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Moira and Adrian tackle the longstanding conservative fixation on the city of San Francisco, its people and its mores. From demographic anxieties, via Joan Didion's hippie-hate, to disaster movies, doom loops, and progressive prosecutors -- the history of SF-hate is a history of US politics.
Books and media cited in this episode:
Joseph Plaster, Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin (2023)
Susan Stryker, Victor Silverman (dirs.), Screaming Queens (2005)
Thom Andersen, Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)
David Talbot, Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love (2013)
Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968)
Eve Babitz, Eve's Hollywood (1974)
Mike Davis, City of Quartz (1990)
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Moira and Adrian tackle the longstanding conservative fixation on the city of San Francisco, its people and its mores. From demographic anxieties, via Joan Didion's hippie-hate, to disaster movies, doom loops, and progressive prosecutors -- the history of SF-hate is a history of US politics.
Books and media cited in this episode:
Joseph Plaster, Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin (2023)
Susan Stryker, Victor Silverman (dirs.), Screaming Queens (2005)
Thom Andersen, Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)
David Talbot, Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love (2013)
Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968)
Eve Babitz, Eve's Hollywood (1974)
Mike Davis, City of Quartz (1990)

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