Blogs about: Alison Bechdel

Featured Blog

What Acilius has been up to lately

Over the last couple of days, I’ve posted several little things in several places.  I put several links on Twitter, including these: http://tinyurl.com/4eskj4j A fun list of counterfactual histo… more →

Panther Red

But Why Does It Matter?

mcat31 wrote 1 day ago: Quick note:  I really wanted to do a good job with this post, but I have been feeling under the weat … more →

Tags: NBA, Blog, a loss of distinction, blogs, Blogging, Blogger, But why does it matter, Bloggers, Gay

Graphic Novels

Sue P. wrote 1 day ago: We’ve added a fine new batch of graphic novels/memoirs this year.  Special thanks to Brett and … more →

Tags: Book Review, Summer Borrowing, Alan Moore, Emmanuel Guibert, Gene Yang, Graphic Novels, Nichole Georges, Sherlock Holmes

Losing my graphic novel virginity: Alison Bechdel's Fun Home — 2 comments

amyrosemary14 wrote 1 week ago: Another one of the texts that will be making an appearance in my exam in a few weeks alongside The G … more →

Tags: Review, Novel, Arts, Literature, Book Review, Feminism, Sexuality, God of Small Things, Fun Home

Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel — 1 comment

Madeline wrote 1 week ago: I love Alison Bechdel. A little bit of background: I’m 23 years old, and I work at a nonprofit … more →

Tags: Book Review, Literature, Review, graphic novel, Lesbian, Psychology, dykes to watch out for, LGBT, book

Reflecting on Fun Home

Megan Harrison wrote 1 week ago: In Julia Watson’s paper “Autographic Disclosures and Geneologies of Desire in Alison Bec … more →

Tags: projects, Fun Home, Tragicomic, autographic, graphic novel, Presentation

Gendering in our society: Violence and Silence — 2 comments

amyrosemary14 wrote 1 week ago: I am honestly nearly finished reading the book. Some reason I just haven’t been able to find t … more →

Tags: Opinion, Review, Women's rights, Feminism, Sexuality, Jackson Katz, Barbecue, game of thrones, Domestic Violence

Voices and staring and how we aren't really that different but, of course, we are

artieismymuse wrote 3 weeks ago: First of all i need to know how and why with my immense love of graphic novels no one ever made sure … more →

Tags: Acceptance, Art Spiegelman, Commonalities, differences, Graphic Novels, Marjane Satrapi, maus, Memoirs, Persepolis

(Illustrated) memoir and ethics

Andrew Griffin wrote 3 weeks ago: Memoir has become big, and problematic, business in the past 15 years. In 1995, Dave Pelzer publishe … more →

Tags: writing, A million little pieces, Blankets, Child Called It, Craig Thompson, Fun Home, illustrated memoir, Persepolis

The Bechdel Test — 13 comments

Jess wrote 3 weeks ago: My friend and writing partner, Angela, knows lots of stuff in general, but especially about writing. … more →

Tags: Writing #2, Entertainment, Movies, brave, Cars, Creative Writing, Disney, Entertainment 2, Feminism

It's mini-review time!

Gricel wrote 1 month ago: What I’ve been reading – March/April It’s time for more mini-reviews! Clockwork Angel (The Inf … more →

Tags: novels and other fictions, Cassandra Clare, mortal instruments, Clockwork Angel, Infernal Devices, Are you my mother?, Austensibly Ordinary

Fun Home Comes to Public Theater's Season

Brett Schenker wrote 1 month ago: New York City’s Public Theater’s 2013-14 season, which was announced on Tuesday, will include … more →

Tags: Random, Musical, Fun Home, Public Theater, Jeanine Tesori, Lisa Kron, Sam Gold, Judy Kuhn

"The Next Big Thing"--a report — 4 comments

rachaelhanel wrote 1 month ago: Thanks to Barrie Jean Borich for tagging me in The Next Big Thing, a web series of author self-inter … more →

Tags: writing, memoir, The Next Big Thing, Barrie Jean Borich, Sarah Stonich, Thomas Maltman, Nicole Helget, Thomas Lynch

The Most Dysfunctional Families in Literature

Bookblurb wrote 1 month ago: By Jami Attenberg Neuroses run rampant across three generations of the Middlestein family in Jami At … more →

Tags: Lists, Jonathan Franzen, Publisher's Weekly, Lionel Shriver, lauren groff, dysfunctional families, Jami Attenberg, Andrew Dubus III, Jeannette Walls. Maria Semple

Book Review: "Are You My Mother" by Alison Bechdel

matscigirl wrote 1 month ago: Posting my GoodReads review: Alison Bechdel’s, Are You My Mother, embodies the best of what me … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, Books 2, Book Review, graphic novel, memoir

Writing: A prostitute in a library or a pregnant woman with an AK47? — 3 comments

Sally wrote 1 month ago: “Something must be done,” people on stage are saying to people in the audience who are saying it bac … more →

Tags: theatre, film, TV, writing, BBC, The Killing, Absolutely Fabulous, Equal Writes, Cultural Diversity Network

2013 Q1 Reading Report — 2 comments

emofalltrades wrote 1 month ago: Another year, another batch of books. Already, 2013′s reading has been spectacular. January Lo … more →

Tags: Books, What I'm Reading, Quarterly Reading Report, 225 magazine, A Game of Thrones, A Song of Ice and Fire, Bill Loehfelm, Brian Winter, Caitlin Flanagan

Abnormal?

Sarah Petrie wrote 1 month ago: Transvestite:is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as, “A person with an abnormal desire to we … more →

Tags: Abnormal, Fun Home, sexual shaming, gender roles, Novels, American, Oppression!, Psychological, Gender

If women don't talk about men all the time, what do we talk about? — 4 comments

Rosie Says wrote 1 month ago: Remember the Bechdel Test? It’s that set of three rules that helps determine the presence of w … more →

Tags: Media 2, gender, Gender, Charts, Women, gchat, graph, Friendship, Bechdel Test

Is your Fantasy Novel gender-biased? — 12 comments

thereanddraftagain wrote 1 month ago: I am a Fantasy writer. I am a reader. And I am a (young) woman. Because of who I am and the way I wa … more →

Tags: Writing #2, Reading, There And Draft Again, Fantasy, writing, Bechdel Test, Doctor Who, Feminism, Gender Bias


Related Tags
All →

Follow this tag via RSS