Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival
Most of the Womyn that come to fest really don’t care whether you’re straight or not as long as your not trans. – D.M., Festival […]
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Available scholarly citations plus verified non-scholarly sourcesRepeating the cycle at MichFest: The clash of two feminisms
MichFest has spent 40 years propagating a type of feminism rooted in biologism, not class experience. Many of us are familiar with this fact because in 1991, MichFest ejected a trans woman named Nancy Burkholder for not being the right kind of woman. A 1991 letter from Lisa Vogel and…
The Curious Demands of the Womyn in the Woods: Unpacking the Statement of the Michigan Womyn’s Musical Festival
I would like to say that I appreciate– the trans community would probably agree – that the festival is finally acknowledging its ejection and abandonment of Nancy Burkholder in 1991; Nancy is a woman that wanted nothing more than to be a part of the healing and supportive atmosphere where…
How TERF violence inspired Camp Trans
She told that I had I had to leave the festival and that I would not even be allowed to return to my campsite to retrieve my equipment. I realized that Chris and Del were expelling me in spite of all the irrefutable legal and anatomical proof that I was…
A TERF’s fist gave rise to trans-inclusive women’s music festivals
I was at this point that Michele mentioned that her spouse had started what became Camp Trans after her friend, Nancy Burkholder, had been thrown out of the MWMF in 1991. I then interviewed Michele’s spouse, Janis Walworth about how she, a pissed off cisgender radical lesbian feminist, with bodyguard…
#TERFweek: The Changed Language But Consistent Viewpoint Of MichFest’s Lisa Vogel
In 1991, MichFest blocked Nancy Burkholder from attending MichFest. Co-producers of MichFest, Lisa Vogel and Barbara Price, signed a letter that was published in Gay Community News (GCN, a newspaper in Boston) where they discussed what happened from their perspective. In the letter they stated:
National justice orgs say: End trans exclusion policy at Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival
The National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC) has joined the Gay & Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the Nation Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and several other social justice organizations in petitioning that the trans-exclusionary policy of the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival (MWMF) end. In recent years,…
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