The Chosen Family

Template:Italic title The Chosen Family was a Canadian comic strip, written and drawn by Winnipeg cartoonist Noreen Stevens from 1987 to 2004.<ref name=rasporich>Beverly J. Rasporich, Made-in-Canada Humour: Literary, Folk and Popular Culture. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015. Template:ISBN. p. 203.</ref> The strip evolved from an earlier project, Local Access Only, published in the University of Manitoba newspaper, The Manitoban.<ref name=closing>"Closing The Chosen Family album". Xtra!, October 28, 2004.</ref> The Chosen Family used social and political satire to shine a light on late 20th century queer experience through Stevens' lens as lesbian feminist. It featured four on-going characters, lesbians Kenneth-Marie and Weed, whose relationship was undefined, and the couple's friends and neighbours, Puddin' Head and The Straight Chick Upstairs. Later the strip also featured Kenneth-Marie and Weed's two fostered/adopted children, a daughter named Rosebud and an unnamed son.<ref name=closing/>

The strip appeared in many LGBT publications throughout North America, including Xtra!,<ref>"Winning in the 'Peg The city of 600,00, where the air is crisp and clear, is bursting with mainstream arts groups. The air is fine in the underground scene, too". The Globe and Mail, November 30, 1996.</ref> Xtra West, Swerve, Perceptions, off our backs, Chicago Outlines, Herizons, Ms. and the Washington Blade. It also appeared in mainstream general interest publications such as Geist.

Stevens retired the strip in 2004 after producing almost 400 biweekly semi-serialize installments.<ref name=closing/>

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