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Feb 11, 2026

Mama Ganuush is back home in San Francisco after hosting the first JAHA Film Festival in December in Lisbon. The festival features all trans-focused films from the Global South, and begins screening online starting this Friday, Feb. 14.

JAHA Film Festival

https://www.jahafilmfestival.com/

Trans Liberation Film School


Feb 6, 2026

Trung Nguyen teaches Asian American and ethnic studies at San Jose State. His presentation at the last American Studies Association conference covered how the interests of US empire, Airbnb.org, and refugee landlords market property ownership as a humanitarian act.

Trung's site
https://tpqn.org/

Iyko Day: The Yellow...


Jan 22, 2026

"Meet the New Right-Wing Tech Intelligentsia" is Jimmy Wu's recent piece for Bay Area Current, a new publication covering labor, culture and politics based in East Bay. In it, Jimmy beautifully describes some of the aesthetics and icons preoccupying the tech elites and their media mouthpieces right now. 

"Meet the New...


Jan 14, 2026

In 2022, rightwing influencers began using the term "doom loop" to paint San Francisco as a crime- and fentanyl-ridden hellhole that whose downfall was due to too much woke progressivism.

It didn't matter that the doom loop narrative wasn't based in reality: the media took it and ran with it. The narrative has...


Jan 5, 2026

Jenny Chan founded Pacific Atrocities Education in San Francisco after learning about some of Japan's terror campaigns across Asia through World War II. It's history that Japanese conservatives are trying to suppress.

The Japanese Imperial Army's Unit 731 was the chemical and biological warfare facility that conducted...