From: wells@athena.cs.uga.edu (Scott Wells)
Subject: "Dykes" bi-positive strip POSTED
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:56:41 GMT


As I promised, this is the bi-positive strip which was published (in
the Southern Voice, around here) this week.

Does anyone know where we can write Ms. Bechdel to thank her for
making bisexuals less invisible ?

SW


DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR -- THE SIGHTING (#149)
by Alison Bechdel

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Panel One: "Mo has managed to heave herself far enough from the
_slough_ of _despond_ to make it to her workshift at the Co-op."

Panel Two:
Mo: "Okay, Naomi . . . The dried, unsulphured, organic burdock chips
are all restocked."
Naomi: "Great. Now do the sulphured, commercial ones, then the
wheat-free tamari-roasted transitional prunes."

Panel Three:
Ginger: "Mo! You've resurfaced! I thought we'd lost you for a while
there. You feeling better about the breakup?"
Mo: "No. I feel like slashing Harriet's tires. Y'know, I think she
might be seeing someone."

[Subtext: Child says "I want refined sugar!" Mother: "Shh! Not here!"]

Panel Four: 
Ginger: "Really? Are you two talking?"
Mo: "Uh-uh. She needs to have 'a period of no contact.' Ha! I'll show
her no contact!  So what's going on with you? Still involved with that
woman ?

Panel Five: 
Ginger [with cocked eyebrow]: "Uh. . . Yeah, why?"

Panel Six: 
Mo [with arm around Ginger, speaking as if in confidence]: "Take it
from one who knows, Ginger, and end it _now_ before you make each
other _miserable_."
Clarice [rounding the aisle]: "Oops! Looks like I'm in the _grim
advice_ aisle. . . . I was looking for _lurid gossip_"

Panel Seven:
Ginger: "Hi, Clarice! Did Toni send you out for pickles and ice cream?"
Clarice: "I wish. No, I'm buying all this healthy shit for her . . . I
mean _our_ new diet. No more greasy takeout barbeque till the kid's
weaned . . . Hey, have you two heard the word on Naomi?"

Panel Eight:
[Our heroines are in a huddle.]
Ginger: "What about her?"
Clarice [with a smug look]: "Boyfriend."
Mo [with look of horror] : "No!"

Panel Nine:
Clarice [still smug]: "Yes! And as if that's not bad enough,
she's starting up a bisexual support group!"
Ginger [with some indignation]: "Oh, come on! Is this junior high
school? So she's bisexual! Big deal! And what's wrong with starting a
group?"  
Mo [perhaps still angry from before]: "Well for _one_ thing, they're
always making us change the _names_ of things to include them! It's .
. . it's _awkward._"

Panel Ten:
[Two hands posting a notice which reads,"Hey! The Local Organizing
Committee for the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi
Equal Rights and Liberation, etc. Needs you now! Community Meeting . .
."] 

Panel Eleven:
[Our heroines look askance at the bulletin board.]
Ginger: "Uh-oh. Red alert at the bulletin board. It's _Harriet_ . . .
and someone else."

End of strip.


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