Michigan Womyn's Music Festival | |
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Genre | Women's music |
Dates | August |
Location(s) | Hart, Michigan |
Years active | 1976–2015 |
Website | https://www.michfest.com (MWMF Archive) |
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The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, often referred to as MWMF or Michfest,[1] was a lesbian feminist women's music festival held annually from 1976 to 2015 in Oceana County, Michigan, on privately owned woodland near Hart Township referred to as "The Land" by Michfest organizers and attendees.[2][3] The event was built, staffed, run, and attended exclusively by women, with girls, young boys and toddlers permitted.[4][5][2]
From 1991, the festival excluded trans women, adopting a "womyn-born womyn" policy,[6] which drew increasing criticism. The festival was picketed by Camp Trans starting in the 1990s for its exclusionary policy. LGBT advocacy group Equality Michigan boycotted the event in 2014.[7] Michfest drew criticism from the Human Rights Campaign,[8] GLAAD,[9] the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the National LGBTQ Task Force, among others. The festival held its final event in August 2015.[10][11]
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