How Fandom Made Queer Manga Possible -- talk by Erica Friedman

Erica Friedman is a foremost expert on the development of yuri manga and anime, comic book and animated depictions of women-women relationships, as well as on their fandoms both in the US and Japan.  She has been a fan of this genre for many years, including running fan-based publications and a professional publishing house to promote English translations of yuri manga.

Sponsored by the Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality; the Open Gate Foundation; and the Division of Social Sciences.