Outsiders: Alison Bechdel

Womanica

Wonder Media Network and iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Education, History

4.3 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Alison Bechdel (1960-present) is an American cartoonist and graphic memoirist best known for her groundbreaking comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For and her acclaimed graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006). Bechdel is also known for the "Bechdel Test," a measure of gender representation in fiction. In 2014, she was awarded a MacArthur "Genius" Grant for her contributions to literature and visual storytelling.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:04.2	In 2012, 16-year-old Brian Herrera was gunned down in broad daylight on his way to do homework.
0:11.4	No suspects.
0:12.5	No witnesses.
0:13.5	No justice.
0:14.5	I would ask my husband, do you want me to stop?
0:17.0	He was like, no.
0:17.8	Keep fighting.
0:18.8	After nearly a decade, a breakthrough changed everything.
0:22.5	This is Cold Case Files Miami, stories of families who never stopped fighting. Listen to
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0:50.0	I'm your host, Mandy Money. I'm a career and money expert. I help women start building generational wealth to get the dose of empowerment, strategy,
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1:00.2	Listen to Brown Ambition on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:16.1	Hello, from Wonder Media Network, I'm Jenny Kaplan, and this is Womanica.
1:20.8	This month we're talking about outsiders, women who marched to the beat of their own drum and rejected stereotypes about what women should be.
1:24.6	Their aesthetic pioneers, norm benders, and often one of the only women in their field.
1:37.4	Inside a small house in northern Vermont, there's a woman who sits in a swivel chair, head down over her drafting table.
1:45.2	The floorboards under her feet are painted lime green.
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