#MichFest

[nutloaf]

Are you familiar with Michigan Womyn's Music Festival (Michfest) /WWTLC /Big Mouth Girl /'The Land' ?

[nansheonearth]

I'm pretty sure the first time I saw the original short for DEBS (yes there's an even lower budget version of this movie) was during movie night at Michfest. Imagine baby dyke me on the land almost a decade ago. Alone but surrounded by hundreds of women, not knowing hundreds more would be showing up in the next few days. Watching lesbian made movies on a massive projector screen in the woods of Michigan. Lesbian pilgrimage.

[withcrafts]

Literally just hearing about MichFest for the first time today and I actually cannot believe how feral men are when they're not allowed into female owned spaces. It was an exclusive festival and guess what? Just because you're not allowed there doesn't mean it's discriminatory. If you demand to be let into someone's house and they don't know you i.e. you're not related to them in any way shape or form, you're not getting in because you don't belong there. Men are so disgustingly and abhorrently selfish and gluttonous for what isn't theirs. So many groups, organizations, events, etc., are exclusive!! Exclusivity ≠ discrimination. Go make your own spaces and whatnot just like you always have when you're not accepted somewhere because it's not for you.

[buzzcutbulldyke]

At SPOTL I got myself a Land Community Cookbook! It's a cookbook full of recipes from festies, both recipes that were actually served on the land (like these two!) and recipes that were just sent in by festgoers.

I made chicken satay salad and sesame noodles, which was apparently a common combination during fest. They were both DELICIOUS, I can see how they would be very popular on the land. It's a cold dish, which would be refreshing in the summer, and it has a LOT of flavor. I doubled the amount of noodles, as there was plenty of sauce and I didn't want it to go to waste, and I skipped the coconut because I'm just not a coconut fan, but it all worked so well.

If you want to support the WWTLC, go pick yourself up a copy from their website! It's FULL of very cool recipes I'm excited to try.

[roses-edge]

Sooo they won't release the michfest meetup location until you pay for a ticket. I live in Metro detroit, and before I commit, I want to see the drive if it's far oof. Like I get that we want to keep harrassment out, but. I'm not dropping 100 on something that has no confirmed destination. I reached out to one of the founders on her tiktok, but there's no response yet. I just asked for her to estimate the drive time based on my location (roughly). I don't wanna get scammed.

[lavendersheep20]

I really want to go to Big Mouth Girl this summer but I don’t know if I’ll be able to because I only have like ten weeks to work and I also have so many other things I have to go to 😭

[mkantor]

Does anyone know of any still-running female-only festivals or gatherings happening in the United States any time soon? It’s been my dream to attend one, but MichFest ended when I was still in college.

[neroraven]

I have a question for radfems: what specific thing got you into reading radfem theory and made you re-evaluate your feminist positions?

for me it was the michfest debacle a few years ago

[cliffburton]

i should've been a problematic lesbian of the 80s, no yk what i can still be one when it's controversial to say lesbians don't like men

[nansheonearth]

Here’s your chance to be a part of women’s land:

Important Announcement:

We are expanding the Board of Directors!

To best serve our community moving forward, WWTLC is currently seeking candidates to fill six open board positions:

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Chair

Donor Relationship Management (a subset of the Fundraising Committee)

Organization Compliance (a subset of the Treasurer's role)

Volunteer Management Chair

Marketing Communications Chair

Land Stewardship Chair

While some roles are open due to expected board seat term expirations/turnover, you may notice that we have created several NEW board seats, which we are excited to now promote! These new areas of focus will encourage broader collaboration on the important work needed to continue current-day operations while positioning us to ignite the additional work needed to impact WWTLC's in the years to come.

Creating a board of directors that reflects and represents our beautifully diverse community is important to us as we continue to grow our organization. We are committed to filling board seats with folks who will bring new ideas, share their perspectives, and work collaboratively to fulfill our mission – one that provides women and girls with unique programs, events, and experiences that celebrate women's history, promote healing and empowerment, build women's community, and encourage education and growth.

Current open roles:

NEW position - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Chair:  Develop strategy to recruit, hire and/or train committee, board or staff members to authentically demonstrate support for the mission of the organization and represent the diverse community we serve.

NEW position - Donor Relationship Management Chair: Work closely with the Fundraising Chair and Assistant Treasurer to ensure proper support of major fundraising campaigns, donors and accounts receivable.

NEW position - Organization Compliance Chair:  Support WWTLC Treasurer with preparation of financial statements for tax and other regulatory purposes. Support organization compliance with charitable solicitation registration. Assist with documentation and management of the organization's financial processes. Member of the Finance Committee.

NEW position - Volunteer Management Chair: Maintain application and information related to summer volunteer and staff hiring decisions. Coordinate contracts for summer hires, including stipend payments, roles to be filled, manage job descriptions, work with DE&I chair to ensure a recruitment process that builds a diverse board, staff and volunteer presence.

Land Stewardship Committee Chair: The Chair of the Land Stewardship Committee is responsible for overseeing development and execution of all work activities required to maintain and sustain the Land, to ensure its availability and accessibility for rental by organizations for their events and programs which center on women and girls.

Marketing & Communications Committee Chair: The Chair of the Marketing/Communications committee is responsible for development and implementation of the organization's communication strategy to increase visibility and awareness of the organization and its events.

Our board’s ability to operationalize the year-round work of maintaining, preserving, conserving, and stewarding The Land requires significant volunteer labor. Will you join us in this extraordinarily rewarding labor of love? Full job descriptions available upon request. Email questions to us at

info@wwtlc.org

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Folks who represent all dimensions of diversity are desired.

Many hands make light work, and there is so much important work to be done. Please join us today!

[olipeaksforever]

tumblr when alison bechdel praised the transphobic book adam:

tumblr when alison bechdel spoke highly of michfest:

tumblr when dykes to watch out for is losing against homestuck in the queer media tourney:

[hadsephone]

Ani defranco as Persephone is my 13th reason

[ghostlyerlkonig]

love having a time reading articles about tribe 8 while making a shirt because i can/because i cant get one and reading the concerns about their songs and how they were on stage and how they were just loud dykes with no concern for others (cis het and assimilationist) opinions and going "ah ive heard all this in the last month! we really are (/s) still shitting out, eating, and shitting out again the same transphobic queerphobic terf opinions about queer sexuality and sexual expression every fucking year since forever!"

anyways the shirt has BDSM angels on it.

[pinselwurm]

sorry for being a hater but younger lesbians constantly trying to remix shitty garbage from american lesbian history is just so cringe.  any of it.  copying old-school repressed roles, copying the hippie feminists, copying the edgy sex nerds and alt scene, it’s all so cringy.  do something original.  no goddamn soul is doing anything original.

it’s half the reason we don’t have a lick of new culture, everyone is obsessed with consuming all the old shit and stickering herself with it.  the other half is men ruining everything, which is why the old shit is all anyone runs to.

it’s pathetic and i’m embarrassed.

[chihuahuagirlfriend]

On Sunday my older lesbian friend mentioned her friend Max and I had to stop her 2 sentences later when I figured out it was Max Dashu!!! Internationally known women's spiritual figure Max Dashu!!!