Jessica tells Christine about Fun Home by Alison Bechdel, an utterly beautiful graphic memoir about Bechdel's coming of age as a queer artist and the death of her father. The layered narrative is funny, poignant, brilliant, and heartbreaking. It's also one of the few books we've talked about to be challenged or banned at the post-graduate level. Come hear what all the fuss is about with this revolutionary, genre-bending book!
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Tune in next week for part one of our season finale about the film The Birth of a Nation!
Links for Episode 15:
- Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
- Alison Bechdel's biography
- Bechdel's website, "Dykes to Watch Out For"
- Michael J. Rosenfeld, "Moving a Mountain: The Extraordinary Trajectory of Same-Sex Marriage Approval in the United States"
- Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
- Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities
