I know I did that poll ages ago about a good name for a niche leftist bike shop, but I think I've decided all those are dumb, and the obvious best name is "Public Universal Bike Mechanic."
#PublicUniversalFriend
"You weren't permitted to attend other religious denominations." - NOEL, Public Universal Friend, Throughline #Throughline #PublicUniversalFriend
Thomas tells us about young #Quaker woman, #JemimaWilkinson, who after a grave illness was reborn as the #genderless , spiritual being the #PublicUniversalFriend.
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images:
1 Portrait from David Hudson's 1821 biography
2 1796, Western New York
3 depiction of the Quaker concept of the “Peaceable Kingdom” – Edward Hicks
4 First Great Awakening – Hugh Bridport
5 Quaker woman orating at a Friend’s Gathering – G.Schouten
6 The Public Universal Friend – John Mathies, 1816
7 Public Universal Friend sticker - unknown
8 The Public Universal Friend's House - unknown
Sources:
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).
#TheseOldQueers #TheseOldQueersPodcast #queerhistory #queerhistorypodcast #queerhistorycomedypodcast #DIYpodcast
listen where you get your podcasts!
images:
1 Portrait from David Hudson's 1821 biography
2 1796, Western New York
3 depiction of the Quaker concept of the “Peaceable Kingdom” – Edward Hicks
4 First Great Awakening – Hugh Bridport
5 Quaker woman orating at a Friend’s Gathering – G.Schouten
6 The Public Universal Friend – John Mathies, 1816
7 Public Universal Friend sticker - unknown
8 The Public Universal Friend's House - unknown
Sources:
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).
#TheseOldQueers #TheseOldQueersPodcast #queerhistory #queerhistorypodcast #queerhistorycomedypodcast #DIYpodcast
"It's a clean sweep." - PAUL MOYER, Public Universal Friend, Throughline #Throughline #PublicUniversalFriend #PaulMoyer
"It's the way the Friend presents himself, the way the Friend dresses." - MOYER, Public Universal Friend, Throughline #Throughline #PublicUniversalFriend #Moyer
#ShortSermon : #PersonalSaints
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The #PUF (1752-1819) was a #nonbinary #androgynous #AFAB #American #Itinerant #Preacher who taught a message of #UniversalSalvation and founded the #UniversalSocietyOfFriends
WIKI:
After suffering a severe illness in #1776 , the Friend claimed to have died and been reanimated as a #genderless #evangelist named the #PublicUniversalFriend and afterward shunned both birth name and gendered pronouns.
#NPR story, with transcript:
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/04/812092399/public-universal-friend
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