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• Travestis and traviesas: in memory of Miriam Rivera 4 days ago Earlier this year, one of the travestis best-known in the West, Miriam Rivera was killed in a manner as yet unknown. Miriam was a Mexican traviesa, similar to Brazilian travestis. In order to mark the passing of this beautiful but troubled individual, I am publishing this article about travestis...
• Baby Ladyboy by the beach at Subic Bay 1 week ago On our last visit to Subic we chanced across a baby ladyboy, a batong bakla, called Maria. This is the interview we did with her and my thoughts.   Please support my work: http://paypal.me/RodFleming Please remember to like and share the post And please SUBSCRIBE That helps a lot. Thanks! My...
• Subic in July with Sam 1 week ago Subic beach trip in July 2019 with Sam. Excellent stuff. Here’s the video. Support my work: http://paypal.me/RodFleming Please remember to like and share the post And please SUBSCRIBE That helps a lot. Thanks! My books: Poaching the River https://gumroad.com/l/poaching-river From Amazon.com The...
• Tarlac, June 2019. A videolog of a motorcycle trip 2 weeks ago In June we took our motorcycle to Tarlac to visit Sam’s aunt. Here’s the video.   Due to the political shenanigans at YouTube, I am trying to duplicate all the videos hosted there here on this site as well as on others. It’s slow though, and there are over a hundred to do!     The post...
• Transgender? Sex, Sexuality, Orientation and Gender 2 months ago ‘Transgender’ is a catch-all term that is used, today, to include all forms of  ‘Gender Non-Conformity’ or (better) ‘Sex Non-Conformity’. These are expressions in which individuals, for a variety of reasons, reject the social norms of dress and behaviour. Most ‘transgenders’ in the...

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