Fun home

Bechdel, A. (2006) Fun Home. Houghton Miffin.

How and where did you access it?

Came across it in a public library when I was 13

How did it make you feel?

It made me feel less alone in my burgeoning queerness (and to a much smaller extent, my proto-mascness). I discovered it at a point in my life when I was just starting to realise I might like girls, and I felt like I couldn't talk to anyone about it and didn't personally know any queer women (or any queer people at all, apart from maybe a family friend or two who I vaguely knew might be gay).

Did you share it?

No

Is there anything else you would like to tell us about it?

I borrowed it from the library many times through my teenage years, particularly when I was in the throes of some agonising crush on a girl in school and/or was feeling especially lonely in my probably-queerness. It really got me through the next 5 years until I 1) figured out I was bisexual and 2) made a friend who I could talk to about being queer (and who was also queer). It still holds a very special place in my heart.

Azura