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We pay tribute to a true trailblazer, Georgina Beyer, whose legacy stretches far beyond the beautiful mountains of New Zealand.
Dr Tony Reed looks at the issues facing the LGBTI community. This programme is tribute to Georgina Beyer
World Pride participants from Japan, Thailand and the Philippines bring their own flavor to the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade (correspondent Barry McKay reports). Florida's ban on gender-affirming healthcare for trans children goes into effect and Georgia's legislature tries to follow that example, but President Joe Biden, his Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, Georgia state Representative Karla Drenner and entertainer Lily Tomlin decry the trend. And in NewsWrap: Milan's same-gender couples lose parental rights on orders from Italy's far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, one of two imprisoned Iranian LGBTQ activists freed on bail, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz orders discrimination protections for trans people, Wellesley College students vote for consideration of trans male and non-binary applicants, trailblazing New Zealand trans politician Georgina Beyer dies, and more international LGBTQ news reported this week by Michael Taylor-Gray and Melanie Keller (produced by Brian DeShazor). All this on the March 20, 2023 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/
Kia Ora! On the 6th of March Aotearoa lost someone who deserves a mention for all the good they did politically for our Rainbow community. So I'm jumping back on the mic to bid farewell to Georgina Beyer, a former actor, drag performer, sex worker, radio host, Politician and rainbow crusader. Thanks to my Gems listening out there: Jason, Barry, Lieran, Ezequiel, KP, Joey, Dusty, Karl and BJ. Become a Gem by visiting https://www.patreon.com/jewelsfromnz Send messages thru Glitter Discord or email on julzburgisser@gmail.com Find me under @JulzfromNZ on Instagram, Facebook and @julzburgisser on Twitter as well! Aroha nui. Ka kite anō. Xx --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jewelsfromnz/message
John continues the Lenten theme of looking at people who lived the Beatitudes with persistence. This week he uses the story from John 4:5-42 – the story of an unnamed and mostly invisible Samaritan woman who is made visible though her persistence in conversing with Jesus. From that John explores some of the story of Georgina Beyer – a woman of great persistenceYou can read the notes for this sermon here
Na maliu i le vaiaso talu ai le tamaita'i transgender muamua na avea ma sui faipule o le palemene o Aotearoa Niu Sila, le tama'ita'i o Georgina Beyer.
Sean Mulcahy, Sally Goldner, Dean Arcuri interviews with James McKenzie. Sean Mulcahy discusses the Victorian Pride Lobby's Rainbow Local Government Campaign. The Campaign promotes inclusion of LGBTIQA+ issues within Victoria's Councils and wants more people from the LGBTIQA+ Community elected to Local Government. Home - Victorian Pride Lobby (vicpridelobby.org) Two of the ChillOut Festival's Ambassadors Sally Goldner & Dean Arcuri chat about the Festival in Daylesford and its surrounds in regional Victoria. https://www.chilloutfestival.com.au Sally discusses her 3CR show Out of the Pan's live broadcast at ChillOut and its recent 18th birthday. She reflects on award-winning organisation Trans Family and pays tribute to the late Georgina Beyer. Starts 17:47 minutes. Dean discusses the amazing community events he's entertained at during Pride Season and gives rousing commentary in support of Drag Storytime. Starts 37:59 minutes. 3CR broadcasts from the stolen lands of the Kulin Nation. Sovereignty was never ceded.
It's been announced there's to be a Carterton street named after Georgina Breyer who died this week. Kevin Milne thinks this is great, but reckons that more of our landmarks should be re-named after our national heroes. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Rawiri Waititi joins us from Wellington to discuss Te Pāti Māori's Te Matatini and flood response. Then panelists Shane Te Pou and Jenny Marcroft reflect on Georgina Beyer's legacy.
Trail-blazing New Zealand politician Georgina Beyer has died at the age of 65 after a long battle with kidney disease.
The world's first transgender politician, Georgina Beyer, has died. Friends of the ground-breaking politician and activist say she died this afternoon after a long illness. Her friends Scotty and Malcolm of Wellington's S and M's Cocktail Bar, say the former Mayor of Carterton, Labour MP, activist, dear friend and rainbow legend, passed away peacefully at Mary Potter Hospice. They say she was surround by her nearest and dearest 24/7 over the past week. She accepted what was happening, was cracking jokes and had a twinkle in her eye, right till the final moments. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins paid tribute to Georgina Beyer a short time ago.
A trailblazing activist who made history as the world's first openly transgender MP, has died aged 65.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Georgina Beyer - the world's first openly transgender MP - is being remembered as a "force to be reckoned with". The 65-year-old died this afternoon in hospice care in Wellington. She was elected as Mayor of Carterton in 1995 and entered Parliament for Wairarapa as a Labour MP in 1999. ZB's senior political correspondent Barry Soper says Beyer had a great sense of humour. "Her friends who were with her say that she accepted what was happening and was cracking jokes and had a twinkle in her eye right until the final moments." LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Will deer milk take off in NZ? Also talk on getting your head stuck in things, Lynard Skynard, and the late Georgina Beyer. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The country's first openly transgender Mayor and MP Georgina Beyer is being remembered as a fearless fighter for rainbow rights whose love and compassion will live on forever. She died yesterday at Mary Potter Hospice after a long illness. She was 65. Her election as Mayor of Carterton in 1995 and then later as an MP, attracted worldwide attention. The Carterton District Council is flying its flag at half mast today in honour of its former mayor. Ben Strang looks back on her colourful life.
The Carterton District Council is flying its flag at half mast today in honour of its former mayor Georgina Beyer who died yesterday. Her election as Mayor in 1995 and then later as an MP, attracted worldwide attention. For her politics was an obvious choice after working as a stripper, sex worker, drag queen star and actor. But it didn't come without its challenges. Annie Goldson is a documentary maker whose works include Georgie Girl, a doco she co-directed 22 years ago on the late MP and rural mayor. She is with us now along with the MP Shanan Halbert, who is the chair of the Labour Party rainbow caucus. He spoke to Corin Dann.
Georgina Beyer clashed with Destiny Church's Brian Tamaki (currently back in the news for his anti-vaccination stance) in a number of televised debates around this time, and on this weeks episode - hosted by Free Speech Union Spokesperson Dane Giraud - Georgina discusses her many stoushes with Tamaki and why debate is so key to exposing toxic messaging, along with sharing many colorful anecdotes around her colorful journey through politics. Political history buffs get set for a truly fascinating and engaging discussion with a real Kiwi free-speech champion! www.fsu.nz/join (Georgina Beyer is a Member of the NZ Order of Merit (MNZM). She was the world's first openly transgender Mayor (Carterton) as well as the world's first openly transgender Member of Parliament for Labour) (1999 - 2007). Support the show (https://www.freespeechcoalition.nz/donate)
Politicians shared emotional messages to the "brave" trans and wider community as they supported legislation that allows people to change their birth certificates to reflect who they are.It has been over four years since the Bill was introduced, and it has been thoroughly debated - at times fiery - at each stage finally getting to a point where today it passed its third reading today unanimously.Green Party MP Dr Elizabeth Kerekere, a longtime advocate in the rainbow community, was in tears and had to pause to gather her emotions as she spoke in support of the Bill in the House."This bill recognises that those who need to amend their birth certificate can do so, that the courts do not have the right to make that choice for them, that parents do not have that right, that cis-gender people who don't even know them or care about them do not have that right."As a takatāpui, cis-lesbian fem ally to our takatāpui, trans and intersex non-binary whānau, I am very proud to commend this bill to the house," she said.Kerekere also made reference to the country's first and only transgender MP, Georgina Beyer.The Bill means people can amend the sex on a birth certificate on simple process without going through the Family Court, which involved appearing before a judge and disclosing private medical information.It will also not require people to provide evidence of medical treatment, which can be difficult to access, intrusive, and which the person in question may not want.Internal Affairs Minister Jan Tinetti said it was "a proud day in Aotearoa's history".She paid tribute to the people who submitted in favour of the change who had been "hurt, mocked, belittled and discriminated against"."A lot of discussion was aimed at trans women. As a cis woman I am proud to stand alongside my sisters."Trans misogyny is still misogyny."Tinetti referred to a time when she was principal at a school and an 8-year-old student, who the "world saw as a boy knew they were a girl".She worked through the journey with her, and she'd recently contacted the minister to thank her."We are changing legislation that is truly a step closer to an inclusive Aotearoa New Zealand."Keep proudly being you."National Party spokeswoman for women Nicola Grigg said few bills had had such a "complicated" passage through the House."But this Bill is in a much better state than when it was introduced in 2017."She said she understood the concerns of those who felt the change could diminish the status of women in society, and set a precedent for replacing sex in policy."Those views are genuinely held and we as parliamentarians have an obligation to listen."She said she was concerned some of those opposing the changes were blocked from organising debates on the topic.However, Gigg said she believed those fears were unfounded."The current law causes unnecessary stress for some people and I don't think it will set a precedent. Laws need to reflect the times we live in."All this is doing is modernising the process, it was a dated Act and this shifts it in the right direction."The self-identification provisions come into force in 18 months' time.This will give the Government opportunity to consult with the rainbow community and receive submissions and ensure the legislation works to support those it concerns.Consultation will begin next year on the regulations which will determine who is a suitably qualified third party to support applications for young people; find a way to make sure the sex markers available for the birth certificate include non-binary and cultural options; and determine any additional requirements for anyone seeking to amend their registered sex more than once.- by Michael Neilson, NZ Herald
Georgina Beyer became the worlds first transgender Member of Parliament when she won the Wairarapa seat in 1999, she shares the highs and lows during her time in the halls of parliament.
Georgina Beyer became the worlds first transgender Member of Parliament when she won the Wairarapa seat in 1999, she shares the highs and lows during her time in the halls of parliament.
The Wairarapa electorate has kept it's true blue status for five consecutive elections but on Saturday turned red for the first time in fifteen years. The last Labour MP to win the seat was Georgina Beyer who served as Wairarapa MP for two terms before she conceded the seat in 2005. The Wairarapa's new MP Kieran McAnulty speaks to Susie Ferguson.
Matthew Todd, UK writer-journalist talks with Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of OUTTAKE VOICES™ about his exquisite new coffee table book “PRIDE: The Story Of The LGBTQ Equality Movement” published by Weldon Owen. The book documents the milestones in our fight for global LGBTQ equality from before Stonewall to the victories of activists over the last five decades that have led to the gradual acceptance of LGBTQ people in politics, sports and the media. It also chronicles the winning landmark court cases including marriage equality and significant legislation that have furthered our basic civil rights. This pictorial and wide-reaching text takes you on a journey covering key figures, heroes, notable moments, events and breakthroughs in a wealth of rare images and documents as well as providing moving essays from vital witnesses throughout our modern day movement. Though we still have a long way to go to achieve full equality, “PRIDE: The Story Of The LGBTQ Equality Movement” is a unique and comprehensive account of the ongoing challenges facing our LGBTQ community and a celebration of civil rights that have been won for many of us as a result of the sacrifices and passion of this mass movement. The book includes personal testimonies from many relevant activists and allies including Judy Shepard mother of Matthew Shepard, legendary photographer Nan Goldin, Reverend Troy Perry founder of the Metropolitan Community Church, novelist playwright essayist Darryl Pinckney, Jake Shears of The Scissor Sisters, activist and former Pride Award-winner Jonathan Blake, New Zealand politician Georgina Beyer the world’s first openly transgender Mayor and transgender member of Parliament, Deborah Brin one of the world’s first openly gay Rabbis and many more. We talked to Todd about his passion and inspiration for creating “PRIDE: The Story Of The LGBTQ Equality Movement” and his spin on our LGBTQ issues. Matthew Todd is a multi award winning writer and previous editor of “Attitude” a British gay lifestyle magazine from 2008 to 2016. His first book "Straight Jacket - Overcoming Society's Legacy of Gay Shame" was shortlisted for the Polari Prize in 2017 and was voted winner of the Boyz LGBT Book of the Year Award. His play “Blowing Whistles” has been performed in the UK, Australia and the United States. Todd’s fabulous new work “PRIDE: The Story Of The LGBTQ Equality Movement” (Weldon Owen) is currently available online and in stores.For More Info: matthewtodd.net LISTEN: 500+ LGBTQ Chats @OUTTAKE VOICES
City Rail Link's Tunnel Boring Machine has been named after Maori land rights activist Dame Whina Cooper . Dame Whina was chosen in a national poll over other finalists, Georgina Beyer, the world's first elected openly transgender mayor and Member of Parliament and an Anartica scientist Margaret Bradshaw. Naming boring machines after women is a tradition sometimes linked to St. Barbara, the patron saint of people who work underground.
"From the good and the great to the lowest of the low, she bridged a gap," says Georgina Beyer of transgender trailblazer, Carmen Rupe. Find out more in this episode of Eyewitness.
ArtistYou can also watch this episode on Youtube where English, Italian and Spanish subtitles are available or visit the Metralla Rosa website for more details.Nick Cuthell is a figurative artist from New Zealand with a modern image and a direct and frank manner – yet we could easily imagine him dressed in 19th century fashion walking the streets of London or Florence. This invisible link to the past may be exactly what informs his style of art, which is distinctly realistic and in keeping with the European impressionist and neoclassical portraiture tradition of the 1800s.His gentle eyes are especially good at capturing genuine refinement and beauty, and for this Nick relies on the traditional painting techniques known as ‘Alla Prima‘, or ‘L’Atelier‘, where students learn directly from maestros.Nick has a sweet tendency to recreate aesthetic and ethical virtue through his paintings. Like a modern-day gentleman trying to rescue a beautiful painting tradition, his very presence calls for serenity, and for a validation of beauty that exists only in what is evoked with purified simplicity and unquestionable dignity.Nick has been fortunate enough to be able to portray prominent contemporary personalities such as the renowned British actor Ian Mckellen, as well as other actors from the film ‘The Hobbit‘. He was also asked to paint the cast of ‘Waiting for Godot‘ by the Theatre Royal Haymarket. He has portrayed writer Martin Sherman, British/Nigerian actress Gloria Onitiri, and most recently Georgina Beyer, the world’s first openly transgender woman with the rank of mayor and later, member of the New Zealand parliament. However, for obvious reasons, it is his portrait of the current queen, Elizabeth II, commissioned by The New Zealand Portrait Gallery that was the great turning point of his career.Carla and Nick share a beautiful relationship of mutual cooperation and silent approval for the human and professional, which is why this interview has an aura of friendship pervading everything it touches. This episode of Metralla Rosa is a delightful, gentle walk through the life of a painter that should not be missed.And now, enjoy the interview!Related LinksWebsite | Instagram__________ArtistaNick Cuthell es un artista figurativista de origen Neozelandés que aunque tiene una imagen muy contemporánea y un modo de ser muy franco y directo, cualquiera podría fácilmente imaginar ataviado a la usanza del siglo 19th transitando las calles de Londres o Florencia. Y es quizás esta invisible conexión con el pasado lo que define su estilo artístico, claramente realista y apegado...for further information about this interview, including links to anything mentioned by Nick, or to continue reading this text in Spanish, English and Italian, visit the Metralla Rosa website.
Welcome back to Episode 7! Today we talk about Georgina Beyer, aka Georgie Girl, the WORLD's first openly transgender mayor and MP and a Mongolian warrior princess who kicked ass and took horses!
We talk a lot these days about resilience.There’s a feeling abroad that new generations don’t have much of it. That after a privileged childhood full of comforts that prosperity and technological advancement has brought, young people these days find setbacks and disappointments extremely hard to cope with.Deborah Hill Cone this week extended that to shame in her column. That while good people spend their life trying to avoid shame, it is actually something that needs to be experienced and learnt from. To acknowledge you have done something wrong. That your standing amongst others has fallen. That there’s something for you to atone for.Well on a lighter note I acknowledge that I failed to show resilience last night. It was late and I turned on the cricket. New Zealand versus Pakistan. I had already lost hope but I watched Babar run out by Ish Sodhi. A small flame of hope flickered and I flirted with staying awake on a school night. But I didn’t. Going to bed just as one of the most remarkable test victories came New Zealand’s way. By just 4 runs!The Black Caps showed resilience. The Black Caps never gave up. They should be very proud. I was a pussy, who missed a magic moment and all I had to do is sit there on my couch and yawn from time to time.On a more serious note, it comes as a great disappointment to me that the Auckland Pride Parade has been so compromised. And in doing so the organisers have shown no comprehension of resilience or shame despite the fact that their community has shown it for so long.There was a raucous meeting this week including fisticuffs and scuffles and the classic quote, "we left when the old gay amputee attacked the young trans". The Board of the parade decided to ban police marching in their uniform. In doing so they failed to show resilience against a small young band of radicals called People Against Prisons Aotearoa.In a tragic irony, their leader Emilie Rakete was involved in a fight at the hui during a heated conversation on police brutality.In another tragic irony, the people who argue most for inclusivity are now involved in exclusivity.In yet another irony, the people who are often branded a minority demanding change have changed after the demands of a minoritySo after showing such lamentable lack of resilience the entire Parade is compromised. The Defence Force now will not march with Auckland. Sponsors are pulling out. Georgina Beyer rang my programme last Friday incensed. Mika has called People in Prisons fascists.But the insult to the Police is shameful. The Police have acknowledged a past of discriminatory actions to the community. But in allowing police to march in the uniforms, to admit that shame, to show things have changed was always something good. I remember the first time police marched like that in a parade. I remember they got the loudest cheer. People were gobsmacked and impressed. It showed real change.So Pride Parade. No resilience. Shame on you.
The Auckland Pride Parade is standing behind its decision banning uniformed police from marching, despite a strong push-back from many people in the rainbow communityGeorgina Beyer is a former Labour Party Member of Parliament, and was the world's first openly transsexual mayor. She told Andrew Dickens she is extremely upset over the decision by the board to ban police, and believes it could do serious damage."I couldn't be more disappointed in the Auckland Pride board decision. We have built bridges with people in authority over the last 30 years. We can't wallow in our own victim hood forever. We have to move forward, and this type of decision is destructive. LISTEN ABOVE AS GEORGINA BEYER SPEAKS TO ANDREW DICKENS
Elspeth Orwin talks with Sue Berman about the exhibition case 'Run for Office'. She discusses the stories related to Ellen Melville, Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan, Dame Catherine Tizard and Georgina Beyer. References: Electors of Grey Lynn. 1919. From: Ellen Melville. Election scrapbooks. NZMS 1569. Group portrait of Auckland City Council, 1921-23. Photo ref: 7-A11634. Elizabeth Wratislav with contributions from Lucy Hammonds and Tryphena Cracknell. Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan: travel in style. Hawke's Bay: MTG, 2014. Georgina Beyer. Change for the better: the story of Georgina Beyer, as told to Cathy Casey. Auckland: Random House, 1999. Cath Tizard: the Mayor for Auckland.1983. Ephemera Collection. Cath Tizard. 1983. Ephemera Collection. Our Mayor – Cath Tizard. 1986. Ephemera Collection.
Presented by the National Library of New Zealand and the Royal Society Te Apārangi, and proudly supported by the Ministry for Women's Suffrage 125 Community Fund To commemorate 125 years of women’s suffrage, we assemble a panel of extraordinary New Zealand women to discuss how far we have come since women were granted the vote, and how far we still have to go in the fight for gender equality. Featuring pioneering human rights activist Georgina Beyer, historian Dame Anne Salmond, musician and writer Lizzie Marvelly, head of Aotahi, the School of Māori and Indigenous Studies at the University of Canterbury Sacha McMeeking, and Paula Penfold, consulting journalist on Stuff’s #metooNZ investigation, chaired by Kim Hill. With a special introduction by Gemma Gracewood and Megan Salole of the Wellington Interational Ukulele Orchestra. #suffrage125 #WhakatuWahine #SuffrageDay
To commemorate 125 years of women’s suffrage, we assemble a panel of extraordinary New Zealand women to discuss how far we have come since women were granted the vote, and how far we still have to go in the fight for gender equality. Featuring pioneering human rights activist Georgina Beyer, historian Dame Anne Salmond, musician and writer Lizzie Marvelly, head of Aotahi, the School of Māori and Indigenous Studies at the University of Canterbury Sacha McMeeking, and Paula Penfold, consulting journalist on Stuff’s #metooNZ investigation, chaired by Kim Hill. With a special introduction by Gemma Gracewood and Megan Salole of the Wellington Interational Ukulele Orchestra. #suffrage125 #WhakatuWahine #SuffrageDay Presented by the National Library of New Zealand and the Royal Society Te Apārangi, and proudly supported by the Ministry for Women's Suffrage 125 Community Fund
The world's first openly trans-sexual MP has high hopes for a new bill allowing people to change the gender on their birth certificate - by way of a statutory declaration.The bill - in the name of Internal Affairs Minister Tracey Martin - would allow people to label their gender as other than male and female - with intersex, or X unspecified among the options.Former Labour MP Georgina Beyer told Chris Lynch this would bring the birth certificates in line with passports and driver licences.She says there needs to be some recognition for those who wish to be officially identified in the gender to which they wish to be identified.Georgina Beyer says because there are so many new terminologies under the umbrella of transgender - it can get confusing.
Victor Rodger explores the personal, cultural and political aspects of transgender and non-binary identity with Georgina Beyer, Lexie Matheson, Nikolai Talamahina and Aych McArdle.
Prepare to be inspired by the life and barrier shattering work of Georgina Beyer. This bad bitch went from survival sex worker to radio host and ultimately took her place as the first trans politician in New Zealand (Mayor of Carterton and Wairarapa MP). PLUS, the ladies break down the difference between legalization and decriminalization, read a listener email AND this episode just might make you consider giving massages to the neighborhood moms. With nonsense like the SESTA bill being lauded in the United States, Kaytlin (@kaytlinbailey) and Wendi (@wendibird82) do their best to rally the troops of whores to get their sweet asses in the race for political office and get our voices heard! Support the show on Patreon *** EMAIL US: @ theoldestprofessionpodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @oldpropodcast Instagram: @oldpropodcast FOLLOW KAYTLIN Twitter: @kaytlinbailey Instagram: @kaytlinbailey FOLLOW WENDI Twitter: @wendistarling Instagram: @wendibird82 *** Produced by Mary Kelly Funky One Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
This week, Allison and Max talk about two women who defied the expectations of their time. The first, a woman of many careers, became a prostitue before becoming a pilot, spy, politician, and best selling author; The second, an outspoken advocate for queer rights, became the first transgendered mayor and then member of parliament in the world: Marthe Richard and Georgina Beyer. Intro and Ad Music provided by BenSound.com Join the Conversation! umpboh.com Facebook.com/umpboh Patreon.com/UrsulaMajor Twitter.com/bitcherypodcast Instagram.com/thebitcheryofhistory Max: @QuirkyTitle Allison: @AHPowell91 Special Thanks To: Janette Danielson Kimberly Coscia Sydney Tannenbaum Stephanie Koutrakos Dan Koutrakos Keagan Riley Jess Lee
On Valentine's Day 2007 Georgina Beyer brought down the curtain on her 8 year career in government. The first transsexual in the world to be elected to parliament, her short time in national politics had been remarkable for its candour and courage as well as for its achievements. On the tenth anniversary of her resignation, Georgina tells Justin Gregory from RNZ's Eyewitness programme that she left it all behind with no regrets and little ceremony.
OFTV celebrates the life of trans politican and Indigenous sex worker Georgina Beyer - from her life on the streets to the house of parliament! Works Cited: Jewel's Darl - http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/about-face-jewels-darl-1985 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rab_LVPfxDc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8navq7MlomY http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/video/29381/passing-of-the-prostitution-reform-bill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkF4V5wcTNs Xtra video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLdtAHlcH7U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rab_LVPfxDc http://zagria.blogspot.ca/2013/01/georgina-beyer-1957-actress-sex-worker.html#.VuMfvXB4Fl8