mirabellwether_qsxffz, Author at FUCKING TRANS WOMEN

Mira Bellwether

29/Dec/2019 - "If you have had to put off trauma for decades just to survive in a kind of perpetual crisis mode, you may find that when you stop doing that it suddenly feels like pain is coming from nowhere. You were just kicking it down the road. This is what I am pretty sure is up with transitioning and then realizing how incredibly awful it feels to be treated

Interview with Mira Bellwether (2013) – Autostraddle

"The more preoccupied or even obsessed you are with the ways in which you are NOT connecting with your body, the less you will be able to enjoy or even experience the ways in which you DO connect with your body."

Celebrate the “First Annual Mira Bellwether Buy a Trans Woman a Pizza Day” – Them

Bellwether, author of the 2010 zine Fucking Trans Women, which dramatically reimagined how we frame transfeminine sexuality, died of complications from lung cancer in December of last year. To celebrate her first birthday following her untimely death, Bellwether’s widower Callan Molinari is calling for those who love trans women to buy them some pizza on March 31. Of course, that also happens to be Trans Day of Visibility. The “First Annual

Sloane Holzer “Remembering Mira Bellwether” – Them

Mira loved trans feminine people and everything we were capable of with a tenacity that is rare, even among the most devoted. No one else but you is qualified to write the story of your trans body. Whether it gets published or not, sharing it is an act of love.

Kai Cheng Thom “The Lasting Impact of Mira Bellwether’s Zine, ‘Fucking Trans Women’” – Xtra*

FTW leapt directly into the black hole that has historically surrounded trans women’s sexualities—and it shone like a guiding star. Written in Bellwether’s distinctively unapologetic, funny and ferociously intelligent voice...

Katelyn Burns “Muffing: The Secret Sex Move Perfected by Trans Women” – Playboy

The original article, published by Playboy has since become unavailable, but an alternate copy is still uploaded with PlayboyMagSweden - "It’s important to understand that there are a lot of misconceptions about how trans women have sex, mostly born out of porn catering to cisgender men. The truth is that trans women are neither hyper-sexual nor totally disinterested in sex as is often the perception, and yet they are highly