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    For twenty-five years, Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival (MWMF) has provided a space for womyn to come together for one week each summer to celebrate their womynhood and learn from each other while collectively maintaining a womyn-only community.  This description of the festival sounds amazing.  What could be wrong with a festival of that nature? When we examine the policies surrounding what "womyn" means to the MWMF organizers, we can truly come to understand the ways in which feminists are attempting to construct gender while utilizing, at times, their power and privilege to define and enforce gender.  The feminist construction of gender that is based on the oppressed becoming the oppressors works counter to many of the goals of feminist theory and activism.
 
 

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