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'Menopause Is a Punchline to a Joke': An Interview With Alison Bechdel on the Occasion of Her 50th Birthday

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After finding success with her comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For - which famously spawned the Bechdel Test, a set of criteria to determine gender bias in entertainment - Alison Bechdel advanced the graphic memoir form while pondering life with her late father in Fun House: A Family Tragicomic in 2006.

After finding success with her comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For - which famously spawned the Bechdel Test, a set of criteria to determine gender bias in entertainment - Alison Bechdel advanced the graphic memoir form while pondering life with her late father in Fun House: A Family Tragicomic in 2006.

Check out the interview at Jezebel. It had me nodding my head and giggling - like I totally identified with being a menopausal lesbian.

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