The singer was not made aware of the festival's entirely female-, trans-, and non-binary-lineup. 

Caroline Polachek (formerly of Chairlift) has announced that she is no longer performing at Moogfest, a multi-day event self-described as &ldquo;the synthesis of music, art, and technology.&rdquo; The singer sites the recently announced all-female, -trans, and &ndash;non-binary lineup as the reason on Instagram. Yesterday, she explained her feelings and decision in a lengthy, well-worded post.

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&ldquo;Gender is not a genre. I don&rsquo;t want or need a sympathy pedestal&hellip;take me off this list and put me in the pit with the boys, I can and will hold my own,&rdquo; the post reads. Polachek claims she was not made aware of the lineup prior to announcement, and that she views the direction as &ldquo;self-congratulatory PR.&rdquo; The festival&rsquo;s programmer, James Petrine, apparently sent an email saying &ldquo;we are excited to take this moment to spotlight artists that historically have been underrepresented in major music spaces,&rdquo; to which Polachek says, &ldquo;neither this wording nor this concept was presented to me in the offer.&rdquo; Earlier in the same post, she says, &ldquo;To do this without permission from the artists on display is exploitative and unprofessional.&rdquo;

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Yes, it is true that women, especially at music festivals, have seen severe underrepresentation. A Huffington Post <a href="http://data.huffingtonpost.com/music-festivals">data analysis</a> showed that female-only music acts make up only 12% of festival lineups, compared to the 78% of male-only. And while Moogfest&rsquo;s desire to flip the script is commendable, it should be done at the consent of the participants. As Polachek succinctly puts it: &ldquo;Choice is the key word here.&rdquo;

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Caroline Polachek Drops Out of Gendered Moogfest Lineup

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