V's Version

Stealth and Style for the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival: Yesterday I found a box full of Fest flyers and glossy postcards hot off the presses and on my doorstep. This morning I dressed in a perfectly polyester aqua blue mini dress with white go-go boots and put the box on the front seat of my car to head out for a little adventure!

I went to several local coffee houses in a 30 mile radius, music stores, bookstores, the LGBT center, the local gay bar, the alternative grocery stores and my favorite tattoo parlor. I was mostly able to get the required signatures and permissions and had to be creative in how to move around all the rest of the flyers so as to get the best exposure. I am sure it was quite a sight to see me standing with my go-go boots on the baby high chair to get that prime open spot at the top of the community board!

In one store (that shall remain nameless) I had to resort to stealthy tactics because their posting policy was too restrictive. I'm not sure if I was brilliant or bad but I took the little glossy postcards and stood over by the magazine rack, pretending to be browsing. I inserted the postcards one at a time into many copies of magazines (that shall remain nameless) with a likely feminist, young, dyke, womon and/or creative readership. It seemed like the perfect way to get the word out to a specific audience. It was probably not ethically correct since people have to pay to advertise in those magazines (and CERTAINLY not condoned by anyone official at festival) but ? What is a girl to do? My heart is in the right place.

I LOVE the idea of each of us who know and love festival dressing in a favorite outfit and going out to spread the word. Take a moment right now and contact the office to request your own little box of glossy goodness - or print some up on your computer if you just can't wait. Go have an adventure - you never know whose life you might change!


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