Bitch Pulled From Festival Lineup

[Butterfly]

Bitch Pulled From Festival Lineup
Filed by: Tobi Hill-Meyer
May 21, 2010 5:00 PM


http://www.bilerico.com/2010/05/bitch_pulled_from_festival_lineup.php


After discovering her transphobic history, the musical performer Bitch, previously of Bitch & Animal, was unceremoniously told that she would not be performing at OUT/LOUD, a queer women's music festival which she had previously been set up to headline tonight. The festival released a statement on Facebook:

    Knowing that her presence would prevent a significant portion of our community from participating in and enjoying this event, there was no option except to ask Bitch not to perform.

This is not the first time Bitch has faced this problem. In 2007 she was uninvited to the Boston Dyke March, and protests have followed her to several of her performances, including her performance at Queer Up North in Manchester (detailed by one activist here).

[justmeinoz]

lesbians couldn't enjoy it because there was a Bitch there?
Seriously, what is more lesbian that having them cut off!!!

[Kaelin]

I'm guessing this excerpt begins to speak to the problem:

Protesters began to be a problem for Bitch after she crossed picket lines to play at the Michigan Women's Music Festival despite a boycott that was in effect at the time and voiced her support for Michigan's policy of excluding trans women.

There is further elaboration suggesting/establishing that Bitch sees trans people as their birth sex rather than as their true gender.  This in of itself represents a problem, but it may potentially be one that she could be talked away from.  However, I suspect that her breaking a related boycott *and* actively voicing support for the policy did her in, and as per her idiom has shown no interest in apologizing or even acknowledging legitimacy in the complaints lodged against her, all while tossing in a pinch of racism.

*shrugs*