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There are times when being a member of the LGBTQ+ communityâand a lesbian in particularâfeels like an Easter-egg hunt for representation. Queer women are used to mining everything from a cryptic celebrity Instagram to the discography of Taylor Swift for clues that someone in the public eye might be one of us, and to be honest, the constant hustle to be seenâespecially for lesbians who donât fit the skinny, white, femme, upper-middle-class,
All that might explain why the work of an artist and writer like Alison Bechdel feels so pivotal. Bechdel has been woven into the fabric of lesbian cultural identity ever since she started publishing the comic strip
Music Reviews: The Who Sell Out (Super Deluxe Ed.), Plus Maria Shiel and Abigail Dowd
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Ask a music fan to name a favorite Who album-or simply any Who album-and the response is likely to be their 1969 rock opera,
Tommy, or perhaps that record s 1971 follow-up,
Who s Next. Both contain some great music, and the former was groundbreaking. But the group s best album is arguably neither of these; rather, it s 1967 s inventive
The Who Sell Out, which didn t fare nearly as well on the charts as either of those others but is so good, it s hard to believe it s only their third LP.
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Early in her career, Alison Bechdel, then a cult cartoonist â âat the pinnacle of my bitterness,â she would later say â was invited to contribute to a special gay pride issue of Seattleâs alternative newspaper The Stranger. She fired off a comic strip titled âOppressed Minority Cartoonist.â She drew herself at her desk, flanked by a bottle of Scotch, mid-tirade. Why had her work been pigeonholed? And why had she complied so willingly, chronicling only lesbians, her âoppressed minority groupâ? In the last panel, her rant is interrupted by a phone call inviting her to contribute to that very gay pride issue. âIâd be honored,â she capitulates.
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