Emily Wilson

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Emily Wilson lives in San Francisco. She has written for different outlets, including Smithsonian.com, The Daily Beast, Hyperallergic, Women’s Media Center, The Observer, Alta Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, California Magazine, UC Santa Cruz Magazine, and SF Weekly. For many years, she taught adults getting their high school diplomas at City College of San Francisco. She hosts the short biweekly podcast Art Is Awesome.

Movies

Raising the wage for tipped workers

September 8, 2020

'Waging Change' by Berkeley filmmaker Abby Ginzberg tracks the fight for better service industry pay, from 9/11 to #MeToo.

Culture

Preserving stories of California life during COVID—and you can share yours

August 14, 2020

Erin Garcia, director of exhibitions at the California Historical Society, and her colleagues were looking for ways to engage their audience digitally. What they...

Art

With colorful street art, 100 Days of Action represents essential workers

August 11, 2020

When artist Christo Oropeza was asked to create a painting for a storefront as part of Art for Essential Workers (a program by local artist collective 100...

Arts + Culture

A bright story behind the city’s new mural wave

July 30, 2020

Artist Vida Kuang grew up in San Francisco’s Chinatown. The anti-Asian racism that ramped up at the beginning of the year followed by the...

Onstage

In ‘The Niceties,’ deep-rooted academic bias vividly on display

July 14, 2020

In The Niceties, playing online from Shotgun Theater, a Black student, Zoe (Regina Monique) at an unnamed elite Northeast university (clearly Yale given it’s...

Art

A display of belonging and hope in Chinatown (and on Instagram)

July 6, 2020

For the last few years, the Chinese Culture Center (CCC), has been working to democratize how art is experienced, says curator Hoi Leung. The...

Lit

A laser, a dog, and grape gum lead to feminist superpower in ‘Equality Girls’

June 30, 2020

Aya de León, author and lecturer in the African American Studies department at UC Berkeley, reads a lot of books to her 10-year-old daughter....

Lit

In Phuc Tran’s memoir: grammar, tattoos, and the refugee experience

June 24, 2020

When Phuc Tran, who will be in conversation with author Viet Thanh Nguyen this Fri/26 evening, was asked to do a TEDx talk a...

Onstage

Reviving Pride’s protest origins, with ‘The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot’

June 16, 2020

Last year, the Tenderloin Museum hosted 22 sold-out performances of The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot. One of the writers, Donna Personna, saw about half of...

Culture

How teachers leapt inequity hurdles when COVID shut schools

June 4, 2020

Reynaldo Dulaney, who teaches Ethnic Studies, Leadership, and Advanced Placement US History at Thurgood Marshall Academic High School, says the quick switch from teaching...

Emily Wilson

Raising the wage for tipped workers

Preserving stories of California life during COVID—and you can share yours

With colorful street art, 100 Days of Action represents essential workers

A bright story behind the city’s new mural wave

In ‘The Niceties,’ deep-rooted academic bias vividly on display

A display of belonging and hope in Chinatown (and on Instagram)

A laser, a dog, and grape gum lead to feminist superpower in ‘Equality Girls’

In Phuc Tran’s memoir: grammar, tattoos, and the refugee experience

Reviving Pride’s protest origins, with ‘The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot’

How teachers leapt inequity hurdles when COVID shut schools

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