The Indigo Girls need to stop including the ‘T’ in their community activism lang

[Shana A]

The Indigo Girls need to stop including the 'T' in their community activism language
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
Transprogressive
BY AUTUMN SANDEEN

http://lgbtweekly.com/2012/10/11/the-indigo-girls-need-to-stop-including-the-t-in-their-community-activism-language/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

"Today, we're launching a new campaign – My Family. Together. – to tell our families' stories and to tell the president to stop denying our families the simple right to be lawfully together in the country they love."

The Indigo Girls recently posted a video on YouTube for this campaign in which they framed the issue as an LGBTQ campaign. I personally object to Amy Ray and Emily Saliers including the T in their use of LGBTQ. In 2005 and 2010 the band participated in segregation of trans women out from all other women. Because of this, the band members have no credibility to speak on behalf of trans people and issues.

Where they participated in discrimination of trans women is their multiple performances at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival (MWMF) which has an explicit "womyn-born-womyn" policy for attendance at the festival. The articulation of the phrase "womyn-born-womyn" in the MWMF attendance policy is specifically meant to exclude trans women from the festival who were assigned male at birth. The Indigo Girls, by participating in the event, have knowingly participated in segregationist behavior.

[eshaver]

 

RIGHT ON !!!!!!!!!!!!!

ellen

[dalebert]

Where they participated in discrimination of trans women is their multiple performances at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival (MWMF) which has an explicit "womyn-born-womyn" policy for attendance at the festival. The articulation of the phrase "womyn-born-womyn" in the MWMF attendance policy is specifically meant to exclude trans women from the festival who were assigned male at birth. The Indigo Girls, by participating in the event, have knowingly participated in segregationist behavior.

I learned about that festival from a lesbian friend of mine. She has been supportive of the festival's stance for the most part but I've been working on the topic with her and she seems to be making some progress. I've tried to explain how that is so much like the separate-but-equal B.S. that segregationists touted.

[Annah]

The MWMF, in my opinion, is no different than the KKK in their philosophies of segregation.

I have a professor who is a feminist who is very active in many women movements and she told the class last year that she wouldnt touch MWMF with a ten foot cattle prod. She said it perverts feminism

[Stephanie.Izann]

I learned about that festival from a lesbian friend of mine. She has been supportive of the festival's stance for the most part but I've been working on the topic with her and she seems to be making some progress. I've tried to explain how that is so much like the separate-but-equal B.S. that segregationists touted.

Thank you for doing this. This is very kind of you.