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... of the film as fiction and chronicle considers the history of San Francisco as mediated by anxieties of black diasporic absence that are compelled by a romance conceit. In this instance of film blackness there is a complicated sense of how place impacts blackness in tandem with negotiations of futurity...

.... It describes the book’s archival foundations and introduces several of the historical characters who populate the rest of the work. cross-dressing law transgender studies queer studies critical cultural legal studies San Francisco history ...

... and jazz’s ever-evolving orientation to Black popular music. As a skillful record maker, Adderley became a popular sensation while also foregrounding a form of Black sociality and Black history in his music. A close listen to Quintet in San Francisco reveals how Adderley’s jazz commercialism worked...

... The introduction describes the conceptualization of “Medina by the Bay” as a social geography, infrastructure, and analytic frame, drawing on the significance of Medina as a site of refuge and an emergent new society in Islamic history. In the San Francisco Bay Area and throughout Islamic...

... Chapter 4 draws on oral history and archival evidence to tell the stories of two queer migrants who fled abusive homes for San Francisco’s Polk Street in the 1970s and 1980s. The chapter gives an account of Coy Ellison, a young man who reinvented himself on Polk Street as an “illegal Irish...

... This brief “intervention” presents Vanguard Revisited, an experimental historical reenactment project that introduced the history of Vanguard to homeless youth activists living in San Francisco’s Tenderloin in the early 2010s. These young people drew genealogical connections between themselves...

... This chapter explores the origins of facial feminization surgery in San Francisco in the early 1980s, focusing on the pioneering surgeon Douglas Ousterhout. Analyzing how his treatment philosophy has changed over time, the chapter shows how shifts in ideas about sex and gender...

..., the freedwomen of Puerto Rico, Jewish and Puerto Rican garment workers of New York, the Puerto Rican and Mexican waterfront workers of the San Francisco Bay, and the murdered children of Nazi-occupied Ukraine and Israeli-occupied Palestine. Even more specifically, there are pieces about Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz...

... histories of people and places. Contributions highlight dystopian musings on the rapid gentrification of the San Francisco Bay Area; Detroit organizing models for creating community benefit; economic disinvestment and its affect on food access; disability justice and belonging; the relationship between...

... learning about the era of the hippies and the associated (and increasingly romanticized) ideals of the San Francisco countercultural movement of the 1960s. Even as the band’s recent studio records and concerts introduced newer fans to the history of the Dead and the band’s legacy of liveness, an enormous...

... In the late 1980s, San Francisco became the epicenter of a rift between the baby boomers of the gay liberation era and what would soon be called generation X. The younger generation came of age after the AIDS crisis had radically altered gay sex, socializing, and politics. New zeitgeist parties...

... Chapter 3 turns to original oral histories and archival research to show how street youth in 1966 responded to social trauma in San Francisco’s Tenderloin by forming the direct-action organization Vanguard. In contrast to current historical accounts, which assess the organization through...

... human-computer interaction This chapter focuses on grassroots urban redevelopment by residents of San Francisco’s Hunters Point neighborhood in the 1960s and 1970s, and their efforts to build permanent housing and community infrastructure for Black residents. It shows how Hunters Point housing...

... In the late 1980s, San Francisco became the epicenter of a rift between the baby boomers of the gay liberation era and what would soon be called generation X. The younger generation came of age after the AIDS crisis had radically altered gay sex, socializing, and politics. New zeitgeist parties...

... Chapter 1 documents feminist bookstore beginnings as movement sites in major and dispersed cities: Oakland, New York, Toronto, Cambridge (Massachusetts), Austin, and San Francisco. Bookwomen founded bookstores with a vision that lesbian and feminist books together in one place could change...

... A second intervention reflects on a public humanities project that challenged gentrifiers’ claims to be promoting “safety” and “family” on Polk Street by positing alternative understandings of both concepts—alternatives drawn from oral histories recorded with trans women, street kids...

... The conclusion examines efforts in the 2010s and early 2020s to remember (and forget) queer and trans histories on Polk Street and the Mid-Market corridor, two sites where the kids’ performative economy took root. The conclusion shows how the city and business interests are using the arts...

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