BOOKISH: Julia Alvarez, Apocalypse and the Politics of Pot

This week in bookish: Julia Alvarez comes to town, Penn opens an exhibit on the Mayan 2012 prediction and the library hosts a dope talk about the politics of pot

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BOOKISH: Julia Alvarez, Apocalypse and the Politics of Pot

POSTED: Thursday, May 3, 2012, 4:00 PM

Filed Under: Arts Books

Long before The L Word or Feminist Hulk, Alison Bechdel was poking light-hearted fun at a group she knows all too well: lesbians. Her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For ran for 25 years, reaching an eager readership through countless newspapers throughout the country. The strip followed a group of crunchy lesbian friends whose main activities involved debating the politics of going vegan and finding new and innovative ways of taking down the patriarchy—joke material that works best from the vantage point of an insider. Since retiring DTWOF, Bechdel has moved on to more lengthy literary endeavors, the most recent of which, Are You My Mother? is a memoir chronicling the troubled and multi-faceted relationship Bedchel had with her mother, who stopped kissing her goodnight at the tender age of seven. With the same sharp humor that made her comics a sub-cultural staple, Bedchel turns what should be a deeply sad tale of motherly neglect into a surprisingly witty psychological quest for answers about the mother-daughter gulf.

7:30 p.m., free, FLP Central Branch, 1901 Vine St., libwww.freelibrary.org

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