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@AlisonBechdel

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Vermont, USA
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
2 years
Okay, I just added a corollary to the Bechdel test: Two men talking to each other about the female protagonist of an Alice Munro story in a screenplay structured on a Jane Austen novel = pass. #FireIsland #BechdelTest
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
1 year
I'm very happy to announce the release of the Audible Original version of Dykes to Watch Out For. Take a listen! @audible_com
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
1 year
Today's the launch of the @PenguinClassics edition of To The Lighthouse--for which I drew the cover art. Very excited to be a contributor to this gorgeous series. I've written a little about my process here
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
2 years
That's the Madame Béchamel test to you, pal! (Good one.)
@malki
david malki !
2 years
If a croque madame speaks to another croque madame about something other than a croque monsieur, that’s called passing the béchamel test
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
3 years
Met a young farmer just now at the farmer's market who recognized me and said she'd always wanted to raise a herd of goats and name them after Dykes To Watch Out For characters. #ilovermont
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2 years
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
3 years
Anxious? Enraged? Naughty?
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
3 years
My new book will be out next month. Here are some links to places where, if you are so inclined, you can pre-order it.
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
8 years
I had to draw a Dykes to Watch Out For strip.
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
8 years
my website crashed from all the traffic to see my new DTWOF strip. if you haven't seen it yet, it's also up here:
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
5 years
I am so sad and stunned. Howard Cruse died suddenly today. He is one of the sweetest people I have ever encountered, period, and he was super generous to me when I was a young cartoonist coming to him for advice. What a blow. The world has lost a true comics superhero.
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
6 years
Wow. Fun Home in Sri Lanka. Mind officially blown. Looks like a beautiful production. Wish I could have seen you all!
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6 years
The #FunHomeSL team. Grateful for the opportunity to stage @KronLisa and Tesori's beautiful adaptation of @AlisonBechdel 's memoir. It's a testament to the genius of the writing and music that this story resonated with Sri Lankan audiences, worlds away from Pennsylvania. #FunHome
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
7 years
I make a cameo appearance on The Simpsons tonight, on a Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con panel with Lisa, Marge, Roz Chast and Marjane Satrapi!
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
2 years
Can’t believe my friend Urvashi Vaid has died--a brilliant visionary and activist who was also a seriously kind person. Where did all her fierce, vital energy go? This is an immeasurable loss to the world. Love to her partner @KateClinton .
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
1 year
<p>Alison Bechdel’s Legendary Comic Dykes to Watch Out For Comes to Audible With All-Star Cast</p>
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
3 years
My memory of the first Earth Day in 1970. #earthday #climatechange
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
10 years
Proud & flabbergasted to be named a 2014 #MacFellow . Congrats to the full class! See the list of everyone here: http://t.co/PMte7RG0IS
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
4 months
This is so awesome, and long overdue for movies. "To pass this test, Good Energy says a story must demonstrate two things: “climate change exists” and “a character knows it."
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
7 years
Just saw a little kid, couldn't tell if it was a boy or girl, probably 7 or 8, walking down the sidewalk while reading a book. #there 's hope
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
3 years
My book just arrived.
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
1 year
"Absolutely flawless." Audible Dykes to Watch Out For wins an Audiofile award. Thank you, @Janemarielynch and @susiebright and @MaraWilson and everyone else who worked on this thing!
@janemarielynch
Jane Lynch
1 year
We won an Audiofile award! So proud of this hilarious and smart podcast from the brilliant mind of ⁦ @AlisonBechdel ⁩ brought to you by ⁦⁦ @audible_com #dykestowatchoutfor
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Alison Bechdel
7 years
Feelin' patriotic. Just did another Dykes to Watch Out For episode for the holiday.
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
5 years
I'm so happy to see JEB's photographs in the Times! She was a huge influence on me as a young artist--her photos of lesbians felt like an extended family album.
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
7 years
For the Only In Vermont files...I am Cartoonist Laureate! Succeeding Ed Koren!
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
2 years
Thank you, Kansas.
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
4 years
my work here is done.
@falsettosocks
ScottishFalsettoSock
4 years
The Socks performing The Bechdel Test song, from last night's @DeanFriedman DeanZine Live Stream. Enjoy. Happy Monday @AlisonBechdel
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
3 years
Best Google doodle ever. #Audrelorde
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Alison Bechdel
3 years
I was so delighted to get asked to write the introduction to this new collection of the correspondence between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West.
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
7 years
I got to do one of those "spot the difference" drawings for the amazing @kazoomagazine . The theme: A Room of One's Own.
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
7 years
I drew another Dykes To Watch Out For episode. We all have to mail some postcards tomorrow, okay?
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
2 years
I love Paris in the fall.
@LesbienRaison
Lesbien Raisonnable
2 years
📣 Alison Bechdel sera à Paris du 8 au 14 septembre pour accompagner la sortie de son nouveau roman graphique en français, Le Secret de la force surhumaine (sortie le 31 août chez Denoël Graphic) Elle fera notamment une rencontre dans un MK2 👀
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
5 years
Alison Bechdel's Fun Home Restored to New Jersey High Schools Thanks to the CBLDF
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
1 year
Ed Koren, consummate imp. His cartoons were gentle, humane, wise, and funny. And he was so kind in person. I will miss him. (I drew this portrait some years ago, trying to imagine how he drew those furry lines.)
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
6 years
The Cartoon Issue — 2018
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
2 years
New twist in the book banning madness--"destroying" books. Thanks to Dave Eggers and Amanda Uhle for their plan to buy copies of these five books for students who want them. via @RCJournal
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
4 years
It's a little unnerving to see this while I'm still drawing the book. But also exciting.
@TheAVClub
The A.V. Club
4 years
Exclusive: Alison Bechdel shares the cover for new memoir The Secret To Superhuman Strength
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Alison Bechdel
3 years
Got to draw with this fun little kid yesterday.
@karaswisher
Kara Swisher
3 years
Thinking of hiring an art teacher and I hear this @AlisonBechdel lady is pretty good at what Clara calls “draw-draw.” Thoughts?
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
2 years
This is drawn by someone else, not me, honoring the women protesting in Iran!
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
3 years
Exponential twin power! I am so honored.
@syrusmarcusware
syrus marcus ware
3 years
my twin @JessicaLWareLab and I both got each other @AlisonBechdel ‘s new book for our birthday and we each also got ourselves a copy without knowing about the presents... so in the end we now have four copies! Ha! Twin power! A great book! Loving it!
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
3 months
Audible Dykes to Watch Out For is nominated for a Webby award in the category of Best Limited Series. Please vote for it!
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
3 years
Throwback Saturday: I'm going to experiment with turning my old blog back on.
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Alison Bechdel
1 year
Great piece about Dykes to Watch Out For on Audible.
@maggielange
Maggie Lange
1 year
here, queer, and now with sound effects!! wrote about the audio translation of “Dykes to Watch Out For”
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
2 years
@AkilahObviously Yeah, I say Beck-dull. Thanks for asking!
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
2 years
Thanks, PEN, for calling attention to this. My book Fun Home is also on the list.
@PENamerica
PEN America
2 years
🧵Since August, #Missouri school districts have banned nearly 300 books, including works on Leonardo da Vinci, graphic novel adaptations of classics by Shakespeare and Mark Twain as well as The Gettysburg Address, the Pulitzer-prize winning Maus, and more.
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
9 years
Six year-old theater savant reviews Fun Home. http://t.co/yFAeO957qO
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
4 years
When my friend Ellis Avery was writing this book, at the end of her life, it inspired me to make some drawings from it for her. Now I've done a full set of illustrations for TREE OF CATS.
@MarcusSharon
Sharon Marcus
4 years
Ellis Avery's final novel, TREE OF CATS, is now available on Kindle, with illustrations by the amazing @AlisonBechdel . (Click on the image to see it in full.)
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
3 years
In which I have a fun, rambling discussion about my new book with my favorite podcaster, June Thomas, of Slate's Working.
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
3 years
a good likeness
@timschaffert
Timothy Schaffert
3 years
# 341 in candy wrapper fashion, Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home,wearing fun-size Snickers. ( @AlisonBechdel is appearing live Thursday night at Rococo Theatre in Lincoln,courtesy @UNLwriters of the @UNLincoln @unlenglish !) @unlcas Celebrating 50 Years of LGBTQ Studies at UNL
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
2 years
Pre-order Very Funny Ladies now! @lizadonnelly 's latest book is a treasure trove of New Yorker cartoons by women from the beginning of the magazine to the present.
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
8 years
Harriet the Spy says, it's National Handwriting Day. @moleskine
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
7 months
the Dykes to Watch Out For audiobook made this list!
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7 years
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
3 years
My book The Secret to Superhuman Strength launches next week. Here's a list of online events I'll be doing.
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
7 years
young cartoonists take note.
@blambot
Nate Piekos of Blambot
7 years
A cautionary tale. I've been in pain every day for a year...
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
4 years
After reading @ayadakhtar 's “Homeland Elegies,” I feel like I finally have a handle on the 21st century.
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
2 years
Okay, here’s something concrete to do. Kansas is a haven for abortion rights in a very red part of the country. But an upcoming ballot initiative could change all that. Pitch in to help—a win would send a powerful message.
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
8 years
Check out KAZOO, an amazing new print magazine for girls. I have a cartoon in the first issue. Kickstarter here!
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
7 years
It's now two and a half minutes to doomsday.
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
3 years
Wow.
@parul_sehgal
Parul Sehgal
3 years
Such a pleasure + privilege to see a favorite artist evolve. Reviewed the new Alison Bechdel, which is up to all kinds of new tricks
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
5 years
The beloved Howard Cruse's obit in the Times
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
8 years
the twists and turns of this baseball game are freaking me out.
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
3 years
Check out the hilarious and erudite Terry Castle in this riveting podcast about Patricia Highsmith. I especially like the way she conveys how much more difficult it was to be queer in the not so distant past.
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
4 years
I've never seen a more brilliant or succinct expression of how capitalism works.
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
11 months
The best journalistic take I’ve seen yet on our political malaise is @Emilynussbaum ’s deep dive into the current state of country music. Even if you have zero interest in country music, you must read it.
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
2 years
A war is being raged against #women in #Iran . The regime wants them to stay silent. Support their #freedom fight and break the blackout by signing and sharing this global call! #MahsaAmini
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
3 years
I'm very excited to be talking later today with the great Cheryl Strayed about my new book.
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
3 years
I'm chatting about my new book tonight with the superhuman Nicole Eisenman at the Chicago Humanities Festival. @chihumanities @CornCub
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
1 year
If you're in NYC on April 16, come to this memorial marathon reading of Urvashi Vaid's Virtual Equality!
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
2 years
#thisqueerbook is a very good new podcast, love its meta take on reading. It was fun talking about Fun Home with the host @ J.P. Der Boghossian, and author Lara Lillibridge.
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
9 years
I'm off to the University of Michigan tomorrow. http://t.co/Cn0ImdNlix
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
7 years
I’m loving #spielbergdoc but I keep getting distracted by his seemingly infinite wardrobe of lush sweaters and scarves.
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
4 years
Turn off the Amy Coney Barrett hearings and listen to @mashagessen 's great profile of trans rights activist and ACLU attorney Chase Strangio.
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
3 years
On this week’s Working podcast, cartoonist Alison Bechdel explains how she finally managed to stop working on weekends. via @slate
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
3 years
I'm so honored to make this list! 10 Books By New England Authors To Read While Waiting To Get Your Vaccine via @wburartery
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
3 years
What a fun chat with @KaraSwisher .
@nytopinion
New York Times Opinion
3 years
“Why are they so hell-bent on not dying?” @AlisonBechdel asks @karaswisher of Silicon Valley’s obsession with living forever. “Who wants to be on this planet in 70 more years?”
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
6 years
Excited to be a presenter at the 30th Annual @LambdaLiterary Awards! Join me on June 4th to find out who wins. #Lammys !
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
2 years
Very psyched to do this event with my friend Lucy! Come in person, or virtually!
@threeroomspress
Three Rooms Press: Diversity, Dada, Punk, Passion
2 years
Saturday: In person (NYC) + virtual! An incredible conversation with two leading #LGBTQ authors: @LucyBledsoe (NO STOPPING US NOW) and MacArthur Fellow @AlisonBechdel (THE KEY TO SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH). At the fabulous @BGSQD Start your Pride month early!
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
3 years
So sad about Sally Gearheart's death. She was a big formative influence--first, her chapter in the book of the film Word is Out, then later A Feminist Tarot. Looking forward to the documentary about her.
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@AlisonBechdel
Alison Bechdel
3 years
1/2 Today I’m participating in a zoom panel at a queer film festival in Moscow with some other cartoonists for the doc we’re in, No Straight Lines. One of the organizers just told us the festival website has been blacklisted after complaints from ultra right wing groups.
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