Tag Archives: Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival

Response from Ubaka Hill on MWMF

April 20, 2013 · by · in National · 2 Comments

Response from Ubaka Hill: I am compelled to respond directly to your direct request that I boycott the MWMF in August 2013. First of all, thank you for showing the courage to take action for what you and others believe is right, just and worthy of a strategy of a boycott as a method to […]

Ruth Barrett Responds

April 17, 2013 · by · in National · 13 Comments

My response to the request to boycott the Michigan Festival.  April 11, 2013 Dear Community Sisters and Performers of the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, I want to give Alyson Palmer a standing ovation for her brilliant and eloquently crafted letter in response to the trans-activist’s call to the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival performers to boycott […]

Letter to the Community

April 12, 2013 · by · in International · 21 Comments

April 11, 2013   Letter to the Community   On March 28, an activist named Red Durkin posted a petition on Change.org asking artists and attendees to boycott the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival until organizers fully and openly welcome all self-identified women.  This petition has intensified a long-running debate about and within the Festival, a […]

Navel Gazing

April 10, 2013 · by · in National

I listen to music that is “not Feminist.”  I know that it is “not Feminist.” I still like it. I eat meat, although I was a vegetarian for many years. I drive a car. I have a chronic medical condition. I forget to turn off the lights sometimes when I leave a room (I do […]

GUEST POST: Weighing in on MichFest

July 17, 2012 · by · in National · 40 Comments

What I would say to a trans*sister, whoever you are: I first went to MichFest in 2002, and it was wonderful and amazing. When I left, my feet stood on the earth more solidly, and my gaze was level. When I first heard about various trans* conflicts on the Land, I stopped and thought about […]

“It’s just fucking typical that a man-born lesbian can’t get the concept of not being allowed somewhere.”

June 22, 2012 · by · in Herstory · 6 Comments

Excerpt from Diane DiMassa Interview Bitch magazine, Summer 2004 (Issue #25) [About a musical based on DiMassa’s cartoon, Hothead Paisan being premiered at Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, which excludes transsexual women:] Bitch: What about the MTFs?

Sniffdown on Michigan

December 13, 2011 · by · in National · 1 Comment

If it’s August, it’s the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival (MWMF), where women from across the globe congregate in the woods of Michigan to jam to women’s musicians. Full disclosure – I’ve never been to MWMF, and I am not a big fan of live concerts or crowds. I went to Twin Oaks ‘Women’s Gathering with […]