The Balut Kiki Project

Hey Bessie, send us a text message! Warning: This project contains mature and sensitive themes such as depression and suicide. Listener discretion is advised. How many parents, teachers, and adults know that 75% of severe mental health problems emerge before the age of 25 ? If this was the case, then why are Filipino parents more concerned about their children growing up fair and tall (admit it, y...

Hey Bessie, send us a text message! Warning: This project contains mature, sensitive, and disturbing themes. Listener discretion is advised.    Audio-Suspense Drama this festive season? Bakit hindi, Bessies?    We have always championed that QUEER STORIES DESERVE TO BE HEARD . And if there is one queer story we think you should hear, it is MATTHEW SHEPARD ’s story. Matthew was a young gay man who...

Hey Bessie, send us a text message! 2021: The year that was in beauty pageants.    With the Miss Globe and Miss Intercontinental titles (and a few more) secured by the Philippines, punctuated by Bea Gomez’s Top 5 finish at Miss Universe, does the country retain its reputation as the current pageant powerhouse in the world, universe, cosmos, including all outlying star-systems? Aba mga Bes, kasama...

Hey Bessie, send us a text message! Bes, baka hindi mo alam yung napanuod mo sa TV o sine ay sinulat pala niya.  Sige nga, pay attention at may pa-rollcall tayo! Viral Scandal, Happenstance, A Soldier's Heart, Mga Batang Poz, The Greatest Love, Ningning, Oh My G!, Sa Ngalan ng Ina, atbp. May tumama na ba? Try pa naten! Pelikula naman. The Significant Other, Riding in Tandem, Foolish Love, Ech...

Hey Bessie, send us a text message! Warning: This project contains mature and sensitive themes such as depression and suicide. Listener discretion is advised. On this project, we continue to update you on where we are on our mental health journey, warts and all. We kiki about some misconceptions about mental illness, and the misuse of important language that we ourselves are guilty of. Do you know...

Hey Bessie, send us a text message! When Robert Kingett   was born, doctors said he would never walk. They said he would never talk.  He was born severely premature, with cerebral palsy, and totally blind. Today, his bio reads: Award-winning author. Journalist. Editor. Blogger. Activist. Motivational speaker. Accessibility advocate.  Sensitivity reader. And yes, fabulously gay! He makes us ask, &q...

Hey Bessie, send us a text message! And we're back! We will repeat this again once more for the second time around from the top! Narito na ang ikalawa at huling yugto, the finale, ang pagtutuos ng 4 Queers to get the last word in para sa 4 Queens! Sa round table discussion na ito, ibabahagi ng mga queers ang kanilang mga wishes, gifts, at mga questions para sa kanilang queens. Sino ang napupu...

Hey Bessie, send us a text message! Well, well, well! Look do we have here! Vilma. Nora. Maricel. Sharon. Sino ang tunay na reyna ng pelikula? Akalain mong nagkataon naman na ang apat na queers ng podcast ay pinagbuklod na tagahanga nila. Our answers have been prayered! Isang rabid Noranian. Isang avid Vilmanian. Isang true-blue Sharonian. At isang solid Maricel fanatic. Kaya’t pasasaan pa ba na a...

Hey Bessie, send us a text message! Sabi nila, matitiis ng anak ang magulang pero hinding-hindi matitiis ng magulang ang anak.  Pero 40% o 4 out of 10 teenagers sa United States ay pinalayas ng kanilang mga magulang nang mag-“come out” sila sa mga ito as "queer" . Hindi biro ang buhay na pagdadaanan mo kung queer ka. Any queer person will tell you this. Kaya't dagdag kalbaryo sa mga...

Hey Bessie, send us a text message! Pagpapatuloy lamang ito ng ating maharot na kikihan with drag super queens Miss Clea Torres and Miss Maria Christina ng Drag Den PH ! Matapang nilang sasagutin ang mga nabiting issues from the previous episode like having sex in drag, the business of tucking and the inevitable 'accidents', at ang laban at pakikipagtagisan ng galing, ganda, at talento n...

Hey Bessie, send us a text message! Confidence. Honesty. Uniqueness. Perseverance. Authenticity. Jan magaling  ang ating mga Bessies! At shempre, hindi magpapahuli ang ating mga panauhing pandangal sa project na ito - Philippine drag royalty, SpacesMNL stalwart Miss Clea Torres and Drag Den PH's   Miss Maria Christina (the artist formerly known as MC BLCK). As two of the country's premie...

Hey Bessie, send us a text message! Do you need to divorce your sexuality to embrace your spirituality?  The universality of the adage that sexuality and spirituality are two poles on a spectrum that never meet is even more true if you are queer. Many times, you are told that your orientation is not welcome at church, or that you are not queer enough to be part of your own community because you ar...

Hey Bessie, send us a text message! Are you a queer couple looking to raise a family? A single person ready to experience parenthood minus the pressure of a relationship? Are you a healthy male who wants to help people achieve their dreams of becoming parents? Adam Hooper has built Sperm Donation World , a worldwide community that might make it easier for those wanting to start a family the non-tr...

Hey Bessie, send us a text message! MATURE CONTENT WARNING. Okay, Bessie, go ahead. Check out her videos on Pornhub. We'll wait. Done? So that's Coralyn Jewel, porn star. MILF kung MILF ang  peg, diba? But there's more to her than just being a prolific adult film actress. She's also a published author, neck-deep into writing a follow-up to her international bestseller When The...

Hey Bessie, send us a text message! Warning: This project contains mature and sensitive themes such as depression and suicide. Listener discretion is advised. Today is the last day of September, Suicide Prevention Month . We opted to release this bonus episode as a reminder to everyone how suicide has become so prevalent in society that it is now vital for each of us to be more mindful of how our...

Hey Bessie, send us a text message! MATURE CONTENT WARNING. Listen up. SwitchJake The Presenter talks. Bondage. Sadism. Masochism. Vanilla. Power play. Munch. Scene. Play party. Forced Orgasm. Electric play. Chastity gear. Switch. FETLife. Safe word. Limits. Boundaries.  Roles. Preference. Master. Slave. Submissive. Top. Bottom. Aftercare. Edge play. Fifty Shades of Grey.  Red room. Fetish. Consen...

Hey Bessie, send us a text message! MATURE CONTENT WARNING . Push lang ng push to normalize contextual conversations about sex and our sexuality and to fight the demonization of our bodies. Let's sort out common myths and fallacies about the penis and figure out fact from fake.  At alamin natin kung aling mga bansa ang pasok sa Top 10 ng largest and smallest penises in the world? May Pinoy pr...

Hey Bessie, send us a text message! Warning: This project contains mature and sensitive themes such as depression and suicide. Listener discretion is advised. His  phone rang at four in the morning. Richard  was in Hong Kong . He thought family calling from Germany might have just forgotten about the time difference. The next morning he returns the call only to be told of the news that no father w...

Hey Bessie, send us a text message! May bago tayong adopted 'guncle', mga Bes ! (gay+uncle = guncle) On this project, we are featuring the fabulous Michael Dumlao - an artist, author, and activist equipped with more than twenty-one years of advancing diversity, equity, and social justice through award-winning brand strategy, digital marketing, and creative storytelling in corporate, fede...

Hey Bessie, send us a text message! Huma-Hollywood ang project, mga Bes! Hollywood film and TV star Katie Chonacas kikis with us about her latest ventures in her multi-faceted career. Katie is practically a 'veteran' having worked in the entertainment industry for two decades. Her past projects include film roles with Nicholas Cage, Milla Jovovich, Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas   (eve...

Hey Bessie, send us a text message! We are proud to feature prominent LGBTQ+ people and profile their stories on this series! Bilang buena mano, we present to you Jerico Goldmar Ebabacol , more popularly known among his constituents as Kap Bingo ! He serves as Captain to Baranggay 17 in the City of Golden Friendship, Cagayan de Oro City in the southern island of Mindanao, Philippines. Kap Bingo ta...

Hey Bessie, send us a text message! Aka "Confessions of an Ex-Sex Worker".  Shempre, MATURE CONTENT WARNING, mga Bes! Teacher Tim has a past he's not ashamed to talk about. After all, it's led him to and helped him with his current career as a proud sex educator. Listen as he talks candidly about his journey from being an Ateneo grade schooler to accidentally landing an escort...

Hey Bessie, send us a text message! MATURE CONTENT WARNING. Bessie Frances G, a Canada-based certified Love, Sex, and Relationship coach, kikis about her personal journey with her own sexuality. Having spent most of her life in the Philippines, she breaks down the intricacies of growing up in our largely restrictive Pinoy culture from a female perspective, its effects on Filipinos' views on s...

Hey Bessie, send us a text message! MATURE CONTENT WARNING. May vagina ka, Mars? O trip mo ang vagina , Pare? Aber, how well do you know the puki? Ano nga ba ang hitsura ng normal na puki? Na -hurt ka ba nung sinabihan ka niyang maluwag ka na daw? Dapat bang hiwalayan ni lalaki ang kanyang asawa kapag hindi ito dinugo sa kanilang honeymoon? Ano nga ba ang magic ingredient ng vagina-tightening soap...

Hey Bessie, send us a text message! MATURE CONTENT WARNING. Chupa. Pagsuso. Hada.   Fellatio. Sa  history of terms associated with oral stimulation of the penis, akalain mong may ibang gamit pala ang ‘ chupa’ sa Pilipinas noong araw na hindi bastos – at nasa batas pa! Kung may, fellatio , ano naman ang irrumatio ? And may mga kultura pala in other parts of the world kung saan normal itong ginagawa...