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                         Intro to Bechdel's 20th aniversary book



The Usual Suspects
                         
Intro to Bechdel's 20th aniversary book

Bechdel, Alison (2003). Dykes and Sundry other Carbon-based
         Life-forms to watcfh out for. 
         Los Angeles: Alyson Publications.
         ISBN 1.55583.828.6, LCCN PN'6728.D94'B46'2003.

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On the Occasion of the Twentieth Anniversary of
"Dykes to watch out for"

Perhaps it's trite of me to observe that it seems like 
just yesterday when i drew my first dyke to watch out 
for. But 1983 does indeed seem like just yesterday, if
only because today seems so much like "1984", as I write
this in the Orwellian fog of bush's second gulf war.

I'll tr to put the "shock and awe" bombing campaign 
and the latest newspeak from the homeland security 
department out of my mind for a moment, and turn my
attention back twenty years to what's starting to look
like the halcyon days of the Reagan administrations.

It was a transition period, after Anita Bryant and 
before "on our backs". I was two years out of college,
with no visible ambitions in life beyond being a 
full-time lesbian -- a high 

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