title: Complicated and messy politics of inclusion: Michfest and the Boston Dyke March.
abstract: To illustrate the challenge of political organizing that grapples with identity politics and inclusion, I focus on two women-centered annual events with very different politics of inclusion: the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival and the Boston Dyke March.
  
  
  RESULTS
  (1) arguments made by marginalized people for inclusion into established oppressed identity groups must be constructed with due care to avoid further marginalizing yet other liminal identities; (2) protesting/boycotting other oppressed groups for the purpose of achieving inclusion is often a problematic strategy; (3) the most effective strategy for honoring all people is to support organizations committed to the ideal of inclusion.
authors.affiliation: a Gender and Cultural Studies, Simmons College , Boston , Massachusetts , USA.
authors.forename: Jo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Trigilio
mesh_terms: D001900:Boston; D002961:Civil Rights; D005260:Female; D018452:Homosexuality, Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D011057:Politics; D058992:Social Participation
keywords: Dyke march; Michigan Womyn's Musical Festival; genderqueer; politics of inclusion; queer activism; trans discrimination