Yuricon#Publishing and Outreach

In 2000, Erica Friedman founded Yuricon on Usenet with the name of "Anilesbocon" but this was changed to Yuricon in 2003 in an effort to better "celebrate Yuri in anime and manga."{{cite interview |last=Friedman |first=Erica |interviewer=Deb Aoki |title=Interview: Erica Friedman |type=Online |url=https://www.geeksout.org/2018/06/29/interview-erica-friedman/ |publisher=Geeks Out |date=June 29, 2008 |access-date=October 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804193933/https://www.geeksout.org/2018/06/29/interview-erica-friedman/ |archive-date=August 4, 2020 |url-status=live }} In 2003, the organization had a "three-day anime and manga convention" in Newark, New Jersey.{{cite web |last1=Corson |first1=Suzanne |url=https://afterellen.com/more/11347-yuricon-celebrates-lesbian-anime-and-manga |title=Yuricon Celebrates Lesbian Anime and Manga |website=AfterEllen |access-date=October 9, 2020 |date=April 30, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160922020329/https://afterellen.com/more/11347-yuricon-celebrates-lesbian-anime-and-manga |archive-date=September 22, 2016 }} Two years later, Yuricon hosted an event in Tokyo and co-sponsored Onna!, together with the Shoujo Arts Society, which focused on women's roles in animation and comics. Two years after that, in 2007, Yuricon ran a small one-day event, named Yurisai, to recreate the feel of the Tokyo event from 2005.{{cite web |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-release/2007-09-18/us-premiere-of-simoun-anime-at-yuricon's-yurisai-event |title=US Premiere of "Simoun" anime at Yuricon's "Yurisai" Event |website=Anime News Network |access-date=October 9, 2020 |date=September 18, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105040421/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-release/2007-09-18/us-premiere-of-simoun-anime-at-yuricon%27s-yurisai-event |archive-date=November 5, 2018 }} During this time period, Yuricon hosted several panels,{{cite interview |last=Friedman |first=Erica |interviewer=Samantha Ferreira |title=Interview With Erica Friedman (Yuricon) |type=Online |url=https://www.animeherald.com/interview/interview-with-erica-friedman-yuricon/ |publisher=Anime Herald |date=August 3, 2012 |access-date=October 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009210841/https://www.animeherald.com/interview/interview-with-erica-friedman-yuricon/ |archive-date=October 9, 2020 |url-status=live }} cosplay events,{{cite web |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-release/2007-06-26/media-blasters-and-yuricon-team-up-for-simoun-cosplay-at-yuricon-2007 |title=Media Blasters and Yuricon Team Up for "Simoun" Cosplay at Yuricon 2007 |website=Anime News Network |access-date=October 9, 2020 |date=June 26, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181103233523/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-release/2007-06-26/media-blasters-and-yuricon-team-up-for-simoun-cosplay-at-yuricon-2007 |archive-date=November 3, 2018 }} anime music video contests, and other competitions, while Yuricon maintained a library of yuri manga for attendees to read.{{cite web | author = Lisa Z | url = http://magazine.anipike.com/index.php?article=68 | title = Convention Reports: Yuri Con 2003 | publisher = Anipike.com | access-date = March 31, 2008 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060118144835/http://magazine.anipike.com/index.php?article=68 | archive-date = January 18, 2006 }}

Some years later, in 2011, Yuricon moved to a new website.{{cite web |url=http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2011/03/29/yuricom-com-under-construction/ |title=Yuricon Under Construction |website=Yuricon |access-date=October 9, 2020 |date=March 29, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170623193231/http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2011/03/29/yuricom-com-under-construction/ |archive-date=June 23, 2017 }} The same year, the Kyoto International Manga Museum added works published by ALC Publishing, the publishing arm of Yuricon, into its permanent collection.{{cite web |last1=Manry |first1=Gia |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2011-03-11/kyoto-international-manga-museum-adds-u.s-yuri-works |title=Kyoto International Manga Museum Adds U.S. Yuri Works |website=Anime News Network |access-date=October 9, 2020 |date=March 11, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181207090128/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2011-03-11/kyoto-international-manga-museum-adds-u.s-yuri-works |archive-date=December 7, 2018 }} Also that year, Renbooks, an Italian publisher announced that an Italian edition of Rica 'tte Kanji!? would be published.{{cite web |url=http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2011/08/04/italian-rica/ |title=Italian Publisher Renbooks announced "Rica 'tte Kanji!?" Edition |website=Yuricon |access-date=October 9, 2020 |date=August 4, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812135716/http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2011/08/04/italian-rica/ |archive-date=August 12, 2017 }} The following year, ALC Publishing announced a partnership with JManga to publish POOR POOR LIPS!,{{cite web |url=http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2012/01/20/poorpoorlipspartners/ |title=ALC Publishing and JManga Announce POOR POOR LIPS Partnership! |website=Yuricon |access-date=October 9, 2020 |date=March 9, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190622100346/http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2012/01/20/poorpoorlipspartners/ |archive-date=June 22, 2019 }} Kimi no Tamenara Shineru,{{cite web |url=http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2012/03/09/kimino/ |title=ALC Publishing & JManga Partnering on Heian Period Yuri Manga "Kimi no Tamenara Shineru" |website=Yuricon |access-date=October 9, 2020 |date=March 9, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190629155422/http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2012/03/09/kimino/ |archive-date=June 29, 2019 }} and

three other yuri comic titles.{{cite web |url=http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2012/06/21/yurisummer/ |title=ALC Publishing and JManga announce a Yuri Summer with Three Comic Yuri Hime titles! |website=Yuricon |access-date=October 9, 2020 |date=June 21, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170623130802/http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2012/06/21/yurisummer/ |archive-date=June 23, 2017 }} The next year, Okazu, then just a blog of Friedman, joined the domain of Yuricon{{cite web |url=http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2013/03/03/welcome-okazu/ |title=Welcome Okazu to the Yuricon Domain |website=Yuricon |access-date=October 9, 2020 |date=March 3, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190605225844/http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2013/03/03/welcome-okazu/ |archive-date=June 5, 2019 }} and ALC publishing stopped publishing new material.{{cite web |url=http://www.yuricon.com/what-is-yuricon/ |title=What is Yuricon? |website=Yuricon |access-date=October 9, 2020 |date=March 3, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200603020406/http://www.yuricon.com/what-is-yuricon/ |archive-date=June 3, 2020 }}

In later years, the webpage of the Yuricon website as a whole was improved, while the group's founder, Erica Friedman, asked for donations to ensure that Yuricon and Okazu are "on the cutting edge of Yuri Culture."{{cite web |url=http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2015/01/15/yuricon-shop-update-project-report/ |title=Yuricon Shop Update Project Report! |website=Yuricon |access-date=October 9, 2020 |date=January 15, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201007172527/http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2015/01/15/yuricon-shop-update-project-report/ |archive-date=October 7, 2020 }} Later, the new-and-improved Yuricon store would be opened{{cite web |url=http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2015/08/01/yuricon-store-grand-opening/ |title=Yuricon Store Grand Opening! |website=Yuricon |access-date=October 9, 2020 |date=August 1, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190210104241/http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2015/08/01/yuricon-store-grand-opening/ |archive-date=February 10, 2019 }} and the page listing yuri essays would be improved.{{cite web |url=http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2017/06/22/yuri-essays-page-renewal/ |title=Yuri Essays Page Renewal! |website=Yuricon |access-date=October 9, 2020 |date=June 22, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200211093406/http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2017/06/22/yuri-essays-page-renewal/ |archive-date=February 11, 2020 }} Then, in May 2018, Friedman appeared at a guest panelist at AnimeNEXT in Atlantic City, NJ.{{cite web |url=http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2018/05/28/yuricon-at-animenext-in-atlantic-city-nj/ |title=Yuricon at AnimeNEXT in Atlantic City, NJ! |website=Yuricon |access-date=October 9, 2020 |date=May 28, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200211092035/http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2018/05/28/yuricon-at-animenext-in-atlantic-city-nj/ |archive-date=February 11, 2020 }} The following year, Yuricon joined forces with PacSet to launch a guided trip across Japan "dedicated to the Yuri genre of Japanese animation and manga," which would take place in September of that year.{{cite web |url=http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2019/01/31/celebrate-100-years-of-yuri-tour-of-japan-from-yuricon-and-pac-set-travel/ |title="Celebrate 100 Years of Yuri" Tour of Japan from Yuricon and Pac-Set Travel! |website=Yuricon |access-date=October 9, 2020 |date=January 31, 2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200211092035/http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2018/05/28/yuricon-at-animenext-in-atlantic-city-nj/ |archive-date=February 11, 2020 }} The same year, Erica Friedman appeared at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival to celebrate 100 years of Yuri,{{cite web |url=http://www2.torontocomics.com/2019/04/03/tcaf-welcomes-yuri-manga-ka-hiromi-takashima/ |title=TCAF Welcomes Yuri Manga Creator HIROMI TAKASHIMA |website=Toronto Comic Arts Festival |access-date=October 9, 2020 |date=April 3, 2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190418232318/http://www2.torontocomics.com/2019/04/03/tcaf-welcomes-yuri-manga-ka-hiromi-takashima/ |archive-date=April 18, 2019 }} while speaking at various other events that year.{{cite web |url=http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2019/06/16/100-years-of-yuri-events-schedule/ |title=100 Years of Yuri Events Schedule |website=Yuricon |access-date=October 9, 2020 |date=June 16, 2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200327033044/https://www.yuricon.com/blog/2019/06/16/100-years-of-yuri-events-schedule/ |archive-date=March 27, 2020 }}

In May 2020, Yuricon hosted an online panel about yuri.{{cite web |url=http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2020/05/01/2020-online-yuri-panel-schedule/ |title=2020 Online Yuri Panel Schedule! |website=Yuricon |access-date=October 9, 2020 |date=May 1, 2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200603021928/http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2020/05/01/2020-online-yuri-panel-schedule/ |archive-date=June 3, 2020 }}

Yuricon has a publishing arm, ALC Publishing, the only all-yuri publisher in the world.{{cite web |url=http://www.afterellen.com/people/2007/5/friedman |title=Yuricon Celebrates Lesbian Anime and Manga |last=Corson |first=Suzanne |publisher=AfterEllen.com |access-date=May 1, 2007 |year=2007 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121205230509/http://www.afterellen.com/people/2007/5/friedman |archive-date=December 5, 2012 |url-status=dead}} Publications include translations from the Japanese—such as Rica 'tte Kanji!? and WORKS—as well as the original English-language anthology series Yuri Monogatari.

Friedman has run guest lectures about yuri at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,{{cite web |url=http://services.lang.uiuc.edu/news/Friedman.asp |title=Speaker at UI March 3 to discuss "Yuri" movement in Japan |date=February 23, 2006 |website=Foreign Languages Building |publisher=University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |access-date=October 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901145607/http://services.lang.uiuc.edu/news/Friedman.asp |archive-date=September 1, 2006 |url-status=dead}} MIT,{{cite report |date=2003 |title=MIT Reports to the President 2002–2003 |url=http://web.mit.edu/annualreports/pres03/09.14.html |publisher=MIT |access-date=October 9, 2020 |quote="Film and WS Events..."Schoolgirls and Superheroes: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Japanese Animation," by Sarah Frederick (Boston University), Erica Friedman (director of Shoujoai Conferences), and Kerey Luis (Brandeis University)" |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816184530/http://web.mit.edu/annualreports/pres03/09.14.html |archive-date=August 16, 2016}} Kanagawa University,{{cite web |url=http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2013/09/28/lgbtq-comics-and-manga-lecture/ |title=Yuricon Founder Erica Friedman to Lecture at Kanagawa University |website=Yuricon |access-date=October 9, 2020 |date=September 28, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812135800/http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2013/09/28/lgbtq-comics-and-manga-lecture/ |archive-date=August 12, 2017 |url-status=live}} International Christian University,{{cite web |url=http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2014/10/24/yuri-essays-page-updated/ |title=Yuri Essays Page Updated! |website=Yuricon |access-date=October 9, 2020 |date=October 24, 2014 |archive-date=October 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201007171535/http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2014/10/24/yuri-essays-page-updated/ |url-status=live}} and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.{{cite web |title=Event: Yuri Lecture at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor on 1/19 |website=Yuricon |url=http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2017/01/16/event-yuri-lecture-at-university-of-michigan-ann-arbor-on-119/ |access-date=October 9, 2020 |date=January 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200211120513/http://www.yuricon.com/blog/2017/01/16/event-yuri-lecture-at-university-of-michigan-ann-arbor-on-119/ |archive-date=February 11, 2020 |url-status=live}}

Additionally, Friedman has run a blog titled Okazu since 2002, which she describes as the "world's oldest and most comprehensive blog" which focuses on lesbian themes in Japanese comics, cartoons, and other media.{{cite web |url=http://okazu.yuricon.com/about/ |title=About |last=Friedman |first=Erica |website=Okazu |publisher=WordPress |access-date=October 9, 2020 |year=2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002152939/http://okazu.yuricon.com/about/ |archive-date=October 2, 2020 }} Yuricon also describes Okazu as their "official" blog.{{cite web |url=http://www.yuricon.com/links/ |title=Links |website=Yuricon |access-date=October 9, 2020 |year=2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200202091038/http://www.yuricon.com/links/ |archive-date=February 2, 2020 }} In 2022 essays written for Okazu, including those detailing the history of Yuricon and ALC Publishing, were published alongside Friedman's other works within By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga.

• Yuri Monogatari (named for Nobuko Yoshiya's Hana Monogatari) is an annual anthology of yuri-themed short comics. In September 2007, Yuri Monogatari 3 was nominated for the Lambda Book Award.{{cite web |url=http://okazu.yuricon.com/2007/09/14/yuri-monogatari-news/ |title=Yuri Monogatari News |last=Friedman |first=Erica |website=Okazu |publisher=WordPress |access-date=October 9, 2020 |date=September 14, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191228141002/http://okazu.yuricon.com/2007/09/14/yuri-monogatari-news/ |archive-date=December 28, 2019 }} Five Yuri Monogatari anthologies have been published, with volumes 4 and 6 currently listed in the Yuricon store.{{cite web |url=http://www.yuricon.com/product/yuri-monogatari-4/ |title=Yuri Monogatari 4 |website=Yuricon |publisher=Yurikon LLC |access-date=October 9, 2020 |year=2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170623000918/http://www.yuricon.com/product/yuri-monogatari-4/ |archive-date=June 23, 2017 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.yuricon.com/product/yuri-monogatari-6/ |title=Yuri Monogatari 6 |website=Yuricon |publisher=Yurikon LLC |access-date=October 9, 2020 |year=2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170623154130/http://www.yuricon.com/product/yuri-monogatari-6/ |archive-date=June 23, 2017 }} Caroline Ryder of The Advocate called Yuri Monogatari a "must-have manga".{{cite web |url=https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/books/2008/09/24/must-have-manga?pg=1#article-content |title=Shoujoai Ni Bouken: The Adventures Of Yuriko, Volume 1 (EN) |website=The Advocate |access-date=October 9, 2020 |date=September 24, 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009193831/https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/books/2008/09/24/must-have-manga?pg=1 |archive-date=October 9, 2020 }}
• Shoujoai ni Bouken{{cite web |url=http://www.yuricon.com/product/shoujoai-ni-bouken-the-adventures-of-yuriko-volume-1/ |title=Shoujoai Ni Bouken: The Adventures Of Yuriko, Volume 1 (EN) |website=Yuricon |publisher=Yurikon LLC |access-date=October 9, 2020 |year=2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170306192722/http://www.yuricon.com/product/shoujoai-ni-bouken-the-adventures-of-yuriko-volume-1/ |archive-date=March 6, 2017 }}
• Rica 'tte Kanji!?{{cite web |url=http://www.yuricon.com/product/rica-tte-kanji/ |title=Tokyo Love ~Rica 'tte Kanji!? – Digital Edition |website=Yuricon |publisher=Yurikon LLC |access-date=October 9, 2020 |year=2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170302014734/http://www.yuricon.com/product/rica-tte-kanji/ |archive-date=March 2, 2017 }}
• WORKS{{cite web |url=http://www.yuricon.com/product/works/ |title=WORKS |website=Yuricon |publisher=Yurikon LLC |access-date=October 9, 2020 |year=2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170623113454/http://www.yuricon.com/product/works/ |archive-date=June 23, 2017 }}

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• [http://www.yuricon.org/ Yuricon official website]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.shoujoarts.org Shoujo Arts Society official website] at Archive.org

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