies, plus comparison of both legal and social regulation. #Colonialisms #Queer #LGBTIQ+ @uofgsociology.bsky.social global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
@smrodriguez.bsky.social featured on Runway to Feminist Justice podcast by The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice! Listen now 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/1BpZ...
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Episode 33: 10 Questions with Dr. SM Rodriguez
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ISA LGBTQA Caucus @lgbtqa-isa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We are accepting nominations for 2 awards which recognise scholars/activists committed to advancing LGBTQ+ rights. If this is you/someone you know, consider nominating! Deadline 1 October. Outstanding Scholar Award docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Courage Award docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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LGBTQA Outstanding Scholar Award 2027
Dear Nominator, Thank you for nominating someone for the ISA's LGBTQA Caucus Outstanding Scholar Award! Before submitting your nomination, please read the following information carefully: The Outsta...
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
New publications! 🚨 ➡️ @smrodriguez.bsky.social ‘Enforcing the “Unnatural Offence”: Sodomy Legislation and Anti-Queer Panoptic Policing in Uganda': lnkd.in/eKKgtdfp ➡️ @aikoiiris.bsky.social 'The Institutional Politics of WPS: Three Lessons on Resistance from Feminist: lnkd.in/d-RxXBz2
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Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Happy #PrideMonth! This podcast was such a fantastic opportunity to review a decade of work to #queer liberation, especially as it speaks to racial justice around the world. Check it out now 🌈🌈 #pride #queertheory #justice #rights
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Rahul Rao @rahulraothariel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
if you work in a UK uni, drop everything and read this (not news to many of us, but sobering to have the dots joined up; the stories are outrageous and heartbreaking)
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‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK
The long read: Universities in Britain rely on overseas applicants paying full fees, which has given rise to some unscrupulous recruiters and left many hopefuls and their families deep in debt
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Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Most recent article now out in Feminist Legal Studies ✨
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Enforcing the “Unnatural Offence”: Sodomy Legislation and Anti-Queer Panoptic Policing in Uganda link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Enforcing the “Unnatural Offence”: Sodomy Legislation and Anti-Queer Panoptic Policing in Uganda - Feminist Legal Studies
This article investigates the impact of the widespread characterisation of sodomy laws as “unenforced” or “unenforceable,” arguing that this presumed inactivity is a political fiction that obscures th...
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Happening now! Trans Lives: In conversation with Raewyn Connell joined by @smrodriguez.bsky.social and @hsw.bsky.social 🫶
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Join us for an evening with scholar Raewyn Connell, who will speak on her newly published book ’Trans Lives: Social Realities across the In-person and online event! Ticket holders will be informed of the location on the day of the event. ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event... @smrodriguez.bsky.social
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Kamau Franklin @kamaufranklin.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
On Feb. 4, 1999. Amadou Diallo an African immigrant was shot 19 times in a hail of 41 bullets by NYPD, claiming his wallet was a gun. As organizers we hit the streets. African, immigrant, Black (also African) & others, all knew it was the same system of oppression
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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The asylum-seeking process before Trump was unfair, confusing, and evil. Obviously, his administration has been committed to making it worse since day 1. But the sheer maliciousness behind each and every step they take to doom some of the most vulnerable people in the world is disgusting. 6/
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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
I witnessed this insanity today. 7 cases I observed in a row went as follows: 1) Russian Asylum Seeker > DHS Lawyer motioned to "pretermit" their case and send them to Uganda. 2) Pakistani Asylum Seeker > DHS Lawyer motioned to "pretermit" their case and send them to Uganda. 1/
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
"Seen from this vantage, Good’s killing is not a 'mistake' but a reflection of how the agency is designed to operate...Abolishing an agency that teargasses two-year-olds and shoots mothers in the street isn’t radical. It is basic human decency."
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Black folks and immigrants have long lived in a "perogative state" when it comes to law enforcement, and maybe pundits at the largest national outlets should recognize that their past support for punitive policing and immigration enforcement laid the groundwork for the current moment.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
“Abolish ICE” isn’t radical, it doesn’t go far enough. Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray
It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim
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Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
A phenomenal event and speaker ✨
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Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
❄️📖Looking for poc sci-fi, epic fantasy, or magical realism novel recommendations for winter 📖❄️ (no YA or marvel-vibes, but ++ if queer or disabled) Happy to exchange books 📚
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Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Fantastic write up of a recent collaborative event between LSE Gender and LSE Law 🔥
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Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Final event of the term! See you at Oxford? (Or online!) Very much looking forward to thinking with these two fantastic discussion groups 📖 Register here to attend: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even... @oxfordcrim.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Our LSE Fellow R. Sánchez Rivera has published a new article in Oxford Intersections! 🥳 Read it now ➡️ academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I told profs at my phd program that I didn't want to work at an "R1" directly after grad because I cared deeply about teaching and was very concerned the incentives at certain institutions would push me to ignore my pedagogy practice in order to try and keep my job. Truly no regrets.
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Starting now! 🥳 @lselaw.bsky.social @sumimadhok.bsky.social @smrodriguez.bsky.social
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Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Looking forward to presenting on this esteemed panel! The piece I'll present is queer & Black feminist sociolegal theory & has been on my mind for a really long time due to experiences I've had lately with the criminal justice and social welfare systems in Jamaica, as well as ethnography in Uganda.
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lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
📢 Still time to apply! We are looking to recruit an Assistant Professor (Study of Crime/Criminal Justice and Social or Public Policy) whose core research examines crime and/or criminal justice with a demonstrable research interest in social or public policy. More info here: buff.ly/Nxdn9c0
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Department of Social Policy | Available positions
Jobs available in the Department of Social Policy
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Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
"Haunting the Criminological Imagination: Abolition as Diasporicised Method" - Verryyy much looking forward to discussing my new work with Oxford Crim in December. See flyer for details and register here forms.office.com/pages/respon... ✨ @ox.ac.uk @oxfordcrim.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social ✨
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Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
📢📢 Job advert 📢📢 LSE is hiring an Assistant Prof in Criminology and Social Policy to begin in Sept 2026! 🎡✨ London is calling ✨🎡 Applications due 2 November 2025 @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor, , <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</span></em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em><spa...
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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives. Details below. Please share.
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Legal Studies 

Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope

Amidst continuing backlash against trans rights, recognition and inclusion, two recent decisions from the UK have substantially impacted not only trans people’s legal status but also legal and social narratives of sex, gender and identity. The narrative that trans inclusion has a chilling effect on the rights of others, particularly women, has been adopted uncritically by both the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland and the Office for Students in its finding that the University of Sussex’s trans-inclusion policy had a chilling effect on free speech. These cases highlight a backlash that has been ongoing for some time, and sparks debates and fear of what may lie in the near future for trans people and kin, as well as other gender-variant persons, not only in the UK, but across jurisdictions and in a global perspective. The discourse of the ‘gender critical’ movement is splintering both the feminist and LGBT+ movements globally, with some aligning politically with the Far- and Christian Right against trans rights, adopting their terminology of ‘gender ideology’ and potentially posing a wider threat to sexual and reproductive rights.  

While this a difficult situation for trans people, kin and allies, this special issue seeks to emphasise that legal battles – including battles (temporarily) lost – are also an opportunity to seek to reinforce old alliances and to form new ones, to find new legal frontiers and imaginaries, to reinforce the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of legal arguments as well as intergenerational memory of what feminist legal work is, has been and should be about. How, we ask, do these decisions (and those like them globally) reflect and reproduce structures of coloniality, heteronormativity and cisnormativity? What do these decisions add to critiques of legal feminism? What would be construct…
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DocLB2 @doclb2.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
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Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
What if queer justice isn’t about inclusion, but about fighting disposability and* dreaming otherwise? This piece joins African feminism, Black trans studies & diasporic queer theory to resist Africana epistemicide & the GRIM imaginary of human rights. Now out <3 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Respatialising the global imaginary of gay rights: resisting Africana epistemicide and forging Solidaristic Imaginaries
This article critiques the global imaginary of LGBTQ rights, arguing that dominant metrics of state-based human rights frameworks, what I term the Gay Rights International Movement (GRIM), reproduc...
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christopher griffin @chris-brighton.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
My new article addresses the claim that the rights of trans women 'clash' with the rights of cis women. I examine the coloniality of the concept of rights underpinning this idea, exploring the erotics of sacrificial feminism and zero-sum politics in general... 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Dispossessive rights: coloniality and trans-exclusion in zero-sum politics
The idea that rights are possessions that are given and lost is so ubiquitous within the dominant discourse that its metaphoricity is forgotten. This amnesia naturalises possessive individualism, a...
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Decolonial Conference @decolonialconf.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Submissions to our call for proposals are due October 3, 2025! On April 6-7 2026, we will have the in-person conference and on April 8 it will be entirely online. Online attendees will have access to some in-person sessions, pending presenters' consent to being recorded. #decolonialconference
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Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
que descanse en paz y poder 🕊️🙏🏾✊🏾 So many lessons learned by my early inspiration, Assata Shakur. I've been meditating on her words especially often lately, as I work her prison writings into a book chapter. Can't explain what she has meant for my organising and thinking...
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Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Very much looking forward to this! Thank you for sharing ✨
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Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Really curious abt how other academics decide how many speaking & service engagements they accept per term. Does anyone have a strategy or do you just follow vibes? 🫣 (I have always followed my heart but I'm so low capacity rn that I know I have to balance inspo events and the need for a cut off)
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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Job Opportunity! University of California Berkeley - Assistant Professor - Global Black Geographies - Department of Geography networks.h-net.org/jobs/68992/u...
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University of California Berkeley - Assistant Professor - Global Black Geographies - Department of Geography | H-Net
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 12/08/2025
A Trump order seeks to impose involuntary confinement on homeless and mentally ill Americans. Trans people are already at a higher risk. But a nightmare scenario of mass confinement hangs over the order - the right defines trans people as inherently mentally ill. slate.com/life/2025/08...
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Trump Just Took a Major Step Toward a Nightmare Scenario for Trans Americans Under the Guise of “Public Safety.” Don’t Be Fooled.
If we don’t change course soon, it will be too late.
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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
If you have been stopped, challenged or harassed when using a gendered space (such as toilets or changing rooms) since the UK's Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act we need to hear from you. Let us know at: tinyurl.com/ReportALoo #Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Queer #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT
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Have you been questioned, stopped or challenged using a gendered space? – TransActual
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🌬️🍃 @jem.ispost.ing · 06/08/2025
“What does it mean for one’s citizenship to depend on the violence of deportation in order to have meaning? Can we imagine forms of citizenship that do not require violence in order to have meaning? What are ways that citizens can ethically participate in realizing this change?”
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Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Who on here will be in Chicago next weekend for #ASA2025? It's been about seven years since I was a regular attendee and I am a bit nervous I've become estranged from the US scene 🫣 (thankful for that in general, but if these meetings are as large as they were pre-COVID...😬)
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Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
📘 "This study builds on and critiques theories of doing, redoing, and undoing gender by demonstrating how nonbinary transitioning disrupts dominant models of gender accountability, recognition, and self-determination." @lseblogs.bsky.social @socwomen.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social #sociology
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Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Sociological Inquiry has just published my newest article, open access: "Reconceptualizing Gender Transitioning" video abstract linked below 👇🏾 www.linkedin.com/posts/sm-rod... #genderstudies #sociology #nonbinary #transitioning
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✨How do non-binary experiences expand the meaning of gender transition? | SM Rodriguez
✨How do non-binary experiences expand the meaning of gender transition? - My new article explores how transition isn’t always linear or binary, but instead can be fluid, relational, and strategic. 🌱 P...
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
🚨🚨 Join us for Abolition Now! with @smrodriguez.bsky.social @slamble1.bsky.social and Leticia Sabsay! This event explores how queer and trans theories illuminate the urgent need to dismantle carceral systems and reimagine safety, justice, and accountability. Free tickets at link in bio! 🎟️
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