Sad Francisco

Until Land Back, there's land trusts. Kyle Smeallie from the San Francisco Community Land Trust on removing land from the speculative market and the clutches of real estate industrialists. San Francisco Community Land Trust https://sfclt.org/ Proud Stutter (Maya's podcast) https://www.proudstutter.org/ Episode: Abolish Rent with Leonardo Vilchis and Tracy Rosenthal https://www.patreon.com/posts/abolish-rent-and-119757781

May Day 2026, QUEER & TRANS NON/WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE for a tour of some historically significant sites in the Mission, detailed on this episode. All hookers, loiterers, shoplifters, street sellers, truants, 1099 queens, gig workers, students, time theft recidivists, hustlers, welfare fags, & SSDI dykes are encourage to attend. May 1 at 7pm, 16th BART Plaza in San Francisco Gay Shame https://gayshame.net/

Map of Technofascist Terror in the Mission

Gay Shame on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/gay.shame/

Gay Shame: The Podcast: Anti-Sex Worker Barricades at Capp Street https://gayshame.net/index.php/gay-shame-podcast-episode-9-anti-sex-worker-barricades-at-capp-street-update-and-whats-to-be-done/ Valleywag: Dropbox Dudes Tried to Kick Children Off a Soccer Field https://web.archive.org/web/20200220131518/https://valleywag.gawker.com/dropbox-douchebags-tried-to-kick-children-off-a-soccer-1644947724 Mission Local: SF teacher says she was tricked into 'I Am Not a Monster' BART campaign https://missionlocal.org/2018/01/sf-teacher-says-she-was-tricked-into-i-am-not-a-monster-bart-campaign/ By Hook or By Crook trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayvl07NwTIM Episodes: The Redstone Labor Temple f/ Rick Gerharter and Tiny Gray-Garcia https://www.patreon.com/posts/redstone-labor-f-97275952

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Prince Shakur is an anarchist political educator with a book dealing with how he was politicized (When They Tell You To Be Good), a big library of video essays on YouTube, and a Black anarchist podcasts he co-hosts called The Dugout. Prince's site https://www.princeshakur.com/ The Dugout's site https://www.thedugoutpodcast.com/ On YouTube: How To Be A (Better) Organizer in 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWpoN0H2YY More episodes on anarchism https://www.patreon.com/collection/2086623

Michael Scarce worked at a now-defunct nonprofit called the Stop AIDS Project till in 2007, he blew the whistle when it began suggesting that to end AIDS, we need to "prevent sexual mixing." Michael's Substack: 'A Parable of Second-Hand Sodomy: Lessons Learned From San Francisco's Failed Attempt at Viral Apartheid in the Name of HIV Prevention' https://gettingbeyondzero.substack.com/p/a-parable-of-second-hand-sodomy-lessons Center for HIV Law and Policy's project against HIV surveillance https://www.hivlawandpolicy.org/basic

In March, viral depositions of a couple of 20-something white twinks named Justin Fox and Nathan Cavanaugh (referred to on social media as "DOGE bros") made explicit how careless and nihilistic the federal government was in cutting humanities funding last year, as part of Elon Musk's short-lived Department of Government Efficiency. Jane Ward is a Feminist Studies professor at UC Santa Barbara who wrote about recent closures of gender and women's studies departments at US colleges on her Substack, the Sapphic Cut. Co-hosting! Trung P. Nguyen, friend/recent guest who teaches Ethnic Studies at San Jose State. Jane's Substack: "This is How They Kill Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies" https://substack.com/@thesapphiccut/p-188282946 Trung's site https://tpqn.org/ Joseph Cox, 404 Media: "Judge Allows DOGE Deposition Videos Back Online" https://www.404media.co/judge-allows-doge-deposition-videos-back-online/ The Independent: DOGE deposition clips https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpbGF7l-t2w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXXvgZzK0Cc

Raquel Willis' resume is long: the first trans lead editor at Out magazine, a TIME 100 awardee, memoirist (The Risk It Takes To Bloom), and co-founder of the group Gender Liberation, whose direct actions at the US capitol calling for basic needs like trans healthcare reverberate far outside the DMV. We discuss the limitations of mainstream visibility in saving trans lives, and her podcast series AFTERLIVES, whose first two seasons cover the lives and passings of Layleen Polanco and Marsha P. Johnson. Raquel's site https://www.raquelwillis.com/ AFTERLIVES podcast https://www.afterlivespod.com/ Episode: Tourmaline on Marsha P. Johnson https://www.patreon.com/posts/129316368

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The return of Susan Stryker! On this episode: The utopian potential of Trans SanFrisco of the 1990s, and why the new third edition of Transgender History may be her last time editing the classic tome. Transgender History https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/susan-stryker/transgender-history-third-edition/9781541605886/ When Monsters Speak https://www.dukeupress.edu/when-monsters-speak Susan's upcoming book: Changing Gender https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250453921/changinggender/ Episode: Susan on the Compton's Cafeteria riot https://www.patreon.com/posts/jail-at-comptons-79134233

Friends Stab and Trung both texted me when about a recent, very Sad Francisco-coded feature in Wired magazine. Here's a little response, inspired partially by an impromptu reading group a few friends did around the piece.

Mentioned:

Alexandr Wang

Barry's Bootcamp

Gawker.com

Melania's box office

Peter Thiel

Sam Altman

Tim Cook

TW for brief mention of Sam Altman sexually assaulting his sister, and the US war assault on Iran including the AI-assisted murder of kids there.

Zoë Bernard, Wired: Inside the Gay Tech Mafia

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-gay-tech-mafia/

Ryan Grim, The Intercept: The Death of Peter Thiel's "Kept" Romantic Partner is Being Investigated as a Suicide

https://theintercept.com/2023/03/23/peter-thiel-jeff-thomas/

Owen Thomas, Valleywag: Peter Thiel is totally gay, people

Blog post that Peter Thiel didn't really love

https://www.gawkerarchives.com/335894/peter-thiel-is-totally-gay-people

Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press: documentary on Netflix following Peter Thiel's successful quest to bankrupt Gawker.com by funding a lawsuit related to a Hulk Hogan sex tape

https://www.netflix.com/title/80168227

Episode: Aesthetics of the New Rightwing Tech Intelligentsia with Jimmy Wu

https://www.patreon.com/posts/aesthetics-of-wu-148707467

First episode covering movies set in the Bay! With dee(dee) and Jemma.

Starting with: 1971's DIRTY HARRY, in which Clint Eastwood plays a vigilante cop tracking down a gay Zodiac killer clone in a San Francisco overrun with hippie scum.

Jemma on her book "The Aesthetic Character of Blackness: Sounds Like Us"

https://www.patreon.com/posts/146458351

dee(dee) on the 1970s queer zine "Gay Sunshine"

https://www.patreon.com/posts/142696453

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Uncover the lore of four masked comrades who meet up regularly to offer aid to unhoused neighbors and teach self-defense.

We talk about the discourse around wearing frog costumes to ICE protests and giving public comment at San Jose City Hall dressed as Batman (that's the clip at the beginning of the episode).

BASH Linktree https://linktr.ee/bayareasuperheroes

BASH IG https://www.instagram.com/bayareasuperheroes

Kai Kai's Linktree https://linktr.ee/kaikaibee

Absolute Batman https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S93C7252448

Episode with Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry https://youtu.be/d3SmXWz1L38

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