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Velshi Banned Book Club: "Fun Home" by Alison Bechdel - Velshi - MSNBC [View all]
Written in 2006, “Fun Home” chronicles Alison Bechdel’s upbringing in rural Pennsylvania. “Fun Home” is told in a non-linear way: the same incidents are revisited as the reader gathers more information, nuance, and detail. While “Fun Home” is ultimately an examination of Bechdel’s family’s dynamics, mental health, abuse, and sexual identity, Bechdel’s relationship with her father is central.
Beyond “Fun Home”, her body of work is culturally foundational – it centered lesbians and the LGBTQ+ community in ways that simply had not been done before. Her weekly comic strip, which ran from 1983 to 2008, was nothing short of seminal and beloved. She also created the “Bechdel Test”, which is a measure of representation of women in film, literature and other works. - Aired on 05/24/2025.
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