Michigan/Trans Controversy Archive
Documents on Michigan/Trans Controversy
Some of the documents linked from here are old newsgroup postings and other materials that are not easy to find. If you have or know about other documents that should be archived here, please email Emi.
| Date | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| --/--/1975 | Document: Why Women-Only Concerts? | Oven Productions, Cleveland OH (historical origin of women-only concerts) |
| 07/31/1985 | Public Record: Incorporation Record for "We Want The Music Company" | Michigan Bureau of Commercial Services, Corporation Division |
| 04/28/1993 | Report: Results of 1992 Gender Survey at Michigan Womyn's Music Festival | Nancy Burkholder |
| 11/10/1993 | Statement: Festival Womyn Speak Out | Lisa Vogel & Barbara Price, MWMF |
| --/--/1994 | Commentary: Transexual Separatism? or Is Anyone Out There Listening? | Riki Ann Wilchins in TransSisters |
| 07/01/1994 | Statement: The Alix Dobkin/Riki Ann Wilchins Joint Statement | Alix Dobkin & Riki Ann Wilchins |
| --/--/1997 | Paper: Feminist and Lesbian Opinions About Transsexuals | Holly Devor in Gender Blending |
| 11/09/1997 | Narrative: Imagine | Adrienne J. Davis |
| 04/15/1998 | Commentary: Passover Revisited | Alix Dobkin in Chicago Outlines |
| 07/--/1998 | Letter: Letter to the Organizers of the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival | Washington DC Lesbian Avengers |
| 06/08/1999 | Log: Michigan Women's Festival, Baybee | Chainsaw Records message board log |
| 06/10/1999 | Open Letter: Two Emails to Mr. Lady | BethX |
| 06/11/1999 | Statement: Public Statement | The Butchies & Mr. Lady |
| 06/24/1999 | Statement: Protest Called For: Women's Music Festival Discriminatory Policy Still in Effect | Clare Howell, GenderPAC |
| 07/31/1999 | Commentary: Trans Am: The Phantom Menace at Michigan | Jessica Xavier |
| 08/12/1999 | News: Don't Ask, Don't Tell Two-Step | Gordon Bowness in Xtra! |
| 08/18/1999 | Statement: No Penises on the Land: Michigan Womyn's Music Festival Expands Policy | Clare Howell, GenderPAC |
| 08/24/1999 | Statement: Festival Reaffirms Commitment ot Womyn-Born Space | Lisa Vogel, MWMF |
| 09/01/1999 | Commentary: What is the Measure of a Woman? | Miranda Stevens-Miller in Nightlines |
| 09/03/1999 | News: TG activists clash with women's music festival organizers | Doreen Cudnik in Gay People's Chronicle |
| 09/17/1999 | Statement: LRC Opposes Michigan Womyn's Music Festival Exclusion of Transsexual Women | Lesbian Resource Center in Seattle Gay News |
| 12/01/1999 | Commentary: Trans Exclusion at Michigan Women's Music Festival | BethX |
| 01/27/2000 | Letter: Letter to LC re:Son of Camp Trans | Davina Anne Gabriel |
| 04/--/2000 | Commentary: Men in ewes' clothing: The stealth politics of the transgender movement | Jennie Ruby, Off Our Backs |
| 04/--/2000 | Letters: "No More Cooptation" & "Anger Over Transsexuals" | Letters to Off Our Backs by bev jo |
| 07/24/2000 | Statement: Michigan Womyn's Music Festival Affirms Womyn Born Space | Lisa Vogel, MWMF |
| 08/04/2000 | Press Release: Boston Lesbian Avengers To Join Camp Trans In Michigan | Boston Lesbian Avengers |
| 08/07/2000 | News: Michigan Womyn's Music Festival celebrates 25 years of controversy | Anngel Delaney, New York Blade |
| 08/08/2000 | Handout: Community Discussion on Womyn-Born Womyn Space and Festival Affirms Womyn-Born Womyn Space | Lisa Vogel, MWMF (distributed at the festival) |
| 08/09/2000 | Statement: The Michigan Women's Music Festival and Transsexual Women: A Statement by Transsexual Women | Beth Elliott et al. |
| 08/12/2000 | Statement: "Michigan Eight" Evicted Over Festival's New "Don't Ask Don't tell" Gender Policy | Camp Trans |
| 08/14/2000 | Letter: Transwomen "Menace" Michigan | Jim Fouratt |
| 08/15/2000 | Statement: Michigan Womyn's Music Festival Celebrates 25 Years of Commitment to Womyn-Born Womyn Space | Michigan Womyn's Music Festival |
| 08/18/2000 | Statement: The Transfeminist Response to "A Statement by Transsexual Women and their Women Friends" | Liby S. Pease et al. |
| 08/20/2000 | Commentary: My MWMF statement about the MWMF statements | Gwendolyn Ann Smith |
| 08/20/2000 | Paper: Whose Feminism is it Anyway? The Unspoken Racism of the Trans Inclusion Debate | Emi Koyama |
| 08/24/2000 | Statement: Eight Activists Kicked Out of Michigan Womyn's Music festival | Simon Fisher, Chicago Camp Trans Committee |
| 08/27/2000 | Commentary: A Challenge to reassigned / non op / pre op women everywhere | Danielle |
| 09/01/2000 | News: Michigan Festival Won't Budge on Trans Inclusion | Rob Nixon in Etcetera |
| 09/13/2000 | Commentary: Trouble in Utopia | Tristan Taormino in Village Voice |
| 10/01/2000 | News: Michigan Controversy Flares Again | Gail Sondegaard |
| 10/00/2000 | News: Michigan: transgender controversy... | Off Our Backs |
| --/--/2001 | Paper: Don't Stop The Music: Roundtable Discussion with Workers from the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival | Ann Cvetkovich & Selena Wahng in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 7(1):131-151. |
| 04/17/2001 | Commentary: Are Transsexual Women "Real" Women? Yes. | Paula Martinac in PlanetOut |
| 06/--/2001 | News: Sex, lies and feminism | Charlotte Croson in Off Our Backs |
| 07/--/2001 | News: Gender Rights, Transgender Rights, Women's Rights? | Karla Mantilla in Off Our Backs |
| 08/16/2001 | News: XX Marks the Spot | Teresa Wiltz in Washington Post |
| 08/20/2001 | Commentary: Report from "Camp Trans" | Scott Free in OutVoice |
| 10/--/2001 | Review: The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival: Another World | Off Our Backs |
| 10/07/2001 | Petition: Response to Violence Against the Butchies/Le Tigre | Rachel Carns et al. |
| 10/09/2001 | News: A Tale of Two Festivals | Jennifer Vanasco in The Advocate |
| 10/10/2001 | Commentary: Trans America | Sarah Dougher |
| 10/15/2001 | Petition: An Open Letter in Support of Protests | Sadie Crabtree et al. |
| 10/24/2001 | Commentary: Leave "Women Only" Rule Ambiguous | Emi Koyama |
| 12/18/2001 | Petition: MWMF Trans-inclusion Petition | Nomy Lamm et al. |
| 12/--/2001 | News: Trouble at the Womyn's Festival | Charlotte Cooper in Rainbow Network |
| 02/10/2002 | Commentary: Politics of Safety in Women-Only Spaces: An Opening Statement for the Dialogue | Emi Koyama |
| 02/13/2002 | News: More Than a Woman | Ren Spencer Saller in Riverfront Times |
| 07/--/2002 | Roundtable: A Fest in Distress | Robin Finkelstein, Emi Koyama and Grover Wehman in Bitch magazine, Summer 2002 (Issue 17) |
| 07/25/2002 | Interview: Politics of Pussy: Bitch and Animal on a Revolutionary Gender-Bender | Sarah Liss interviews Bitch and Animal, NOW (Toronto) |
| 08/28/2003 | News: Michigan: two camps face off over trans inclusion | R.J. Grubb, The Bay Window (Mass.) |
| 09/--/2003 | Essay: At the Michigan Womyn's Music Fest | Bonnie J. Morris, in Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, September/October 2003 |
| 11/--/2003 | News: Jess Snodgrass Interview | Curve magazine, November 2003 |
| 11/--/2003 | News: Letter to Editor | Bobbi in Minnesota, Curve magazine, November 2003 |
| 11/--/2003 | Article: Transmissions from Camp Trans | Michelle Tea, Believer magazine, November 2003 |
| 03/19/2004 | Statement: I have recently heard... | Alix Olson |
| 04/--/2004 | Statement: My thoughts on MWMF | Ember Swift, on her website |
| 06/03/2004 | Statement: Michigan Statement #2 | Ember Swift, on her website |
| 07/--/2004 | Interview: Excerpt from Diane DiMassa Interview | Bitch magazine, Summer 2004 (Issue #25) |
| 07/--/2004 | Letter to Editor: Letter to Bitch Magazine | Julia Serano |
| 07/--/2004 | Open Letter: Letter from Diane DiMassa | Diane DiMassa, on her website |
| 06/--/2005 | Interviews: Notes from Amy / Michigan Womyn's Fest Interviews | Amy Ray interviews Jessica Snodgrass, Carrie Schrader, Brian Burgess, Angelyn Anastasia, Katie Bishop, Brandie Taylor, Tami Rae Carland, Bitch, Daniela, and Lisa Vogel |
| 08/03/2006 | News: Michigan Or Bust: CampTrans Flourishes for Another Year | Jacob Anderson-Minshall, San Francisco Bay Times |
| 08/03/2006 | News: The Other Women's Festival--Camp Trans | Dawn Wolfe Gutterman, Between The Lines News |
| 08/14/2006 | Commentary & Letter: frustration | Julia Serano responds to Jacob Anderson-Minshall, 08/03/2006 |
| 08/21/2006 | Press Release: Michigan Women's Music Festival ends policy of discrimination against Trans women | Camp Trans |
| 08/22/2006 | Press Release: Michigan Women's Music Festival Sets the Record "Straight" | Michigan Womyn's Music Festival |
| 08/24/2006 | Press Release: Womyn's Fest tells transgender women to ban themselves | National Center for Transgender Equality |
| 09/05/2006 | Press Release: The Michigan Women's Music Festival Continues to Promote Discrimination | Families United Against Hate |