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Hosted by Unknown Host · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 163 episodes
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Covering the end of capitalism from a "far Left" trans/queer POV.
Unknown Host hosts Sad Francisco, a news show with 163 episodes published.
What was the filmic movement called mumblecore? Jemma Decristo and dee(dee) c. ardan offer an abridged history of the post-college-centric genre that went mainstream in the early 2000s. One of few mumblecore movies with
In 2026, dead internet theory—the idea that most of the internet is bots and AI-generated content—is more reality than theory. Matthew Lawson co-hosts Eating For Free—a podcast critiquing American culture and politics th
The government is putting queers on lists and hunting undocumented people at the Home Depot parking lot. Have you ever felt so seen? Sad Francisco Surveillance State Correspondent Ian Firstenberg returns to talk about ou
The government is putting queers on lists and hunting undocumented people at the Home Depot parking lot. Have you ever felt so seen? Sad Francisco Surveillance State Correspondent Ian Firstenberg returns to talk about ou
THANK YOU to everyone who made it out to our biggest live show ever. The night ended up raising ~$5K for Bay2Gaza Mutual Aid , which will go directly to Gaza (Brooke shares details during the show). The episode was recor
A lot has been happening in the lives of three of this podcast's longtime foes: District Attorney Brooke Jenkins; cafe owner and wannabe supervisor Manny Yekutiel; and the state Senator running for Nancy Pelosi's soon-to
May 1979: queer protesters set cop cars ablaze in San Francisco's Civic Center, in response to cop-turned-politician Dan White's relatively light sentence for the assassination of gay politician Harvey Milk and the Mayor
Max Blue is San Francisco's only art critic left in legacy media (see: his column in SF Examiner); he also contributes regularly to Hyperallergic. Max gives the best brief introduction of the big art movements San Franci
Brutal honesty is all we have for Boots Riley's overstuffed filmic ode to shoplifters and maybe communism, I Love Boosters. Topics discussed include: The Coup's early work Betrayal by union leaders Megan Ellison, the all
A monologue revisiting a Truthout piece I wrote back in 2014 for this solo episode and stroll down memory lane featuring a Gay Shame action, crying in eviction court, and one of eviction lawyer Daniel Bornstein's boring-
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 of summer 2020, and
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 a white power salute
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 the cursed Wasian meetu
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" (1984), an extremely 1980
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 Francisco Community Land Tr
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 sellers, truants, 1099 qu
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 podcasts he co-hosts calle
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." Michael's Substack: 'A Parabl
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 federal government was
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 actions at the US capito
Chris Lee
former Green Beret, 18 Delta medic, author of Beyond the Battlefield, president of Machine Mentality · American Medical Rehabilitation Providers Association (AMRPA)
2 appearances on this show
Prince Shakur
1 appearance on this show
Billy Porter
Emmy, Tony and Grammy Award-winning stage and screen legend
1 appearance on this show
Jane Ward
feminist scholar and author · UC Riverside
1 appearance on this show
Raquel Willis
Black trans activist, journalist, author of The Risk It Takes to Bloom · Gender Liberation Movement
1 appearance on this show
Susan Stryker
Professor Emerita of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona
2 appearances on this show
Jenny Chan
founder, president, and executive director · Pacific Atrocities Education
1 appearance on this show
Chris Roberts
Grammy-winning, multi-instrumentalist, original Broadway cast member of The Civil War, founding member of One Flew South · Bailey Plumbing / Safety First Electric / Comfort Heating and Cooling
2 appearances on this show
Sophie Lewis
Paediatric Surgery Registrar and Paediatric Surgery National Online Training Fellow
1 appearance on this show
Liz Pelly
music journalist and cultural critic
1 appearance on this show
Malcolm Harris
Bestselling author of What’s Left
1 appearance on this show
Margaret Killjoy
author and editor · Cool Zone Media
1 appearance on this show
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