The cartoonist creator of ‘Dykes to Watch Out For,’ graphic memoirist, and originator of the ‘Bechdel Test’ for movies, has been awarded a MacArthur ‘genius’ grant. We celebrate why. Senior Editor and ...

In 1985, graphic novelist Alison Bechdel came up with criteria for whether she'd watch a movie. It's become known as the Bechdel test, and it's surprisingly hard for films to pass these days. After ...

Steven Spielberg is the most famous filmmaker in the world, so it was only a matter of time before his lengthy filmography was scrutinized by 21st century standards. The Bechdel test was going to find ...

She is one of the first cartoonists to be recognized. Besides her graphic novels and memoirs, Bechdel developed a simple three-question test for how women are represented in films. You'd think it ...

The Bechdel Test, a gauge for measuring how women characters are represented in films, has become shorthand for evaluating sexism in cinema and other popular media, and its results offer some ...

The author of Are You My Mother? and Fun Home explains how she uses a seemingly simple form–the graphic novel–to tell surprisingly complex tales of her rich inner life. “I very much like the ...

Alison Bechdel, “The Rule,” from “Dykes To Watch Out For” (1985) (Courtesy of the Artist) NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — There’s a fine line between graphic novel and graphic memoir. In her “A Story about Life” ...

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Alison Bechdel has been worried about selling out for decades. Not selling out of books — the award-winning graphic novelist has more than enough to go around — but selling out to capitalism for the ...

Before my daughter left for college last August, she announced that when she became a parent, she wanted only sons. Asked why, she leveled a look at me and said: "One mother/daughter relationship is ...

Blink and you might miss them. The first and only living woman to speak in “The Revenant” appears an hour and a half in. The one scene shared only between women in “Spotlight” comes after the climax, ...

There are times when being a member of the LGBTQ+ community—and a lesbian in particular—feels like an Easter-egg hunt for representation. Queer women are used to mining everything from a cryptic ...