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Hothead Paisan #1
Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist
Book by Dimassa, Diane
160 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1993
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December 28, 2009
The first panel:
"Oh Hothead"
"Fuckin WHAT?"
"Tell us, how does one become a homicidal lesbian terrorist?"
"How does one NOT you asshole?!?!"
A comic book featuring a punk-ass dyke who blows up disgusting men with grenades, chops off hilariously illustrated dicks with hatchets, and otherwise terrorizes the manifestations of patriarchy that rain all over her parade. She's meant to be the wo(e-of)-manifestation of a collective, heroically suppressed, feminist rage, the one person ready and willing to pounce, rifle in hand, on all the hooters that holler and the rapists who rape and the creepers who look all up and down.
THANK YOU, HOTHEAD! I read you to soothe my cranky, nasty-turning heart after a sore semester of survivor support, ptsd flashbacks, and just a speck too much time alone amongst dudebros. There's a theme of people suggesting Hothead needs therapy throughout, and she always starts to give in (to the baths, the tea, the suggestions to see a counselor), but then somewhere in it she realizes duh! it is totally reasonable to react like a homicidal lesbian terrorist to something as nasty and dangerous as the patriarchy! Now that's therapy.
What these delightful comics blessed me with was giving a picture to my rage that made it more real and powerful, but also softened it with comic absurdity. DiMassa kept Hothead human and her rage understandable through introspective talks with God, a cast of considerably more nuanced and patient friends, and cats.
Too much hate on femme girls, not enough gender diversity, very white.
"Oh Hothead"
"Fuckin WHAT?"
"Tell us, how does one become a homicidal lesbian terrorist?"
"How does one NOT you asshole?!?!"
A comic book featuring a punk-ass dyke who blows up disgusting men with grenades, chops off hilariously illustrated dicks with hatchets, and otherwise terrorizes the manifestations of patriarchy that rain all over her parade. She's meant to be the wo(e-of)-manifestation of a collective, heroically suppressed, feminist rage, the one person ready and willing to pounce, rifle in hand, on all the hooters that holler and the rapists who rape and the creepers who look all up and down.
THANK YOU, HOTHEAD! I read you to soothe my cranky, nasty-turning heart after a sore semester of survivor support, ptsd flashbacks, and just a speck too much time alone amongst dudebros. There's a theme of people suggesting Hothead needs therapy throughout, and she always starts to give in (to the baths, the tea, the suggestions to see a counselor), but then somewhere in it she realizes duh! it is totally reasonable to react like a homicidal lesbian terrorist to something as nasty and dangerous as the patriarchy! Now that's therapy.
What these delightful comics blessed me with was giving a picture to my rage that made it more real and powerful, but also softened it with comic absurdity. DiMassa kept Hothead human and her rage understandable through introspective talks with God, a cast of considerably more nuanced and patient friends, and cats.
Too much hate on femme girls, not enough gender diversity, very white.
June 7, 2019
Having just watched Diane DiMassa sit down for a fascinating conversation with moderator Jennifer Camper at the 3rd Queers & Comics conference in NYC last month, I was moved to reread this first volume of Hothead Paisan comics for the first time in several years. Diane is a very singular talent and her line throbs with kinetic, raw energy; Howard Cruse once said something like her comics are lightning captured on paper (true). She's also extremely funny - there's all kinds of little asides and snarky comments in the margins, plus tons of meta: in one sequence Hothead has to rejoin the narrative and jumps into a cardboard box which holds the scene she's to appear in. It's best to read HH in doses: it's often stream-of-consciousness, and of course at other times primally violent, gory and even downright vicious (there's a storyline in the 2nd book in which HH metes out especially brutal justice upon a weaselly little yuppie that's really dark, like something out of a horror movie). Sometimes the violence is cathartic but at other times such as this, I think Diane wanted readers to understand that while fantasy violence can be fun to indulge in - it's only a fantasy, and getting it out and moving on and not getting stuck in the fantasy is the ideal (if nothing else, she reiterates again and again, the first person to get damaged by that cycle of thinking is oneself). Readers who don't understand the satiric-serious, push-pull dynamic of HH often get quite offended by it. Diane's oeuvre is sui generis as all hell, and enjoys a healthy cult following to this day - while even the indie-art comics establishment continues to look the other way (she has never really gotten the recognition that her talent deserves). Anyway, looking forward to revisiting the second book. 5 stars to this one.
November 19, 2012
I had to read this for a grad course years ago, a survey of graphic novels. There were some wonderful insights in this book. I could relate to the strips that discussed male worship in our culture. I've heard countless rude comments about my having two daughters, everything from "what did you do wrong?" to "you must be a little bummed . . . every man wants a son," to "you're in for a real treat," and "boys are easier to deal with." Ironically, most of these comments came from women. So, when I saw this depicted in the comic I could relate.
However, while the main character was charismatic, she took things too far sometimes. Some of the men she violently slaughters are victims of social construct. I can understand hating someone who treats others like shit, but killing someone because they're preoccupied by their genitals? Seems a bit excessive.
On the bright side, a lot of the supporting characters were balanced. This comic would have been unbearable without them.
It still stands out as a book (or giant fucking tome) I like to curl up with from time to time. It is a quick read with a refreshing perspective when read in small doses.
However, while the main character was charismatic, she took things too far sometimes. Some of the men she violently slaughters are victims of social construct. I can understand hating someone who treats others like shit, but killing someone because they're preoccupied by their genitals? Seems a bit excessive.
On the bright side, a lot of the supporting characters were balanced. This comic would have been unbearable without them.
It still stands out as a book (or giant fucking tome) I like to curl up with from time to time. It is a quick read with a refreshing perspective when read in small doses.
September 18, 2020
I came of age with this comic in the mid 1990's. I was a teenager, who was often yelled at by fellow teens and grown-ass men because of her queer feminist anarchist politics. Hothead was a blessed refreshing relief.
Upsides: her humour is so savage it'll make you laugh in a painful way. Her observations are equally painful and accurate.
Downsides: well, she generally just makes a gal burn for the revolution, so there isn't a lot of time to relax when reading, apart from when her cat is onstage.
I'm just hear to tackle the transphobic elephant in the room tbh. I am a full supporter of trans rights who grew up with hothead, as I said above. Unlike at least some of the reviewers who are complaining about the author's apparent lack of support for those rights, I saw Hothead as a contemporary and nothing she said affected me negatively. I mean, she's a Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist, often killing people, which even in feminist scenes of the day was A Bit Extreme. Today possibly even more so. Suffice it to say she always attracted independently minded women and was a fringe phenomenon, even in the queer lesbian scene.
So, getting back to trans rights issue: do y'all even realise how limited and underground the discussion of these issues was, back in those days? DiMassa, the author of these comics, would NOT have had any access to an organised trans rights movement because that didn't exist, it's only gathered steam recently *comparatively speaking*. So her character is mouthing off about subjective experiences re: hanging out with a few trans women / men.
To those younger readers who say "but some form of trans rights always existed" I'd say, yes. SOME form. But the mid 1990's for trans rights looked a lot like the 1930s or 1940s for queer rights, from ground level. I was right there.
DiMassa would have had no way of foreseeing the consensus that would eventually emerge from within trans itself because trans itself had no clear idea back then. It was still self consciously finding its footing apart from the whole queer movement. And, again I have to emphasize that her comics were so fringe as to be not just 100% subjective but more like 10000% subjective - she freely admitted that. She was known to distance herself from / dispute her own character's views on occasion, since Hothead was a kind of nemesis / extreme version of her perspective.
Taking all that into account, I have to say I think that any younger (Millennial, Gen Y) readers are reading this waaay out of context. I have to ask: would you be angry at queers and trans people of the early 20th century or the 1950s for associating with people who had less than 100% totally accepting views? Because if that's the case, you'd be alienating basically every queer and trans person that historically existed. They all did it, because consensus reality has shifted a LOT. And in all honesty trans people still do put up with a lot of [unwarranted] guff from their loved ones and still soldier on. It was even more radically different in the past, and not just in the past 100 or 70 years but also in the past 40 to 30 years. Keep that context in mind as you read.
So yeah, you gotta cool your heads before reading Hothead. No matter what gender*, orientation or political stripe you embrace you will find her challenging because she was, as Jessica Rabbit so eloquently put it, "drawn that way". And 'that way' is challenging af.
Upsides: her humour is so savage it'll make you laugh in a painful way. Her observations are equally painful and accurate.
Downsides: well, she generally just makes a gal burn for the revolution, so there isn't a lot of time to relax when reading, apart from when her cat is onstage.
I'm just hear to tackle the transphobic elephant in the room tbh. I am a full supporter of trans rights who grew up with hothead, as I said above. Unlike at least some of the reviewers who are complaining about the author's apparent lack of support for those rights, I saw Hothead as a contemporary and nothing she said affected me negatively. I mean, she's a Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist, often killing people, which even in feminist scenes of the day was A Bit Extreme. Today possibly even more so. Suffice it to say she always attracted independently minded women and was a fringe phenomenon, even in the queer lesbian scene.
So, getting back to trans rights issue: do y'all even realise how limited and underground the discussion of these issues was, back in those days? DiMassa, the author of these comics, would NOT have had any access to an organised trans rights movement because that didn't exist, it's only gathered steam recently *comparatively speaking*. So her character is mouthing off about subjective experiences re: hanging out with a few trans women / men.
To those younger readers who say "but some form of trans rights always existed" I'd say, yes. SOME form. But the mid 1990's for trans rights looked a lot like the 1930s or 1940s for queer rights, from ground level. I was right there.
DiMassa would have had no way of foreseeing the consensus that would eventually emerge from within trans itself because trans itself had no clear idea back then. It was still self consciously finding its footing apart from the whole queer movement. And, again I have to emphasize that her comics were so fringe as to be not just 100% subjective but more like 10000% subjective - she freely admitted that. She was known to distance herself from / dispute her own character's views on occasion, since Hothead was a kind of nemesis / extreme version of her perspective.
Taking all that into account, I have to say I think that any younger (Millennial, Gen Y) readers are reading this waaay out of context. I have to ask: would you be angry at queers and trans people of the early 20th century or the 1950s for associating with people who had less than 100% totally accepting views? Because if that's the case, you'd be alienating basically every queer and trans person that historically existed. They all did it, because consensus reality has shifted a LOT. And in all honesty trans people still do put up with a lot of [unwarranted] guff from their loved ones and still soldier on. It was even more radically different in the past, and not just in the past 100 or 70 years but also in the past 40 to 30 years. Keep that context in mind as you read.
So yeah, you gotta cool your heads before reading Hothead. No matter what gender*, orientation or political stripe you embrace you will find her challenging because she was, as Jessica Rabbit so eloquently put it, "drawn that way". And 'that way' is challenging af.
July 6, 2008
Now, don't get me wrong, there are things I like(d) about Hothead Paisan, but I just can't forgive Diane DiMassa'a transphobia:
Excerpt from Diane DiMassa Interview
Bitch magazine, Summer 2004 (Issue #25)
[About a musical based on DiMassa's cartoon, Hothead Paisan being premiered at Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, which excludes transsexual women:]
Bitch: What about the MTFs?
DiMassa: Oh, they're very angry. Okay. It started out with, "We knew you were such a supporter of the transgender community because you drew [the ambiguously gendered Hothead character] Daphne, and how could you let this happen?" and on and on and on. Then it turned into the rumor: "I heard you're putting on a Hothead play that excludes Daphne!"
So, you know, it's a widening fire. But, as Susan has explained to me, Michigan's official policy is that Michigan is a space for women-born women who have experienced what it's like to grow up female in our patriarchal society. And just by saying that, they recognize that there are different types of women.
Now--should I say this on the record? It's just fucking typical that a man-born lesbian can't get the concept of not being allowed somewhere. "How dare you! I must be allowed in there."
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Check this out instead---> http://www.camp-trans.org/
Excerpt from Diane DiMassa Interview
Bitch magazine, Summer 2004 (Issue #25)
[About a musical based on DiMassa's cartoon, Hothead Paisan being premiered at Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, which excludes transsexual women:]
Bitch: What about the MTFs?
DiMassa: Oh, they're very angry. Okay. It started out with, "We knew you were such a supporter of the transgender community because you drew [the ambiguously gendered Hothead character] Daphne, and how could you let this happen?" and on and on and on. Then it turned into the rumor: "I heard you're putting on a Hothead play that excludes Daphne!"
So, you know, it's a widening fire. But, as Susan has explained to me, Michigan's official policy is that Michigan is a space for women-born women who have experienced what it's like to grow up female in our patriarchal society. And just by saying that, they recognize that there are different types of women.
Now--should I say this on the record? It's just fucking typical that a man-born lesbian can't get the concept of not being allowed somewhere. "How dare you! I must be allowed in there."
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Check this out instead---> http://www.camp-trans.org/
August 17, 2019
This is not for the faint hearted. If you aren't into retalitory violence, maybe you shouldn't pick it up. But, I find it hilarious, if sometimes a little iffy politically (not to mention blatently anti-femm- boo!). It was a cathartic read durring a rough period... I think it may have kept me from actually attacking people in the real world.
May 2, 2021
AHHHHH I LOVE HOTHEAD!! Forever grateful to all the dykes & queers who let me read their copies over the years, and so glad to reread it now. Hothead is more relatable to me now than when I was younger.
Yes, it's dated, and definitely not for the faint of heart.
Yes, it's dated, and definitely not for the faint of heart.
January 12, 2011
Pulled this out cuz I was all flashbacking & needed to read something violent but in a bouncy humorous sort of way. Plus I figured my husband would like the gags involving Chicken & the social critique of the media. On the level of a catharsis it works; unapologetic anger and the sort of violence-without-repercussions one finds in Bugs Bunny cartoons or Grand Theft Auto(seriously, she just does all this killing in the open but never attracts police attention or anything.)And many of these gags, in fact the title of the book itself, are pretty September 10th. There's lots of stuff about coping with mental illness (although Hothead doesn't have a specific diagnosis, there are allusions to other personalities, SSI/SSD, and one panel that may suggest cutting. Though it may also be trackmarks. It isn't clear.) and gender politic. These things are good.
Which is not to say the book is not without shortcomings. Every man who graces the page is a knuckle dragger and every straight woman is a clueless, male-identified airhead. (Despite Hothead's love of Aretha Franklin who, as far as I know, is heterosexual.) There's some attempt to provide a counterbalance to Hothead's anger in the character of Roz, a blind New-Ager who tries to reason with Hothead and show her other ways to approach things, but frankly, I found her to often be sanctimonious, even when I was agreeing with her, and at times she even came across as a bit manipulative. The best counterpoints in the book were usually in the form of witty observations on the part of Chicken the cat.
Diane DiMassa is doing fine art paintings these days. A lot of them a pretty cool.
Which is not to say the book is not without shortcomings. Every man who graces the page is a knuckle dragger and every straight woman is a clueless, male-identified airhead. (Despite Hothead's love of Aretha Franklin who, as far as I know, is heterosexual.) There's some attempt to provide a counterbalance to Hothead's anger in the character of Roz, a blind New-Ager who tries to reason with Hothead and show her other ways to approach things, but frankly, I found her to often be sanctimonious, even when I was agreeing with her, and at times she even came across as a bit manipulative. The best counterpoints in the book were usually in the form of witty observations on the part of Chicken the cat.
Diane DiMassa is doing fine art paintings these days. A lot of them a pretty cool.
January 6, 2019
It was hard to pick a star rating, but I have to give it five stars because of how important it was to me when I first read it, at... I must have been seventeen or eighteen, still in high school, in small town Louisiana. I mail ordered it, and would drive somewhere and read it in the car so that I could have a space to react that was private and mine.
Hothead is disturbing. It's violent and gratuitous and misandrist and gory. I loved it.
Growing up female and queer in the south in the nineties is a lesson in, if not self hatred, at least concealment of self as a protective act. I had vast amounts of anger, which I mostly directed inward, as I'd been taught. Hothead was one of the first things that helped me direct my anger outward. Where it belonged. It was cathartic and powerful. Is. Is cathartic and powerful.
Of course, Hothead is a mess. She's a firehose of rage, and mows down all the men (and some spritz headed girlfriends) in her path indiscriminately. She's not a role model. And that's made clear in the book.
I reread the first collection yesterday for the first time in years, and although I still love it, I see why some folks have such a hard time with it. It is disturbing. It does glorify violence (even though the ultimate message is anti-violence). Hothead herself, if not the work, is biphobic. It's completely misandrist. (The only sympathetic male character in the whole first collection is Hothead's grandpa, and he's only shown in flashback for one panel.) But it's also funny, and ultimately anti violence.
Hothead is disturbing. It's violent and gratuitous and misandrist and gory. I loved it.
Growing up female and queer in the south in the nineties is a lesson in, if not self hatred, at least concealment of self as a protective act. I had vast amounts of anger, which I mostly directed inward, as I'd been taught. Hothead was one of the first things that helped me direct my anger outward. Where it belonged. It was cathartic and powerful. Is. Is cathartic and powerful.
Of course, Hothead is a mess. She's a firehose of rage, and mows down all the men (and some spritz headed girlfriends) in her path indiscriminately. She's not a role model. And that's made clear in the book.
I reread the first collection yesterday for the first time in years, and although I still love it, I see why some folks have such a hard time with it. It is disturbing. It does glorify violence (even though the ultimate message is anti-violence). Hothead herself, if not the work, is biphobic. It's completely misandrist. (The only sympathetic male character in the whole first collection is Hothead's grandpa, and he's only shown in flashback for one panel.) But it's also funny, and ultimately anti violence.
September 10, 2016
When I read my first Hothead Paisan comics, it was the mid-1990s, when gangsta rappers were calling out bitches and hos, MTV's Spring Break was one of the hottest shows on TV and supermodels were becoming role models. Even though I was straight, watching this bad-ass, unapologetically butch lesbian drop-kick (sometimes quite literally) this kind of cultural detritus to hell gave me the safe outlet I needed to vent my own anger at a culture that seemed to me to only view women as objects. Yes, it's violent. Yes, it's somewhat crass. But it's social satire, and since these days, we live in a world where much of the planet watches approvingly as a ultra-thin, impossibly "perfect" woman enacts the fairytale myth of marrying her prince on live television, where schoolgirls are getting kidnapped and threatened with forced marriage and where having babies is still treated like the highest expression of womanhood, I'd say it's still pretty damn relevant. Love you, Hothead! Thanks for reminding me I counted, too.
January 14, 2016
Still edgy and still a classic. I dug this out when we packed up my mum's house and could not believe how well the content stands up. Has anything changed? NO! Try Hothead's famous game of changing the telly channel whenever something that is offensive about or degardes women comes on and see how long you last. It will have you in stitches but beware, you just might want to go out and take a cricket bat to some bloke's pickup truck after reading this!
June 22, 2007
Hothead Paisan had a big impact and influence on me, even though I am not a homicidal lesbian terrorist and I am now in a relationship with a man. Hothead would probably think I sold out, but I'm nobody's spritz head girlfriend!
July 17, 2019
This was one of the very first things I ever bought on Amazon (with a gift certificate) and it shaped my first few months of "Recommended for You" suggestions hilariously. I regret nothing, and this book is hella cathartic.
May 19, 2008
Featuring the coolest cat in fiction.
May 16, 2018
I’m glad this exists.
May 25, 2021
its wild to read this expression of early 90s queer repersentation- i am utterly charmed and uncomfortably shocked at the same time. i feel repersented, even physically depicted in this series which is incredibly rare. i really enjoy the unique art content, these sketches are all original and clearly doesnt use blue prints/trace techniques. i love the cats huge eyes. this collection was a crude satire and successfully pushed me into uncomfortable realms.
November 30, 2025
Wonderful, emotional, I loved it.
February 11, 2010
Freakin hilarious! I was laughing my ass off a lot of the time, and contrary to probably some people's belief, I found a lot in common with Hothead's hatred for biological men and patriarchal society. It is sometimes difficult for me to laugh, though, because most people who don't know that I'm trans think I AM a biological male and have the same hatred for me. I sometimes hate myself for hiding behind my bio man identity to navigate more easily in this patriarchal world. However, I think that anyone with an open mind, whatever their gender identity, can appreciate this book...but probably people most like Hothead can appreciate it most.
April 6, 2021
Got a twisted sense of humor and a functioning brain? Need a bit of hair-trigger catharsis? Appreciate fanged satire? How 'bout a well-flipped bird, well-slung knife, or a well-placed grenade? Understand how much better cats are than people? Capable of dealing with *women* being the center of shit for a change? Grab this!
December 27, 2021
Hothead was one of the biggest influences on me as a young queer cartoonist. When some jerk broke into my storage last year, they got my full run in singles and it was without question the most crushing loss of the whole collection. I wish so much that there had been more of it.
Want to read
April 13, 2008Possibly the best title ever. I require to read this.
October 26, 2008
Funny, sad & much of it true- reminds me of someone I used to know-
June 24, 2010
Politically incorrect stress relief. Go to book for when i feel like screaming at the unfairness of life. Better than therapy or causing harm to self, stuff and friends.
April 13, 2012
Four stars if I place it within its historical context, three if I'm rating how engaged I was while reading.
December 14, 2021
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Hothead Paisan is an angry homicidal lesbian who wants to destroy not only the patriarchy, but all men in general. The only one who is spared her anger and sees her as a sweet person is her cat, Chicken. This high dose of rage and violence at first attracted me to the Hothead series, but it in the end pushed me away. The author opens the book by saying that Hothead was her way of expressing anger and that she is not as violent as her characters, but my issue is the character is so violent and so much of a second wave separatist lesbian that it easily fuels the idea of feminazis.
Much of the reasoning behind Hothead’s views are sound and I can easily say that any sane person should agree that rape is bad, white privilege is bad, male privilege is bad, etc. The problem is the way she wants to deal with it by terrorizing people who may or may not be aware of their privileges and some that are just minding their business. She kills first and never bothers to ask questions. Her friend, Roz, is a much more sane version of Hothead. She sees the same issues, but she sees a different way of going about fixing them. Instead of killing all men and straight people, Roz would rather educate and deal with them in an intellectual manner. She often takes care of Hothead after an “episode” (word from the book that just makes Hothead seem more psychotic than before).
While I like that the views of the author and of many others are getting out there, I don’t agree with the violent or separatist message. I do however love Chicken and will continue to read Hothead and pass it along to friends. While I may have my issues about how Hothead handles situations or about the author herself that does not change that the comic is something I am glad is around as it shows many different ways to solve problems, feminism in many different forms, and has Chicken.
I am grateful for the author starting a dialogue on the issues raised by Hothead (though some of these discussions were started much earlier and have continued with no mention of Hothead). I would consider Hothead on the same level as S.C.U.M Manifesto and other angry though satirical lesbian writings that bring joy and solidarity to many of us feminists.
Hothead Paisan is an angry homicidal lesbian who wants to destroy not only the patriarchy, but all men in general. The only one who is spared her anger and sees her as a sweet person is her cat, Chicken. This high dose of rage and violence at first attracted me to the Hothead series, but it in the end pushed me away. The author opens the book by saying that Hothead was her way of expressing anger and that she is not as violent as her characters, but my issue is the character is so violent and so much of a second wave separatist lesbian that it easily fuels the idea of feminazis.
Much of the reasoning behind Hothead’s views are sound and I can easily say that any sane person should agree that rape is bad, white privilege is bad, male privilege is bad, etc. The problem is the way she wants to deal with it by terrorizing people who may or may not be aware of their privileges and some that are just minding their business. She kills first and never bothers to ask questions. Her friend, Roz, is a much more sane version of Hothead. She sees the same issues, but she sees a different way of going about fixing them. Instead of killing all men and straight people, Roz would rather educate and deal with them in an intellectual manner. She often takes care of Hothead after an “episode” (word from the book that just makes Hothead seem more psychotic than before).
While I like that the views of the author and of many others are getting out there, I don’t agree with the violent or separatist message. I do however love Chicken and will continue to read Hothead and pass it along to friends. While I may have my issues about how Hothead handles situations or about the author herself that does not change that the comic is something I am glad is around as it shows many different ways to solve problems, feminism in many different forms, and has Chicken.
I am grateful for the author starting a dialogue on the issues raised by Hothead (though some of these discussions were started much earlier and have continued with no mention of Hothead). I would consider Hothead on the same level as S.C.U.M Manifesto and other angry though satirical lesbian writings that bring joy and solidarity to many of us feminists.
August 20, 2020
I hadn't even heard of this, but apparently this was a fixture of the '90s lesbian underground. It's a quick read, as a comic, and I appreciated the commentary on patriarchy and violence, etc but the style is (no doubt intentionally) very hectic. The narrative jumps around and gets kind of celestial/psychological, which is cool, and the art is fun, but ... it is full of depictions of violence! Here's to queer history and strong independent queer people.
November 22, 2020
Loved it! Named my kitten Chicken Noodle in honour of this book :)
August 29, 2023
It's funny. I liked the character's expressions. She felt so alive.
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September 24, 2023read for my queer comics class. heavy on the trigger warnings and the author is extremely transphobic
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