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A few days later, Barnhart was outside and heard a familiar sound. “I knew it was my microwave and it was at a neighbor’s house,” she says. “And then a full day later, I was out there and it was still on and it was still beeping!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnhart recently was on her neighborhood posting site and saw these words: “Does anybody hear that beeping and do you know what it is?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A perfect quarantine match\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a quiet Sunday night in lockdown when Sophia Hsu of Brooklyn, N.Y., heard a crash and expletives coming from the bathroom. Hsu ran downstairs to find her husband standing next to the sink, now dangling off the wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her husband, who’s over 6 feet tall and says he has trouble turning around in small spaces, had “hip-checked” (ran into) the sink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu says he “wrecked the sink, the underlying pipes and my good weekend mood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu, the handy one in the family, opened up her toolbox. She lacked the right wrench, but using common sense and lessons from her father, she reattached the sink and all the pipes, and now it drains perfectly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theirs is a perfect quarantine match.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He breaks things,” Hsu says. “I fix them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Water everywhere\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Megan Glasscock of Pensacola, Fla., the recent national toilet paper shortage inspired her to install a bidet with her mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I read the instructions,” Glasscock says. “I said, ‘Aah, 20 minutes—this will be a breeze.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mind you, Megan knows nothing about plumbing,” says her mother, Cheryl Glasscock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pair knew enough, though, to turn the water to the toilet off before getting started. After hours of struggling to install the bidet, which included a trip to the hardware store for a part, they called it quits for the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They turned the water back on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s when the nightmare began,” Megan says. The bathroom started flooding, and now this time the water wouldn’t turn off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheryl rushed outside to cut off the main water supply to the house. But in the dark, she couldn’t find the valve. She reached down and started turning a wheel. That’s when water began bubbling up from the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now both the bathroom and the yard were flooding. Water was everywhere. Buckets were no match.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually the local water company arrived. They were dumbstruck at the destruction they found. They pumped out the yard and replaced the water meter that Cheryl had destroyed when she somehow disconnected the water meter from the water line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the mess was cleaned up and tears were dried, mother and daughter installed the bidet, this time following instructions on YouTube. That’s key, the Glasscocks say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are now the proud owners of a bidet, just as toilet paper is back on the shelves!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Good walls make good neighbors\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kenneth McNay of Morrisville, N.C., also decided to use the shutdown to take on a DIY project. “I noticed that the retaining wall between my and my neighbor’s townhomes was sagging in the center.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He removed all the stones, leveled the ground with paving stones, rock and sand and then put everything back straight. He felt rather proud of the finished job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McNay’s neighbor, however, was not happy. She wanted a professional to do it. The neighbor was also worried about the safety warnings on the bags of stone and sand, which McNay found really puzzling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the next weekend, she completely reversed my work, taking away all the stones, taking all the sand and gravel out and then putting it all back with a sag in the middle,” McNay says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What did McNay’s neighbor do with the paving, gravel and sand that he had so carefully installed during the pandemic, when we are all supposed to be practicing social distancing and keeping surfaces clean?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She returned them all to his porch in zip-lock bags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>f there’s one thing I’ve learned in the past two months, it’s that a worldwide pandemic can’t stifle the artists of Northern California. Which makes sense—it’s one of the most innovative places on the planet. Creativity is in our cellular membranes and the culture pulses through our veins. Plus, the rent is too damn high to quit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s start with the well-known names. This past weekend, Oakland’s own \u003cstrong>Kehlani\u003c/strong> hit No. 1 on the Apple Music charts with her latest album, \u003cem>It Was Good Until It Wasn’t\u003c/em>. As the project took off, Kehlani made videos in quarantine and took to Twitter sharing intimate details of her experience to promote the album. It was something she had to do—otherwise, citing the coronavirus, \u003ca href=\"https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/kehlani-it-was-good-until-it-wasnt-album-cover-interview/?mbid=social_facebook&utm_source=facebook&utm_social-type=owned&utm_brand=p4k&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_brand=p4k&mbid=social_twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her label would’ve postponed the release of her album\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a few days before that, Sacramento’s \u003cstrong>Mozzy\u003c/strong> dropped \u003cem>Beyond Bulletproof.\u003c/em> He’d recently broadcasted a series of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAVuUtxc5fg&feature=emb_title\">public therapy sessions\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13880011/mozzys-new-album-processes-trauma-incarceration-by-documenting-his-healing\">initially dropped the album through JPay\u003c/a>—a service for incarcerated folks—a week before the album’s general release. On top of that, he did an interview with Rap Radar’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tv/B_xsftpHAQn/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">Elliott Wilson\u003c/a>. Active on the internet, in the streets and behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay’s even getting active in television. Check the soundtrack for this season of \u003cem>Insecure\u003c/em>, which features previously released music from \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LilSnickerfoot/status/1252642870319702016?s=20\">\u003cstrong>Michael Sneed\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in one episode and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kamaiyah/status/1259701062908252160?s=20\">\u003cstrong>Kamaiyah\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in another. And, of course, the Bay’s own \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/B_x8IAsJaGc/\">\u003cstrong>Nijla Mu’min\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> directed \u003cem>Insecure\u003c/em>‘s fourth episode from this season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pReD5WRO3vI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for getting active in Hollywood, check Netflix’s \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2020/film/reviews/all-day-and-a-night-review-ashton-sanders-1234593865/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>All Day and A Night\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. The story of an aspiring rapper from Oakland, the film has star power from Oakland’s \u003cstrong>Yahya Abdul-Mateen II\u003c/strong> and a bunch of cameos from Northern California folks, including members of the dance crew \u003cstrong>Turf Fiendz\u003c/strong> and Oakland’s \u003cstrong>Rolanda D. Bell\u003c/strong>. The film was written by San Francisco’s \u003cstrong>Joe Robert Cole\u003c/strong>, was filmed in Oakland and Alameda, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL09XmXSlwDoreuB74JlQD-a4KfsTVvxie\">its soundtrack\u003c/a> features \u003cstrong>Tia Nomore, SOBxRBE, Paris,\u003c/strong> the \u003cstrong>Conscious Daughters, P-Lo, Mac Dre\u003c/strong> and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s \u003cstrong>Kool John\u003c/strong>, who’s also featured on the aforementioned soundtrack. The Richmond artist was recently shot six times during a robbery, recovered, and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/K00LJ0HN/status/1257490570995331073?s=20\">hopped on Twitter to remix a Tupac quote to fit to his situation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further evidence that despite catastrophic circumstances, we don’t know how to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13880487\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EXMN6okXgAIjAZs-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Nappy Nina's 30 Bag album cover\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EXMN6okXgAIjAZs-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EXMN6okXgAIjAZs-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EXMN6okXgAIjAZs-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EXMN6okXgAIjAZs-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EXMN6okXgAIjAZs-1920x1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EXMN6okXgAIjAZs.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nappy Nina’s ’30 Bag’ album cover. \u003ccite>(Nappy Nina)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">F\u003c/span>or artists in the Northern California, being creative is damn near synonymous with breathing. Even when we leave our region, we carry it with us. Ask Oakland’s own \u003cstrong>Nappy Nina\u003c/strong>, who’s currently living in New York and bringing heat to all the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Nappy_Nina/status/1259252529814265860?s=20\">MENcees\u003c/a> out there. Nappy Nina’s latest project \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://nappynina.lnk.to/30Bag\">30 Bag\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, full of quality vibes and strategic wordplay, dropped on her 30th birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880374\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 238px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13880374\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EWzRrqCUEAAO1Cw.jpg\" alt=\"Drew Banga by Stoni\" width=\"238\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EWzRrqCUEAAO1Cw.jpg 621w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EWzRrqCUEAAO1Cw-160x232.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drew Banga by Stoni. \u003ccite>(Stoni)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Need that more twang in your tunes? On Texas rapper \u003cstrong>Siddiq\u003c/strong>’s latest album, \u003ca href=\"https://li.sten.to/SlideMusic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Slide Music\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, his southern delivery pairs well with the production of Oakland’s \u003cstrong>1-O.A.K.\u003c/strong>, Alameda’s \u003cstrong>Trackademicks\u003c/strong> and the rest of the HNRL crew—\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2020/05/11/853575718/heat-check-shook-up-shook-down-shook-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">even NPR thinks so\u003c/a>. The track that caught my ear is “Wantanabe,” produced by Oakland’s \u003cstrong>Drew Banga\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13859615/rightnowish-rap-producer-drew-banga-on-music-and-fatherhood\">talked to Banga\u003c/a> on a few occasions, I can assure you he’s a really bright guy. But I’m thoroughly convinced the term “take a break” isn’t in his lexicon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banga just released a song and dance, “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DrewwwBanga/status/1258847454583091201?s=20\">G-Step\u003c/a>,” with San Francisco’s \u003cstrong>Jordan “Stunnaman02” Gomes\u003c/strong>. Banga then turned around and announced he’s got an upcoming project with Oakland lyricist \u003cstrong>Stoni\u003c/strong> called \u003cem>Ferrari Fawcet\u003c/em>, set to drop in July. Evidently, Stoni isn’t familiar with slowing down either, as she’s been occupying her time by \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CallHerStoni/status/1251240115227123714?s=20\">drawing folks\u003c/a> on commission—she’s done over 20 pieces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pReD5WRO3vI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>ne of the silver linings of this downtime is the ability to get familiar with artists I should’ve been listening to. For example, San Francisco’s \u003cstrong>Troy LLF\u003c/strong>, who just released \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/troyllf\">\u003cem>Til Death Do Us Part II\u003c/em>. \u003c/a>Troy LLF’s mature lyrical approach is a great counterbalance to the party music our region’s often associated with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another artist who’s newly on my radar is Oakland’s \u003cstrong>Mahawam\u003c/strong>. I couldn’t help but notice Mahawam’s recent video for, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pReD5WRO3vI\">HOPING NO ONE NOTICE\u003c/a>.” And if you like that trippy-hop vibe, I’d suggest checking out the work of \u003cstrong>MH the Verb\u003c/strong>, who calls Oakland home now but is originally from New York by way of Philly. The new 420-friendly video for his song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tv/B_NbXTSFLPN/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">Birthstones\u003c/a>” is a great introduction to his lyrical space odyssey of an album, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://ffm.to/spaceninja\">Afronaut\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Need more vibes? Check out \u003ca href=\"https://www.ashiakarana.com/\">\u003cstrong>Ashia Karana\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>—she grew up between New Jersey and Atlanta, but came to the Bay to study sound healing. The people she met influenced her so much that the cover art for her new project, \u003cem>Trust\u003c/em>, is done by Bay Area singer, songwriter and graphic designer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/stoneycreation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Stoney\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. (No relation to the aforementioned Stoni.) I listened to Ashia’s project twice last weekend, and ended up on the floor of my apartment holding a staring contest with the ceiling. I won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/e1U-t277yXE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another mention along those vibe lines: Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jadaimani510/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Jada Imani\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> dropped a new atmospheric single while sheltering in place, called “\u003ca href=\"https://jadaimani.bandcamp.com/track/i-think-that-i-am\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I Think That I Am\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Need more of that romantic R&B feel in your life? The new single from Union City’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/larrenwong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>LarrenWong\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/larrenwong/status/1253575585583861760?s=20\">Out My Way\u003c/a>,” almost made me text an ex. But then the pure vocals from Oakland’s \u003cstrong>Dom Jones\u003c/strong>, on her latest single “\u003ca href=\"https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/domjones/crazytown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crazy Town\u003c/a>,” reminded me to put my phone down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after that, I was told to remain focused on my craft by an elder statesman, Vallejo’s \u003cstrong>E-40\u003c/strong>. He just dropped \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/E40/status/1259646488428212224?s=20\">The Curb Commentator\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, the first of a four-part EP series scheduled to drop throughout the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I repeat: E-40’s releasing a \u003cem>four-part project\u003c/em> this year, and he’s 52 years old. What’s your excuse?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13880470\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/1589057767_2ddb8bc5b3da89215a12aefd69d36f6b.jpg\" alt=\"Cruise USA, Larry June and Cardo's latest project\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/1589057767_2ddb8bc5b3da89215a12aefd69d36f6b.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/1589057767_2ddb8bc5b3da89215a12aefd69d36f6b-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cruise USA, Larry June and Cardo’s latest project. \u003ccite>(Larry June)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>omeone with a similar consistency and penchant for putting real-spill over dope beats is San Francisco’s \u003cstrong>Larry June\u003c/strong>. I honestly didn’t know he even dropped a project last week until I started writing this article. I checked his Twitter, just because dude drops a new project every time the fog comes in over the Golden Gate, and sure enough, his latest project \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LarryJuneTFM/status/1258943562248421378?s=20\">Cruise USA\u003c/a>\u003c/em> is on all platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A good example of an “I’m not letting COVID stop my artistic flow,” is Allen “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/LooveMoore2020/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Loove Moore\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>” Moore. He’s from West Oakland—specifically, Acorn–and he’s a musician, multimedia maker and a self-proclaimed introvert who’s found solace in creating a safe place for others to be themselves. That space was a weekly talent showcase called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/LooveAtTheLake/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Loove at the Lake\u003c/a>.” Last year, in its first year of operation, it was featured in the \u003ca href=\"https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2019/visuals/lake-merritt-backyard/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now that people aren’t (supposed to be) gathering en masse, he’s spending his time shooting and editing videos for the music he’s continually making. How’s he staying inspired?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I march to my own understanding of life,” Loove Moore told me during a phone call, sitting outside of a studio working on a podcast. “I feel like self-expression is needed, so I don’t explode.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it’s not just the resilient mentality that comes with being raised in West Oakland, but “the spirit” from the black church that has pushed his artistic endeavors. And now, he creates something new, constantly. When asked what the key to it all is, he simply says: “I just participate in life, bro.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s as simple as that for some of us. Creating is just how we participate in life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13880517\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/LoveMoore-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"LoveMoore.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/LoveMoore-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/LoveMoore-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/LoveMoore-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/LoveMoore-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/LoveMoore.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loove Moore. \u003ccite>(Instagram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">H\u003c/span>ats off to the artists from this region who haven’t stopped creating. To those who’ve been sitting on work and finally dropped it, as well as those who’ve used this time in isolation to get creative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m looking forward to the work of Class of 2020 high school graduate (and future NYU student) \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/official.jwalt/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>J.Walt\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, who’s dropping a project called \u003cem>Yours Truly\u003c/em> this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keeping an eye as well on East Bay lyricist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tv/CAIso0bggWP/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Ruby Ibarra\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, who just dropped a new video this week and is guaranteed to be working on more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley’s \u003cstrong>Caleborate\u003c/strong> also dropped a five-track project called “\u003ca href=\"http://ffm.to/sparksinthestudio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sparks In The Studio\u003c/a>,” just this week. I’ve yet to listen to it, but given what I know of the guy’s work, it’ll be worthwhile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fellow Berkeleyite \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RexxLifeRaj/status/1260401866661232640?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Rexx Life Raj\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> announced a new video coming Friday. I’ll watch that in tandem with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kamaiyah/status/1260646823082905600?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kamaiyah’s latest song\u003c/a>, as she’s just announced that she’s dropping new music every Friday, starting this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a consumer and fan, I want to thank y’all for your art. It’s needed all the time, and especially right now.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>f there’s one thing I’ve learned in the past two months, it’s that a worldwide pandemic can’t stifle the artists of Northern California. Which makes sense—it’s one of the most innovative places on the planet. Creativity is in our cellular membranes and the culture pulses through our veins. Plus, the rent is too damn high to quit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s start with the well-known names. This past weekend, Oakland’s own \u003cstrong>Kehlani\u003c/strong> hit No. 1 on the Apple Music charts with her latest album, \u003cem>It Was Good Until It Wasn’t\u003c/em>. As the project took off, Kehlani made videos in quarantine and took to Twitter sharing intimate details of her experience to promote the album. It was something she had to do—otherwise, citing the coronavirus, \u003ca href=\"https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/kehlani-it-was-good-until-it-wasnt-album-cover-interview/?mbid=social_facebook&utm_source=facebook&utm_social-type=owned&utm_brand=p4k&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_brand=p4k&mbid=social_twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her label would’ve postponed the release of her album\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a few days before that, Sacramento’s \u003cstrong>Mozzy\u003c/strong> dropped \u003cem>Beyond Bulletproof.\u003c/em> He’d recently broadcasted a series of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAVuUtxc5fg&feature=emb_title\">public therapy sessions\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13880011/mozzys-new-album-processes-trauma-incarceration-by-documenting-his-healing\">initially dropped the album through JPay\u003c/a>—a service for incarcerated folks—a week before the album’s general release. On top of that, he did an interview with Rap Radar’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tv/B_xsftpHAQn/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">Elliott Wilson\u003c/a>. Active on the internet, in the streets and behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay’s even getting active in television. Check the soundtrack for this season of \u003cem>Insecure\u003c/em>, which features previously released music from \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LilSnickerfoot/status/1252642870319702016?s=20\">\u003cstrong>Michael Sneed\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in one episode and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kamaiyah/status/1259701062908252160?s=20\">\u003cstrong>Kamaiyah\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in another. And, of course, the Bay’s own \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/B_x8IAsJaGc/\">\u003cstrong>Nijla Mu’min\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> directed \u003cem>Insecure\u003c/em>‘s fourth episode from this season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/pReD5WRO3vI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/pReD5WRO3vI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>As for getting active in Hollywood, check Netflix’s \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2020/film/reviews/all-day-and-a-night-review-ashton-sanders-1234593865/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>All Day and A Night\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. The story of an aspiring rapper from Oakland, the film has star power from Oakland’s \u003cstrong>Yahya Abdul-Mateen II\u003c/strong> and a bunch of cameos from Northern California folks, including members of the dance crew \u003cstrong>Turf Fiendz\u003c/strong> and Oakland’s \u003cstrong>Rolanda D. Bell\u003c/strong>. The film was written by San Francisco’s \u003cstrong>Joe Robert Cole\u003c/strong>, was filmed in Oakland and Alameda, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL09XmXSlwDoreuB74JlQD-a4KfsTVvxie\">its soundtrack\u003c/a> features \u003cstrong>Tia Nomore, SOBxRBE, Paris,\u003c/strong> the \u003cstrong>Conscious Daughters, P-Lo, Mac Dre\u003c/strong> and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s \u003cstrong>Kool John\u003c/strong>, who’s also featured on the aforementioned soundtrack. The Richmond artist was recently shot six times during a robbery, recovered, and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/K00LJ0HN/status/1257490570995331073?s=20\">hopped on Twitter to remix a Tupac quote to fit to his situation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further evidence that despite catastrophic circumstances, we don’t know how to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13880487\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EXMN6okXgAIjAZs-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Nappy Nina's 30 Bag album cover\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EXMN6okXgAIjAZs-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EXMN6okXgAIjAZs-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EXMN6okXgAIjAZs-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EXMN6okXgAIjAZs-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EXMN6okXgAIjAZs-1920x1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EXMN6okXgAIjAZs.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nappy Nina’s ’30 Bag’ album cover. \u003ccite>(Nappy Nina)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">F\u003c/span>or artists in the Northern California, being creative is damn near synonymous with breathing. Even when we leave our region, we carry it with us. Ask Oakland’s own \u003cstrong>Nappy Nina\u003c/strong>, who’s currently living in New York and bringing heat to all the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Nappy_Nina/status/1259252529814265860?s=20\">MENcees\u003c/a> out there. Nappy Nina’s latest project \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://nappynina.lnk.to/30Bag\">30 Bag\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, full of quality vibes and strategic wordplay, dropped on her 30th birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880374\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 238px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13880374\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EWzRrqCUEAAO1Cw.jpg\" alt=\"Drew Banga by Stoni\" width=\"238\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EWzRrqCUEAAO1Cw.jpg 621w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/EWzRrqCUEAAO1Cw-160x232.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drew Banga by Stoni. \u003ccite>(Stoni)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Need that more twang in your tunes? On Texas rapper \u003cstrong>Siddiq\u003c/strong>’s latest album, \u003ca href=\"https://li.sten.to/SlideMusic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Slide Music\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, his southern delivery pairs well with the production of Oakland’s \u003cstrong>1-O.A.K.\u003c/strong>, Alameda’s \u003cstrong>Trackademicks\u003c/strong> and the rest of the HNRL crew—\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2020/05/11/853575718/heat-check-shook-up-shook-down-shook-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">even NPR thinks so\u003c/a>. The track that caught my ear is “Wantanabe,” produced by Oakland’s \u003cstrong>Drew Banga\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13859615/rightnowish-rap-producer-drew-banga-on-music-and-fatherhood\">talked to Banga\u003c/a> on a few occasions, I can assure you he’s a really bright guy. But I’m thoroughly convinced the term “take a break” isn’t in his lexicon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banga just released a song and dance, “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DrewwwBanga/status/1258847454583091201?s=20\">G-Step\u003c/a>,” with San Francisco’s \u003cstrong>Jordan “Stunnaman02” Gomes\u003c/strong>. Banga then turned around and announced he’s got an upcoming project with Oakland lyricist \u003cstrong>Stoni\u003c/strong> called \u003cem>Ferrari Fawcet\u003c/em>, set to drop in July. Evidently, Stoni isn’t familiar with slowing down either, as she’s been occupying her time by \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CallHerStoni/status/1251240115227123714?s=20\">drawing folks\u003c/a> on commission—she’s done over 20 pieces.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/pReD5WRO3vI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/pReD5WRO3vI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>ne of the silver linings of this downtime is the ability to get familiar with artists I should’ve been listening to. For example, San Francisco’s \u003cstrong>Troy LLF\u003c/strong>, who just released \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/troyllf\">\u003cem>Til Death Do Us Part II\u003c/em>. \u003c/a>Troy LLF’s mature lyrical approach is a great counterbalance to the party music our region’s often associated with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another artist who’s newly on my radar is Oakland’s \u003cstrong>Mahawam\u003c/strong>. I couldn’t help but notice Mahawam’s recent video for, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pReD5WRO3vI\">HOPING NO ONE NOTICE\u003c/a>.” And if you like that trippy-hop vibe, I’d suggest checking out the work of \u003cstrong>MH the Verb\u003c/strong>, who calls Oakland home now but is originally from New York by way of Philly. The new 420-friendly video for his song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tv/B_NbXTSFLPN/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">Birthstones\u003c/a>” is a great introduction to his lyrical space odyssey of an album, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://ffm.to/spaceninja\">Afronaut\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Need more vibes? Check out \u003ca href=\"https://www.ashiakarana.com/\">\u003cstrong>Ashia Karana\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>—she grew up between New Jersey and Atlanta, but came to the Bay to study sound healing. The people she met influenced her so much that the cover art for her new project, \u003cem>Trust\u003c/em>, is done by Bay Area singer, songwriter and graphic designer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/stoneycreation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Stoney\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. (No relation to the aforementioned Stoni.) I listened to Ashia’s project twice last weekend, and ended up on the floor of my apartment holding a staring contest with the ceiling. I won.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/e1U-t277yXE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/e1U-t277yXE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Another mention along those vibe lines: Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/jadaimani510/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Jada Imani\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> dropped a new atmospheric single while sheltering in place, called “\u003ca href=\"https://jadaimani.bandcamp.com/track/i-think-that-i-am\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I Think That I Am\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Need more of that romantic R&B feel in your life? The new single from Union City’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/larrenwong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>LarrenWong\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/larrenwong/status/1253575585583861760?s=20\">Out My Way\u003c/a>,” almost made me text an ex. But then the pure vocals from Oakland’s \u003cstrong>Dom Jones\u003c/strong>, on her latest single “\u003ca href=\"https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/domjones/crazytown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crazy Town\u003c/a>,” reminded me to put my phone down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after that, I was told to remain focused on my craft by an elder statesman, Vallejo’s \u003cstrong>E-40\u003c/strong>. He just dropped \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/E40/status/1259646488428212224?s=20\">The Curb Commentator\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, the first of a four-part EP series scheduled to drop throughout the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I repeat: E-40’s releasing a \u003cem>four-part project\u003c/em> this year, and he’s 52 years old. What’s your excuse?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13880470\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/1589057767_2ddb8bc5b3da89215a12aefd69d36f6b.jpg\" alt=\"Cruise USA, Larry June and Cardo's latest project\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/1589057767_2ddb8bc5b3da89215a12aefd69d36f6b.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/1589057767_2ddb8bc5b3da89215a12aefd69d36f6b-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cruise USA, Larry June and Cardo’s latest project. \u003ccite>(Larry June)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>omeone with a similar consistency and penchant for putting real-spill over dope beats is San Francisco’s \u003cstrong>Larry June\u003c/strong>. I honestly didn’t know he even dropped a project last week until I started writing this article. I checked his Twitter, just because dude drops a new project every time the fog comes in over the Golden Gate, and sure enough, his latest project \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LarryJuneTFM/status/1258943562248421378?s=20\">Cruise USA\u003c/a>\u003c/em> is on all platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A good example of an “I’m not letting COVID stop my artistic flow,” is Allen “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/LooveMoore2020/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Loove Moore\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>” Moore. He’s from West Oakland—specifically, Acorn–and he’s a musician, multimedia maker and a self-proclaimed introvert who’s found solace in creating a safe place for others to be themselves. That space was a weekly talent showcase called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/LooveAtTheLake/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Loove at the Lake\u003c/a>.” Last year, in its first year of operation, it was featured in the \u003ca href=\"https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2019/visuals/lake-merritt-backyard/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now that people aren’t (supposed to be) gathering en masse, he’s spending his time shooting and editing videos for the music he’s continually making. How’s he staying inspired?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I march to my own understanding of life,” Loove Moore told me during a phone call, sitting outside of a studio working on a podcast. “I feel like self-expression is needed, so I don’t explode.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it’s not just the resilient mentality that comes with being raised in West Oakland, but “the spirit” from the black church that has pushed his artistic endeavors. And now, he creates something new, constantly. When asked what the key to it all is, he simply says: “I just participate in life, bro.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s as simple as that for some of us. Creating is just how we participate in life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13880517\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/LoveMoore-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"LoveMoore.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/LoveMoore-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/LoveMoore-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/LoveMoore-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/LoveMoore-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/LoveMoore.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loove Moore. \u003ccite>(Instagram)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">H\u003c/span>ats off to the artists from this region who haven’t stopped creating. To those who’ve been sitting on work and finally dropped it, as well as those who’ve used this time in isolation to get creative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m looking forward to the work of Class of 2020 high school graduate (and future NYU student) \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/official.jwalt/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>J.Walt\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, who’s dropping a project called \u003cem>Yours Truly\u003c/em> this weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keeping an eye as well on East Bay lyricist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tv/CAIso0bggWP/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Ruby Ibarra\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, who just dropped a new video this week and is guaranteed to be working on more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley’s \u003cstrong>Caleborate\u003c/strong> also dropped a five-track project called “\u003ca href=\"http://ffm.to/sparksinthestudio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sparks In The Studio\u003c/a>,” just this week. I’ve yet to listen to it, but given what I know of the guy’s work, it’ll be worthwhile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fellow Berkeleyite \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RexxLifeRaj/status/1260401866661232640?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>Rexx Life Raj\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> announced a new video coming Friday. I’ll watch that in tandem with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kamaiyah/status/1260646823082905600?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kamaiyah’s latest song\u003c/a>, as she’s just announced that she’s dropping new music every Friday, starting this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span> few months ago, I felt like 2020 was going to be a pivotal point for mainstream cultural acceptance for the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. 2019 seemed to offer one win after another: Rapper \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/saweetie/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Saweetie\u003c/span>\u003c/a>’s \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“My Type” became a summer hit; K-pop group \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/blackpinkofficial/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">BLACKPINK\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> headlined Coachella; indie favorites \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/radvxz/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Beabadoobee\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/peggygou_/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Peggy Gou\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> made big waves in the underground. Photographer \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/andrew_kung/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Andrew Kung\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bananamag/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Banana Mag\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> brought Asian American identity to the forefront. And \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/always_be_my_maybe_2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Always Be My Maybe\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, starring Ali Wong and Randall Park, won hearts with its\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a27698063/always-be-my-maybe-asian-representation-best-twitter-reactions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Asian American take on a relatable rom-com plot line\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the fall, the momentum reached a near-fever pitch when Lulu Wang’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://a24films.com/films/the-farewell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Farewell\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a film that tells the poignant story of a Chinese-American family navigating their grandma’s cancer diagnosis, released to critical acclaim. And then there was Bong Joon-ho’s phenomenal \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6751668/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Parasite\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The film is actually a foreign one—it was created by a Korean filmmaker in Korea—but for me, it felt like a win when it became the first non-English film to ever \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/09/movies/parasite-movie-oscars-best-picture.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">take home an Oscar for Best Picture\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in early February. Together, these artistic accomplishments felt like a massive shift towards recognizing Asian influence in the American cultural fabric.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then, COVID-19 made it to the United States. My family followed the Chinese news, so they’d been updating me on the virus’ spread since January. I wasn’t that surprised when racist attacks started being reported in February and March—but what did surprise me was how many of them took place in New York, a city I recently relocated to from the Bay Area. A masked woman was \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://nypost.com/2020/02/05/woman-wearing-face-mask-attacked-in-possible-coronavirus-hate-crime/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">kicked in the face\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at Grand Street station. An Asian man \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://nextshark.com/man-fights-back-after-getting-water-thrown-at-him-because-he-has-coronavirus-in-nyc/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">doused in water\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> while smoking a cigarette. Another was \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://nypost.com/2020/03/05/straphanger-sprays-asian-man-with-febreze-in-possible-hate-crime/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sprayed with Febreeze\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on the subway. A woman \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-investigating-hate-crime-after-asian-woman-allegedly-punched-not-wearing-face-mask\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">was punched in the face in K-town\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. A woman had \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/clarissajanlim/asian-woman-chemical-burns-brooklyn-new-york-attack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">acid poured on her outside her house\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And then, beyond New York: Student Jonathan Mok was \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/03/uk/coronavirus-assault-student-london-scli-intl-gbr/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">brutally beaten on the street in London\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. An elder was \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Video-Asian-man-attacked-mocked-in-San-15081317.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">harassed and attacked while collecting cans\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in San Francisco. Two people were \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.phillyvoice.com/philly-subway-assault-asian-couple-video-septa-police-coronavirus-fear-harassment/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">assaulted by a group of teens\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at a train station in Philadelphia. A 2-year-old girl, 6-year-old boy and their father were \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/stabbing-of-asian-american-2-year-old-and-her-family-was-a-coronavirus-fueled-hate-crime-feds-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">stabbed in a murder attempt\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at a Sam’s Club in Texas.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13880465\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/Artboard-9@2x-copy-800x1000.jpg\" alt='A woman poses in a mask among cleaning products with the text, \"March 10: An Asian woman is punched in the face for not wearing a mask.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/Artboard-9@2x-copy.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/Artboard-9@2x-copy-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/Artboard-9@2x-copy-768x960.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author Eda Yu in a photo series that draws attention to recent hate crimes against Asian Americans. \u003ccite>(Eda Yu, Mashael Al Saie, Christine Oh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The anger that comes from seeing this kind of racial violence is raw and exceedingly visceral. It’s hard to put into words—especially for Asian Americans for whom speaking up in matters of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/12/asian-americans-campus-protests/419301/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">social justice is more difficult\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> after decades of believing that their level of privilege, created by the model minority myth, shields them from having to advocate for civil rights. This is even more complicated by the fact that silence is a traditional East Asian cultural custom. As Gu Xiao-le describes in \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://web.uri.edu/iaics/files/05-Gu-Xiao-le.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Contrastive Analysis of Chinese and American Views about Silence and Debate\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: “In … Chinese culture, communicators assume a great deal of commonality of knowledge and views, so that less is spelt out explicitly and much more is implicit or communicated in indirect ways … Silence holds a strong contextual meaning, such as showing obedience to senior people, or being a sign of respect for the wisdom and expertise of others, or disagreement while avoiding direct confrontation.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It comes as no surprise, then, that Asians have had trouble finding the voice to stand up for themselves—or others—in America. In recent years, we’ve seen the national conversation start moving past assimilationist ideals, but that shift hasn’t necessarily been reflected in the art we make. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Crazy Rich Asians\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a Hollywood film that broke ground with its all-Asian cast in 2018, is a perfect example of this kind of art—a win for representation, but one that plays heavily into tropes of assimilationist \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/08/asian-americas-great-gatsby-moment/568213/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">whitewashing\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a Netflix Original also released in 2018, echoes these ideals: the film differs in practically no way from a classic American high school rom-com—it just substitutes an Asian girl for a white one. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, during the pandemic, our art carries a different weight entirely. Asian-American artists have a sense of responsibility of tackling issues of identity—of fighting this hate and xenophobia. That very feeling is what inspired me to make the projects I recently released on social media: a photo series with friends that denounced these attacks of racial violence, posts that spoke to how Asians were unfairly targeted for wearing masks. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And it wasn’t just me. In the rise of this discrimination, I saw an extraordinary amount of Asian American cultural work—essays, photos, videos, makeup—innumerable forms of expression all geared towards addressing the massive \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/blog/reports-of-anti-asian-assaults-harassment-and-hate-crimes-rise-as-coronavirus-spreads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">spike in anti-Asian hate crimes\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The art I saw differed greatly from the kind often touted in the American mainstream. It is, at its core, protest art—meant to challenge the status quo and incite change.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880454\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 582px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13880454\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/yellow_peril.jpg\" alt=\"Asian American demonstrators rally for Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton's release from prison in 1969.\" width=\"582\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/yellow_peril.jpg 582w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/yellow_peril-160x197.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asian-American demonstrators rally for Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton’s release from prison in 1969. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Roz Payne's Newsreel archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>n contrast to the relatively tame AAPI-centered work that tends to get the most attention today, radical, progressive art played a key role in shaping the modern conception of Asian American identity. Before 1968, the concept of Asian America didn’t exist. The Asian American movement—often overlooked—changed all of that. In the late ’60s, public outrage over the Vietnam War spurred massive protests throughout the United States. At UC Berkeley, the first-ever \u003ca href=\"http://aam1968.blogspot.com/2008/01/introduction-to-asian-american-movement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Asian American Political Alliance \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">formed in May 1968. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As Karen Ishizuka details in her book \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://aaww.org/asian-american-movement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Serve the People\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Asian American activists were heavily inspired by Third World solidarity and the Black Liberation Movement. They lobbied together against American racism and imperialism, and found power in their dual identities rather than assimilating. Eventually, as the movement grew during the ’70s and ’80s, action spread to community initiatives, like protesting evictions and gentrification in the Bay Area.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In those years, AAPI protest art grew. “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/142686397\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Roots\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">,” a visual art exhibition in Los Angeles’ Chinese American Museum in 2017, featured artworks from those decades: AAPI newsletters were illustrated with slogans like “More power to the people;” films like \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cruisin’ J-Town\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> offered a counterpoint to the racialized depictions of Asians in Hollywood; posters played on Chinese astrology to critique police violence, reading “Year of the People. Off the Pigs.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The movement died out in the early ’90s as forces of assimilation and economic ambition separated identity politics from their militant ideals and drew these progressive agendas to a close. But, disappointingly, the way our community is represented in the mainstream now feels far removed from this drive for change and the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/04/19/524571669/model-minority-myth-again-used-as-a-racial-wedge-between-asians-and-blacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">solidarity between other minority groups we hope to find today\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">N\u003c/span>ow, beyond the mainstream, there are still many AAPI works today that could be considered protest art, even if they take a different form than the works of the ’70s and ’80s. I recently read Viet Thanh Nguyen’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Sympathizer-Novel-Pulitzer-Prize-Fiction/dp/0802124941\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Sympathizer\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, for example, and felt its complex portrayal of the immigrant-Southeast-Asian experience challenge many opinions I’d formed about my AAPI identity growing up in L.A.. Singer Rina Sawayama’s latest \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XojM2D3F-Dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SAWAYAMA\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is brilliantly strong, tackling deep East Asian issues of shame, fetishization and intergenerational trauma. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/B-aqgGlDjg8/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And friends in my community like \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/potadachen/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ada Chen\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, an artist who makes sculptural jewelry that simultaneously breaks down Chinese stereotypes and celebrates Chinese traditions, constantly make work that goes deeper than just representation. Through these pieces, as well as my own work, I’ve found that any kind of art can be protest art—it isn’t any less powerful just because it’s less loud.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As we move forward in the tumult of the coming months, I hope that we can remember the foundations of our AAPI identity. I hope that we work harder at dismantling the model minority myth and carry the ideals of the people who made our identity a reality. And no matter what we make, I just hope we create every piece of art with meaning—because we still have so much left to say.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Photographer \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/andrew_kung/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Andrew Kung\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bananamag/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Banana Mag\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> brought Asian American identity to the forefront. And \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/always_be_my_maybe_2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Always Be My Maybe\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, starring Ali Wong and Randall Park, won hearts with its\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a27698063/always-be-my-maybe-asian-representation-best-twitter-reactions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Asian American take on a relatable rom-com plot line\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the fall, the momentum reached a near-fever pitch when Lulu Wang’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://a24films.com/films/the-farewell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Farewell\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a film that tells the poignant story of a Chinese-American family navigating their grandma’s cancer diagnosis, released to critical acclaim. And then there was Bong Joon-ho’s phenomenal \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6751668/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Parasite\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The film is actually a foreign one—it was created by a Korean filmmaker in Korea—but for me, it felt like a win when it became the first non-English film to ever \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/09/movies/parasite-movie-oscars-best-picture.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">take home an Oscar for Best Picture\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in early February. Together, these artistic accomplishments felt like a massive shift towards recognizing Asian influence in the American cultural fabric.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then, COVID-19 made it to the United States. My family followed the Chinese news, so they’d been updating me on the virus’ spread since January. I wasn’t that surprised when racist attacks started being reported in February and March—but what did surprise me was how many of them took place in New York, a city I recently relocated to from the Bay Area. A masked woman was \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://nypost.com/2020/02/05/woman-wearing-face-mask-attacked-in-possible-coronavirus-hate-crime/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">kicked in the face\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at Grand Street station. An Asian man \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://nextshark.com/man-fights-back-after-getting-water-thrown-at-him-because-he-has-coronavirus-in-nyc/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">doused in water\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> while smoking a cigarette. Another was \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://nypost.com/2020/03/05/straphanger-sprays-asian-man-with-febreze-in-possible-hate-crime/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sprayed with Febreeze\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on the subway. A woman \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-investigating-hate-crime-after-asian-woman-allegedly-punched-not-wearing-face-mask\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">was punched in the face in K-town\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. A woman had \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/clarissajanlim/asian-woman-chemical-burns-brooklyn-new-york-attack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">acid poured on her outside her house\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And then, beyond New York: Student Jonathan Mok was \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/03/uk/coronavirus-assault-student-london-scli-intl-gbr/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">brutally beaten on the street in London\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. An elder was \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Video-Asian-man-attacked-mocked-in-San-15081317.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">harassed and attacked while collecting cans\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in San Francisco. Two people were \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.phillyvoice.com/philly-subway-assault-asian-couple-video-septa-police-coronavirus-fear-harassment/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">assaulted by a group of teens\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at a train station in Philadelphia. A 2-year-old girl, 6-year-old boy and their father were \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/stabbing-of-asian-american-2-year-old-and-her-family-was-a-coronavirus-fueled-hate-crime-feds-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">stabbed in a murder attempt\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at a Sam’s Club in Texas.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13880465\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/Artboard-9@2x-copy-800x1000.jpg\" alt='A woman poses in a mask among cleaning products with the text, \"March 10: An Asian woman is punched in the face for not wearing a mask.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/Artboard-9@2x-copy.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/Artboard-9@2x-copy-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/Artboard-9@2x-copy-768x960.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author Eda Yu in a photo series that draws attention to recent hate crimes against Asian Americans. \u003ccite>(Eda Yu, Mashael Al Saie, Christine Oh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The anger that comes from seeing this kind of racial violence is raw and exceedingly visceral. It’s hard to put into words—especially for Asian Americans for whom speaking up in matters of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/12/asian-americans-campus-protests/419301/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">social justice is more difficult\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> after decades of believing that their level of privilege, created by the model minority myth, shields them from having to advocate for civil rights. This is even more complicated by the fact that silence is a traditional East Asian cultural custom. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It comes as no surprise, then, that Asians have had trouble finding the voice to stand up for themselves—or others—in America. In recent years, we’ve seen the national conversation start moving past assimilationist ideals, but that shift hasn’t necessarily been reflected in the art we make. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Crazy Rich Asians\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a Hollywood film that broke ground with its all-Asian cast in 2018, is a perfect example of this kind of art—a win for representation, but one that plays heavily into tropes of assimilationist \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/08/asian-americas-great-gatsby-moment/568213/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">whitewashing\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a Netflix Original also released in 2018, echoes these ideals: the film differs in practically no way from a classic American high school rom-com—it just substitutes an Asian girl for a white one. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, during the pandemic, our art carries a different weight entirely. Asian-American artists have a sense of responsibility of tackling issues of identity—of fighting this hate and xenophobia. That very feeling is what inspired me to make the projects I recently released on social media: a photo series with friends that denounced these attacks of racial violence, posts that spoke to how Asians were unfairly targeted for wearing masks. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And it wasn’t just me. In the rise of this discrimination, I saw an extraordinary amount of Asian American cultural work—essays, photos, videos, makeup—innumerable forms of expression all geared towards addressing the massive \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.adl.org/blog/reports-of-anti-asian-assaults-harassment-and-hate-crimes-rise-as-coronavirus-spreads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">spike in anti-Asian hate crimes\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The art I saw differed greatly from the kind often touted in the American mainstream. It is, at its core, protest art—meant to challenge the status quo and incite change.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880454\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 582px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13880454\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/yellow_peril.jpg\" alt=\"Asian American demonstrators rally for Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton's release from prison in 1969.\" width=\"582\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/yellow_peril.jpg 582w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/yellow_peril-160x197.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asian-American demonstrators rally for Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton’s release from prison in 1969. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Roz Payne's Newsreel archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>n contrast to the relatively tame AAPI-centered work that tends to get the most attention today, radical, progressive art played a key role in shaping the modern conception of Asian American identity. Before 1968, the concept of Asian America didn’t exist. The Asian American movement—often overlooked—changed all of that. In the late ’60s, public outrage over the Vietnam War spurred massive protests throughout the United States. At UC Berkeley, the first-ever \u003ca href=\"http://aam1968.blogspot.com/2008/01/introduction-to-asian-american-movement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Asian American Political Alliance \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">formed in May 1968. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As Karen Ishizuka details in her book \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://aaww.org/asian-american-movement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Serve the People\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Asian American activists were heavily inspired by Third World solidarity and the Black Liberation Movement. They lobbied together against American racism and imperialism, and found power in their dual identities rather than assimilating. Eventually, as the movement grew during the ’70s and ’80s, action spread to community initiatives, like protesting evictions and gentrification in the Bay Area.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In those years, AAPI protest art grew. “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/142686397\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Roots\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">,” a visual art exhibition in Los Angeles’ Chinese American Museum in 2017, featured artworks from those decades: AAPI newsletters were illustrated with slogans like “More power to the people;” films like \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cruisin’ J-Town\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> offered a counterpoint to the racialized depictions of Asians in Hollywood; posters played on Chinese astrology to critique police violence, reading “Year of the People. Off the Pigs.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The movement died out in the early ’90s as forces of assimilation and economic ambition separated identity politics from their militant ideals and drew these progressive agendas to a close. But, disappointingly, the way our community is represented in the mainstream now feels far removed from this drive for change and the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/04/19/524571669/model-minority-myth-again-used-as-a-racial-wedge-between-asians-and-blacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">solidarity between other minority groups we hope to find today\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">N\u003c/span>ow, beyond the mainstream, there are still many AAPI works today that could be considered protest art, even if they take a different form than the works of the ’70s and ’80s. I recently read Viet Thanh Nguyen’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Sympathizer-Novel-Pulitzer-Prize-Fiction/dp/0802124941\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Sympathizer\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, for example, and felt its complex portrayal of the immigrant-Southeast-Asian experience challenge many opinions I’d formed about my AAPI identity growing up in L.A.. Singer Rina Sawayama’s latest \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XojM2D3F-Dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SAWAYAMA\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is brilliantly strong, tackling deep East Asian issues of shame, fetishization and intergenerational trauma. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A few years ago, one of my best friends and I attempted to do a 1,000-piece jigsaw together. I bought a puzzle version of Henri Matisse’s \u003ci>Femme au Chapeau\u003c/i> from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/museumfromhome/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI9tHHw8Sy6QIVGD2tBh0mWwJCEAAYASAAEgI6sPD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SFMOMA\u003c/a> store and the two of us began working on it during Nicole’s regular visits to my apartment. It was my first adult attempt at a jigsaw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880443\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 773px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13880443\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/MatisseFemme.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"773\" height=\"1056\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/MatisseFemme.jpg 773w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/MatisseFemme-160x219.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/MatisseFemme-768x1049.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 773px) 100vw, 773px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henri Matisse, ‘Femme au chapeau (Woman with a Hat),’ 1905; a.k.a. the hardest puzzle in the world. \u003ccite>(Courtesy SFMOMA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What became apparent fairly quickly was that Nicole—a calm and gentle human—had the appropriate disposition for completing the \u003ci>Femme\u003c/i>, while I—infuriatingly impatient—definitely did not. When Nicole came over, I didn’t want to sit and do a puzzle, I wanted to go to a bar, or a restaurant, or a movie. After investing about six hours in the jigsaw, and realizing it was going to take at least six more, I unceremoniously quit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ci>Femme\u003c/i> languished, half-finished, hidden under a table cloth on my dining table for the better part of a year, until Nicole finally gave up on me. When she arrived one day with a roll-up puzzle mat and whisked it away to finally complete the thing, I couldn’t have been happier to see the end of that project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast forward to 2020, shelter-in-place day 60-something, and I have completed three 500-piece jigsaw puzzles in the last week. I finished three others in the month before that. And there are rules. If I start one on my own, my boyfriend is forbidden from helping me finish it. If we start one together, we generously take turns letting each other place the last piece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our obsession is now so full-blown, we braved a San Leandro Walmart last Saturday night in the desperate hunt for a new jigsaw. We found the shelves so woefully empty it was as if we were in the toilet paper aisle. (I eventually managed to find one solitary jigsaw hiding among the board games; we snapped it up.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, when we went to pick up a pizza from \u003ca href=\"http://www.pibarsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pi Bar\u003c/a> in the Mission, we found the owner gleefully doing a giant puzzle on the long table in the window. When I complimented her progress, she said, “A customer just came in here and said that separating up the pieces according to color was cheating!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No it isn’t!” I exclaimed, genuinely aghast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But looking at the picture is,” my boyfriend chimed in, complicating matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re not the only ones treating puzzles this seriously. Jigsaw mania is in full swing everywhere. In the first weeks of shelter-in-place, Google searches for puzzles \u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/puzzle-shortage-180633776.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shot up precipitously\u003c/a>. Last month, Rohnert Park toy store \u003ca href=\"https://www.fundemoniumtoys.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fundemonium\u003c/a> (which offers curbside pick-up and delivery) reported its jigsaw sales had \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/10900803-181/fundemonium-in-rohnert-park-doing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tripled\u003c/a>, compared to the same period in 2019. Ravensburger, one of the world’s biggest puzzle manufacturers, backs up that trend, reporting a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/03/coronavirus-sends-demand-for-jigsaw-puzzles-surging.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">370% jump\u003c/a> in sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this has all happened before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13880390,arts_13879258,arts_13876619' label='Get your mind off things']By the end of the Great Depression, manufacturers were producing 10 million puzzles a week (a WEEK!), many of which were rented out for a nickel a night from small lending libraries. Amateur puzzle makers proliferated to fill the demand and unemployed skilled workers began \u003ca href=\"https://www.oldpuzzles.com/examples-collection/1930s-and-1940s-hand-cut-puzzles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hand cutting wooden puzzles\u003c/a> in their attics and garages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That DIY spirit followed an earlier jigsaw craze kickstarted by a Massachusetts woman (her name lost to history) who started cutting small-piece puzzles in 1907 out of magazine covers. (Before this, jigsaws were made of big pieces and seen as almost exclusively for children since their \u003ca href=\"https://www.puzzlewarehouse.com/history-of-puzzles/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">invention\u003c/a> in 18th-century Europe.) The Massachusetts puzzle maker originally sold them to benefit a children’s hospital, but the trend proved so popular, it spread all the way to England by 1909. 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As puzzle historian \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/03/coronavirus-sends-demand-for-jigsaw-puzzles-surging.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anne Williams told CNBC\u003c/a> last month, “It’s something you can control [and] it’s also a challenge over which you can prevail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.zebrapartners.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Ravensburger-Infographic-National-Puzzle-Month-2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pre-COVID-19 study\u003c/a> by Ravensburger and the research firm Ipsos, 59% of people interviewed found puzzles relaxing, 57% said they were fun, 47% said they relieved stress, and 42% referred to them as a “brain boost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Personally, I find the exercise of sorting through pieces and constructing puzzles similar to meditation. Jigsaws require a singular focus that temporarily provides my brain with a reprieve from outside anxieties. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap]merica has a long history of coming together to grieve after a national tragedy. It was visible in the days after 9/11 when stars and stripes suddenly filled the windows of shopfronts and homes across America. It was overwhelming after the Sandy Hook mass shooting in 2012, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetrace.org/2015/12/sandy-hook-shooting-donations/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">65,000 teddy bears and 500,000 letters\u003c/a> were sent to Newtown, Connecticut. And the grief that Americans shared after the assassination of President Lincoln was so immense, it’s \u003ca href=\"https://marthahodes.com/book-detail.php?recordID=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">still with us in a variety of forms\u003c/a> more than a century and a half later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"198\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13882786\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final.jpg 180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/07/Rae-Alexandra-KQED_180_final-160x176.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\">Yet, a public display of collective grief for the more than 70,000 American lives lost to COVID-19 remains largely absent. We are willing to make \u003ca href=\"https://www.kron4.com/health/coronavirus/howling-for-healthcare-workers-across-the-bay-area/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">noise for healthcare workers\u003c/a>, put \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/teddy-bear-hunts-hunt-we-are-going-on-a-window-bears/6055934/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">teddy bears in windows\u003c/a> for children, and we might even make and distribute face masks. But when it comes to the lives of the thousands we’ve lost, few people are yet ready to look directly into the eye of that particular storm, and deal with all the mourning that will inevitably come with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we as a nation usually do after a tragedy is look straight to the victims of it. When there are high profile mass shootings, for example, we spend days learning the names and life stories of those lost in the tragedy. We get to know the dead through news reports and newspaper profiles and testimonies from friends told to journalists. We take time to think of these people; we look at their faces; we weep for their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with COVID-19, we’ve all become suddenly much more interested in statistical analysis. Although it’s worth noting that NBC managed to tell \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/coronavirus-deaths-60-stories-victims-around-country-n1194396\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the stories of 60\u003c/a> people killed by COVID-19, and CNN is gathering \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/health/coronavirus-victims-memories/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">obituaries from loved ones\u003c/a> on an ongoing basis, this pandemic has largely been framed in the media by data, not sorrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are two likely reasons for this. The first is that the danger remains at large, and it’s more comfortable to prioritize facts over feelings right now. Americans are still worrying about their likelihood of contracting the virus, trying to learn the best practices to stay safe, and worrying about their bank balances after catastrophic job losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second is an issue of the sheer, unfathomable numbers involved. COVID-19 has now killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/28/846701304/pandemic-death-toll-in-u-s-now-exceeds-vietnam-wars-u-s-fatalities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more Americans than the Vietnam War\u003c/a>—thousands more, in fact—in a tiny fraction of the time. That number is (currently) roughly the equivalent of 24 9/11s. For many people trying to keep their heads above water, their families safe and their friends in check, it’s simply too much loss to contemplate on top of everything else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the circumstances, when Americans do allow themselves to feel emotional, it is often directed towards healthcare workers. As the very personification of the crisis, doctors, nurses and first responders represent the bravery and tenacity we look for in all American heroes. They give us reasons to feel grateful—for both the work they do, and the relief we feel to not be the ones doing it. And we turn to them because it puts some kind of barrier between us and the true, gruesome nightmare of the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>America has done this before. In the aftermath of 9/11, we looked to the firefighters in much the same way. Because it was easier to filter our own shock, horror and sadness through the heroes still on the ground, than it was to ponder the thousands of bodies in the rubble that they were tirelessly searching for. (Let’s just hope our healthcare workers are given more support down the line than\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uYpDC3SRpM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> the firefighters\u003c/a> were.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point, the gravity and grief of this strangest of periods will inevitably catch up to us all. Publicly acknowledging it together and gathering in some way—whether that’s in-person when this is all finally over, or virtually, online, sooner than that—is a necessary step on the path to our nation’s recovery. Coming together to feel and acknowledge the loss of so many people isn’t just the right thing to do for the thousands of families who’ve been affected, it’s the right thing to do for a nation in shock and struggling to comprehend the enormity of what’s just happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the inherent dangers of the virus are obviously an impediment to any kind of public gathering, most of us have the means to share an experience remotely. On April 18, Global Citizen demonstrated this with the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/connect/togetherathome/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One World: Together at Home\u003c/a>\u003c/em> event, curated by Lady Gaga. Virtual performances from the likes of Taylor Swift, the Rolling Stones, Billie Eilish and Stevie Wonder connected 270 million viewers worldwide and helped raise over $127 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, prior national tragedies have proven that we don’t need to physically gather in one location to share a meaningful, healing moment. In 1986, after the nation witnessed the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle live on TV, America grieved together by once again gathering around televisions and giving full attention to the astronauts’ memorial service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following day—Feb. 1, 1986—the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/01/us/anger-confusion-and-fear-in-the-nation-s-grief.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> \u003c/a>wrote about the necessity of sharing grief, especially in times of national crisis. UC San Francisco psychiatrist Dr. Mardi Horowitz was quoted as saying: “The psychological purpose of ritual is not just to honor the dead but to re-establish a common bond and counter the sense of being alone in a hostile universe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sense of being alone in an inhospitable landscape is familiar to many of us now. Alienation has become the status quo while we shelter in place away from our communities. And because grief heightens the need to connect with others, it’s no wonder we’ve been avoiding these feelings out of a sense of self-preservation. But the circumstances surrounding the coronavirus pandemic make the need for collective mourning more important than ever. The longer we reduce the agony of families across the nation to mere numbers on graphs, the harder it will be to reunify as a country when this tragedy is all over.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second is an issue of the sheer, unfathomable numbers involved. COVID-19 has now killed \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/28/846701304/pandemic-death-toll-in-u-s-now-exceeds-vietnam-wars-u-s-fatalities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more Americans than the Vietnam War\u003c/a>—thousands more, in fact—in a tiny fraction of the time. That number is (currently) roughly the equivalent of 24 9/11s. For many people trying to keep their heads above water, their families safe and their friends in check, it’s simply too much loss to contemplate on top of everything else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the circumstances, when Americans do allow themselves to feel emotional, it is often directed towards healthcare workers. As the very personification of the crisis, doctors, nurses and first responders represent the bravery and tenacity we look for in all American heroes. They give us reasons to feel grateful—for both the work they do, and the relief we feel to not be the ones doing it. And we turn to them because it puts some kind of barrier between us and the true, gruesome nightmare of the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>America has done this before. In the aftermath of 9/11, we looked to the firefighters in much the same way. Because it was easier to filter our own shock, horror and sadness through the heroes still on the ground, than it was to ponder the thousands of bodies in the rubble that they were tirelessly searching for. (Let’s just hope our healthcare workers are given more support down the line than\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uYpDC3SRpM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> the firefighters\u003c/a> were.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point, the gravity and grief of this strangest of periods will inevitably catch up to us all. Publicly acknowledging it together and gathering in some way—whether that’s in-person when this is all finally over, or virtually, online, sooner than that—is a necessary step on the path to our nation’s recovery. Coming together to feel and acknowledge the loss of so many people isn’t just the right thing to do for the thousands of families who’ve been affected, it’s the right thing to do for a nation in shock and struggling to comprehend the enormity of what’s just happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the inherent dangers of the virus are obviously an impediment to any kind of public gathering, most of us have the means to share an experience remotely. On April 18, Global Citizen demonstrated this with the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/connect/togetherathome/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One World: Together at Home\u003c/a>\u003c/em> event, curated by Lady Gaga. Virtual performances from the likes of Taylor Swift, the Rolling Stones, Billie Eilish and Stevie Wonder connected 270 million viewers worldwide and helped raise over $127 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s more, prior national tragedies have proven that we don’t need to physically gather in one location to share a meaningful, healing moment. In 1986, after the nation witnessed the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle live on TV, America grieved together by once again gathering around televisions and giving full attention to the astronauts’ memorial service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following day—Feb. 1, 1986—the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/01/us/anger-confusion-and-fear-in-the-nation-s-grief.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> \u003c/a>wrote about the necessity of sharing grief, especially in times of national crisis. UC San Francisco psychiatrist Dr. Mardi Horowitz was quoted as saying: “The psychological purpose of ritual is not just to honor the dead but to re-establish a common bond and counter the sense of being alone in a hostile universe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>here’s this photo on my wall where I’m holding my niece. She’s in a white dress, precious. She’s three, my daughter’s current age. At the time of the picture, I was my niece’s current age: 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m in a cap and gown, celebrating my high school graduation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My niece, Talyah, will never have a photo like that, and no ceremonial experience. Neither will a solid portion of the estimated \u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=372\">3.7 million\u003c/a> other graduating high school seniors in America and millions more around the world. \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For my generation of high schoolers, there were a few significant events that tied us together. Most notably, here in America, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. Many of us remember exactly where we were when they happened. They played a significant part in shaping the society we stepped into as adults as well as the world we stand in today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One can only imagine how this war on germs, like the War on Terror, will shape the future for all of us, especially the younger folks who walked out of their classrooms and into adulthood months earlier than expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing is for sure: years from now, my niece will meet someone her age at a bar or cafe, and they’ll have that shared moment of, \u003cem>Damn, so you didn’t have a graduation either?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>ll around Oakland, there are young folks who were looking forward to that final celebration, an acknowledgement that they successfully completed their K-12 educations. Students from public schools, continuation schools, arts magnet schools and private schools are all dealing with the grief and confusion that come with experiencing something like this. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/senioryear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED\u003c/a> is asking seniors from around the Bay Area to submit videos and share their stories, and yesterday our show \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101877094/california-12th-graders-reflect-on-their-interrupted-senior-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> featured tales from a few students. To contribute to the effort, I got on the phone and called a few folks from Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jayla D. is a standout player on the Bishop O’Dowd High School softball team. Her junior year stats show that she’s just outside of the top 50 ballers in California, and above the national average in every aspect of the game. But she won’t have a senior year stat line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A career 3.5 GPA student, she’s looking to study kinesiology and get into sports medicine at San Diego State University in the fall. She hopes to walk onto the softball team. Her future is bright, but Jayla D. still says, “I can’t believe this ended like this. I just don’t know how to feel. It’s just hard to see people who’ve worked so hard, and had everything taken away from them—and there’s nothing that can be done about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side of town, is another Jayla—Jayla H. A talented drummer (part of the band \u003ca href=\"https://m.soundcloud.com/green-music/sets/the-black-tape\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Excellence\u003c/a>) who attended Oakland School for the Arts for middle school and high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879034\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 332px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13879034\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Jayla-H.-800x789.png\" alt=\"Jayla H. on the drums\" width=\"332\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Jayla-H.-800x789.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Jayla-H.-160x158.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Jayla-H.-768x757.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Jayla-H..png 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jayla H. on the drums. \u003ccite>(Jayla H.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She’s taken the blur of the last few weeks relatively well, spending time reading and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/B-JCEkdBDDh/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">making music. \u003c/a>And even taking some time to step back from the rat race and learn about herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In school, we’re always on the clock,” says Jayla H., referencing the rush from one period to the next. “Now that we’ve got this break, I can focus on doing both [academics and arts] on my own time and in my own space,” she says. “That’s been really helpful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when it comes to forgoing ceremonies, Jayla H., who plans on attending the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in the fall, says, “I wanted to have my family and community see what I’ve been working towards. And now, that’s not happening anymore—it’s been heartbreaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another aspiring artist from Oakland is Fremont High School’s Jacob Hicks. This 18-year-old student has been drawing all his life, and now he’s looking to pursue a career in animation graphics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But right now, he’s just getting a handle on this concept of “distance learning.” Hicks says, “People who learn in-person are struggling. … Emailing a teacher and waiting for a response doesn’t always work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879070\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13879070\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-9.13.13-AM-800x796.jpg\" alt=\"Jacob Hicks, future animator\" width=\"800\" height=\"796\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-9.13.13-AM-800x796.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-9.13.13-AM-160x159.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-9.13.13-AM-768x764.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-9.13.13-AM-1020x1014.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-9.13.13-AM.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob Hicks, future animator. \u003ccite>(Jacob Hicks)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hicks, who still plans on attending Berkeley City College in the fall, says he’s learning to navigate all of these changes. “We’re on the verge of graduating and living our lives. … I had everything planned out.” And now just about everything has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About four miles up the hill from Fremont High, at the Head-Royce School, 17-year-old Caroline has been talking to her father about everything that’s transpiring. He’s a doctor, and she’s looking to become a pediatrician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s planning on attending Case Western in Cleveland, Ohio next fall, but she laments what she’s missing out on this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caroline was one of the leaders of the dance program at her school. They had been working on the Fine Arts Dance Ensemble’s big show since September. “We sacrificed \u003cem>so many\u003c/em> lunches throughout the school year,” Caroline tells me. The show would have happened last week. [aside postid='arts_13876171']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tayland, a senior from Castlemont High, was getting ready to work a shift at KFC when I called him. The 17-year-old is planning on attending Sacramento State University in the fall. He wants to play football and study public health—inspired by a former teacher, experiences in health classes and “issues in the world that need to be fixed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Great time to jump into solving problems in the public health field, eh?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the topic of having a shortened senior year, Tayland told me that not having the opportunity to show your family the person you’re becoming is the worst thing about it. “Especially when you have people who’ve got out of institutions. Or the people you’ve been doing it for. You know, the faces you want to see and show them what you’ve done,” says Tayland. “It’s not a good feeling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s for my niece, Talyah? She told me it hurts to cancel plans, but maybe it’s something she has to go through for something greater to come along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s more bummed about prom than graduation. But over all, she’s not feeling set back. “I’ve always felt like I didn’t need high school. Next year when college starts, I’ll be fine,” says Talyah, a senior at Street Academy who plans on getting into the Peralta College system and focusing on interior design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879072\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13879072\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-9.26.56-AM-800x810.png\" alt=\"Talyah Cole, future interior decorator\" width=\"800\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-9.26.56-AM-800x810.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-9.26.56-AM-160x162.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-9.26.56-AM-768x777.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-9.26.56-AM.png 824w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Talyah Cole, future interior decorator. \u003ccite>(Talyah Cole)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When it comes to be being connected to the larger class of 2020, Talyah says, “Its kind of embarrassing, just to know that we’re the only class that didn’t finish—that can’t finish. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing is for sure: years from now, my niece will meet someone her age at a bar or cafe, and they’ll have that shared moment of, \u003cem>Damn, so you didn’t have a graduation either?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>ll around Oakland, there are young folks who were looking forward to that final celebration, an acknowledgement that they successfully completed their K-12 educations. Students from public schools, continuation schools, arts magnet schools and private schools are all dealing with the grief and confusion that come with experiencing something like this. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/senioryear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED\u003c/a> is asking seniors from around the Bay Area to submit videos and share their stories, and yesterday our show \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101877094/california-12th-graders-reflect-on-their-interrupted-senior-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> featured tales from a few students. To contribute to the effort, I got on the phone and called a few folks from Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jayla D. is a standout player on the Bishop O’Dowd High School softball team. Her junior year stats show that she’s just outside of the top 50 ballers in California, and above the national average in every aspect of the game. But she won’t have a senior year stat line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A career 3.5 GPA student, she’s looking to study kinesiology and get into sports medicine at San Diego State University in the fall. She hopes to walk onto the softball team. Her future is bright, but Jayla D. still says, “I can’t believe this ended like this. I just don’t know how to feel. It’s just hard to see people who’ve worked so hard, and had everything taken away from them—and there’s nothing that can be done about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side of town, is another Jayla—Jayla H. A talented drummer (part of the band \u003ca href=\"https://m.soundcloud.com/green-music/sets/the-black-tape\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Excellence\u003c/a>) who attended Oakland School for the Arts for middle school and high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879034\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 332px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13879034\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Jayla-H.-800x789.png\" alt=\"Jayla H. on the drums\" width=\"332\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Jayla-H.-800x789.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Jayla-H.-160x158.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Jayla-H.-768x757.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Jayla-H..png 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jayla H. on the drums. \u003ccite>(Jayla H.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She’s taken the blur of the last few weeks relatively well, spending time reading and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/B-JCEkdBDDh/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">making music. \u003c/a>And even taking some time to step back from the rat race and learn about herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In school, we’re always on the clock,” says Jayla H., referencing the rush from one period to the next. “Now that we’ve got this break, I can focus on doing both [academics and arts] on my own time and in my own space,” she says. “That’s been really helpful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when it comes to forgoing ceremonies, Jayla H., who plans on attending the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in the fall, says, “I wanted to have my family and community see what I’ve been working towards. And now, that’s not happening anymore—it’s been heartbreaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another aspiring artist from Oakland is Fremont High School’s Jacob Hicks. This 18-year-old student has been drawing all his life, and now he’s looking to pursue a career in animation graphics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But right now, he’s just getting a handle on this concept of “distance learning.” Hicks says, “People who learn in-person are struggling. … Emailing a teacher and waiting for a response doesn’t always work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879070\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13879070\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-9.13.13-AM-800x796.jpg\" alt=\"Jacob Hicks, future animator\" width=\"800\" height=\"796\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-9.13.13-AM-800x796.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-9.13.13-AM-160x159.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-9.13.13-AM-768x764.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-9.13.13-AM-1020x1014.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-9.13.13-AM.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob Hicks, future animator. \u003ccite>(Jacob Hicks)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hicks, who still plans on attending Berkeley City College in the fall, says he’s learning to navigate all of these changes. “We’re on the verge of graduating and living our lives. … I had everything planned out.” And now just about everything has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About four miles up the hill from Fremont High, at the Head-Royce School, 17-year-old Caroline has been talking to her father about everything that’s transpiring. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tayland, a senior from Castlemont High, was getting ready to work a shift at KFC when I called him. The 17-year-old is planning on attending Sacramento State University in the fall. He wants to play football and study public health—inspired by a former teacher, experiences in health classes and “issues in the world that need to be fixed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Great time to jump into solving problems in the public health field, eh?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the topic of having a shortened senior year, Tayland told me that not having the opportunity to show your family the person you’re becoming is the worst thing about it. “Especially when you have people who’ve got out of institutions. Or the people you’ve been doing it for. You know, the faces you want to see and show them what you’ve done,” says Tayland. “It’s not a good feeling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>s for my niece, Talyah? She told me it hurts to cancel plans, but maybe it’s something she has to go through for something greater to come along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s more bummed about prom than graduation. But over all, she’s not feeling set back. “I’ve always felt like I didn’t need high school. Next year when college starts, I’ll be fine,” says Talyah, a senior at Street Academy who plans on getting into the Peralta College system and focusing on interior design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13879072\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13879072\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-9.26.56-AM-800x810.png\" alt=\"Talyah Cole, future interior decorator\" width=\"800\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-9.26.56-AM-800x810.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-9.26.56-AM-160x162.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-9.26.56-AM-768x777.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-9.26.56-AM.png 824w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Talyah Cole, future interior decorator. \u003ccite>(Talyah Cole)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When it comes to be being connected to the larger class of 2020, Talyah says, “Its kind of embarrassing, just to know that we’re the only class that didn’t finish—that can’t finish. It’s not like we can go back—nobody wants to go back to high school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked her about the photo, the one where I’m holding her as a toddler. “I thought about that, and you know, if anything, when May 29 comes around, I’ll buy my own cap and gown and take a selfie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It speaks volumes about the Hulk-level rage of Harry and Meghan Markle that, even in the middle of one of the biggest health crises in living memory, they just can’t leave their fight with the British tabloids alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday evening, the ex-royal highnesses put four major U.K. tabloids on notice. The editors of \u003cem>The Daily Mail\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Sun\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Daily Mirror\u003c/em> and\u003cem> Daily Express \u003c/em>all received letters that said in part:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will not be engaging with your outlet. There will be no corroboration and zero engagement. This is also a policy being instated for their communications team, in order to protect that team from the side of the industry that readers never see.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Though the move makes very little practical sense (aren’t more falsehoods likely to be published if the publications can’t reach the couple for comment?) it remains refreshing to behold yet another example of the couple’s pushback against the outlets that have actively sought to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13866072/the-bullying-of-meghan-markle-continues-a-long-tradition-for-royal-wives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">torment Meghan Markle\u003c/a>.[aside postid='arts_13866072']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trajectory of Harry and Meghan’s recent lives has been almost entirely dictated by their ongoing struggles with the British press. In addition to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13872986/prince-harrys-rejection-of-the-royal-lifestyle-is-only-his-latest-rebellious-move\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">quitting their roles\u003c/a> as senior royals, both are currently embroiled in official battles with the U.K. tabloids. Harry’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/04/prince-harry-begins-legal-proceedings-against-sun-and-mirror-meghan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">legal proceedings\u003c/a> against the owners of the \u003cem>Sun\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Mirror,\u003c/em> over alleged incidents of phone hacking, are ongoing. The couple’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/01/meghan-sues-mail-on-sunday-for-publishing-letter-to-her-father\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lawsuit against the \u003cem>Daily Mail\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>over the publishing of a private letter from Markle to her father, has a hearing this Friday. [aside postid='arts_13875053']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the 1930s, the royal family’s unofficial motto has been “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/heres-what-the-royal-family-motto-never-complain-never-explain-really-means.html/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Never complain, never explain\u003c/a>.” It was a position initially adopted by Harry’s great-grandmother—known affectionately in the U.K. as “the Queen Mum”—after her husband, King George, found himself unexpectedly on the throne. (His brother Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorcée. \u003cem>Ahem\u003c/em>. Sound familiar?) It is remarkable, then, just how much Harry and Meghan have taken to both complaining \u003cem>and\u003c/em> explaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fight like this is probably overdue though. As \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13875053/the-suicide-of-caroline-flack-tabloid-gossip-and-the-power-of-uk-newspapers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED Arts reported\u003c/a> in February after the suicide of popular British TV presenter Caroline Flack, the daily tabloids wield an enormous degree of power in the U.K.—and they don’t always behave responsibly with it. And though questions around press conduct have swirled in Britain since the death of Princess Diana in 1997, no royal entity has ever fought the press like Harry and Meghan are currently doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given their ongoing legal battles, and the fact that Harry and Meghan don’t have a history of collaborating with those four newspapers anyway, the letters sent out over the weekend feel symbolic. Harry and Meghan aren’t just doubling down on their position: they’re setting a precedent for other British public figures to throw down similar gauntlets. If Harry and Meghan are successful in their legal battles, the rules of press engagement in the U.K. may never be the same again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harry and Meghan’s letter to the newspapers can be read in full below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>As The Duke and Duchess of Sussex now settle into the next chapter of their lives and no longer receive any publicly funded support, we are writing to set a new media relations policy, specifically as it pertains to your organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like you, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex believe that a free press is a cornerstone to any democracy—particularly in moments of crisis. At its best, this free press shines light on dark places, telling stories that would otherwise go untold, standing up for what’s right, challenging power, and holding those who abuse the system to account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been said that journalism’s first obligation is to the truth. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex agree wholeheartedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is gravely concerning that an influential slice of the media, over many years, has sought to insulate themselves from taking accountability for what they say or print—even when they know it to be distorted, false, or invasive beyond reason. When power is enjoyed without responsibility, the trust we all place in this much-needed industry is degraded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a real human cost to this way of doing business and it affects every corner of society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have watched people they know—as well as complete strangers—have their lives completely pulled apart for no good reason, other than the fact that salacious gossip boosts advertising revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With that said, please note that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will not be engaging with your outlet. There will be no corroboration and zero engagement. This is also a policy being instated for their communications team, in order to protect that team from the side of the industry that readers never see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This policy is not about avoiding criticism. It’s not about shutting down public conversation or censoring accurate reporting. Media have every right to report on and indeed have an opinion on The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, good or bad. But it can’t be based on a lie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also want to be very clear: this is not in any way a blanket policy for all media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are looking forward to working with journalists and media organizations all over the world, engaging with grassroots media, regional and local media, and young, up-and-coming journalists, to spotlight issues and causes that so desperately need acknowledging. And they look forward to doing whatever they can to help further opportunities for more diverse and underrepresented voices, who are needed now more than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What they won’t do is offer themselves up as currency for an economy of click bait and distortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are encouraged that this new approach will be heard and respected.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>’ve got a reasonable threshold for pain. Been to funerals and left with dry eyes. But last week I cracked and shed my first few tears of this COVD-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was reading \u003ca href=\"https://elemental.medium.com/coronavirus-is-wreaking-havoc-on-black-people-across-the-united-states-71472dabf308\">this\u003c/a> article on the science website Elemental about the disproportionate number of African Americans being impacted by the coronavirus, and I just broke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Michigan, which is only 14% Black, 40% of Covid-19 deaths are Black people. In Chicago, the proportion is higher: 70%,” writes Drew Costley. “In Milwaukee County, where Black people make up 26% of the population, Black people make up 81% of deaths.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I didn’t get blubbery or anything. A little liquid just jumped over the rim of my eyelid. And really, it wasn’t even about the numbers. It was about all the stories I’ve read that made me ask,\u003cem> What’s a black life worth\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The videos of police violence and conversations about infant mortality rates. The book on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2010/02/02/123232331/henrietta-lacks-a-donors-immortal-legacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Henrietta Lacks\u003c/a> and the story of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tuskegee Study\u003c/a>. The list goes on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I put the phone down to wipe my hairy face. \u003cem>Gotta get it together\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First step—cut the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m doing more harm to myself by being inundated with all this information—much of which I can’t do anything about. I’m here for being informed. And, as a journalist, it’s my job. At the same time, as an African American man, it’d be wise for me to mind my mental and physical health during these times, and not let my blood pressure get too high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">“H\u003c/span>ypertension is our number-one diagnosis amongst the adults that we treat at Roots,” said \u003ca href=\"https://rootsclinic.org/our-people/\">Dr. Noha M. 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When they’re just dealing with the normal run-of-the-mill healthcare disparities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13878720\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13878720\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/download-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/download-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/download-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/download-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/download.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Noha Aboelata of Oakland’s Roots Community Health Center.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Roots Community Health Center, located in East Oakland (with a satellite center in San Jose), serves a demographic that politicians call “the most vulnerable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes people without housing, people reentering society after being incarcerated and people who simply don’t go to healthcare providers because they don’t trust them. 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"content": "\u003cp>It’s happened to us all in the last few weeks. There you are, scrolling through Instagram minding your own business, when that little pop-up window appears, informing you with some urgency that an account you follow is going live. Without even thinking, you click it, only to find yourself in a dark virtual room with a human you met in passing at a party three years ago. And they’re reading \u003cem>Moby Dick\u003c/em> to their cat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since shelter-in-place orders came down, the uptick in live events on social media has been a double-edged sword. The people rushing to fulfill our increased desire for virtual social connection fall into two clear categories: those who strive to deliver, whether it be through interviews, music, comedy or instructional classes. And those who simply phone it in—the folks that go live while cleaning their kitchens, or sitting on the couch eating snacks, or casually chatting to their spouse in a directionless manner. All of which pose awkward etiquette conundrums for the rest of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unless you are Beyoncé, going live just to go live is probably a terrible idea,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/carlysevern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carly Severn\u003c/a>, KQED’s senior social media strategist. “Surprisingly early on in this shelter-in-place, I didn’t dare touch the top third of my phone’s screen for fear of being catapulted into somebody’s jam session. Or worse—their two-glasses-deep Q&A.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the current conditions, for every nice surprise—last Saturday, I spent an hour “two-stepping in the kitchen” to a mood-lifting \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/djjazzyjeff/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DJ Jazzy Jeff\u003c/a> set—there is a sigh-inducing disappointment. Like the Bay Area record store that went live over the weekend, camera zoomed in on decks like a DJ set was imminent, only to throw on a David Bowie album and wander off. (They know we can all just do that ourselves with YouTube, right?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The point of what makes a good live broadcast hasn’t really changed,” Severn explains. “Everyone doing this stuff should absolutely still ask themselves, ‘What do I want to achieve here, who am I doing this for, and why would they want to watch this?’ And they should unplug their router until they’ve asked themselves those questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just non-famous folks putting out dull live content either. As a die-hard \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/96171/all-the-crazy-crap-that-never-wouldve-made-it-to-tv-without-broad-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Broad City\u003c/em>\u003c/a> fan, when I saw that Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer were broadcasting live together on Sunday night, I rushed over to the feed expecting some much-needed hilarity. Instead, I was greeted by the sight of Glazer flossing and then brushing her teeth, while the women discussed the minutiae of their days without a thought for anyone watching. Jacobsen even repeatedly stated that she kept forgetting that thousands of other people were there. (We probably shouldn’t have been.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13878591\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13878591\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screenshot_20200412-205220-800x1422.png\" alt=\"Ilana Glazer brushes her teeth while Abbi Jacobson and nearly 4,000 other people watch on, bored out of their minds.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1422\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screenshot_20200412-205220-800x1422.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screenshot_20200412-205220-160x284.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screenshot_20200412-205220-768x1365.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/Screenshot_20200412-205220.png 864w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ilana Glazer brushes her teeth while Abbi Jacobson and nearly 4,000 other people watch on, bored out of their minds. \u003ccite>(Instagram @abbijacobson )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least with famous people though, it’s easy to duck in and out of a live feed at will. When it’s someone you know, and there are only a handful of other people watching, the stakes are both higher and a lot more awkward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As with a real-life party, leaving an online event when you’re one of two attendees (or when your departure will be noted) is a tricky beast,” Severn says. “Even if you’re leaving just because you’re so bored you want to cry, I recommend leaving a short and sweet parting message before virtually hightailing it out of there. If you get really desperate, pull the plug and follow up after, pleading internet trouble. 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"content": "\u003cp>As we slowly trudge, un-showered and in sweatpants, towards the end of the first month of lockdown, mood swings are almost inevitable. Oscillating wildly between resignation, frustration and good old-fashioned anxiety has become the new normal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s probably the perfect time, then, to point out that not only has the Bay Area been through epidemics before, it definitely handled things much, much worse the last time. And the time before that. Repeatedly. Especially in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.influenzaarchive.org/cities/city-sanfrancisco.html#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last time a health-related lockdown\u003c/a> began in the city, it was Friday, Oct. 18, 1918, when the San Francisco Board of Health voted to close all schools and “places of public amusement” in an effort to stem the spread of the dreaded influenza. This was followed one week later by an order that required everyone in the city to don face masks in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which all would have been smart and appropriate and proper if only city residents hadn’t been such stubborn jerks about cooperating with the orders. So many folks continued leaving their faces uncovered, the city had to start charging people with disturbing the peace, and punishing them with either $5-10 fines or county jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/coolgrey/status/1234018471702384641\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, once restrictions on venues were lifted after a 28-day lockdown, people rushed straight out to socialize, fearlessly packing dance halls and theaters with their germs. Apparently leading by example, this included \u003ca href=\"https://www.influenzaarchive.org/cities/city-sanfrancisco.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mayor James Rolph\u003c/a>, who attended a boxing match between Fred Fulton and Willie Meehan at the Civic Auditorium on Nov. 16, and was caught flouting his own mask rule so flagrantly that the police chief fined him $50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five days later, on Nov. 21 at noon, a city-wide whistle blast signaled that it was “safe” to take masks off. But people simply tossed them in the air, ignoring health officials’ pleas to save the gauze for later. The \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> reported the following day that “sidewalks and runnels were strewn with the relics of a torturous month.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsurprisingly, flu numbers flared up again after this premature move, and the city responded by sending out as much mixed messaging as humanly possible. Mayor Rolph told San Franciscans on Dec. 7 to put their masks back on, but an official ordinance from the Board of Supervisors didn’t come until Jan. 17, 1919.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make matters worse, the fact that public places were still open and operating was apparently not enough to appease freewheeling San Franciscans. We know this because over 2,000 residents banded together in January to attend a rally organized by some geniuses calling themselves the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/A-city-of-masks-When-the-flu-tore-through-San-6499265.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anti-Mask League\u003c/a>. Mandatory mask use was lifted once again on Feb. 1 as the city grew tired of dealing with loudmouthed rebels flouting the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All told, the flu epidemic infected 45,000 San Franciscans, and killed 3,000 in the city, due to a deadly combination of mixed messaging from authorities and public resistance to restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13878373\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 512px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13878373\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/AP18006852068959.jpg\" alt=\"Red Cross volunteer nurses tend to flu patients at the Oakland Municipal Auditorium in 1918. It was used as a temporary hospital during the epidemic.\" width=\"512\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/AP18006852068959.jpg 512w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/AP18006852068959-160x124.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red Cross volunteer nurses tend to flu patients at the Oakland Municipal Auditorium in 1918. It was used as a temporary hospital during the epidemic. \u003ccite>(Edward A. \"Doc\" Rogers/Library of Congress via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s uneven response to health crises wasn’t limited to the 1918 flu epidemic. In 1888, a \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=oB4LAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Biennial Report\u003c/em>\u003c/a> by the California Department of Public Health reported that the entire Bay Area was, at that time, dealing with cases of smallpox, scarlet fever, typhoid, consumption, diphtheria and cholera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazingly, \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=HwwPAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Cholera+Epidemic+of+1873+in+the+United+States&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi_l_b_9tvoAhUrGDQIHR7sD6AQ6AEwAHoECAMQAg#v=onepage&q=The%20Cholera%20Epidemic%20of%201873%20in%20the%20United%20States&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Cholera Epidemic of 1873 in the United States\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, written by the U.S. Surgeon General’s Office in 1875, reports that cholera first landed in San Francisco as early as September 1850. This was due to the arrival of the S.S. Carolina—a steamer ship that had \u003ca href=\"https://www.maritimeheritage.org/passengers/SS-Carolina-7October1850.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lost 13 passengers\u003c/a> to the disease before it even docked—and exacerbated by an attitude to\u003ca href=\"http://www.sf-info.org/history/d4/gold-rush\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> sanitation\u003c/a> that can most kindly be described as \u003cem>laissez faire\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following description is from 1854’s \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=RKJFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA419&dq=san+francisco+cholera&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwio-vKP9tvoAhXwHjQIHRUaBRAQ6AEwBXoECAIQAg#v=onepage&q=san%20francisco%20cholera&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Annals of San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The streets were thickly covered with black rotten mud. These were the proper dunghills of the town and were made a general depot for all kinds of rubbish and household sweepings, offal and filth. Sometimes the rains came and scattered the abominable stuffs, carrying part of them into the bay. Rats—huge, fat, lazy things—prowled about at pleasure… Sickening stenches invaded every quarter.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Outbreaks of cholera in San Jose, Carson Valley and Sacramento \u003ca href=\"https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DAC18651009.2.4&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">quickly followed\u003c/a>—said to be made worse by the spread of the illness via “overland emigrants.” By the end of the 1850 cholera outbreak, over 1,000 residents had died in Sacramento alone, out of a population of 8,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s true that infrastructure, including plumbing, had a hard time catching up to the population boom born of the Gold Rush, but it’s also true that San Francisco, for the longest time, cared not what was docking in its Bay. Having failed to learn its lesson after the 1850 cholera outbreak, another infested ship (the \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=9DKe_xdeFpYC&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=san+francisco+cholera+1855+SS+Sam&source=bl&ots=FFTLixEywm&sig=ACfU3U2wt41EiQGLwc45cDcT1TVq5gK5Mw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjD-dbyjNvoAhWXGDQIHVoQCHkQ6AEwDHoECA0QKg#v=onepage&q=san%20francisco%20cholera%201855%20SS%20Sam&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">S.S. Sam\u003c/a> this time) was permitted to enter the city just five years later which—you guessed it—caused another deadly cholera outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, the disease’s spread was assisted by both crappy sanitation \u003cem>and\u003c/em> makeshift living quarters. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/sfhistory/article/San-Francisco-1855-1856-incorporation-Gold-Rush-12958094.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The San Francisco Historical Museum\u003c/a> has since described the city of the period thusly:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>What a strange town was that, the San Francisco of 1856, its 30,000 people in speedy transition from a city of tents and shacks to one of brick and stone buildings, architecturally on a par with those of Atlantic seaboard cities, and its flimsy wooden and more pretentious sheet iron buildings filling in the spaces in between.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Remarkably, an 1883 copy of the \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=cy4gAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA327&dq=san+francisco+cholera&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwio-vKP9tvoAhXwHjQIHRUaBRAQ6AEwAXoECAEQAg#v=onepage&q=san%20francisco%20cholera&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>San Francisco Western Lancet\u003c/em>\u003c/a> medical journal suggests that, despite these outbreaks and dangerous habitations, sanitation in San Francisco remained in an abysmal state, even three decades later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The sewer on Fifth Street, having no bottom, continually filling with shifting sand, causes the sewage to collect and foul gasses to generate. One man recently met his death there because of the foul condition of the sewer… Just consider for a moment the condition of a municipal government which will allow a cesspool five miles long to exist in the heart of its jurisdiction. It is a criminal neglect of duty.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>No surprise, then, that San Francisco was treated to an \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_plague_of_1900%E2%80%931904\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">outbreak of plague\u003c/a> (actual Bubonic Plague!) as late as 1900. The neighborhood affected most was Chinatown, but California’s Governor at the time, Henry Gage, denied the outbreak was happening for two full years. By the time George Pardee replaced Gage in 1902 and started prioritizing people over commerce, the disease had such a foothold that it took another two years to quash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared to these moments in the city’s history, we’re blessed in 2020 to have leadership willing to make decisive calls for the sake of public safety. Let’s not forget that San Francisco was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/17/us/us-coronavirus-san-francisco-lockdown/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first American city\u003c/a> to issue a stay-at-home order in this coronavirus crisis, and had zero qualms about \u003ca href=\"https://813dcad3-2b07-4f3f-a25e-23c48c566922.filesusr.com/ugd/84606e_8b76957fcc4b4bab8d6876f7c2793d18.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extending its stay-at-home order\u003c/a> until at least May 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One \u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/news/spanish-flu-pandemic-response-cities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2007 analysis\u003c/a> of the 1918 flu epidemic claimed that if lockdown measures had stayed in place in San Francisco until Spring 1919, 90% of deaths in the region could have been prevented. The lessons from history are clear: Stay inside, be grateful for good plumbing and, most importantly of all, don’t be a rebellious jerk.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, once restrictions on venues were lifted after a 28-day lockdown, people rushed straight out to socialize, fearlessly packing dance halls and theaters with their germs. Apparently leading by example, this included \u003ca href=\"https://www.influenzaarchive.org/cities/city-sanfrancisco.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mayor James Rolph\u003c/a>, who attended a boxing match between Fred Fulton and Willie Meehan at the Civic Auditorium on Nov. 16, and was caught flouting his own mask rule so flagrantly that the police chief fined him $50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five days later, on Nov. 21 at noon, a city-wide whistle blast signaled that it was “safe” to take masks off. But people simply tossed them in the air, ignoring health officials’ pleas to save the gauze for later. The \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> reported the following day that “sidewalks and runnels were strewn with the relics of a torturous month.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsurprisingly, flu numbers flared up again after this premature move, and the city responded by sending out as much mixed messaging as humanly possible. Mayor Rolph told San Franciscans on Dec. 7 to put their masks back on, but an official ordinance from the Board of Supervisors didn’t come until Jan. 17, 1919.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make matters worse, the fact that public places were still open and operating was apparently not enough to appease freewheeling San Franciscans. We know this because over 2,000 residents banded together in January to attend a rally organized by some geniuses calling themselves the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/A-city-of-masks-When-the-flu-tore-through-San-6499265.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anti-Mask League\u003c/a>. Mandatory mask use was lifted once again on Feb. 1 as the city grew tired of dealing with loudmouthed rebels flouting the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All told, the flu epidemic infected 45,000 San Franciscans, and killed 3,000 in the city, due to a deadly combination of mixed messaging from authorities and public resistance to restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13878373\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 512px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13878373\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/AP18006852068959.jpg\" alt=\"Red Cross volunteer nurses tend to flu patients at the Oakland Municipal Auditorium in 1918. It was used as a temporary hospital during the epidemic.\" width=\"512\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/AP18006852068959.jpg 512w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/AP18006852068959-160x124.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red Cross volunteer nurses tend to flu patients at the Oakland Municipal Auditorium in 1918. It was used as a temporary hospital during the epidemic. \u003ccite>(Edward A. \"Doc\" Rogers/Library of Congress via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s uneven response to health crises wasn’t limited to the 1918 flu epidemic. In 1888, a \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=oB4LAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Biennial Report\u003c/em>\u003c/a> by the California Department of Public Health reported that the entire Bay Area was, at that time, dealing with cases of smallpox, scarlet fever, typhoid, consumption, diphtheria and cholera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazingly, \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=HwwPAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Cholera+Epidemic+of+1873+in+the+United+States&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi_l_b_9tvoAhUrGDQIHR7sD6AQ6AEwAHoECAMQAg#v=onepage&q=The%20Cholera%20Epidemic%20of%201873%20in%20the%20United%20States&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Cholera Epidemic of 1873 in the United States\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, written by the U.S. Surgeon General’s Office in 1875, reports that cholera first landed in San Francisco as early as September 1850. This was due to the arrival of the S.S. Carolina—a steamer ship that had \u003ca href=\"https://www.maritimeheritage.org/passengers/SS-Carolina-7October1850.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lost 13 passengers\u003c/a> to the disease before it even docked—and exacerbated by an attitude to\u003ca href=\"http://www.sf-info.org/history/d4/gold-rush\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> sanitation\u003c/a> that can most kindly be described as \u003cem>laissez faire\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following description is from 1854’s \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=RKJFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA419&dq=san+francisco+cholera&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwio-vKP9tvoAhXwHjQIHRUaBRAQ6AEwBXoECAIQAg#v=onepage&q=san%20francisco%20cholera&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Annals of San Francisco\u003c/em>\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The streets were thickly covered with black rotten mud. These were the proper dunghills of the town and were made a general depot for all kinds of rubbish and household sweepings, offal and filth. Sometimes the rains came and scattered the abominable stuffs, carrying part of them into the bay. Rats—huge, fat, lazy things—prowled about at pleasure… Sickening stenches invaded every quarter.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Outbreaks of cholera in San Jose, Carson Valley and Sacramento \u003ca href=\"https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DAC18651009.2.4&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">quickly followed\u003c/a>—said to be made worse by the spread of the illness via “overland emigrants.” By the end of the 1850 cholera outbreak, over 1,000 residents had died in Sacramento alone, out of a population of 8,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s true that infrastructure, including plumbing, had a hard time catching up to the population boom born of the Gold Rush, but it’s also true that San Francisco, for the longest time, cared not what was docking in its Bay. Having failed to learn its lesson after the 1850 cholera outbreak, another infested ship (the \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=9DKe_xdeFpYC&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=san+francisco+cholera+1855+SS+Sam&source=bl&ots=FFTLixEywm&sig=ACfU3U2wt41EiQGLwc45cDcT1TVq5gK5Mw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjD-dbyjNvoAhWXGDQIHVoQCHkQ6AEwDHoECA0QKg#v=onepage&q=san%20francisco%20cholera%201855%20SS%20Sam&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">S.S. Sam\u003c/a> this time) was permitted to enter the city just five years later which—you guessed it—caused another deadly cholera outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, the disease’s spread was assisted by both crappy sanitation \u003cem>and\u003c/em> makeshift living quarters. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/sfhistory/article/San-Francisco-1855-1856-incorporation-Gold-Rush-12958094.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The San Francisco Historical Museum\u003c/a> has since described the city of the period thusly:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>What a strange town was that, the San Francisco of 1856, its 30,000 people in speedy transition from a city of tents and shacks to one of brick and stone buildings, architecturally on a par with those of Atlantic seaboard cities, and its flimsy wooden and more pretentious sheet iron buildings filling in the spaces in between.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Remarkably, an 1883 copy of the \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=cy4gAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA327&dq=san+francisco+cholera&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwio-vKP9tvoAhXwHjQIHRUaBRAQ6AEwAXoECAEQAg#v=onepage&q=san%20francisco%20cholera&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>San Francisco Western Lancet\u003c/em>\u003c/a> medical journal suggests that, despite these outbreaks and dangerous habitations, sanitation in San Francisco remained in an abysmal state, even three decades later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The sewer on Fifth Street, having no bottom, continually filling with shifting sand, causes the sewage to collect and foul gasses to generate. 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