Dec 26, 2025
Jemma DeCristo RETURNS! Her new book The Aesthetic Character of Blackness is out, and covers how revolutionary Black art is co-opted by capitalists and the state, and art's limits as a revolutionary tool (and it's widespread use as a counterinsurgent one).
The Aesthetic Character of Blackness: Sounds Like Us (Duke...
Dec 15, 2025
Janetta Johnson and zen blossom speak from the home base of Transgender, Gender Variant and Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP) in SF. They speak on Miss Major (who led TGIJP for years); the year Janetta turned down the SF Pride grand marshal title; and the status of the Bay Area's reputation for being a haven for...
Dec 1, 2025
Public universities are under constant threat of budget cuts, but somehow administrators find millions to toss at extractive tech, like ChatGPT Edu.
SF State professor Martha Kenney describes how administrators at the CSUs spent $17 million on a contract with OpenAI without asking students or professors if it was a...
Nov 19, 2025
San Francisco tried to atone for the
war on drugs with a DEI program for recreational weed store owners.
In the end, the real winners were rich white dudes like London
Breed's old roommate, Conor Johnston.
Chris Roberts—America's top cannabis journalist and historian
reporting from America's number-one cannabis...
Nov 10, 2025
dee(dee) c. ardan is live in the studio apartment for the first episode about trans/queer media from the Bay's past, showing that indeed, this place has been trans as hell for a long, long time.
Starting with issue one of the 1970s zine GAY SUNSHINE, we deduce how the Bay gained a reputation for being the place you come...