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An open letter to Lisa Vogel: I bought my MichFest ticket!
  • Autumn Sandeen
  • Community Activism

An open letter to Lisa Vogel: I bought my MichFest ticket!

  • Autumn Sandeen
  • April 14, 2015
  • 14

Hi Lisa Vogel, Perhaps you know of me. My name is Autumn Sandeen. I’ve written about MichFest quite a few times over the past seven […]

Repeating the cycle at MichFest: The clash of two feminisms
  • Cristan Williams
  • History

Repeating the cycle at MichFest: The clash of two feminisms

  • Cristan Williams
  • April 12, 2015
  • 6

The yearly struggle the trans community experiences with MichFest has been taking place for so long, some of us have trouble remembering why MichFest’s “womyn-born […]

TransAdvocate Suspending Its MichFest Petition Signature
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TransAdvocate Suspending Its MichFest Petition Signature

  • Autumn Sandeen
  • April 12, 2015
  • 5

On the evening of April 8, 2015, The TransAdvocate editors came to a unanimous decision to suspend our signature on the Equality Michigan petition asking […]

#TERFweek: In stealth with the TERFs at MichFest
  • #TERFweek
  • Fallon Fox

#TERFweek: In stealth with the TERFs at MichFest

  • fallonfox
  • August 17, 2014
  • 6

I remember the first time I encountered Transgender Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF) transmisogyny face to face. It was years ago in 2011 when I attended […]

  • #TERFweek
  • Autumn Sandeen
  • History

#TERFweek: The Changed Language But Consistent Viewpoint Of MichFest’s Lisa Vogel

  • Autumn Sandeen
  • August 14, 2014
  • 7

This is a long-form article on MichFest’s co-founder and current producer Lisa Vogel. The article contains extensive text of what Vogel has stated regarding trans […]

  • Cristan Williams

Responding To: Is It Wrong to Perform at Michfest?

  • Cristan Williams
  • June 3, 2013
  • 7

At its core, Thompson’s argument — and Vogel’s — is essentially based on gender identity and socialization. It contends that being assigned female at birth […]

  • Opinion

If You Dig Michfest, You’re NOT a Trans Ally

  • Marti Abernathey
  • March 14, 2011
  • 17

I recently had a discussion with a person with cisgender privledge about Michfest. I thought feminist/POC theory taught rather early on that a person who […]

  • Opinion

Michfest Music Melodrama

  • Marti Abernathey
  • August 7, 2007
  • 27

I really have no desire to go to the transphobic Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. I don’t really care to protest the event (with Camp Trans). […]

See Tumblr TERFs justify threatening to murder a trans kid
  • Cristan Williams
  • Opinion

See Tumblr TERFs justify threatening to murder a trans kid

  • Cristan Williams
  • July 23, 2015
  • 3

Tumblr TERF, radfem-momma apparently thinks it’s okay to threaten trans kids with murder as long as you lie about the reason.   Apparently, some TERFs on […]

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