We Can Live Like This: A Memoir of a Culture by Lisa Vogel
About the Book
Michigan. To tens of thousands of womyn from around the globe, the word meant not a state in the upper Midwest of the U.S., but a state of mind, a state of freedom. A culture, a community, a revolution. The Land. From 1976 to 2015, the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival was home ground for the lesbian feminist movement. There we strove to embody the principles of matriarchal feminism and bring that wisdom to life in every aspect of the town we created, and the values that guided our lives together.
Lisa Vogel produced the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival for all 40 years of its existence. These are her stories.
“We never wanted to be mainstreamed, we never took corporate sponsorship, we declined mass media coverage and accepted all the financial loss and disrespect we accumulated from those choices. Instead, we created a cloistered community of rad womyn in the woods.”
Lisa Vogel was a 19-year-old, working-class lesbian when she envisioned a space for womyn to explore and celebrate the exploding womyn’s cultural revolution of the 1970s.
Lisa produced the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival for all 40 years of its existence. These are her stories.