Episode 10: The Public Universal Friend

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These Old Queers

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Megan and Thomas are two middle-aged, self-identified queer people. In each episode, they delve into historical events and people who are part of queer history, as well as take a look at aging in the LGBTQIA+ community

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Episode 10: The Public Universal Friend

These Old Queers

1 hour 38 minutes 9 seconds

8 months ago

Episode 10: The Public Universal Friend

Thomas tells us about young Quaker woman, Jemima Wilkinson, who after a grave illness was reborn as the genderless, spiritual being the Public Universal Friend.

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Cleveland, Stafford. History and directory of Yates County [...] and a narrative of the Public Universal Friend, her society and doctrine. Pen Yan, New York: S. C. Cleveland, 1873.

Gordon, Colby. Interview on "Gender Reveal," October 7, 2024. Podcast episode 179, season 13.

Larson, Scott. "'Indescribable being': theological performances of genderlessness in the Society of the Public Universal Friend, 1776-1819." Critical Approaches to Sex and Gender in Early America, vol. 12, nr. 3 (2014): 576-600. (Special Issue, Beyond the Barriers).

Moyer, Paul. The Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson and religious enthusiasm in Revolutionary America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press: 2015.

Wisbey, Herbert. Pioneer prophetess: Jemima Wilkinson, the Publick Universal Friend. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1964.Kawamoto, Hanna. “'Spiritually unsexed': believers, critics, and early histories of the Publick Universal Friend, 1776-1835. UC Santa Barbara, 2024. (Winner of The Library Award for Undergraduate Research).