Perspective: Alison Bechdel, Bishakh Som and others reflect on cartoons, gender and feminism
This fear of women’s agency extends beyond health care into creative freedom: The patriarchy wants to control how we use our bodies in our personal lives and our artistic lives. But women artists and cartoonists are pushing back and have been for generations. Only recently have we seen mainstream media giving them space.,” my history of women cartoonists, I had the pleasure of interviewing over a dozen practitioners.
Things changed momentarily in the late 1800s when women began to advocate for the right to vote, and some did so in cartoons. Political cartoons were a popular medium then, and women beganabout their desire for suffrage. This advocacy was about control: Women wanted the ability to control their bodies and exercise the vote. One of the reasons women were prevented from voting was that society saw politics as too harsh, too ugly, for delicate women, or “the fairer sex.
I’m interested in how women and nonbinary artists now draw themselves and how their selves enter into their creativity. So I interviewed seven women and nonbinary cartoonists and asked each of them the same basic questions about their identity and how they express themselves. I chose people of different ages, genders and races. I found the diversity of responses fascinating and instructive in understanding the progression of feminist ideas through generations.
Once I realized I was a lesbian, I had to really embrace the fact that I was a woman. The natural consequence of that was to take personally all of this ridiculous oppression and discrimination that I saw in the world. So lesbianism was a portal into embracing feminism.I’ve always said about myself growing up, I did not want to identify with being a girly girl. By becoming an artist, I escaped that identity. Not wanting to be pinned down by a gender was appealing to me.
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