GENDER IDENTITY: Someone you should know: Allison Bechdel
Allison Bechdel is the mastermind behind the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, which ran from 1983 to 2008. This comic gave rise to the term "The Bechdel Test," a way of evaluating gender biases in popular media. In order to pass The Bechdel Test, a film has to have two female characters who talk to each other about something other than a man.
Bechdel also wrote two graphic memoirs, including Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006), an investigation into her closeted bisexual father's suicide. Fun Home has been adapted into a musical that opened on Broadway in 2015 and won five Tony Awards.
Bechdel's work deals with the overlap of the personal and the political, and the relationship of the self to the outside world. Pick up a copy of one of her books as soon as you can.
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