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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hilda Käkikoski, lesbian vegetarian 1st women MPs Finland great @lselibrary.bsky.social Paula Bartley Trailblazers @politybooks.bsky.social elected 1907. @lse.library 1925 book Modern women Finland, @lsegender.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social

An open book is displayed across two pages. The left page contains four black-and-white portrait photographs arranged in a grid, each with a caption beneath identifying the person. The right page contains several paragraphs of printed text, including a section heading, “Modern woman in community and state.” The aged pages show stains and wear near the centre binding and margins.

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Women Publishing- archive She magazine (Pakistan) @lselibrary.bsky.social @lsesouthasia.bsky.social Editing Women in the archives www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCcW... @lsealum.bsky.social Zuhra Karim blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2... @lsemedia.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social

A magazine or newspaper article page titled “Mian Mumtaz Daultana Meets the Ladies”, featuring a small black-and-white portrait photograph in the upper-right corner and multiple columns of printed text discussing women, politics, and rights in Pakistan. Bold headlines and highlighted quotations appear throughout the page, with the article continuing onto another page

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

LSE environment week @lselibrary.bsky.social 1950s @womensinstitute.bsky.social and Townswomens Guild pioneered campaigns to raise public awareness about litter. resolution 1954 @lsegeography.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @lsesu.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social

A scanned magazine page from The Townswoman dated January 1954 is shown open on a page titled “National Council Meeting,” outlining a preliminary agenda for a meeting at the Royal Festival Hall in London in June 1954. The page contains multiple columns of text describing proposed resolutions and meeting business

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Welcome, @lselibrary.bsky.social Here is a quick look at @lseanthropology.bsky.social @lsepbs.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social @lsehealthpolicy.bsky.social @lseid.bsky.social As I am lucky enough to be the Librarian. More help here www.lse.ac.uk/library/abou... Hope to see you soon.

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My feminist journal crafted amazing @lselibrary.bsky.social @womenslibrary.bsky.social the title Alone we are powerless is from this See Red womens poster from the 1970s digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... @lsegender.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @liberatinghistorys.bsky.social

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Women &Rape Not for Want of Trying podcast. founding London Rape Crisis Centre 1976. @lselibrary.bsky.social 1987 article Mukhti, account reporting digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... @rapecrisis.bsky.social @womenslibrary.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

@womenshistnet.bsky.social conference. @lselibrary.bsky.social displayed some newly acquired archives @fotwl.bsky.social . handwritten manuscript Constance Lytton disguised as maid force-fed www.suffrageresources.org.uk/database/216... @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social

Handwritten diary page with dated entries from January 1916, written in dark ink on lined paper. The manuscript includes references to a protest meeting, court proceedings, and Chelmsford Gaol, with corrections and crossed-out words visible throughout

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Remembering Gloria Steinem. @lselibrary.bsky.social She. Mar 1972 digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... She: wmagazine founded LSE alumna Zuhra Karim. www.lse.ac.uk/library/coll... www.lse.ac.uk/library/coll... @lsegender.bsky.social @womenslibrary.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Women and Greenham Common. Not for Want of Trying anti-nuclear protest @lselibrary.bsky.social digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... @lselibrary.bsky.social oral history digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/... @lsegender.bsky.social @fotwl.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

A hand-drawn poster titled “Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp 1981–2000: A Spiritual Journey” presents a spiral timeline of the peace camp’s history. The timeline includes illustrated scenes of women marching, cutting fences, gathering at protests, and commemorative events, alongside text boxes describing key moments in the campaign against nuclear weapons.

The poster uses colourful drawings, circular date markers from 1981 to 2000, and handwritten notes to show major milestones, ending with the closure of the camp in 2000.

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Book that must be suppressed Well of Loneliness. www.womenslegallandmarks.com/about/ review on @lselibrary.bsky.social Urania digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... finds the book a triumph of art and delicacy @womenshistnet.bsky.social @wellofloneliness.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social

An open book displays a page from Urania, a two-monthly publication dated May–August 1929. The page contains two columns of printed text, with a blue British Library of Political and Economic Science stamp in the upper left corner and visible wear and staining on the paper.

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Women &Abortion rights. www.womenslegallandmarks.com @lselibrary.bsky.social 1930s Birkett Committee clarified doctors could perform an abortion to save a woman’s life, digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... @womenslibrary.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social

A scanned pamphlet cover from June 1939 issued by the National Council of Women of Great Britain. The page is titled “Summary of the Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Abortion” and contains several paragraphs of printed text outlining the committee’s membership, principles, definitions, and findings on abortion. Handwritten reference numbers appear at the top and a library label marked “Pamphlet” is attached at the bottom.

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

eclipse viewing from @lselibrary.bsky.social letter civil, engineer Ralph Strachey to suffragist Philippa Strachey 1898 in india digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... #eclipse @lsegender.bsky.social @lsesouthasia.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

Handwritten letter dated 19 January 1948, written in dark ink on a single page. The letter begins “My dear Pippa” and discusses preparations for viewing an eclipse, including telescopes and an observation site.

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Women are not to be eclipsed! cartoon @lselibrary.bsky.social Votes for Women April 12, 1912. on 17/4/12 there was a solar Eclipse digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... #eclipse @lsegender.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social

Front page of the Votes for Women newspaper dated 12 April 1912, displayed as an open page from a bound volume. A large illustration beneath the headline “Not to be Eclipsed!” shows a figure riding a broomstick and carrying a flag, flying across a darkened sky beside an eclipse, with the Houses of Parliament silhouetted below. The lower half of the page contains columns of news text and a contents list.

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Women, Property & Divorce podcast www.womenslegallandmarks.com/2017/08/08/w... earlier campaigning materials @lselibrary.bsky.social National Union for Equal Citizenship 1921. digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De.... @womenshistnet.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social

A pamphlet cover titled The Legal Position of Women as Wives and Mothers (in England and Wales) by Rosamond Smith is displayed against a dark background. The cover includes publication details from the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship, library and collection stamps, handwritten reference numbers, and a label identifying it as a pamphlet.

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Contribution @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social Sex Discrim Act 75 www.womenslegallandmarks.com/2017/08/08/s... Baroness Seear President @fawcettsociety.bsky.social Anti-Discrimination Bill Lords '71. Personnel Management academic @womenshistnet.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A Women's Freedom League Pageant of women from early 20th-century Edinburgh Content warning use of outdated language to refer to disability appears on the name of the venue. digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... @womenslibrary.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

photo black and white 1910 womens freedom league pageant about 30 plus women dressed in historic costumes

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A suffrage play – Pageant of Great Women discussed on the Not for want of trying podcast www.womenslegallandmarks.com/2017/08/08/a... by Cicely Hamilton 1910 portraying ‘great women from history’ and intended to be inspiring and educational @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social

double page spread newspaper the vote from 1910

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

fascinating Dec 1875. Mrs Fawcett asks Ms Elmy to resign secretary Married Women's Property Committee. Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy's lifestyle, was considered scandalous to many. map.mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk/items/show/306 digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... @womenshistnet.bsky.social

handwritten letter letter. Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Mrs Elmy, 10 Dec 1875

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Married Womens Property Act 1882. Inspired by womenslegallandmarks.com/2017/08/08/m.... @lselibrary.bsky.social has many reports from the Married Womens Property Committee librarysearch.lse.ac.uk/permalink/44... @womenshistnet.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social @lselaw.bsky.social

front page of pamphlet 19th century married womens property committee

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

19th c pamphlet sparked a revolution, according Prof Joanne Conaghan, womenslegallandmarks.com/2017/08/07/a... Barbara bodichon campaigner. summarised the way in which women's rights were limited by English law. @womenshistnet.bsky.social @lselibrary.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social

front page of 19th century book brief summary in plain language the most important laws of england concerning women

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

1920 Lawn tennis for Girls celebrated french tennis player .Suzanne Lenglen www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti... @lselibrary.bsky.social digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... @womenshistnet.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social @wimbledonltc.bsky.social #wimbledon

book doublesoread text on left image of woman tennis player from 1920s on the right

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

@fotwl.bsky.social event Una Kroll Movement Ordination of Women @lselibrary.bsky.social Christian Voices coming out 2016 oral history work as GP led to understand that gay people were not ill @lsegender.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @womenslibrary.bsky.social

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

#pride month. I was blown away by Alex Slater in GLF Come Together 14 "Gay pride is simply explaining gayness is good. that Gayness has as much potential for happiness and self-fulfilment as straightness has for straights." @lselibrary.bsky.social @lsesu.bsky.social @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social

image in blue page drawn sketch throwing discusses under poem come toether magazine 1970s

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

#Pride month. amazing @lselibrary.bsky.social historic photos. 1974. large police presence plain dress of marchersprotesting rather than celebrating see more examples www.flickr.com/photos/lseli... @lsegender.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social @howlwoman69.bsky.social @lsesu.bsky.social

photo black white gay pride march 1974 line of police men protesting in shirts trousers holding banners we are natures children too

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

#PrideMonth To celebrate Here is one of the amazing @lselibrary.bsky.social library badges from 1981 see more examples digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/... @lsegender.bsky.social @lsesu.bsky.social @lsepbs.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

1st women accountants. @fotwl.bsky.social talk Ethel Watts, www.icaew.com/library/hist... Opportunity 1930 . she trained articled clerks to encourage women digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... @lsegender.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social@icaew @icaew.bsky.social

inside page 1930 opportunity magazine a new record for women acocuntants is the article on the left.

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

new @lselibrary.bsky.social Opportunity publication of the National Association of Women Civil Servants archives.lse.ac.uk/records/6NCS women only campaigned for equal opportunity end marriage bar digital.library.lse.ac.uk @lsegender.bsky.social @fotwl.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Virginia Woolf & People's Suffrage Federation @lselibrary.bsky.social event volunteered addressing envelopes! @lse.library has PSF digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... @womenshistnet.bsky.social @fotwl.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social

typewritten letter heading peoples suffrage foundation

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

coming soon @lselibrary.bsky.social via @fotwl.bsky.social letters Elsa Gye www.suffrageresources.org.uk/database/194... 1912 when she was a schoolgirl offer insight into aspirations @womenslibrary.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.socialr@womenshistnet.bsky.social 1 m

photo handwritten letter shows old fashuioned handwriting at the top is a drawing of a women in victorian clothes chasing a man

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

@lselibrary.bsky.social hosted amazing Write & Shine early morning writing workshop . A writing prompt Audre Lorde. latest exhibition is displaying materials from Sheba press @lsegender.bsky.social @fotwl.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @womenslibrary.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social

image exhibition case displaying books by audre lourdeplus newspaper cuttings

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

What to read for social reformers 1896 #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek @lselibrary.bsky.social @thefabians.bsky.social p33 reading about position women Mary Wollstonecroft; JS Mill Havelock Ellis. digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... @womenshistnet.bsky.social @lsesu.bsky.social Edited · 3 m

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Explore Booth's Poverty maps on Minecraft! archive @lselibrary.bsky.social amazing to see Booth's maps of streets I walk every day and find out the income & occupation of people who lived 1890s. @lsesu.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social @lsegeography.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

local #election from @lselibrary.bsky.social @thefabians.bsky.social pro women councillors 1900 Arguments now seem outdated but were modern then: women needed for housing design ' men live in houses women work in them' @womenshistnet.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social @fotwl.bsky.social

fabian pamphlet front page women as councillors shows text

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

How suffragettes from the WSPU celebrated May Day! part 2 @lselibrary.bsky.social suffragette May 8th 1914 82 has photos showing the procession. It Increased the sales of the paper successful marketing ! #MayDay @lsegender.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

newsppaer from 1914 showig text and photos of suffragette may da parade photos of may pole, crowds may queen

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

How suffragettes celebrated May Day! WSPU had marketing ideas 'the prettier and more enjoyable' more advertising Suffragette 1914 digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @lselibrary.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social

newspaper 1914 suffragette showing text images of may day parades and maypole

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

War Office is 'dead against them' Katherine Furse @fotwl.bsky.social event friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk I learnt more about British Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment WW1 digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... @womenshistnet.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social @womenslibrary.bsky.social

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Celebrating BR Ambedkar - Indian social reformer LSE Alumnus. Last week I was lucky enough to attend the @lselibrary.bsky.social event I even got to view his thesis! www.lse.ac.uk/library/coll... @lsesouthasia.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social @lseanthropology.bsky.social

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Great news Townswoman 30s-50s digitised by @lselibrary.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DXEE4_3... examples interwar womens activities and campaigning @lsegender.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Our women's history month special. materials from a recent ALISS workshop. alissnet.com these focused on recommended by @womanandhersphere.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social @lsesu.bsky.social

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Happy St Patrick's Day with a suffrage special on the Queens of Ireland from the Vote (Women's Freedom League) . Mar 17 1916 digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... #stpatricksday #irish @lselibrary.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @lsesu.bsky.social

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Just for fun whm 2026. I am creating a set of biographies of amazing Arts and Crafts women inspired by this book. alissnet.com/aliss-womens... alissnet.com/wp-content/u... #whm #womenshistorymonth @lselibrary.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @womenslibrary.bsky.social

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

recent @fotwl.bsky.social event Christiana Herringham. worked with Mary Lowndes. contributed indian textiles for suffrage banners. album in @lselibrary.bsky.social digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De.... @lsegender.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

mary lowndes album illustration leeds banner leeds for liberty in glue shield

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

In 1939 she wrote suggesting ways in which a women's Library could be useful during war. LSE is setting up more courses & she doesnt know how students will get books as other libraries are closed digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De...

handwritten letter from eillen younghusband in 1939

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

women's @lselibrary.bsky.social centenary. Vera Douie librarian. kept records of requests from users on filing cards. LSE lecturer Eileen Younghusband in 1930s/40s. asked for materials for a social admin course @lsegender.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social

handwritten library filing card square lined paper 1938 vera douie handwriting

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

In June 1936 the Librarian wrote to Virgina Woolf asking for donations to fill gaps in the collection. Here are some of the books required. blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2... @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social

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