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Emily Zhou “Nerves, Nerves Nerves” – Defector

"I got a copy of the recently reprinted zine Napkin, by the multihyphenate artist Carta Monir, in the mail a few months ago. The last time I read it was in mid-2020, when I was maybe two years on hormones—the weird,"

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
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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.
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Tobi Hill-Meyer “Muffing 101” – Autostraddle

I’m going to get technical here because I’m about to give you directions to a small thing you probably haven’t encountered before. Did you know that the phallus goes down to the base and continues along the inside of your body? That’s called the “root.
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Baiser des Meufs Trans

Il y a quelque chose comme deux ans, j’ai découvert la zine Fucking Trans Women, écrite en 2010 par Mira Bellwether. J’ai tout de suite été totalement subjuguée par la force et la richesse de ce document, et, prise d’une frénésie de traduction militante (la première pierre de mon travail...
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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