About Mira & Fucking Trans Women

Fucking Trans Women answers the question:
“How? *How* do we have good sex?”

I began this project with a very simple goal in mind: talking to other trans women about sex, and writing it all down.

Trans women are told things about our sexualities all the time, but only rarely are we given the opportunity to say something about our own sex lives. Sex is a very important part of my life, a very important part of all our lives, but so very little writing has been done on the sex lives of trans women that doesn’t write us off in one way or another. I found myself looking for a guide, an instruction manual, anything beyond essays on gender and problems. Fucking Trans Women is that guide.

I got tired of waiting for someone else to write it for me-
so I decided to do it myself.

But the project I had in mind wasn’t “Fucking Mira Bellwether,” it was Fucking Trans Women, and for that reason and many others, my hope for this zine is that it can become a collaborative project. It is designed to expand to fit the needs of all sorts of trans women by letting us talk about our own sex lives and practices with one another, and also our lovers. I hope it will become a community resource, something that we can share with our lovers and our dates to generate productive, shared conversations.

Are you a trans woman
with something to say about fucking? SUBMIT!

There are many things that I would love to see this zine become, but the basic goal is right there in the title:
Fucking Trans Women.

Fucking Trans Women is a collaborative DIY (Doin’ It Yourself) zine about the sex lives of trans women. It is designed to help trans women and our lovers share information about how we have good sex and what we do when we have sex that works.

Fucking Trans Women is about all kinds of sex, whether it’s you who is doing the fucking or you who is getting fucked, but it is most basically about good sex. The purpose of the zine is to help each other understand what we’re doing right, what we’re doing spectacularly, and most importantly, how we got there.

ABOUT THE EDITOR

Miranda Bellwether is a 28-year-old trans dyke, a student, and the editor of Fucking Trans Women.

She describes herself as “a femme, a queer, a trans woman, a smartypants, a feminist, and lots of other things.” Her interests include sex, the history of medicine, the 1920s, literature, masculinity as cultural narrative, homos, conversation, and the history of eugenics and racism.