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Erica Friedman
@okazu.yuricon.com
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Lesbian Icon, Yurijin, Speaker, Writer, Editor, Researcher. Looking for opportunities.

By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga on sale now! https://yuricon.com/product/bys/
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Erica Friedman @okazu.yuricon.com · Nov 8
Just a reminder that I wrote a book on the history of the Yuri genre which was then published by the wonderful publisher @journeypress.bsky.social, which you should definitely buy and support us both!

By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga
www.yuricon.com/product/bys/
Front an back covers of By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga by Erica Friedman. The front shows two girls wearing the oldest Japanese girls schools uniforms, looking longingly at one another as they hold hands, surrounded by lilies, a pattern which burns away to reveal a back cover of two girls with brightly colored hair and uniforms of the future, gleefully clasping one another.
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Today on Okazu - Giving Thanks for Yuri!

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November 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Celebrate 30 years of Yuri manga with Rica Takashima's "Rica 'tte Kanji!?" exhibit at hetLabo in Brooklyn. Open 1-6 Saturday and Sunday, on weekdays by appt, until Nov 30!

Thanks to Ashley for editing the video!
November 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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This Thanksgiving I am donating toothpaste, deodorant, toothbrushes, sanitary napkins and other personal grooming items to a local organization.
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Today on Okazu – Monster-Colored Island, Volume 1

This moody tone-poem of a Yuri manga is a tale of othering and intimacy on an isolated island. Available now from Yen Press.

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Two girls embracing. One with black hair in short braids looks at the other girl, a blonde who looks at us, with a heavy-lidded gaze.
November 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Today on Okazu – Monster-Colored Island, Volume 1

This moody tone-poem of a Yuri manga is a tale of othering and intimacy on an isolated island. Available now from @yenpress.com

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Two girls embracing. One with black hair in short braids looks at the other girl, a blonde who looks at us, with a heavy-lidded gaze.
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Celebrate 30 years of Yuri manga with Rica Takashima's "Rica 'tte Kanji!?" exhibit at hetLabo in Brooklyn. Open 1-6 Saturday and Sunday, on weekdays by appt, until Nov 30!

Thanks to Ashley for editing the video!
November 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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It appears that I will be in Japan for Girls Love Fest at the end of March. Hit me up if you want me to speak at your university.

3月末に日本に来ます。大学で講演をご希望の方はご連絡ください。

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November 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Visited hetLabo to see the Rica 'the Kanji!? 30th anniversary exhibit today!
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Rica put me to work signing books.
November 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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See a book recommended and are curious about it? Want to read it? You could go buy it! 🧵

Money tight at the moment or you're just frugal? See if it's available from the library & request it (if it's not, suggest that your library get it).

www.overdrive.com/apps/libby
Download the Libby App: ebooks & audiobooks FREE from your library
Bring the library to you! Free digital books, magazines and more! Available for iOS and Android devices.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Probably the coolest thing from AnimEigo's newest episode of "The Anime Business", about @media-blasters.com, is that John Sirabella credits @chrisbeveridge.bsky.social with helping get MB back to the company it is today... by simply assuring him that people will indeed buy hentai on BD.
a man with glasses and a red shirt says " the man 's a genius "
ALT: a man with glasses and a red shirt says " the man 's a genius "
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November 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Great news! Anime Herald Magazine is now printing and we're shipping digital copies this week. Thank you so much for your patience. We hope you enjoy it. 🥰

Digital copy ($15.75 USD): hera.fyi/buyahmag1dig 💻
Physical copy ($17.95 USD): hera.fyi/buyahmag1 📔
Bundle: hera.fyi/buyahmag1bun 📦
Cover art for Anime Herald Magazine, which features a tag that reads "Anime Herald Magazine - we speak otaku. No #001 Fall 2025, launch issue"
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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A new anime magazine blasts past the typical industry gloss and digs deep into the genre's storied history.
Anime Herald Leaps Gloriously Into Print - Pop Heist
A new anime magazine, stemming from a popular website, blasts past the typical industry gloss and digs deep into the genre's storied history.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Dyke cartoonists raising hell. Alison Bechdel & Diane DiMassa in Conversation. Moderated by Jennifer Camper. Brooklyn Book Fest 2025.
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November 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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If you are in the NYC area, don't miss Rica Takashima's exhibit at hetLabo in Brooklyn to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the First Yuri manga ever published in English, Rica 'tte Kanji!? !!

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Galley art featuring the first Yuri manga to be translated into English, Rica 'tte Kanji!? by Rica Takashima, at hetLabo in Brooklyn.
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Today on Okazu – Paris 2025: Musée D'Orsay, The Louvre and Manga at the Musée Guimet

Manga. Tout un Art! at Le musée national des Arts asiatiques - Guimet, was fantastic. Time with some old manga friends and items from the Guimet’s permanent collection!

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Rose of Versailles pages by Riyoko Ikeda from Margaret magazine at the Guimet Manga exhbit, Paris 2025, photo by E Friedman
November 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Cover of a Butch x Butch yuri (NSFW) comic from around 2022.
November 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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I majored in comparative lit, then a Master's in Library Science, so 30 years as a researcher and a writer about manga was just using my degrees.
recursecenter.bsky.social Recurse Center @recursecenter.bsky.social · 16d
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Many, many thanks to @resuri.bsky.social and Kris for the "By Your Side" fan art!
Two drawings. On the left, an image of Kaioh Michiru and Tenno Haruka from Sailor Moon, with a quote from "By Your Side" by Erica Friedman. "Femmes are the Queens, we butches live to serve" by Resuri. On the right, a drawing of two girls in old fashioned Japanese-style uniforms, a riff on the characters on the front cover of "By Your Side"
November 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Today on Okazu – Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – November 22, 2025

Yuri and Baihe licenses & exciting anniversary events: Comic Yuri Hime 20th, Kase-san 15th & Rica ‘tte Kanji, the !st Yuri manga in English turns 30, in news from the global Yuri network!

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A blue silhouette of a girl with a white flower in her hair, embracing the earth. Blue block letters read YNN Yuri Network News. Art by Lissa P. For Okazu.
November 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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「ブッチ組 ～夜露死苦異世界 我等真武親友 悪鬼滅殺仏血義礼組 （よろしくいせかい われらまぶだち あっきめっさつぶっちぎれぐみ）～/ 二発目」コミックノーラ
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二発目が公開されました！　たぶんですけど来月の更新時にはこの回は見られなくなると思われますのでぜひとも今のうちに読んでください✊✊✨
ブッチ組 ～夜露死苦異世界 我等真武親友 悪鬼滅殺仏血義礼組 （よろしくいせかい われらまぶだち あっきめっさつぶっちぎれぐみ）～ | コミックノーラ
おもしろさ無限大。Gakken発エンタメ漫画サイト
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October 30, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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If you are in the NYC area, don't miss Rica Takashima's exhibit at hetLabo in Brooklyn to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the First Yuri manga ever published in English, Rica 'tte Kanji!? !!

x.com/AliensNewYor...
Galley art featuring the first Yuri manga to be translated into English, Rica 'tte Kanji!? by Rica Takashima, at hetLabo in Brooklyn.
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Don't miss this adorable comic!
natsuomutsumi.bsky.social 睦巳夏生 Natsuo Mutsumi @natsuomutsumi.bsky.social · Apr 29
"Yuzuki doesn't think!" is a 2021 work. This story about butch and tomboy working in a men's clothing cafe won Shueisha's Newcomer Manga Encouragement Award. It is available for free.

Yuzuki doesn’t think!【English】 | TOMBOYS #booth_pm tomboys.booth.pm/items/5970708
November 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Reminder: project proposals for the Lucy Shelton Caswell Research Award for 2026 are due in two weeks.
cartoons.osu.edu/collections-... Up to $2,500 for researchers (US only) who needs to travel to Columbus, Ohio to use the collections of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.
Lucy Shelton Caswell Research Award
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November 22, 2025 at 12:44 AM