Alison Bechdel
Cartoonist and graphic memoirist
1960-09-10
Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist and graphic memoirist known for Dykes to Watch Out For and Fun Home.
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Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice.
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Four years after my father's death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would relate the information in a flat, matter-of-fact tone eager to detect in my listener the flinch of grief that eluded me.
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Don't you kids get any ideas about dragging a trailer into the backyard. after you graduate from high school, i don't want to see you again.
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Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?
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I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.
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Don't you kids get any ideas about dragging a trailer into the backyard. after you graduate from high school, i don't want to see you again.
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Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice.
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I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.
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Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?
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Four years after my father's death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would relate the information in a flat, matter-of-fact tone eager to detect in my listener the flinch of grief that eluded me.
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I get a lot of mail from men who really identify with Stuart, you know, Sparrow's boyfriend. I love that. Even though I used to say I wanted men to read the strip even though there weren't any men in it, so they'd be forced to identify with the women.
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I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.
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Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.
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When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.
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