Prostitution Archives

At town hall, senators says that Yimbys 'are the best thing that's happened' and said he supports a massive Potrero Hill project that avoids Planning Commission approval.

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Two deeply different narratives of sex work in ‘Working Girls’ and ‘Medusa’

Dennis Harvey - July 8, 2021

Plus: Saudi Arabian feminist mythology soars in 'Scales' and 'Dachra's creepy atmospherics.

Movies

Screen Grabs: ‘Zola’ takes a wild ride from tweets to theaters

Dennis Harvey - June 28, 2021

Plus: New docs 'A Crime in the Bayou,' 'Truman and Tennesee,' and 'Lydia Lunch: The War is Never Over'

Police

Mayor Breed’s budget doesn’t even remotely defund the police

Tim Redmond - June 18, 2021

Proposal heard in budget committee calls for major increases to SFPD -- even when the city is investing in alternatives to armed law enforcement.

News + Politics

Judge rejects plan to ban people with drug arrests from the Tenderloin

Tim Redmond - May 18, 2021

Why are we still fighting the failed War on Drugs in 2021?

Culture

The lady was a champ: Remembering Margo St. James, patron saint of sex work

Caitlin Donohue - January 22, 2021

Groundbreaking SF icon, who passed this month at 83, left an indelible mark on the fight for sex workers' rights

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Fact Check: The attacks on Jackie Fielder in D9

Playwright Ashley Smiley takes on neighborhood diplacement and Tesla-stamped MDMA

Screen Grabs: Doc Stories fest sheds light in these fact-challenged times

Screen Grabs: The ballad of Fatty Arbuckle

Wiener supports giant project pushed through with no neighborhood input