Alison Bechdel - Tumblr Posts
where are all those dykes im supposed to be watching out for. why arent they kissing me.
I'm going to throw a stone at a hornet's nest and say that the TERFs who like to claim Alison Bechdel as one of their own lack basic reading comprehension—and worse still, they lack shame.
There's an actual, honest-to-goodness, authentic, genuine strip of Dykes to Watch Out For in which Mo gets called out for her transphobia when she whines about sharing a restroom with a trans woman. Moreover, she then becomes the victim of bathroom policing herself, because butch women don't fit the cis-hetero-normative mold. It's all right there in the text, plain as day.
Just because Bechdel is a butch lesbian, and prefers that identity over "trans man" or "nonbinary," doesn't mean that she rejects the theory and rhetoric that produced those labels. That's child logic.
Cherry-picking her work to support their bigotry, just so they can claim lineage from a distinguished queer writer, is not only stupid and easily debunked, but it's deeply insulting. It betrays how little TERFs actually care about LGBTQ rights, feminism, or literature.
Any so-called "radfems" interacting with this post will be blocked—thereby cleaning up the "Alison Bechdel" tag for my browsing, so I don't have to wade through a bunch of bigotry every time I scroll through it. Thank you in advance. ❤️
This is tumblr dot com, the gay website, how is disney beating my favorite queer musical of all time. for those who are unaware fun home (based on the book by alison bechdel (of "dykes to watch out for" and "bechdel test" fame) is this incredibly raw autobiographical story of growing up as in rural PA, going to college, discovering her sexuality, and about her relationship with her family (particularly her father). I don't want to spoil, but please, asking people to check out musicals is hard but read the graphic novel. and vote Fun Home because it's so goddamn good
“What would happen if we spoke the truth?”
― Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
I’ll never be over this book
This Dykes to Watch Out for comic was made for Leslie Feinberg’s Transgender Warriors book in 1996.
Trans women and butches go way back. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise