#TERFweek: The Changed Language But Consistent Viewpoint Of MichFest’s Lisa Vogel
This is a long-form article on MichFest’s co-founder and current producer Lisa Vogel. The article contains extensive text of what Vogel has stated regarding trans people over several decades, as well as analysis and commentary on her carefully evolved language, but unevolved perspective, that trans women are males. Lisa Vogel, a co-founder and the producer of the Michigan Women’s Music Festival (known more commonly as MichFest and by the acronym MWMF), has consistently defined trans women as both men and male in decades past, but her phrasing to describe this point of view over the past twenty-three years has softened and changed. This August 1st she’s stated that she believes trans women as womyn — something she shifted to in her statements since 2006 — but in that shift, she’s careful since then not referred to trans women as female. It’s the same rhetorical device that Cathy Brennan was using
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“#TERFweek: The Changed Language But Consistent Viewpoint Of MichFest’s Lisa Vogel” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging feminism and gender politics. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.
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The article may have historical value because it explicitly interprets or preserves material concerning transgender identity and history. Published in 2014 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how feminism and gender politics was framed at that moment.
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“#TERFweek: The Changed Language But Consistent Viewpoint Of MichFest’s Lisa Vogel” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with transgender identity and history. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for feminism and gender politics.
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Dated source evidence currently stored by the CollectiveAn open letter to Lisa Vogel: I bought my MichFest ticket! | The TransAdvocate
Lisa, we also both know your language has changed over the decades, but you always find something to equivocate over. So calling us trans women womyn doesn’t mean trans women are welcome at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival because, well, you’ve never added that final…
The Curious Demands of the Womyn in the Woods: Unpacking the Statement of the Michigan Womyn’s Musical Festival | The TransAdvocate
Vogel writes in the point that “[w]hat we resist – and what we will never stop fighting – is the continued erasure and disrespect for the specific experience of being born and living as female in a patriarchal, misogynist world.” This is implying that trans…
#TERFweek Redux | The TransAdvocate
We reviewed the way in which Lisa Vogel has used dishonest equivocations in her messaging around her so-called “womyn-born- womyn” policy.
Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival Comes to a Timely Death | Alien She
[…] centred on a shrinking and ageing demographic of second wave lesbian feminists. Vogel has talked some right crap about trans women over the years, but as a trans woman who attended testifies, it was they that […]
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Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
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Cristan Williams
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
Cooke
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
Marian
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
Gwen Smith
Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
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