#Dykes the Watch Out For

[j-psilas]

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. ❤️

[queer-media-tourney]

[evilandcrazygirl]

people act like lesbo fujos are weird as if it’s not an integral part of our history 🙄 whatever

[dtwofdaily]

from Dykes to Watch Out For #5: No Sex (Alison Bechdel, 1987)

[freakoutgirl]

[dykepunch]

[genderqueerdykes]

Dykes to Watch Out For #323 "I.D. fixe?" by Alison Bechdel

Illustrated in 1999, this strip features character Sparrow discussing being a bisexual lesbian, how she is not suddenly straight because she is dating a man, and the struggles she faces because of this. This strip also discusses the validity of gay trans men and transmasculinity, a very powerful comic for its time.

[invertebutch]

Alison Bechdel in Her Minnesota Apartment, Tom Sweeney, 1990 (photo taken from lesbian archives/ @/butchusband on twitter)

Highlighting this photo specifically because it really shows how Mo from Dykes to Watch Out For has the same exact hair swirl that Bechdel had! Seeing photos of Bechdel with this hairstyle always jump out at me because it looks stunningly similar to her cartooning.

[sendme-2hell]

[riotkittiesarchive]

from Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel

[naidje]

Lets play Bechdel or Linnell

John Linnell, musician and front-man of the band "They Might Be Giants", or Allison Bechdel, acclaimed cartoonist and author of the queer strip "Dykes to Watch Out For"?

[queer-media-tourney]

[chrisfromthefreakingspace]

Alison Bechdel is definitely such a classy queen of us lesbians

[dtwofdaily]

from Dykes to Watch Out For #5: No Sex (Alison Bechdel, 1987)

[doctorcurdlejr]

[finalgirlguy]

alison bechdel truly deeply gets me like no one else in the entire world