Past Events
IF/Q Studies Collective
Hot Topics: A Workshop on Trans & Queer Publishing
a workshop on Queer and Trans scholarship and publishing
SABBATH QUEEN
a film screening of SABBATH QUEEN (2024, 105 MIN, Director: Sandi DuBowski)
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Red Feminisms Symposium
a symposium spotlighting social reproduction and the tradition of Soviet & Eastern European feminism
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Hasta La Raíz (2017) │ Black Women In Motion Film Series
a film screening of Hasta La Raíz (2017, Dominican Republic, dir. Juan Carlos González Díaz)
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ICE OUT: The Aesthetics and Counter-Aesthetics of Immigration Enforcement and Resistance
a conversation with queer/trans artists rafa esparza and Cassils on the spectacle of ICE raids
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Ballroom: A History, A Movement, A Celebration
a book talk with author Michael Roberson
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Meelon Dur (Miles Away)
a film screening of Meelon Dur (Miles Away)
IF/Q Studies Collective
Social Sculpture: Huddling, Then and Now
a movement workshop with Cassils
IF/Q Studies Collective
Decolonial Pop with Gad Yola
a practice-based audiovisual workshop with drag artist Gad Yola
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Kumina Queen (2022) │ Black Women In Motion Film Series
a film screening of Kumina Queen (2022, Jamaica, dir. Nyasha Laing)
Book Club Session 3┃ Ballroom: A History, A Movement, A Celebration
a book club leading up to a book talk event with the author
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Divas, Drag Queens, Aunties, and Other Academic Personas
a lecture by Kareem Khubchandani
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#MeToo and the Politics of Transnational Feminism
a book talk with editors Chaitanya Lakkimsetti and Vanita Reddy
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Saint Omer (2022) │ Black Women In Motion Film Series
a film screening of Saint Omer (2022, France, dir. Alice Diop)
Book Club Session 2┃ Ballroom: A History, A Movement, A Celebration
a book club leading up to a book talk event with the author
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Archival Interregnum: Caste, Sexuality, Indenture
a lecture by Anjali Arondekar
IF/Q Studies Collective
Trans Caribbean: Queer and Trans Arts, Rights, and Activism
a day-long symposium spotlighting Trans Caribbean queer and trans art practices, activism, & advocacy
Book Club Session 1┃ Ballroom: A History, A Movement, A Celebration
a book club leading up to a book talk event with the author
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Femmephilia: Femininity Against Nature
a conversation with Sophie Lewis and Emma Heaney
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Chez Jolie Coiffure (2018) │ Black Women In Motion Film Series
a film screening of Chez Jolie Coiffure (2018, Belgium, dir. Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam)
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Impossible Desires: New Directions in Queer Diaspora Studies
a celebratory night of queer thought, art, and sound — honoring Impossible Desires
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Freda│Black Women In Motion Film Series
a film screening series exploring how Black women navigate displacement globally
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Comic Studies Symposium: Race, Sex, Empire and American Comics
a keynote panel with Ramzi Fawaz, Rebecca Wanzo, and Qiana Whitted
How Sixteenth-Century Nuns Could Save Your Twenty-First-Century Life: A Book Talk and Multimedia Presentation by Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita
a book talk and multimedia presentation by Ana Garriga & Carmen Urbita
El Grito de TransMalinche y Desempolvando Archivos Trans
a conversation with Lia García and Évolet Aceves
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An Evening with Tourmaline
an artist talk and conversation with acclaimed artist, writer and activist Tourmaline
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Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone
a book launch and discussion with Alvin K. Wong
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Please Hold (2025)
a film screening with director Alexandra Juhasz
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Prince #Shhh30 Virtual Symposium
a virtual symposium celebrating the 30th anniversary of Prince’s The Gold Experience & The NPG’s Exodus
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Indigenous Equinox Gatherings NYC
a two-day gathering attending to Indigenous presence & relations in NYC coinciding with the fall equinox
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20 Cooper Live! | Centers & Institutes’ Open House
join CSGS and other Centers and Institutes at NYU for a dynamic open house
Book Launch: All This Safety Is Killing Us
a virtual book launch with Ronica Mukerjee, Onyinye Alheri, Leroy Moore & Pato Hebert
Prince #PopLife40 Symposium Day 3
a 3 day symposium celebrating Prince’s Around The World In A Day, The Family, & Sheila E.’s Romance 1600
Prince #PopLife40 Symposium Day 2
a 3 day symposium celebrating Prince’s Around The World In A Day, The Family, & Sheila E.’s Romance 1600
Lockdown University: Policing Minds in the Age of Authoritarianism
a gathering on the occasion of the retirement of Lisa Duggan, Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis
Prince #PopLife40 Symposium Day 1
a 3 day symposium celebrating Prince’s Around The World In A Day, The Family, & Sheila E.’s Romance 1600
On the Desire to Wake
a talk with Grace Lavery, moderated by Ann Pellegrini.
Standing Above the Clouds: Screening & Discussion
a film screening and discussion with director & producer Jalena Keane-Lee & artist Hāwane Rios
Activation: Ficciones patógenas at Leslie Lohman Museum of Art
an exhibit activation by Madrid-based artist, Francisco Godoy
Claiming Our Future: Trans Day of Visibility Roundtable
a community conversation led by trans and non-binary leaders about visibility
THE NYC AIDS MEMORIAL: A SITE OF MEMORY, HISTORY, AND ACTION
a conversation between Dave Harper, Ted Kerr and Salonee Bhaman
Provincializing Cisness: Transnational Scholars on the Diversity of Sex/Gender Systems
a panel connecting scholars to explore non-cis social structures across disciplines
Fragile Masculinities: Gender and the Far-Right
a panel exploring the often overlooked role of women in far-right movements
Exhibiting Forgiveness (2024)
a film screening and conversation with Titus Kaphar
Painting Her Pleasure: Women Artists in Avant-Garde Paris
a lecture with author of Painting Her Pleasure, Dr. Lauren Jimerson
Mourning and Militancy: Bodily Autonomy and Networks of Care
a panel discussion with Dean Spade, Amitis Motevalli, Yin Q, and Viva Ruiz
Twice Colonized (2023)
a film screening and discussion with filmmaker Aaju Peter, Andrew MacLean, and Jacob Floyd
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Day With(out) Art 2024: Red Reminds Me…
Red Reminds Me…, a program of short videos reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV
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Day With(out) Art 2024: Red Reminds Me…
Red Reminds Me…, a program of short videos reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV
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The Performance & Politics of Truth: Performance Studies Meets the “Art of Government”
IF/Q Studies Collective
Border Crossings / Cruzando Fronteras: Trans Life Across the US-Mexico Border
a panel discussion of trans rights and embodiment in the US and Mexico
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Going Transbinary: Learning from Classical Daoist Philopoetics: Kyoo Lee
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Film Screening: Inky, Pinky, Ponky
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Book Talk: The Queer Arab Glossary
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Book Launch: Blessings Beyond the Binary: Transparent and the Queer Jewish Family
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BODY FREEDOM FOR EVERY(BODY)
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otherland: Our Queer Earth
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Prince #EroticCity40 Symposium
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Sediments (SEDIMIENTOS)
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Queer World Making: Contemporary Middle Eastern Diasporic Art
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Edad y territorio como vehículos de otrerización
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ENEMY FEMINISMS with SOPHIE LEWIS
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Calling to the Ancestors: Garifuna Women as Embodied Archives
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Queering State Power in Asian Diasporic World-Making
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Maternidades y Feminismos en España: Interseccionalidad y decolonialidad
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Past Times: Life, Loss and Love in Photography
a conversation with David Deitcher, Jarrett Earnest, and Shelley Rice.” Moderated by Ulrich Baer
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The Treasury of Human Inheritance: A Work-in-Progress
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Bad Crip Feelings and How (Not) to Bear Them
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Book Talk: When I Think About Power
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In Her Own Words: Isabel Sandoval
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PLAN C
IF/Q Studies Collective
Sex/Work in a Global Frame
IF/Q Studies Collective
Fly in Power: Screening & Discussion
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Radioactive Landscapes
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The Wholly Impossible
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Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex
IF/Q Studies Collective
Opening Reception: Our Inner Quarters: Spaces of Work & Care
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Don’t Mourn, Consecrate: A Long Table Discussion on Pandemics, Public Art, and History
IF/Q Studies Collective
Border Crossings: Global Migration in a Queer/Feminist Frame
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Archivo de Memoria Trans Argentina: Nuestros códigos/Our codes
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Colonial Archives, Erotics, and Latin/x American Performance
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Circuits of the Sacred: A Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean
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This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the US
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Finding Your Form: A Pre-Craft Talk
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Patterns and Power: A Discussion on Craft and Labor in Art
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Experimental Aging and U.S. Modernisms
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To See and Be Seen: Queer and Trans Visibility in Photojournalism
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Loss, Longing, Belonging: Shahzia Sikander’s Khorfakkan Series
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Trans Lineages
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Ancient Sex, Ancient Gender: A Comparative Investigation
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The Janes (2022, 101 min, Dirs: Tia Lessin, Emma Pildes)
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The History of Black Miami-Dade: rendering black, queer, and elder populations visible
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Queer Forms
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Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, & the State in Lebanon
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Comrade Sisters / In a Time of Panthers
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Emotional Justice: A Roadmap for Racial Healing
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Art and Friendship in Downtown NYC: A Conversation with James Cottrell, Joseph Lovett, and Deborah Kass
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Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag & Trans Performance
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The Spiral Word
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Working Out with Warhol. . .Sort of: Negotiating the Swish and the Clone on Andy Warhol’s T.V.
IF/Q Studies Collective
Global Indigenous Intimacies
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Latinx Studies @ 50: At the Vanguard of Ethnic Studies: PART TWO
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Prince #SexyMF30 Virtual Symposium
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Dangerous Homes: On Violence Against Women & Gender Non-conforming Persons
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8 Lives Vigil
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Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers
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Home in Jeopardy: Julián Castro on the American Housing Crisis
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On the Divide: film screening & discussion
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Um Al Naar (Mother of Fire) Film Screening and Conversation
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Crisis Ordinariness: Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism in a Transnational Frame
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Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
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Latinx at 50: At the Vanguard of Ethnic Studies
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Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
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Bodies and Spaces
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Kin Theory: New Work in Indigenous Media
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Traversing Multiple Realities of Contemporary American and Asian Art: Shahzia Sikander
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Psychoanalysis Without Borders
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Radical Kinship: Solidarity & Political Belonging
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Minor China: Book Launch & Roundtable
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Trans* Bodies & Cultures
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Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam
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Prince #1plus1plus1is3 Symposium
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Black Futures
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SKIRBALL TV: Ai-jen Poo
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Golem Girl: A Memoir (Riva Lehrer, 2020)
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Queer Diasporic Visual Art: Islamicate Contexts
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Transnational Feminisms & Reimagining Futures in the (Post-)Covid World
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Space & Time I: Crowds, Bodies, Affect
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Bodies, Sexualities, & the Law
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The Forty-Year-Old Version
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THE 8TH (94 mins, 2020, Directed by Aideen Kane, Lucy Kennedy and Maeve O’Boyle)
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On Community Care: Documenting A/P/A Voices During COVID-19
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Colonialism, Sex, Disease
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Curating Performance: A Map Drawn to the Scale of the Territory Itself
5th annual Performance Studies Curatorial Symposium
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Engendering Caste, Sexualizing Race
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A/P/A Represents
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Queer/Feminist/Indigenous Approaches to Climate Crisis: From the Caribbean to the Pacific
a conversation with Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua & Angelique V. Nixon, moderated by Dean Itsuji Saranillio
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How to Have Sex in a Pandemic: Intimacy, Disease, & the Politics of Vulnerability
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Opal Tometi @ Skirball
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Radical Kinship: Solidarity & Political Belonging
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Curating Performance: A Map Drawn to the Scale of the Territory Itself
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Decolonial Aesthetics: Feminist Responses to Occupation
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On Queering Latinx Art
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Talking with Pêdra Costa
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New Directions in Trans of Color Scholarship
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Facing “Comfort Women”: Representations and Reckonings
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Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance
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Siting A/P/A Studies: A Celebration of Scholars
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An Indefinite Sentence: A Personal History of India’s Inspiring Movements for LGBT and Sex Workers’ Rights
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Women & Migration: Responses in Art & History
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Terrifying Drag
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John Kelly: Underneath the Skin
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Thinking Unruly Aesthetics
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Bodyminds Reimagined
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Thinking #MeToo Transnationally: Hong Kong, India, Pakistan, Morocco, Taiwan
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Wild Bore
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