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 urn:oclc:863310932 Republisher_operator [email protected] Scandate 20111231033959 Scanner scribe16.shenzhen.archive.org Scanningcenter shenzhen Worldcat (source edition) Something To Speculate On: The particular form her rebellion will take after years of home-schooling with her ecologically-minded leftist dad: Will it involve cussing, littering and shopping at Wal-Mart, or merely a membership with Concerned Women for America? Jasmine

Meaningful Name: A few minor characters have meaningful names of varying levels of obscurity. Harriet's girlfriend after Mo, for whom Mo entertains a major hate-on and who later cheats on Harriet, is called Ellen Tufel, "Teufel" being German for "devil" (at one point Mo calls her "that she-devil"). Toni and Clarice had hoped to have their adoption case heard by sympathetic Judge Fairchild, but are instead heard by strict, conservative Judge Booker. Sydney's oncologist, whom Mo finds rather militaristic, is Dr. Rommel. And the creepy joined-at-the-hip perfect couple are named Liz and Beth - complete with daughter Elspeth. Also, Sydney's long-standing bit-on-the-side is a Comp. Lit. professor named Madeleine Zeugma. A zeugma is a figure of speech. Her brilliantly imagined countercultural band of friends -- academics, social workers, bookstore clerks -- fall in and out of love, negotiate friendships, raise children, switch careers, and cope with aging parents. On Her Nightstand: The Truth About Hilary, How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) by Ann Coulter, and Coming Out to Your Parents: a Beginner’s Guide Jiao Raizel

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." Sparrow PigeonThe original Granola Girl of the cast. (Title currently held by her partner, Stuart). Lois was her first lover. Mother to Jiao Raizel with Stuart. Housemates with Lois and Ginger. ELLEN FINN: Wow. What do you make of people who say your characters are maybe not only the first lesbians that they met in their life, but their role models? Manufacturing Victims: Averted and lampshaded — as Mo turns into a therapy junkie as a way of avoiding dealing with her life, her therapist actually throws her out (but it turns out that it was all a dream that Mo had after dozing off while waiting for a chiropractic adjustment).

And to me, that was all that my comic strip was about. I was showing the lives of people like me and my friends, to people like me and my friends and it never occurred to me that it would go further than that. Maybe I had a dim little hope of that, but it was not part of my agenda. I just wanted to help people like me to see themselves as whole human beings, you know, citizens, members of the community. Your strip made life visible, and especially highlighted lesbians at the forefront of political movements, but also trying to start a family, navigate a career and love. What role did you want your strip to play? ALISON BECHDEL: No, I was not thinking that at all. It was a really different world then, and it's hard to explain it to younger people now because there just was-- we weren't part of the mainstream. We were really, really sidelined, and that was fine with us at that time. I mean, we were starting to think about wanting more access and wanting people to see us, wanting to have more visibility. But, for the time being, we were, like, building up our strength in this parallel subculture. Ginger: Cynthia, if you really want more Republicans on the faculty, try getting our salaries quadrupled.

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Dykes to Watch Out For is a must-listen for anyone interested queer history, found family, and lesbian culture. ALISON BECHDEL: You know, I am returning to them in a funny way. Right now, I'm working on another project where-- not a memoir, but a sort of auto-fictional story about my life where those characters are my actual friends.

Ridiculous Procrastinator: Her finally finishing her dissertation was a big enough deal to be one of the climaxes of the book. Lois: Thank you, Ginger. Considering you’d rather fellate Bill Clinton than work on your dissertation, that’s very generous.Mo Testa (given name Monica), the central character, a politically committed lesbian feminist with a tendency to kvetch. She worked at Madwimmin Bookstore, and then briefly at Bounders Books and Muzak while earning a library science degree, finally getting a job as a reference librarian. From left to right: Mo, Clarice, Toni, Carlos, Jerry, Lois, Jezana, Sparrow, Stuart and Jiao, Samia, Ginger, and Sydney Sparrow: God, this drag king craze is so retrograde. Men are destroying the planet! Why compete to see who can mimic them most convincingly? Has a Type: Both her last boyfriend before coming out and her current male partner look a LOT like Richard Dryfus.