![]() ![]() In my first-year seminar, we spent some time examining a page where Bechdel is in the car with her dad after she’s come out to him. ![]() But I think Fun Home is commonly beloved by college students generally, not just by Obies, because its examination of family, intimacy, and self-reflection feels so specific to the experience of being a student away from home. Other panels feature the mailroom or dorms. I remember yelping in the quiet section of Mudd Center upon flipping to a page where Bechdel sat reading in a womb chair - as I sat doing the very same. The book is riddled with Oberlin references. ![]() Not only that, but Fun Home was turned into a musical! I think Alison Bechdel is one of the most touted celebrity Obies because she did something that feels quintessentially Oberlin: She wrote a memoir that was not just a memoir but a graphic novel, and one about queerness at that. I read Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic twice, once in high school at my mom’s recommendation, and once after getting to Oberlin, when it was on the syllabus for my first-year seminar. ![]()
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