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#TERFweek: In stealth with the TERFs at MichFest

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Source Summary

I remember the first time I encountered Transgender Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) transmisogyny face to face. It was years ago in 2011 when I attended the 33rd Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival (MWMF or MichFest) in stealth. If you’re not on the up and up on what the MWMF is, this page will briefly catch you up to speed. At the time, I was a little naive as many of you reading this may be. Back then, I was unaware that some of my sisters could be so cruel, so discriminatory, so utterly ignorant, so hate-filled, and so blind to the privilege they wielded over a small number of their very own. I didn’t realize at that time how much influence TERF perspective had on some within the lesbian and feminist movements. But, I found out the hard way how tight of a grip many of my feminist sisters have with

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Community significance

“#TERFweek: In stealth with the TERFs at MichFest” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to feminism and gender politics, while also engaging transgender identity and history. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

The article may have historical value because it explicitly interprets or preserves material concerning feminism and gender politics. Published in 2014 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how transgender identity and history was framed at that moment.

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The article’s strongest policy connection is public accommodations and facilities. It links that institutional frame to feminism and gender politics and transgender identity and history, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.

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Feminism and gender politicsTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
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Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
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Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
18%
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Race and intersectionalityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
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Education and youthTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
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Family and relationshipsTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
9%

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How “Feminism and gender politics” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 1 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2013.

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2 source-held references record early links or citations; the documented sources span 2 distinct domains. The dated evidence currently spans 2014–2015. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.

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1 2014

1 2015

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Germaine Greer: I don’t believe in transphobia · PinkNews | Fairy JerBear's Queer World News, Views & More From The City Different – Santa…

Germaine Greer: I don’t believe in transphobia · PinkNews | Fairy JerBear's Queer World News, Views & More From The City Different – Santa Fe, NM · jerbearinsantafe.wordpress.com · January 29, 2015

[…] exclusionary policy which lrefuses admittance to any trans women. Read this account of one trans woman’s experience at the event. For more information here’s an article on TERF […]

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Guest Post: Fear of a trans college

Guest Post: Fear of a trans college · feministing.com · October 17, 2014

[…] what it’s like to be female” is an additional twist of the knife. Notable examples include the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival and a number of women’s colleges like Wellesley College, which include trans men but exclude […]

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fallonfox

3 publications · 12 inbound sources/citations