Caitlin Donohue
Center of Sex and Culture closes — but Dr. Carol Queen looks to the future
A blow has been dealt to San Francisco, and we are positive that we did not give our consent. SoMa’s very special corner for freaks and sluts, the venerable...
Arts Forecast: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore confronts queer assimilation in ‘Sketchtasy’
A standing ovation to Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, whose novel Sketchtasy, which follows a group of friends navigating Boston nightlife and LGBTQ assimilation, has been called “an instant classic of...
Psychic Eye Records’ new compilation shows darkwave support for TGI Justice Project
For those who would like to wrap themselves up in a Bay Area darkwave shroud to beat the winter chill; Psychic Eye Records just dropped Sacred Spells, a 19-track...
Black Panthers, today: A 1968 photo series exploring the activists’ humanity finds significance in 2019
How is the humanity of activists obscured to discredit their movement? San Francisco Art Institute explores the question in “Vanguard Revisited: Poetic Politics & Black Futures”, (opens Tue/22) a...
Arts Forecast: Black excellence, year round
ARTS FORECAST Of course, you have heard from the trumpeting of various arts institutions that Martin Luther King Jr. Day approaches. In accordance, the City is unusually full of visions...
Tamara Palmer’s California Eating is the SF food zine you need to read
We've been fans of Tamara Palmer for more than a minute. At SF Weekly, the Outer Sunset writer logged over 1,000 articles on the shifting Bay Area food scene,...
Arts Forecast: How Rickshaw Stop made it to 15 years young
ARTS FORECAST This week, Rickshaw Stop takes a moment to celebrate its longevity as a center of San Francisco music culture. Fans of the Civic Center venue may pay...
Seeing Red: SF Mime Troupe is making it a socialist summer
ONSTAGE As someone who grew up watching San Francisco Mime Troupe productions, I can tell you that there is a right and true way to view them. This basic...
Sex workers organize national anti-SESTA/FOSTA protests Saturday
It's been three months since the passage of SESTA/FOSTA, the new law purportedly intended to curb sex-trafficking, which makes website owners liable for any such crimes committed using their...
Chilean feminists take over 14 university campuses in response to accusations of sexual assault
LETTER FROM CHILE Our friends were late to meet us at an art opening on May 11th in Santiago, Chile. They had a good reason; thousands of feminist protesters...