2025 was a heckuva year! Yuricon celebrated a 25th birthday in summer with a brand new web site design. Check out the new look at https://www.yuricon.com/ Our Okazu staff grew to 7 amazing humans. Erica was a guest at Blymecon and CitrusCon online and Y/Con in Paris. For posts about that last experience and about […]
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New Articles On The Yuri Resources Page
We’ve given the Yuri Resources page a bit of a visual refresh with some images by A.L.R. Keaton. And we’re pleased to announce three new articles on the Yuri Resources page today, all by Alexandra Arana Blas on the Yuri and Shoujo Manga, Feminism, Gender and Lesbian Themes – Research with Intersections with Yuri section: […]
New Yuri Research on the Essays Page
With the growing popularity of Yuri as a global fandom, we’re seeing more articles and research on Yuri as a genre, as well as fan studies. Today we have a couple of new useful sources for your Yuri research on the Yuricon Essays page. Starting off under Articles on Yuri, Frank Hecker takes a chronological […]
Celebrating Yuricon’s Birthday with A Special Sale on By Your Side
This year I was supposed to have been a guest at a number of event, but when Long Covid hit, I had to cancel everything and I am not going to be able to attend an event for a while. So, to celebrate Okazu’s, Yuricon’s (and my) birthdays, we’re doing a Special Birthday Sale of […]
Redbubble’s Usurious Policy And The Yuricon Store
Due to an outrageous change in Redbubble’s cut of sales – from something like 40% to 85% – we’ve pulled all of our custom Yuricon items from their site, pending a new host. We’ll repost the Apparel and Goods on the Store when we’ve found a new host. Thank you for your patience.
Yuricon 2023 Opening Ceremony, Tonight on Yuri Studio!
It’s been an amazing 20 years since our first Yuricon event and, while the world has gotten both better and worse since then, I at least wanted to do *something* to celebrate our anniversary. So, I welcome to you to Yuricon 2023 on Yuri Studio. Join us tonight at 8PM, for the “opening ceremony” video […]
Yuricon Schedule of Events for Pride Month!
We’re super proud to welcome By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anima and Manga to the world for it’s official birthday! To celebrate, we’ve got a lot of events on tap – all of them virtual, so you can join us wherever you are. Here’s where you can find Yuricon founder Erica […]
Yuri Panels at Anime Boston!
Yuricon founder Erica Friedman will be doing 6 panels at Anime Boston, May 27-29 at Hynes Convention Center, Boston Massachusetts. By Your Side: the First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga will be for sale at the CheapManga.com table in the Dealer’s Room. Friday, May 27 Featured Panelists Roundtable – 11:00 in Panel […]
Order By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga Today!
20 years in the making, By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga, a ground breaking history of the Yuri genre is now on sale! Factual, funny and highly entertaining, By Your Side is a series of interlocking essays, articles and lectures from Yuricon founder Erica Friedman’s work on Yuri anime […]
New Yuri Scholarship, Interviews and Videos on the Essays Page
We’ve added some new content on the Yuricon Essays Page! In the to the Analysis section: The Yuricon 20th Anniversary Discussion Event on Youtube is now added. Watch Verena Maser, James Welker and Erica Friedman re-create their Mechademia panel on Yuri as a global phenomenon, in Transporting Yuri Across Borders. Kazumi Nagaike’s 2010 article The […]
By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga on sale June 1!
Here is the awesome full cover of By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga! Available June 1 from Journey Press. Art by: Rica Takashima Cover Design by: Christine Sandquist Thanks to the entire team at Journey Press for this amazing cover! This book has been a 20-year long endeavor to […]
Manga Panels, Podcast and Talks You Won’t Want to Miss!
Yuricon founder Erica Friedman on queer manga and more into 2022! November 2021 I had a lovely talk with Ashley from the Shoujo & Tell podcast about the Rose of Versailles. Let me reiterate that working on this series has been one of the greatest honors of my life and I am always thrilled to […]
Yuricon Community 20th Anniversary Virtual Event!
Join us for a special virtual Yuricon 20th Anniversary Discussion – Global Yuri Fandom, with James Welker and Verena Maser, hosted by Erica Friedman. When: Aug 14, 2021 08:00 Eastern Time (US and Canada), 13:00 BST, 21:00 JST (Japan). Registration is free, but there is limited space, so please register early. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrduyvqTsuEtP2I6jyVHS-DcB5yA7ccEty After […]
Save the Date for a Yuricon Community Anniversary Event!
Back in the day, there was a brand-new online community for fans of lesbian characters and stories in Japanese comics and animation. That group was named AniLesboCon mostly as a joke1. By 2001, that name was transitioning to a new name, one that we hoped would re-connect this new genre to it’s ties to Japanese […]
A Pictorial History of Yuricon and Okazu in T-shirt Design
In the late 1990s a bunch of folks were chatting about cool f/f couples in anime and manga on Usenet. I decided to have a t-shirt made up for a bunch of us who were going to meet at Otakon in 2002. That shirt had a logo designed by Kat Williams and a motto that […]
Yuricon Store Update!
We are doing a spring cleaning at the Yuricon Store! It’s already easier to navigate (gee, thanks Woocommerce for hiding some of the settings…) We’ve lost some minor features, but we’ll be making sure links are functioning and updated, tags are consistent, etc. Categories have already been updated. Sincere thanks to the Yuricon First Lady […]
Journey Through the First 100 Years of Yuri Manga with Erica Friedman By Your Side
Yuricon founder Erica Friedman and Journey Press are pleased to announce By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Manga & Anime. The term “Yuri” began life as a coded reference to lesbianism within manga and anime genres, but in the last two decades has been shaped by creators, publishers and fans into a […]
New Videos and Essays added!
We’ve added four new items to the Yuri Essays Page! Yuri Studio Videos from 2020 have been added to the History of Yuri section, so you an now view our look at three common questions from Yuri panels and lectures. In the Yuri and Shoujo, Feminism, Gender and Lesbian Themes section, you’ll find the newest […]
Yuricon & Okazu Updates
We’ve been working hard here to update, upgrade and move forward while we’re all in pandemic lockdowns. With the help of all of our Okazu Patrons, here’s what we’ve accomplished this year! Tech Updates: We had some false security notices recently. It turns out that the SSL certificate we had was no longer sufficient for […]
Breaking New Ground With Your Support
Okazu is very close to a new milestone and with your help we can make it! Two more $5/month donations puts us at 80 patrons – and we’ll hit our second microgoal of being able to support another queer creator! (See below for our current list of folks we support.) For just $5/month, you will […]