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Pass The Bechdel Test on International Women’s Day!
Posted: March 8, 2015
Today is International Women’s Day and there’s been some mention, for example by Scott McCloud at his British Library conversation with me, and yesterday on Matthew Sweet’s Sound of Cinema on Radio 3, of ‘The Bechdel Test’. Not everyone citing this test will know or acknowledge that it originates from the American lesbian graphic novelist Alison Bechdel, acclaimed for her Dykes to Watch Out For comic strip serial and her autobiographical works Fun Home and Are You My Mother?, highly recommended reads published in the UK by Jonathan Cape.
To pass her ‘test’ in whatever narrative medium, you need to include conversations between two women who are not discussing a man. While boyfriend/partner troubles do figure in some of the stories, the latest issue of The Strumpet celebrates all kinds of female friendships in new comics by diverse and talented ‘Lady Comix’ creators from the UK, US and beyond. It definitely passes The Bechdel Test in style!
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