LGBTQIA+ Book Club: Are you my Mother, by Alison Bechdel

The monthly LGBTQIA+ Book Club meetings are open to students, staff, and faculty, and titles relate to LGBTQIA+ stories and histories. This is made possible in collaboration with the Women’s and Gender Studies program.

In this introspective and incredibly layered graphic memoir, acclaimed cartoonist Alison Bechdel turns her lens inward to explore the complex relationship between mother and daughter. A companion piece to her bestselling Fun Home, Are You My Mother, traces Bechdel’s lifelong effort to understand her emotionally distant mother—a former actress, avid reader, and frustrated artist—through the prisms of psychoanalysis, dreams, and literary theory.

Blending personal history with the works of Virginia Woolf, Donald Winnicott, and other thinkers, Are You My Mother? is a poignant meditation on identity, memory, queer becoming, and the psychological imprints of maternal love.