{"id":1330,"date":"2013-01-03T21:27:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T21:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2013-01-03T21:30:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T21:30:15","slug":"on-being-a-young-dyke-in-the-80s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=1330","title":{"rendered":"on being a young dyke in the 80s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, as a result of talking with MTB about Ani DeFranco and some other stuff, kind of related to queer history, I ended up listening to some old <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Women%27s_music\">womens\/womyns\/wimmins music<\/a>. Meg Christiansan, Holly Near, Chris Williamson, Ferron . . . names I&#8217;d filed away somewhere in the back of my 21 year old brain. I was never a big fan of the music and I&#8217;m not even sure I owned any records, myself, but I got the cultural significance for sure, even if I only went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michfest.com\/\">Michigan<\/a> once, which was ground zero for the womens music movement. Actually, the whole point for me, was the cultural significance, although it was also pretty powerful to see dykes up on a big stage singing about being dykes. But what blew me away, and what I mean by cultural significance (and that may not be the right phrase), was the whole thing of coming together and creating a safe space to be an out and open dykes. It was a big ass deal. At that point in the early, 80s, the Gay Pride movement was new and festivals were just starting to get organized across the country and even then, a lot of that didn&#8217;t really take off in midwest (outside of Chicago) until the 90s.\u00a0 So the upshot is that when I was a young dyke there wasn&#8217;t a place to go where you could and be out and proud and safe\u00a0en masse. Except festivals. And in retrospect, I got lucky because The National Women&#8217;s Music festival was held in Bloomington for at least 5 or 6 years during my 20s. And while it was not as intense as Mich, it was, at the time, amazing to have 1000s of lesbians descend on Bloomington and take over a small section of IU campus and create an alternative reality, where it wasn&#8217;t just safe to be out, it was fun and hot to be out. So a shout out for that part of history and that I got to be in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, as a result of talking with MTB about Ani DeFranco and some other stuff, kind of related to queer history, I ended up listening to some old womens\/womyns\/wimmins music. Meg Christiansan, Holly Near, Chris Williamson, Ferron . . . names I&#8217;d filed away somewhere in the back of my 21 year old brain. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-queer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}