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Gatsby's self-willed metamorphosis from farm boy to prince is many ways identical to my father's. Li...

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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

How Horrid" has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actu...

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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effec...

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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Four years after my father's death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would rela...

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Don't you kids get any ideas about dragging a trailer into the backyard. after you graduate from hig...

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If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to recko...

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Are You My Mother?

Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.

Are You My Mother?

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at o...

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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice.

Mom, how come you never go outside?""I told you, I'm a vampire.

Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.

Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocence. But your ego want...

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Alison Bechdel

Cartoonist

Born: 1960-09-10

Died: N/A

Alison Bechdel (born September 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist. She has written one of the best-known LGBT comic strips, Dykes to Watch Out For, for over 25 years. Her graphic memoir Fun Home was rated one of the best books of 2006.More