bitch magazineGenderlicious: "I believe that I can support you, but also support people who hate you"—On the Michigan Womyn's Music FestivalSex and Sexuality post by Thea Lim, Submitted by Thea Lim on July 28, 2010 - 11:52am;
http://bitchmagazine.org/post/genderlicious-i-believe-that-i-can-support-you-but-also-support-people-who-hate-you-on-the-michThe Michigan Womyn's Music Festival is next week. Having not grown up in North America and having taken a fairly circuitious route to feminism, the first time I ever heard of Michfest was about seven years ago in the Inga Muscio book ->-bleeped-<-, where Muscio talks about what a transformative experience it was to be completely surrounded by only women for a week. Then, a few years later, while I was attending a writing retreat for women of colour at the Leaven Centre in Michigan, one of the women began to talk about Michfest, and their womyn-born-womyn policy (WBW), i.e. the fact that only cisgendered women could attend Michfest. I was stunned.
