Crosscurrents

Jenny Qi is a Chinese-American poet living in San Francisco. She reads from her poem 'Postcards from the Living.'

Today, we hear about one of the few places where you can spend time with your loved ones in prison.

We hear how a skateboarding collective is fighting to save their home. Then, we meet the folks encouraging people to use skateboards as transportation, and a Bay Area skating legend. 

Just two years after the Sunset Dunes park was established, it’s at risk of closure again.

We meet the folks encouraging people to use skateboards as transportation.

Skating legend Tommy Guerrero on the rhythm of the board and the bass

Raj Krishna and Jason Sharma founded Masala Mahal, one of the only Desi drag collectives in the country. KALW’s Srishti Prabha follows them from rehearsal to the stage at a South Asian Pride party in San Francisco, as they reclaim Bollywood and their cultural roots in a space where neither South Asian nor mainstream drag culture fully embraces them. 

In Sausalito there’s a ballot measure that has everyone there talking. Then, a Bay Area drag duo is rewriting the ending to one of Bollywood's most iconic love triangles.

A ballot measure in Sausalito would change zoning rules, with the biggest impact to the Marinship, the town’s historic WWII shipyard.

We take a closer look at a November ballot measure making headlines. Then, a new book aims to help Black communities navigate psychiatric care.