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 look at Yuri in Notes toward a unified theory of yuri.
We’ve added A Husband is Unnecessary: Yoshiya Nobuko & Japanese Girls’ Culture to the Yuri and Shoujo, Feminism, Gender and Lesbian Themes section. Erica Friedman and History is Gay podcast host Leigh Pfeffer get together to chat about Grandmothr
Under Fan Studies and Perspectives, we have:
Witch From Mercury‘s Finale Made One of Gundam’s Most Fascinating Ideas Queer as Hell: Gundam is a franchise about giant robots to many, but one of its oldest non-mecha hallmarks had its queer subtexts made text in Witch From Mercury‘s finale – by James Whitbrook for Gizmodo.
Alex Henderson looks at queer lives, and coming of age in Queer time and the quarter-life crisis in contemporary yuri for Anime Feminist.
If you have published or recorded Yuri or Yuri-adjacent research please contact us and we’ll add it to our Yuricon Essays page!