#alison bechdel

[plaidos]

glad that we’re talking about Alison Bechdel being a terf again. really hoping that fact breaks into the general cultural zeitgeist this time but not holding my breath

[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. ❤️

[thedickcavettshow]

Her: You must be Alison Bechdel zip-lining at dusk if you think we r fucking

Me:

[evilandcrazygirl]

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

[garak-pussy-indulgence]

This did not hit well on Facebook but I'm hoping it will hit better in its native environment

[aardvaark]

uhhh lesbian as a gender and lesbianism and gender being inextricably intertwined compilation

comics: all from alison bechdel

book page about butch identity: from Butch Is A Noun by S. Bear Bergman

image IDs in alt text (you have no idea how long that took lol).

[noxaeternaetc]

Alison Bechdel, self portrait for The New Yorker, April 16, 2012.

[dtwofdaily]

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

[marciies]

by alison bechdel

[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.

[plaidos]

the reason people struggle so much to wrap their head around Alison Bechdel being a terf is because she has more verbal respect for trans women than a lot of self-described trans allies have, and it perfectly highlights that repeating a couple of trans-positive sentiments doesn’t actually make you Not Bigoted. if Allison Bechdel can be a terf without even directly calling trans women men, then other self-described trans allies might also be correctly recognised as bigots despite the relatively polite way they refer to us.

[dandelionmoss]

DTWOF 503, Alison Bechdel

[sendme-2hell]

[riotkittiesarchive]

from Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel

[theygotlost]

alison bechdel's lesbians and gerard donelan's gay men

[chrisfromthefreakingspace]

Alison Bechdel is definitely such a classy queen of us lesbians