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A Festival I Won't Be At In August

Started by Shana A, May 12, 2009, 06:33:00 AM

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Shana A

May 12, 2009, 06:33:00 AM
A Festival I Won't Be At In August
by: Autumn Sandeen
Tue May 12, 2009 at 04:00:00 AM EDT

http://pamshouseblend.com/diary/10928/a-festival-i-wont-be-at-in-august

A flier from the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival for the 2009 event reached my inbox on Monday, May 11, 2009:

The link to the website is here, and the "buy tickets" link is here.

Of course I couldn't go in August even if I wanted to go, because I'm a pre-operative transsexual/transgender woman. Even if I were post-operative, I could get in, but I wouldn't be welcome.

And that's because the festival creator and organizer -- Lisa Vogel  -- is a proponent of the womyn-born-womyn philosophy of many second wave feminists, so she and the festival consider me a kind of minority womon she wants to exclude from the festival:
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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