The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For

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Bechdel self-syndicated Dykes to Watch Out For for twenty-five years, from 1983 to 2008. The award-winning generational chronicle has been called “one of the pre-eminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period.” ( Ms. magazine) The Smurfette Principle: Inverted. Originally, all the characters were female, not just because it was a lesbian strip but also because Bechdel wanted to force male readers to identify with the women in the strip, as women are frequently forced to identify with male characters. However, after she decided to make Clarice and Toni's child a boy, she started to introduce more male characters, such as Carlos and his boyfriend Trevor, Jerry, and most prominently Stuart.

Even a few years ago I was saying: “Oh, it’s so hard to convince people how hostile the culture was towards us when we were young,” but now it’s gone off the rails. All these anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ bills that are being passed – it’s crazy. I don’t want to feed into the people who are sure there’s going to be a civil war. I could easily work up that anxiety, and sometimes in my worst moments I do. I also don’t want to take away the sense of urgency. We’ve got to be vigilant. One of the best lesbian comics turned into an even greater audible adaption. The cast was wonderful and the script was lovely and the last extra scene is a cherry atop a sweet, sweet cake." —Anile, Audible listener Sparrow: God, this drag king craze is so retrograde. Men are destroying the planet! Why compete to see who can mimic them most convincingly? Toni : I find out my happy, secure six-year relationship has been a total sham and it’s not that bad? Occupation: Some vaguely science-related job at Sydney’s university; also teaching Arabic to neo-Conservative, CIA-bound student Cynthia

I have good editing skills from my two years on the staff of the Lesbian Rag and I got counselling skills when I volunteered at the battered women’s shelter… Alison Bechdel’s comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For became a countercultural institution among lesbians and discerning non-lesbians all over the planet. Bechdel self-syndicated Dykes to Watch Out For for twenty-five years, from 1983 to 2008. The award-winning generational chronicle has been called “one of the pre-eminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period.” I didn’t know what was going to happen. How do you turn a visual thing into an audio thing? But a wonderful playwright, Madeleine George, did the adaptation. I’m still amazed at how she managed to take so much of my original language.

Lange, Maggie (June 2023). " 'Dykes to Watch Out For,' Now Holding Forth in Your Headphones". The New York Times . Retrieved June 1, 2023.

Cause of Sorrow: Realizing that the world seems to get worse no matter how many injunctions she wins against polluting factories.

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Where the Hell Is Springfield?: The name or the exact location of the (fictional) city the strip takes place in is never revealed, though one official description of the strip refers to it as "may or may not be Minneapolis." In her work, Bechdel is preoccupied with the overlap of the political and the personal spheres, the relationship of the self to the world outside. Her 2012 memoir Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama delved into not just her relationship with her own mother, but the theories of the 20th century British psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott. Her most recent book, The Secret to Superhuman Strength (May 2021), continues her investigation of the relationship between inside and outside, in this case the outside where she skis, bikes, hikes, and wanders in pursuit of fitness and, incidentally, self-transcendence. Acme Products: Apparently the Acme Corporation exists in the DTWOF universe, as the occasional Acme product/company is seen. Acme Floral appears in an early strip, and there's also Acme Imaging Solutions (makers of the "iMRItronic" MRI machine). This collection of strips runs from 1987 through 2 Author Tract: Bechdel describes the strip as "half op-ed column and half endless serialized Victorian novel," and true to form nearly every strip has some political ranting done by the characters. The angriest sentiments are given a lot of Self-Deprecation - Mo and Clarice always have someone nearby to point out that their excessive anger is not helping anything.