Gadsby, Gadfly

The backlash aimed at Hannah Gadsby’s Brooklyn Museum exhibit is proof that Gadsby makes people uncomfortable. But why?

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
11 min readJun 6, 2023

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People looking at Picasso. Looking… plotting… planning their attack!!!
Just some people looking at Picasso. What could go wrong? Photo by Johnell Pannell on Unsplash

I wasn’t going to weigh in on the Hannah Gadsby backlash. I suspect a lot of people won’t like what I have to say; I suspect a lot of people won’t even hear what I have to say, and that they will look right past my argument toward the…

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.