# Jemima Wilkinson

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Episode 328 - The Revolutionary Life of PUF

If being different is hard in the 21st Century, imagine what it was like in Revolutionary War era America. So when Jemima Wilkinson recovered from a severe illness and remade herself as a genderless magical creature named PUF you have to figure things got complicated.

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. Sources: Cleveland, Stafford. History and directory of Yates County [...] and a narrative of the Public Universal Friend, her society ‮…

FtV – The Second Coming of Jemima Wilkinson

Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 108 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger head to Ledyard, Connecticut, to investigate the death and alleged resurrection of Jemima Wilkinson. Going by the name Publick Universal Friend, this pronounless religious leader started a movement in the‮…

Public Universal Friend: Jemima Wilkinson And The Revolutionary Spirit

This week Johnboy chronicles the saga of the Public Universal Friend, born a woman of the Quaker faith, the tumultuous times of the American Revolution would have them found the first religious order in the burgeoning country as a non-binary being sent from heaven!

Ep245 - Cult Of The Publick Universal Friend

It began with a death and ended in revelation—a person walks out of their own funeral and declares themselves a prophet of the Lord, aflame with divine fury. Jemima Wilkinson, now the Publick Universal Friend, rode out into the American wilds with apocalyptic thunder in their throat and a posse of‮…

Episode 8: Resurrection, Rebellion and Robes

In this glass-clinking episode of Buzzed and Baffled, the wine flows as one of our hosts dives into the baffling true story of the Quaker Universal Friend—once known as Jemima Wilkinson. Our other host is totally blind to what’s coming and reacts in real time as the tale spirals from colonial rev‮…

Nina Sankovitch with Jennifer Finney Boylan: Not Your Founding Father

In this episode of Library Talks, historian Nina Sankovitch discusses her new book Not Your Founding Father: How a Nonbinary Minister Became America's Most Radical Revolutionary. In 1776 a 23-year-old woman named Jemima Wilkinson suffered a severe illness, declared her past self dead, and t‮…

Bones In The Wall & a 1776 Resurrection

What would you do if a human skull fell out of your wall? During a routine renovation in 1978, homeowners in Batavia, Illinois, uncovered something no one expected to find behind plaster and beams: a human skull. What followed was decades of unanswered questions. Who was she? How did she get ther‮…