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12 Apr 2018

Meet KL, Australia’s first competitor in the International Ms Bootblack Competition

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This year Australia’s first ever competitor is entering the International Ms Bootblack Competition in San Jose, but unlike competitions in male spaces, where Australians compete on a local level, female bootblacks in our fetish and alternative communities don’t have this kind of support, and KL has had to build her way to the international competition off her own boot back.

Dean Arcuri reports.

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