TRANS* & Nonbinary
Lending LibraryFucking Trans Women:
80 Page Giant!
by Mira Bellwether (she/her)
Fucking Trans Women, a single-issue zine in which Mira Bellwether wrote and illustrated all articles. Described in Sexuality & Culture as “a comprehensive guide to trans women’s sexuality”, 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. Bellwether emphasized sex acts possible with flaccid penises or not involving penises at all, writing that “almost all sexual discourse on penises” was “on erect penises, hard penises, penetrating penises”.
Lucie Fielding’s Trans Sex (2021) cites Bellwether on this topic among others. Fielding later said of Bellwether’s influence on her, “Her work is stating that our bodies should not just be tolerable or accepted, but that they are there to be joyously experienced”, crediting Fucking Trans Women as “a huge lightbulb moment” in her own gender transition.
Zine is online only: https://transreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2019-07-13_5d29fdc6941ba_fuckingtranswomensmall.pdf