Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist best known for the long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, and for popularizing the Bechdel Test, a measure of representation of women in films/fiction.

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Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc. Nobody expects the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence! Last night we commandeered the Out in Comics panel at San Diego Comic Con to ambush-canonize legendary cartoonist Alison Bechdel (creator of Fun Home and Dykes to Watch Out For). The panel is Comic Con's longest running (38 years!) and she got an instant standing ovation. All hail Saint Versimilitudinous, Pundit of Profundity, Maestro of Mirth, & a Saint To Watch Out For.

All hail Alison Bechdel - Saint Versimilitudinous, Pundit of Profundity, Maestro of Mirth, & a Saint To Watch Out For!

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20 authors you’d recommend to a friend. One author per day, no particular order.

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8/20: Alison Bechdel

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“Spent” with Alison Bechdel Come along on this deep dive into Alison Bechdel’s new autofictional comic novel Spent, that will give you everything from Edward Gorey Easter eggs to Harriet the Spy content. Alison teaches me things about myself (I’m a bottom-up thinker. Who knew!) and reflects on what Alison, the character, learns from finally meeting the much beloved Dykes to Watch Out For on the page. Whether you are a fan of goats, wood chopping, reality TV or Virginia Woolf – this episode has something for every kind of anti-capitalist dyke.   References: Alison Bechel’s The Secret to Superhuman Strength Alison Bechel’s Fun Home Alison Bechel’s Dykes to Watch Out For Carmen Maria Machado Karl Marx’s Das Kapital The Guilty Feminist podcast Queer Eye Tidying Up with Marie Kondo Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse Nicole Coenen Grant Wood’s American Gothic Edward Gorey’s The Unstrung Harp The Gashlycrumb Tinies T his Queer Book Saved My Life Jonathan Cape Foyles https://www.foyles.co.uk/events/cape-graphic-novels-mini-con Anna Trench’s Florrie Louise Fitzhugh’s Harriet the Spy   Questions you should be able to respond to: -      What are some of Alison Bechdel’s most well-known texts? -      How does Alison reflect on intergenerational queer community? -      In a lesbian version of Queer Eye, what would the five lesbians’ areas of expertise be? -      If you could fictionalise a detail of your life, what would you invent for yourself?

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Two lesbians discussing what became the Bechdel Test: "I have this rule, see.... I only go to a movie if it satisfies three basic requirements. ONE, it has to have at least two women in it... who, two, TALK to each other, about, THREE, something besides a man." - "Pretty strict, but a good idea." - "No kidding. Last movie I was able to see was Alien."

It's Lesbian Visibility Day, so I think you should all know:

I'm a lesbian!

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