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Welcome to our LGBT podcast! In this episode, I talk with Lara Lillibridge and Alison Bechdel!

Writer and teacher Lara Lillibridge (she/zher) shares the LGBT book that saved her life: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel. Lara tells us, "There's two things about Fun Home that were huge for me. The first was just representation. I had never seen anything at all like my family in a book."

We are SO proud to welcome Alison Bechdel (she/her) to the podcast! We have a fascinating conversation about writing Fun Home, part of her coming out story, and reflecting on writing about our families. She told us her take that we shouldn't wait to write about people until after they are deceased. However, she said, "There is something monstrous when you turn people in your life into characters. There's no way around that. It’s an aggressive act no matter how loving or well written it is."

Episode transcript available at thisqueerbook.com/podcast/fun-home.

Learn more about Lara Lillibridge and her writing at her website: laralillibridge.com

Read more of Alison Bechdel's books and comics at: dykestowatchoutfor.com

Buy the books we discuss on this episode!
Visit thisqueerbook.com/bookshop to purchase Fun Home and Only Mama.

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