Tag Archives: Womyn-born womyn

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 […]

“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?