Cassia Hayward-Fitch
CHASE EDI Ambassador for UEA
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Cassia Hayward-Fitch is a PhD student in American Studies at the University of East Anglia. She is the 2023 recipient of the International Comic Arts Forum's Lent Scholarship in Comics Studies. As part of winning this award, the paper was published. It can be found in the International Journal of Comic Art. Her thesis, “Drawn this Gay: Queer Community Activism in the Serial Comics of Alison Bechdel and Howard Cruse”, draws on archival material to show how American queer newspaper comic strips from the 1980s and ‘90s acted as communal spaces, making specific reference to Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For and Howard Cruse’s Wendel.