{"id":29234,"date":"2025-11-19T19:54:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=29234"},"modified":"2025-11-19T19:56:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:56:32","slug":"velshi-banned-book-club-fun-home-by-alison-bechdel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/velshi-banned-book-club-fun-home-by-alison-bechdel\/","title":{"rendered":"Velshi Banned Book Club: \u201cFun Home\u201d by Alison Bechdel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"780\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3__WTDDnEpA?si=-mq_AcdmMFKi_FhN\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video (9:53): MSNBC interviwes author and lesbian cartoonist <a href=\"https:\/\/dykestowatchoutfor.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alison Bechdel<\/a> about her graphic novel Fun Home (2006). The interview took place in May 2025.<\/p>\n<h2>Fun Home<\/h2>\n<p>Written in 2006, \u201cFun Home\u201d chronicles Alison Bechdel\u2019s upbringing in rural Pennsylvania. \u201cFun Home\u201d is told in a non-linear way: the same incidents are revisited as the reader gathers more information, nuance, and detail. While \u201cFun Home\u201d is ultimately an examination of Bechdel\u2019s family\u2019s dynamics, mental health, abuse, and sexual identity, Bechdel\u2019s relationship with her father is central. Beyond \u201cFun Home\u201d, her body of work is culturally foundational \u2013 it centered lesbians and the LGBTQ+ community in ways that simply had not been done before. Her weekly comic strip, which ran from 1983 to 2008, was nothing short of seminal and beloved. She also created the \u201cBechdel Test\u201d, which is a measure of representation of women in film, literature and other works. &#8211; MSNBC<\/p>\n<p>Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic<br \/>\nby Alison Bechdel<br \/>\nPublisher: \u200e Mariner Books Classics<br \/>\nPublication date: \u200e June 5, 2007<br \/>\nEdition: \u200e Reprint<br \/>\nLanguage: \u200e English<br \/>\nPrint length: \u200e 232 pages<br \/>\nISBN-10: \u200e 0618871713<br \/>\nISBN-13: \u200e 978-0618871711<br \/>\nItem Weight: \u200e 14.4 ounces<br \/>\nReading age: \u200e 15 years and up<br \/>\nDimensions: \u200e 6 x 0.67 x 9 inches<\/p>\n<p><em>[The copyright of the above video remains with the original holder and it is used here for the purpose of education, comparison and criticism only.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video (9:53): MSNBC interviwes author Alison Bechdel about her graphic novel Fun Home (2006). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-29234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-book","tag-alison-bechdel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29238,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29234\/revisions\/29238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}