First Wednesdays talk - Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel is Cartoonist Laureate for the State of Vermont. Her self-syndicated Dykes to Watch Out For (1983 to 2008) became a countercultural institution. Her 2006 book Fun Home was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle award and has been adapted into a Tony-Award-winning Broadway musical. Her talk at Middlebury will follow the speaker format of the Engaged Listening Project and is part of the Vermont Humanities Council’s “First Wednesdays” lecture series. Her talk discusses what makes comics such a powerful medium for addressing and upending oppression.