Sad Francisco

Susan Stryker is an historian who uncovered one of the first modern rebellions against police violence by trans/queer people. In 1967, the Tenderloin's Compton's Cafeteria was a site of resistance against state violence, but today its space arm of the prison industrial complex owned by one of the largest private prison corporations in the world, Geo Group.

- At the Crossroads of Turk and Taylor: Resisting Carceral Power in San Francisco's Tenderloin, by Susan Stryker for Places Journal: https://placesjournal.org/article/transgender-resistance-and-prison-abolitionism-san-francisco-tenderloin

- Screaming Queens (Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-WASW9dRBU

- Forever's Gonna Start Tonight (Vicki Marlane film by Michelle Lawler, produced by Kim Klausner and Susan Stryker): https://vimeo.com/80952090

- Cyrus J. O'Brien's "'A Prison in Your Community': Halfway Houses and the Melding of Treatment and Control" in the Journal of American History

Japanese politicians want to erase the history of the 200,000 women who were forced by the Japanese military into sexual slavery. Statues around the world remember the "comfort women" from places including China, Korea, the Phillipines, and Japan itself, but it's been a battle.

Kota from Against Japanism joins us in the treaty capitol of the world.

Part 1 is here, with guest Judith Mirkinson from the Comfort Women Justice Coalition.

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Against Japanism podcast

Against Japanism interview with May Shigenobu (journalist, daughter of Fusako Shigenobu, Palestinian freedom fighter recently released after spending 20 years in prison for solidarity actions)

Against Japanism, "Nikkei Organizing w/ Miya Sommers, J-Town Action & Solidarity, and Nikkei Uprising"

Comfort Women Justice Coalition

Call Her Ganda, documentary about Jennifer Laude by PJ Raval

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Eight years after a fatal fire in the Mission District, there's still a blank space where dozens of people, a Latinx market, and a Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen once existed. We follow up on what many people at the time suggested was "the perfect crime." On assignment in the Silicon Desert, Christen Cioffi (Twitter: @jfchrist_) declares landlords unfit for human habitation decisions. - Support the show, get bonus episodes: patreon.com/sadfrancisco - Shownotes:

Hot Rental Market Sparks Suspicions of Landlord Arson in San Francisco in Al Jazeera, reporting by Prisca Carpenter, Kentaro Kaneko, Toshio Meronek, and Clio Sady

San Francisco is Burning in GQ by Jon Ronson

Decade of Fire

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What exactly is a "techbro"? Meet five Silicon Valley megalomaniacs who helped hone the genre, and whose actions made them briefly famous beyond the Bay. Which ones failed up? Who was (possibly) canceled?

Jemma DeCristo (Twitter: @jemmaisOKeh) helps shine a light on anti-tech hate crime survivors from behind the liberal front.

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The archives of Valleywag (RIP)

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The legacy of America's former "hottest Korean American politician" Jane Kim, the wannabe mayor who gave away millions to tech CEOs who promised jobs and "community reinvestment" in central San Francisco. And you'll never believe what happened next.

Guest host Jemma DeCristo (Twitter: @jemmaisOKeh) practices her New York accent from behind the liberal front.

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Twitter, Other Tech Companies Get S.F. Tax Breaks but Show Little Progress Hiring in Neighborhood, Yoona Ha in SF Public Press.

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Culturally critical visitor Christen Cioffi (Instagram | Twitter) states facts from a backyard somewhere behind the liberal front.

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Show notes

The Techies Hawking Free Market "Solutions" to the Nation's Housing Crisis, Toshio Meronek in In These Times

YIMBYs: the Alt-Right Darlings of the Real Estate Industry, Toshio and Andrew Szeto in Truthout

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To some, it was a memoir, a miniseries, and a movement: #GIRLBOSS founder Sophia Amuroso is the self-proclaimed ex-socialist and dumpster-diver who departed her own failing fast-fashion startup with expert timing. Through her company Nasty Gal (like Uber, but for clothes), "serial entrepreneur" Amuroso was briefly taken seriously in sexist Silicon Valley circles, because for some, to fail is to succeed. Krystal Farmer, co-host of Two Cents Plus Tax with Sad Francisco producers Caitlin and Toshio, joins this week's look behind the liberal front of the hometown of #Girlboss™, Inc. | Support the show and get bonus episodes: patreon.com/sadfrancisco | Sophia Amoruso's Memoir #GIRLBOSS (with Gaby Dunn) - Celebrity Book Club with Chelsea Devantez

For two years, the San Francisco police department was uninvited to Gay Pride. In solidarity, bureaucrats boycotted the 2022 Pride parade.

Jemma DeCristo returns to report from behind the liberal front of a city whose highest-paid employee is a sheriff's deputy.

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Shownotes

• Miss Major's Gay Shame '5-0 Out of Pride' video; SF Pride board meeting interrupted (Gay Shame)
• 'Wild animals': Racist texts sent by San Francisco police officer, documents show (Scott Glover and Dan Simon in CNN)
• The strange and terrible saga of Mohammed Nuru turns the page (Joe Eskenazi and Carolyn Stein in Mission Local)
• This Damning New Report Shows Just How Badly The U.S. Criminal Justice System Fails Trans People (Toshio Meronek in Huffington Post)

Miya Sommers of Nikkei Resisters (Instagram here) visits Sad Francisco, where as always, we report to you from behind the liberal front of America's so-called capitol of innovation.

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Shownotes

• Nikkei Resisters (Bay Area)
• J-TOWN Action と Solidarity (LA)
• "Sale of Buchanan Hotel Is a Sell-Out of Japantown Community" in Rafu Shimpo