Hello, welcome to Queer as Fact. I'm Irene. I'm Alice. I'm Eli.

We're a queer history podcast, which comes out on the first and 15th of every month,

covering people and events from queer history throughout time and throughout the world.

This week, we're going to be talking about Yoshia Nobuko, Japanese author from the early 20th century.

For this episode, we don't really have many content warnings.

There's one brief mention of suicide, and that's all I can think of.

So if you don't want to hear that, then feel free to skip this.

There are other episodes that you can enjoy. So Yoshia Nobiko, just to be clear,

Yoshia is her surname. Nobiko is her given name. So yeah, Yoshia Nobuco, one of the most influential writers in 20th century Japan, she's considered like the founder of the Yuri genre. Well, okay. She's quite great.

And she's just generally like a massive like influential force in the writing like writing

fiction for young women. Yudy is essentially this genre in Japanese media, which is all

stories about queer women. Generally young all stories about queer women, generally

young, attractive feminine queer women, but...

So I am aware of this only insofar as people call it the female version of Yowie.

I disagree.

Yeah. Can I just ask, who is it generally written by and who is it generally written for?

Because if people don't know, Yawi is written by straight women for straight women generally,

and so the impression that I've always gotten from people is that Yuri is kind of likewise, quite fetishy.

Not really.

Mm-hmm.

The, um, a lot of of Udi is written by women for women, essentially.

Okay.

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