Angela Jimenez is a photographer based in Brooklyn. These images, taken at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, are from her new book, Welcome Home: Building the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. They are being exhibited at the LGBT Center in New York through April 16.
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Festival is home for me, for many women of all ages, races, religions, sexual orientations and financial status. There are women from as far away as Austrailia, New Zealand, and as close as Michigan. It is a place that I bring my daughter, who was 3 when we began and will be 17 this year and we both still agree that it is the best place on earth. It is a place where you learn to appreciate your body for it’s abilities rather than the way it looks as you walk miles every day, stand in line for food, haul your camp gear in and out…all the while helping your fellow Festie goers. If the world could capture the peace, good intentions, happiness, and love that is within the forest one week in August, there would be no wars and no one would go to bed hungry or lonely. These photos mean so much to those of us who have seen these women on the land, working to set it up and tear it down and keep it going so that us Festie goers can just enjoy! See you in August!