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...