Sad Francisco

What politicians say in public usually doesn't line up with what they text friends from their work phones. Hazel (Twitter: @dizz_h) pores over public records that give insight into what politicians really think.

Also see: Stolen Belonging: stolenbelonging.org | For more Sad Francisco: patreon.com/sadfrancisco

A book club episode with Shuli Branson, co-editor of the new anthology "Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies," and author of "Practical Anarchism."

Shuli: sjbranson.com | Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies: pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1296 | Practical Anarchism: plutobooks.com/9780745344928/practical-anarchism | Remembering Jen Angel, 1975-2023 (The Agency): anarchistagency.com/commentary/remembering-jen-angel-1975-2023 | SF Food Not Bombs: sffnb.org | "Times Square Red, Times Square Blue" by Samuel Delany: massivebookshop.com/products/9781479827770 | More Sad Francisco: patreon.com/sadfrancisco

Kazani Finao remembers Banko Brown, and speaks on fighting the forces that caused Banko's death.

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People's Mission Coalition Statement: https://eltecolote.org/content/en/guest-commentary-we-must-fight-poverty-not-the-poor/ | People's Mission Coalition: thepeoplesmissioncoalition.com | The Killing of Banko Brown and SF's Crisis (The Nation): https://www.thenation.com/article/society/banko-brown-killing-san-francisco-crisis/

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Andrew Szeto makes food and zines. Their most recent zine is "Heartbeat of Struggle," part of Kearny Street Workshop's "Dreaming People's History" (www.kearnystreet.org/dreaming-peoples-history).

Anti-Eviction Mapping Project: antievictionmap.com | Andrew at Truthout: truthout.org/authors/andrew-szeto | "Fall of the I-Hotel" by Curtis Choy: youtube.com/watch?v=lzrWwvI8JpI | "San Francisco's International Hotel" by Estella Habal: tupress.temple.edu/books/san-francisco-s-international-hotel-2 | "The Prison Industrial Complex and the Global Economy" by Linda Evans and Eve Goldberg: www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC510_scans/Prison_Labor/510.prison.complex.global.economy.1998.pdf

'Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary' is out this week, wherever you get books. patreon.com/toshiom has upcoming book events.

Nice things people have said about the book:

I'm so thrilled everyone gets to see what I see every day in Miss Major Speaks. Miss Major has shaped the world in countless ways from Stonewall to today, by being her unruly, fabulous self, leading communities, making time, and caring for and keeping her girls going. Lucky us to live in a moment where she is radiantly shining her light unto us all through this book! – Tourmaline

The extraordinary insights in this book, always punctuated by Miss Major's razor-sharp wit, allow us to understand how liberation movements for trans, queer and other routinely marginalized people can hold the most emancipatory potential for all. – Angela Davis

Miss Major Speaks is the rarests of gifts, like sitting at the feet of a wise, no-fucks-given elder, listening to her testimony, and being fortified by her brilliance. This book is a monument to the life's work of Miss Major and the liberation movements she's shaped. It reminds us that we are all we got and that is plenty. – Janet Mock

A Gay Shame (gayshame.net) podcast.

Gentrifying neighbors, politician Hilary Ronen, the SFPD, and the media conspired to shut down parts of Capp Street in the Mission using concrete barricades. While they continue to sink millions into a fire hazard that makes sex workers less safe, Gay Shame talked to Celestina Pearl (St. James Infirmary | stjamesinfirmary.org), Dilara Yarbrough (scholars.org/scholar/dilara-yarbrough), Cesar Espinoza Perez (instagram.com/juliuscaesarsf/), and Ivy Anderson (co-editor of 'Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute' | voicesfromtheunderworld.com) on the history of sex work in the Bay; why decriminalization is better than legalization; and how to help sex workers under attack by the City. | Mission DeFence: instagram.com/missiondefence_sf | Rad Mission Neighbors: radmissionneighbors.org | People's Mission Coalition: thepeoplesmissioncoalition.com | patreon.com/sadfrancisco

Historian Susan Schweik, on the Ugly Laws - a San Francisco policy invention that criminalized people for appearing poor, disabled, and/or fat in public. Show Notes: 'The Ugly Laws' by Susan Schweik: https://bookshop.org/a/82838/9780814783610 | Stacey Milbern's 'Notes on Access Washing' via the Disability Justice Network of Ontario: https://www.djno.ca/post/notes-on-access-washing | 'Crip Camp' (dir. Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht): https://cripcamp.com/ | Previous Sad Francisco episode 'New 'Mental Health Jails': We #FreedBritney. Who's Next?': https://sadfrancis.co/new-mental-health-jails-we-freedbritney-whos-next/ | Support the show at patreon.com/sadfrancisco.

Jemma DeCristo (@jemmaisOKeh) returns to explain the ways that the Transgender Cultural District is a container for gentrification and police. Support the show at patreon.com/sadfrancisco. Show Notes: "San Francisco May Soon Have the World's First Transgender Cultural District" by Toshio Meronek, for Vice: https://www.vice.com/en/article/xyvapd/san-francisco-may-soon-have-the-worlds-first-transgender-cultural-district | Christina Hanhardt's "Safe Space": https://bookshop.org/a/82838/9780822354703 | "Improvements for Whom? Business Improvement Districts and Their Impact on Communities" report by Spencer Bowen, Emily Estus, Vanessa Quintana, and Maiya Zwerling with Paul Boden at WRAP (wraphome.org): https://www.law.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Goldman-School-BIDS-Report-May-2019.pdf | Tamar Jacoby, "McGeorge Bundy: How the Establishment's Man Tackled America's Problem with Race": https://web.archive.org/web/20221129211941/http://aliciapatterson.org/stories/mcgeorge-bundy-how-establishments-man-tackled-americas-problem-race | Mandi Issacs Jackson, Model City Blues: Urban Space and Organized Resistance in New Haven

New-in-town techies fundraise for the installation of boulders to stop homeless people from using public sidewalks. What could go wrong? With Christen Cioffi (http://www.chzaz.com/).

Show notes: "The Boulders of Clinton Park: Sisyphus Retold" by Quiver Watts in Street Sheet: http://www.streetsheet.org/the-boulders-of-clinton-park-sisyphus-retold/?fbclid=IwAR0aEem9j9godxuOS-mN9WrcMVM9pSa8j2URjimtS6i8-Dy-XiknmDPG0oM

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