Pretty Queer
Just another Woman at MichFest
by Alice Kalafarski on September 1, 2011
http://www.prettyqueer.com/author/alicek/ (http://www.prettyqueer.com/author/alicek/)
Friday night I thought I had them beat: I was a trans woman at Michfest, and I was having an awesome time. A gospel singer was performing a song she wrote in the civil rights era, and she had all three thousand of us sing the refrain. The song said "don't mind" their ignorance, "don't mind" their hate, just don't engage them at all and get on with living your life. It seemed like a perfect solution to deal with all the "Womyn Born Womyn" (WBW) types, and I decided to make "don't mind" my motto.