On Defining Yuri by Erica Friedman, in Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 24., June, 2017.
Erica looks at the term yuri, as both descriptive and divisive, shaped by creators and industry and by different audiences within fandom. The story of yuri is the story of a genre driven forward and backward between conflicting requirements and heterogeneous audiences.
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