Two decades in the making, By Your Side is a collection of essays, scholarly and approachable, by the Western Hemisphere’s authority on the subject. This landmark work should be in the library of any fan of anime, manga, lesbian relationships in media–or any combination of the three!
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Through the collection, Friedman explores the birth of the label “Yuri,” which she herself played a role in, harkening to a 1970s magazine that used the rose as a symbol for gay men and the lily as the symbol for gay women—with Yuri as the Japanese word for lily.
Erica Friedman produces a lot of Yuri-related content beyond the book—she runs a blog called Okazuand a YouTube channel called Yuri Studio.
In the chat, Friedman talks about how it can be complicated to label a work “queer” because often the work can feature queerness without actually internalizing queer identities or challenges. It all depends on whom the work is for. Yet Yuri as a label, Friedman says, applies, either way, denoting any work that features a gay female relationship. More and more today, though, manga and anime with queer themes are coming from queer authors, for queer audiences. “In recent years, there are more and more out lesbians telling their own stories,” says the author.
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