Colson Kishimoto (He/They)

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Colson Kishimoto (he/they) is a writer at OutWrite. He's a second year History major and takes an interest in studying politics and religion and how they relate to the queer community. If you need them, you can probably find them playing ukulele, running (slowly), or ranting to some poor soul about Star Wars.

an illustration of the Public Universal Friend from the 18th century in a yellow monochrome color pallette

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The 250-Year-Old “Fad”: The Public Universal Friend and Gender Nonconformity Then and Now

1776 was a chaotic year: so hectic that barely anyone noticed that a young woman named Jemima Wilkinson lay dying. The person who awoke the next morning bore a different name and a different purpose: The Public Universal Friend was born.