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#TERFweek: In stealth with the TERFs at MichFest

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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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“#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.

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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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#TERFweek Redux

Cristan Williams · August 19, 2014

What it’s like being trans and attending the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival at the cost of hiding who you are.

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fallonfox

3 publications · 1 inbound sources/citations

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Cristan Williams

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Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Media, rhetoric, and discourse.