2007 Controversy over Bitch's Scheduled Performance
The 2007 Boston Dyke March Committee, believing that the boycott on performers who took the stage at the Michigan Women's Music Festival had ended, booked Bitch to perform at the 2007 Boston Dyke March. Members of the community who opposed the Michigan Women's Music Festival women-born only admittance policy and felt that boycotting Festival performers was the best political strategy for inducing change in the policy were displeased with Bitch's scheduled Dyke March performance. Maintaining that Festival performers were implicitly supporting the Festival's anti-transwoman admittance policy, they began organizing a protest to take place at the Dyke March. The Boston Dyke March committee, which had always supported transinclusion and was concerned over the possible fracturing of the community, cancelled Bitch's performance.
The documents below are generally organized in chronological order.
1. Political Context: The Controversy over Bitch's scheduled performance at the 2007 Boston Dyke March
2. History of Camp Trans
3. Circulating email: Michfest ends policy
4. Michigan Women's Music Festival's response to confusion over admission policy
5. Interview with Bitch in which she states her position on the Michfest admission policy
6. Letter template circulated for those opposed to Bitch performing at Dyke March
7. Queer Today blogsite: Bitch at the Boston Dyke March--Transphobia Continues!
8. Queer Today blogsite: Trans-misogyny in Dyke Communities: Bitch Isn't the Whole Issue
9. Cancellation of Bitch's performance: Statement read at the Boston Dyke March
10. Boston Dyke March Transincluson Statement
11. Boston Dyke March responds to ongoing controversy
12. Bay Windows, June 14, 2007
13. Bay Windows Poll 2007
14. Pam's Houseblend Blogsite: When is a Dyke not Welcome at the Dyke March
15. Woman Space blogsite: The Colonizing of Lesbian and Women’s Community: Bitch Performance at Boston Dyke March
16. Freesoil Party Blog: Boston Dyke March Cancels Bitch Performance, Intimidated by Trans Activists
17. Bay Windows interview with Bitch October 4, 2007
The documents below are generally organized in chronological order.
1. Political Context: The Controversy over Bitch's scheduled performance at the 2007 Boston Dyke March
2. History of Camp Trans
3. Circulating email: Michfest ends policy
4. Michigan Women's Music Festival's response to confusion over admission policy
5. Interview with Bitch in which she states her position on the Michfest admission policy
6. Letter template circulated for those opposed to Bitch performing at Dyke March
7. Queer Today blogsite: Bitch at the Boston Dyke March--Transphobia Continues!
8. Queer Today blogsite: Trans-misogyny in Dyke Communities: Bitch Isn't the Whole Issue
9. Cancellation of Bitch's performance: Statement read at the Boston Dyke March
10. Boston Dyke March Transincluson Statement
11. Boston Dyke March responds to ongoing controversy
12. Bay Windows, June 14, 2007
13. Bay Windows Poll 2007
14. Pam's Houseblend Blogsite: When is a Dyke not Welcome at the Dyke March
15. Woman Space blogsite: The Colonizing of Lesbian and Women’s Community: Bitch Performance at Boston Dyke March
16. Freesoil Party Blog: Boston Dyke March Cancels Bitch Performance, Intimidated by Trans Activists
17. Bay Windows interview with Bitch October 4, 2007
