Global InformationMira Bellwether information
Mira Bellwether | |
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| Born | March 31, 1982 |
| Died | December 25, 2022 (aged 40) New York City, U.S. |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Transgender sexuality |
| Years active | 2010–2022 |
| Notable works | Fucking Trans Women |
Mira Bellwether[a] (March 31, 1982 – December 25, 2022) was an American author, artist, and sex educator[4] best known for Fucking Trans Women, a single-issue zine in which she wrote and illustrated all articles. Described in Sexuality & Culture as "a comprehensive guide to trans women's sexuality",[5] 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.[6] Bellwether was also an advocate for transgender women and in opposition to trans-exclusionary feminism.
Bellwether's work has served as an influence to trans writers, journalists, and scholars, particularly in the field of transgender sexuality. Her death in 2022 was met with grief in the trans community, in which her work had attained a "mythic status" according to Kai Cheng Thom in Xtra.[7]
- ^ Bellwether 2010, inside back cover.
- ^ Bellwether 2010, front cover.
- ^ White 2022; Kish 2022; Thom 2023; Holzer 2023.
- ^ Holzer 2023.
- ^ Rosenberg, Tilley & Morgan 2019, p. 965.
- ^ Variously:
- Pfeffer 2014, p. 597. "Fucking Trans Women (Issue #0) broke ground by centering trans women's perspectives and experiences around sex and sexuality—including instructional guides on actual sexual practices."
- Zaber 2015. "Originally published as a zine FTW was the first book (or at least the first I can find that gained wide recognition) to address the sex lives of trans women."
- Burns 2017. "Fucking Trans Women [is] widely considered to be the first and most in-depth guide to having sex with pre- and non-op trans femme bodies."
- Thom 2023. "When Bellwether first published [Fucking Trans Women], there were virtually no sources of sex education devoted to trans women's unique needs and experiences."
- ^ Thom 2023.
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