Mira Bellwether - Follando con mujeres trans

2023, Mira Bellwether, Spanish,

"Follando con mujeres trans" (Fucking trans women) is the Spanish language edition of "Fucking Trans Women: A Zine About the Sex Lives of Trans Women" by Mira Bellwether.

"Mira's groundbreaking text is not so much a guide on how to have sex as a trans person or with a trans person, but what trans culture can teach us about sex and sexuality. Trans culture is consent, exploration, knowing and loving each other, fluidity and romance. Mira captures this wisdom in his text, from the little-known practice of "muffing" to toys, anatomy, communication, friendship, and more." 

According to Wikipedia, "Fucking Trans Women (FTW) is a zine created by Mira Bellwether. A single 80-page issue, numbered "#0", was published in October 2010 and republished in 2013 as Fucking Trans Women: A Zine About the Sex Lives of Trans Women; further issues were planned, but none had been published as of Bellwether's death in December 2022.

Bellwether wrote all of the issue's articles, which explore a variety of sexual activities involving trans women, primarily ones who are pre-op or non-op with respect to bottom surgery. Fucking Trans Women was the first publication of note to focus on sex with trans women and was innovative in its focus on trans women's own perspectives and its inclusion of instructions for many of the sex acts depicted".

In the March 2023 eulogy for Them, Sloane Holzer wrote: "Despite the truly substantial amount of praise Mira and Fucking Trans Women have received in the months since her passing, a crucial element of its mission remains unfulfilled. Throughout the zine, Bellwether stressed that this work was only a starting point. Despite multiple calls in the work for submissions and reader contributions, very few came.

According to multiple people who knew Mira, both at the time of FTW’s publication and in the decade plus since, this was the response to the work that made her the most incensed. It seemed to be easier for the zine’s readership to treat the work as gospel than it was to do the kind of messy reflection she had done, the kind of work she was daring her audience to do.

Mira’s frustration around this unrealized piece of the project led her to publicly advocate on social media for more intra-community dialogue. She wanted to see the kinds of conversations and care networks that could make the seemingly impossible task of writing one’s sexual life a more imaginable reality for future trans women. Even when it required confrontation, Mira writes in FTW, trans women will “fight for what we want and what we need, sometimes with handbags and heels thrown at cops, sometimes simply by talking to each other.”"

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