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S1 Home Sweet Surveillance State with Ian Firstenberg
Ian covers local oligarchs and the surveillance state for 48Hills and The Phoenix Project. We talk about FLOCK adding microphones to their camera network, state repression after the anti-cop protests…
S1 The ADL is An Actual Psyop with Emmaia Gelman and Mama Ganuush
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) started as a civil rights organization for Jewish people in the US. It's now a pro-Israel group that spies on Leftist organizations and defends Elon Musk when he does…
S1 Sweaty DesperAzn with Chris Lee and Jasmine Lee-Ehrhardt
Two Wasian Americans and one classic, everyday Asian American, all millennials, try to make sense of East Asian American discourses in the zeitgeist of the past six months. Recorded shortly before…
S1 Sad Framecisco #2: Electric Dreams
dee(dee) and Jemma return to dissect another vintage film set in the Bay. Did Hollywood predict Sam Altman would meet his husband in Peter Thiel's hot tub? Seeking an answer in "Electric Dreams"…
S1 3 Things Landlords Loathe: Land Trusts, Rent Strikes, and Taxes with Kyle Smeallie
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…
S1 Have a Happy Anti-Technofascist May Day Workers' Tour of the Mission with Gay Shame
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…
S1 Black Anarchism vs. State Terror and Billy Porter with Prince Shakur (The Dugout)
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…
S1 AIDS Nonprofit to Gays: Stop "Sexual Mixing" with Michael Scarce
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."…
S1 Who's Afraid of Gender Studies? with Jane Ward and Trung Nguyen
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…
Being Seen: It's Complicated with Raquel Willis
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…
S1 Trans SanFrisco with Susan Stryker
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…
S1 Re: the recent Wired magazine piece "Inside the Gay Tech Mafia"
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…
S1 Sad Framecisco #1: Dirty Harry
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…
S1 Batman of San Jose, Black Phoenix, Crimson Fist, and Queen Bee (Bay Area Super Heroes)
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…
S1 'The faggots and their friends between revolutions' with Morgan Bassichis
Morgan Bassichis brought the 1977 queer cult fairy tale "The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions" back to print and stage a few years ago. Its messages about how to live under patriarchy…
S1 JAHA Film Fest and the Zionist War on Culture with Mama Ganuush
Mama Ganuush is back home in San Francisco after hosting the first JAHA Film Festival in December in Lisbon. The festival features all trans-focused films from the Global South, and begins screening…
S1 Refugee Landlords with Trung Nguyen
Trung Nguyen teaches Asian American and ethnic studies at San Jose State. His presentation at the last American Studies Association conference covered how the interests of US empire, Airbnb.org, and…
S1 Aesthetics of the New Rightwing Tech Intelligentsia with Jimmy Wu
"Meet the New Right-Wing Tech Intelligentsia" is Jimmy Wu's recent piece for Bay Area Current, a new publication covering labor, culture and politics based in East Bay. In it, Jimmy beautifully…
S1 Rise and Fall of SFs Doom Loop with Jeremy Mack
In 2022, rightwing influencers began using the term "doom loop" to paint San Francisco as a crime- and fentanyl-ridden hellhole that whose downfall was due to too much woke progressivism. It didn't…
S1 Fascist Japan's Unit 731 with Jenny Chan
Jenny Chan founded Pacific Atrocities Education in San Francisco after learning about some of Japan's terror campaigns across Asia through World War II. It's history that Japanese conservatives are…
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