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News + Politics

Sex workers organize national anti-SESTA/FOSTA protests Saturday

Caitlin Donohue - May 31, 2018

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...

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Chilean feminists take over 14 university campuses in response to accusations of sexual assault

Caitlin Donohue - May 18, 2018

LETTER FROM CHILE Our friends were late to meet us at an art opening on May 11th in Santiago, Chile. They had a good...

Party Radar

Party Radar: Sapphic pleasures, Lynchian delights, an indie Hotline …

Marke B. - March 27, 2018

PARTY RADAR This weekend is stacked like an inflatable drag queen, do they have those yet? I hope not! So let's just dive into...

News + Politics

Sharen Hewitt, force of nature and grandmother to hundreds of activists, is dead

Tim Redmond - February 22, 2018

Sharen Hewitt, who for generations define fiery, loving activism in San Francisco, has died. Hewitt, who described herself as a “grandmother for social change,” ran...

Arts + Culture

‘The Third Muslim’ highlights queer faith, art, resilience

Marke B. - January 23, 2018

"The diversity of queer and trans* Muslim experiences cannot be limited," says Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, co-curator, with Yas Ahmed, of provocative and necessary new SomARTS show "The...

Lit

Sunday’s Howard Zinn Book Fair envisions “The World We Want”

Marke B. - November 15, 2017

LIT The world is flaming on Twitter, your friends are frothing on Facebook, and, well, let's just say online political discourse in this precarious global...

News + Politics

Unlikely coalition demands better cannabis law

Dan Raile - November 8, 2017

A press event on the steps of City Hall brought together an unlikely coalition of San Francisco politicians to speak out against recent developments...

News + Politics

SFist network shut down by anti-union billionaire owner

Marke B. - November 2, 2017

Visitors to local news aggregator and commentary site SFist were stunned today to find all of its content and archives replaced by a simply...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A French feast of film noir

Dennis Harvey - October 31, 2017

SCREEN GRABS Entertainment-industry legends seem to be dropping like flies these days, underlining the fact that luminaries of the 1960s and '70s are well...

The Agenda

The Agenda: Tasers, cannabis, and homeless deaths…

Tim Redmond - October 29, 2017

The Zarate trial, and the history of the weapon that fired the fatal bullet that killed Kate Steinle, got me thinking about who gets...

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