Michigan Womyn's Music Festival: Lesbian And Feminist Musical Artists Supporting Segregation
Pam's House Blend
by: Autumn Sandeen
Thu Mar 04, 2010 at 09:00:00 AM EST
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/15398/michigan-womyns-music-festival-lesbian-and-feminist-musical-artists-supporting-segregation (http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/15398/michigan-womyns-music-festival-lesbian-and-feminist-musical-artists-supporting-segregation)
"If a whole bunch of trans people tell you that your words are transphobic, they're right. ~Allyson Robinson"
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I'm often found quoting this statement by Allyson Robinson these days for a reason, which is to say that there are people who try to excuse themselves from having their words considered transphobic by self-proclamation. People don't like to have themselves or their words labeled as racist, sexist, ableist, homophobic...or even transphobic.
Well, the word transphobic comes to mind again for a specific organization; for a specific Womyn's Music Festival. There are some sincere lesbian and feminist folk with the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival (MWMF) who seem sincerely misguided, and stuck in the feminist identity politics of the 1970's when it comes trans women's identities being fully included in the community of female identities.