Cartoonist Alison Bechdel at the Briggs
From our friends at the Main Street Museum in White River Junction, an opportunity to hear from the mega-talented, multi-acclaimed cartoonist Alison Bechdel.
Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home, which became a five-time Tony Award-winning play, is the WRJ Pride 2024 Keynote Speaker.
Door opens at the Briggs Opera House at 6:30pm. Alison begins at 7pm
THIS IS NOT A TICKETED EVENT, so first come gets the seats!
All WRJ Pride events are free and welcoming!
Alison Bechdel is a Vermont cartoonist. Her work includes the long-running comic strip “Dykes to Watch Out For” as well as the graphic memoirs “Fun Home,” “Are You My Mother?” and “The Secret to Superhuman Strength.” The stage-musical adaptation of “Fun Home” premièred on Broadway in 2015, and received five Tony Awards. Bechdel is the recipient of Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships, and an Eisner Comic Industry Award. She is also a former Cartoonist Laureate of the State of Vermont, having succeeded the late Ed Koren. She lives “up in the hills somewhere.”
In June 2018, the term "Bechdel test" was added to the Oxford English Dictionary. It first appeared in 1985 in Bechdel’s comic strip and is a measure of women and gender in films. This is the test: The movie has to have at least two women in it, who talk to each other, about something other than a man. Since its inception, there have been variants, and reports of how well films pass—many don’t—the test. (More, and so fascinating, here.)
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