The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For

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Claim to Fame: Challenged Mo’s preconceived notions about people with disabilities, causing Mo to develop a crush. Jonas -> Janis

AR: This was one of the earlier ongoing representations that we got to see of lesbians in media. What has it been like for you? I would love to hear a little bit about what some of your fans have said to you about what it has meant to see that. And now, they're going to have an opportunity to listen to it. Lccn 86022760 Ocr tesseract 5.2.0-1-gc42a Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.7497 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Ocr_parameters -l eng Openlibrary OL2728795M Openlibrary_edition I always was a little disturbed by that, like, wow, that's a lot of responsibility. So I just tried not to think about that but I would definitely hear from people who claimed that was true. And certainly, people in small towns. This was way before we had gay and lesbian characters on TV. So it was just helpful for us to see a reflection of the kind of lives we were all leading. I'm just curious, do you have any advice for people who are struggling to be out these days? In 2006 she published Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Time magazine named it the Best Book of 2006. Itwas adapted into a musical by the playwright Lisa Kron and the composer Jeanine Tesori. It opened on Broadway at the Circle in the Square Theater on April 19, 2015, and won five Tony Awards, including “Best Musical.”I often go through phases of it. Ideally, I would draw every day, but I’ve got into bad patches where I’ve stopped and I start to lose the skill. It’s like any kind of manual dexterity – you lose it if you don’t practise it. urn:lcp:dykestowatchoutf00bech:epub:0ec7255c-0e92-4793-974b-1233c1875d2e Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier dykestowatchoutf00bech Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8mc9zt1m Isbn 9780932379177 We are here upon the release of Dykes to Watch Out For coming to Audible, which is so exciting—thinking of the journey that this project has been on so many years. Thanks to services like Audible, we have so much more access to LGBTQ stories and content. I know I'm always finding new things to listen to that I love that are queer on Audible. Other Commitments: Freedom to Marry advocate, fast-walking with the beguiling Gloria and fending off skeptical heterosexual parents. Queer women have long been champions of women having something other to talk about and do than something related to men, and The Bechdel Test has inspired this ultimately queer and feminist reading of the movies we accept, allow, and support. Even non-queer specific films that pass The Bechdel Test are part of a legacy that was inspired by the queer feminist lens, a way of consuming media with a discerning eye and ear tuned into the insistence of not only misogyny but heteronormativity and racism, along with other problematic notions that have existed far too long in the boys club that is the industry.

Dykes to Watch Out For” was a sort of soap opera kind of strip in gay and lesbian newspapers. It centered around a women's bookstore where many of the characters worked and we follow their lives and loves. But at the same time, we followed current events as they were unfolding and the characters we're responding to things going on in the news and politics. Can you tell me more about how specifically the Twin Cities colored the strip?ELLEN FINN: Yeah. It's pretty clear from your graphic memoir, Fun Home, and even just the bold title of your strip-- you know, Dykes to Watch Out For-- that you've been out as a lesbian from a young age and didn't shy away from the complexity and intimacy of your gay identity in your work. I'm just curious, do you have any advice for people who are struggling to be out these days? Roberta Colindrez is awesome. Roberta was in the Broadway musical based on my memoir, Fun Home. She had this wonderful role of my college girlfriend who I came out with and here she is playing Lois, the sort of Casanova “ladies’ lady” character. No one could do this role like Roberta. It's incredible. AB: Yeah, that's my hope is that a younger audience can discover it! Although I'm always surprised at how many young people are excited about even the old strips. What I hear from them is, “Oh my God, the same things are still going on,” so they're sort of relieved to have this sort of guidebook from these older characters who've been through it.