Festival Discussions Bulletin Board

This message board is a forum for all of us Michigan womyn to keep the Festival energy and connections going between Festivals. It's a real-time discussion board, and when you click submit, it will be posted within a few seconds. The WWTMC office gals will check in from time to time, but this board is not a place for questions to the Festival or a place to write Festival feedback. The intention of this BB is for all of us who love the Festival to be able to talk to one another throughout the year.

We're sorry we don't have an email address to offer you in order to email Festival organizers. We know you'd prefer that method of communication. We have a small year-round staff, and though we'd love to know what you think, we don't have the capacity to manage the enormous volume of email communication the Festival would receive if we were to have an online address. We're also not interested to set up an automated response system which an email address for the Festival would demand. Instead, we welcome you to write or call us....old fashioned like.

The Bulletin Board is a great tool for connection, conversation and community. We'd like you to keep in mind that it is a public, not a private space. It is on the open Internet which means that everyone has access to it.

Please be particularly thoughtful about this issue whenever you are posting on a public bulletin board. Our bulletin board (as well as many alternative boards) is being monitored by the religious right in an attempt to find things that can be twisted and used against our community. Sad, but true. We intend, on the one hand, not to concede to the radical right by having their dishonest efforts hamper our communication, but we also ask you to be mindful that they are here, and they would like nothing better than to defame the Festival and make lesbian culture lewd. Thanks for being thoughtful about this and for all of your support to the Festival.

The Festival community values diversity of opinion, politics and style, and most importantly, our community always struggles to include the voice of dissent. The bulletin board is one avenue for the Festival community to work out issues, explore differences and grow through our diversity. Important changes and growth have emerged over the years from difficult struggles, and in the beginning we never know the good that will come out of initial conflict. It is also important to learn how to separate the messenger from the value of the message - focusing on principles over personalities.

For this reason and more we have opted to have no moderators on any of the discussion threads and to never censor the voices of anyone we may disagree with, or censor posts that might even unintentionally (or intentionally) misrepresent the Festival. We trust that it will all work itself out in the greater wisdom of the community on the boards.

Our snail mail address is
WWTMC
PO Box 22
Walhalla, MI 49458
231.757.4766

See you in August!

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