Lateral Moves and Ghostly Gay Children: Queer Spatial Metaphors in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home

Abstract

ABSTRACT:This piece thinks through Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic through salient spatial metaphors proffered by contemporary queer theorists. Specifically, I think through the work of Kathryn Bond-Stockton, J. Halberstam, and Sara Ahmed, and mobilize ideas about lateral lines of connectivity inherent to the lived experience of queers, about ghostly gay children, and about real and metaphorical tables.