An open letter to Lisa Vogel: I bought my MichFest ticket!
Hi Lisa Vogel, Perhaps you know of me. My name is Autumn Sandeen. I’ve written about MichFest quite a few times over the past seven or eight years. Have you noticed that the beloved LGBT…
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#TERFweek: In stealth with the TERFs at MichFest
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…
#TERFweek: The Changed Language But Consistent Viewpoint Of MichFest’s Lisa Vogel
This is a long-form article on MichFest’s co-founder and current producer Lisa Vogel. The article contains extensive text of what Vogel has stated regarding trans people over several decades, as well as analysis and commentary…
Appalling Silence From Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival Performers
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. ~Martin Luther King,…
The Indigo Girls, The Bigotry Of The MWMF WBW Policy, And Peaceful Action
As Cristan Williams pointed out in her recent Transadvocate piece Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, segregation against trans women has been occurring at that festival for a very, very long time. Over the years, many intra-LGBT…