Open Letter To Michfest Attendees
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2010/07/open-letter-to-michfest-attendees.htmlMonica Roberts
7/31/10
This letter comes from trying to put my years of resent through this filter of loving: I feel hurt and I am writing because want to trust that you have my back as a transwoman. I am having a hard time separating your attendance of MWMF and your silence with me about this issue from your level of respect for me; for my body. I don't want to feel this way and I am willing to do the work to let go of a decade of resent, but I need your help. Will you help me?
I have spent a lot of time trying to make this letter driven by more than anger and resent. When you go to Michigan, I push you away. I keep you at arm's length as an ally of transwomen. As an ally of me. What I hear is that the festival is a powerful and welcoming other planet where women's lives, pains, struggles, and hopes are more commonly understood. This is allegedly a place of healing based on welcoming. A harsh toke for me: This is a place where I, on a body level even more than a political one, am profoundly unwelcome.
