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"content": "\u003cp>As rain falls on greater Northern California, and snow accumulates on the Sierra Nevada mountains, I keep laughing in disbelief, thinking about Kaddo’s situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See, Kaddo is a rapper from 77th and Greenside in East Oakland. After getting transferred from Telsa’s Fremont factory to the one in Reno, he now lives in Nevada. He’s so committed to his craft and community, he used to drive back and forth just to record tracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, I saw him in person and he told me about life on the interstate. How living in Reno isn’t that bad, though some folks say the city’s name is an acronym for “Run Every N*gg* Out.” He says Nevada’s open carry laws have made living there more comfortable than in Oakland, at least when it comes to weapons. And he’s even gotten accustomed to the long slowdown over Donner Summit when there’s a storm approaching. The image of Kaddo, a black man with locs and gold teeth, putting chains on his car tires in the middle of the snowstorm sticks with me. It’s a reminder that although my commute is bad, \u003cem>it ain’t that bad\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s still bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13865533/daps-and-hugs-im-moving-out-of-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moving out of Oakland\u003c/a> to Sacramento three months ago, I’ve seen a lot: car accidents, roadkill, sunsets. I’ve driven past the charred fields from fires that scorched the grassy hillsides adjacent to the Carquinez Bridge. One day on Amtrak, my phone died, so I biked home through hail. When I turned my phone on, I learned a tornado had touched down in Davis at the same time my train went through town. And then there was the day the dammed refinery in Crockett exploded; it caused my Greyhound bus to take the supremely scenic route—a four-hour detour through Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I often ask myself, what’s the difference between a “commute” and “road trip”?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve grown extremely familiar with the highways and byways between the Bay Area and the state capital. I know best times to go through the Yolo Bypass, as well as the MacArthur Maze (hint: never). I’ve gotten familiar with where CHP likes to hide out to catch speeding drivers. Hell, give me a few more months and I’ll have memorized the grazing patterns of the cattle alongside I-80.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve reluctantly fallen in love with this commute, and how it gives me time to think about more than just Oakland. But I always end up thinking about Oakland. If we’re going to be honest, I’m suffering, bro. It ain’t even FOMO. It’s POMO—the pain of missing out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It hurts to not be in the town for small events. You know, potlucks, movie screenings and earthquakes—“Earthquake Twitter” just isn’t as fun from outside of the club. I think anyone who’s left home goes through this process. You know, where home isn’t home anymore, and at the same time, your new home isn’t home either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I’ve been trying to hold on to things that remind me of home. The result: long rides turn into listening sessions as I tap into\u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3jqXw1a8N8wdApp1B6k7pA?si=EiDtFdoGR2a6PCg8grlBbg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> some of the greatest musical gifts\u003c/a> the Bay Area has to offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870530\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13870530\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Kaddo-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"Kaddo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Kaddo-800x562.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Kaddo-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Kaddo-768x539.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Kaddo.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaddo. \u003ccite>(Artist photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I’ve listened to all four of the projects \u003ca href=\"https://www.larryjunetfm.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Larry June\u003c/a> put out this year— and I’ve enjoyed every last bar about healthy salads and fly cars; even if he does sometimes have an off-beat flow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve chuckled at the comedic bars from Guapdad 4000, who released his first album \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/guapdad4000/sets/dior-deposits-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Dior Deposits\u003c/em>\u003c/a> last month. And I’ve downright cracked up listening to \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/shaq-damian-lillard-rap-beef-explainer-893406/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dame D.O.L.L.A. trade bars with Shaq Fu\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I played the latest project from the duo SU’Lan, \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/officialsulan/sets/tia-tamera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Tia and Tamera\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and instantly started to drive faster. It’s wild how certain music does that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nef The Pharoh dropped \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/nefidelaphante/sets/mushrooms-coloring-books\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Mushrooms and Coloring Books\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and now every time my Greyhound passes the Vallejo bus station, I get the urge to play the track “South Vallejo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prezi Plane Jane dropped a seven-piece special called \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/planejane12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Money Bag\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Beejus dropped a dozen tracks on a project called \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/beejusmusic/sets/beautiful\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Beautiful\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. And Tia Nomore dropped a 30-minute project called \u003ca href=\"https://ffm.to/level\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Level\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, I listened to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxau-deuEYE&feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kaddo’s latest work\u003c/a>. I mean, he travels twice the distance I do in order to do his work; I had to listen solely off the strength of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve played music from elder statesmen, like E-40, who recently put out \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/e40/sets/practice-makes-paper-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Practice Makes Paper\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a 26-track project for his 26th studio album. I’ve listened to artists in the thick of their career like P-Lo, who between producing for other artists and serving as spokesperson for the 49ers dropped \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/heartbreakplo/sets/shine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I’ve also paid attention to new artists, like \u003ca href=\"https://fanlink.to/DaysWeLost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Sneed\u003c/a>. Man! His \u003cem>Days We Lost\u003c/em> album is \u003cem>made\u003c/em> for looking out of the window during long drives. It’s all about the coming-of-age process; I swear, the song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw7_Fgaf8PU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Junior\u003c/a>” could be a theme song to a movie, playing over old footage from when he was younger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The passing of time, the passing of the scenery. 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Beyond the cows and the spot where the motorcycle cop sometimes hides, and just before cresting the hillside that separates Fairfield from Vallejo. That’s when Rexx Life Raj’s song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3976ZIbJc8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Fog\u003c/a>” came on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No lie, at that exact moment, wisps of Bay Area fog began to accumulate in front of my car. A few seconds later, I was inside a full fog bank. I let out one of those laughs that deranged people do in the movies, pounding the steering wheel in excitement at the perfect timing of it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ayy, walk through the fog like bay weather / Still undefeated like Mayweather / I know I’m doin’ it right / The universe sendin’ me signs in bold letters,” Raj sang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I feel him. I’m on my path too, and all the signs are there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though I’m late for work in San Francisco, tired of driving 80mph on Interstate 80 in attempts to make it to and from Sacramento in under 80 minutes. Back pains from sitting. Pocket pains from spending. The last three months have been rough. But man, music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s the old saying? 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The image of Kaddo, a black man with locs and gold teeth, putting chains on his car tires in the middle of the snowstorm sticks with me. It’s a reminder that although my commute is bad, \u003cem>it ain’t that bad\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s still bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13865533/daps-and-hugs-im-moving-out-of-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moving out of Oakland\u003c/a> to Sacramento three months ago, I’ve seen a lot: car accidents, roadkill, sunsets. I’ve driven past the charred fields from fires that scorched the grassy hillsides adjacent to the Carquinez Bridge. One day on Amtrak, my phone died, so I biked home through hail. When I turned my phone on, I learned a tornado had touched down in Davis at the same time my train went through town. And then there was the day the dammed refinery in Crockett exploded; it caused my Greyhound bus to take the supremely scenic route—a four-hour detour through Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I often ask myself, what’s the difference between a “commute” and “road trip”?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve grown extremely familiar with the highways and byways between the Bay Area and the state capital. I know best times to go through the Yolo Bypass, as well as the MacArthur Maze (hint: never). I’ve gotten familiar with where CHP likes to hide out to catch speeding drivers. Hell, give me a few more months and I’ll have memorized the grazing patterns of the cattle alongside I-80.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve reluctantly fallen in love with this commute, and how it gives me time to think about more than just Oakland. But I always end up thinking about Oakland. If we’re going to be honest, I’m suffering, bro. It ain’t even FOMO. It’s POMO—the pain of missing out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It hurts to not be in the town for small events. You know, potlucks, movie screenings and earthquakes—“Earthquake Twitter” just isn’t as fun from outside of the club. I think anyone who’s left home goes through this process. You know, where home isn’t home anymore, and at the same time, your new home isn’t home either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I’ve been trying to hold on to things that remind me of home. The result: long rides turn into listening sessions as I tap into\u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3jqXw1a8N8wdApp1B6k7pA?si=EiDtFdoGR2a6PCg8grlBbg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> some of the greatest musical gifts\u003c/a> the Bay Area has to offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870530\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13870530\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Kaddo-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"Kaddo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Kaddo-800x562.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Kaddo-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Kaddo-768x539.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Kaddo.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaddo. \u003ccite>(Artist photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I’ve listened to all four of the projects \u003ca href=\"https://www.larryjunetfm.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Larry June\u003c/a> put out this year— and I’ve enjoyed every last bar about healthy salads and fly cars; even if he does sometimes have an off-beat flow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve chuckled at the comedic bars from Guapdad 4000, who released his first album \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/guapdad4000/sets/dior-deposits-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Dior Deposits\u003c/em>\u003c/a> last month. And I’ve downright cracked up listening to \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/shaq-damian-lillard-rap-beef-explainer-893406/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dame D.O.L.L.A. trade bars with Shaq Fu\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I played the latest project from the duo SU’Lan, \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/officialsulan/sets/tia-tamera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Tia and Tamera\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and instantly started to drive faster. It’s wild how certain music does that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nef The Pharoh dropped \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/nefidelaphante/sets/mushrooms-coloring-books\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Mushrooms and Coloring Books\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, and now every time my Greyhound passes the Vallejo bus station, I get the urge to play the track “South Vallejo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prezi Plane Jane dropped a seven-piece special called \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/planejane12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Money Bag\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. Beejus dropped a dozen tracks on a project called \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/beejusmusic/sets/beautiful\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Beautiful\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. And Tia Nomore dropped a 30-minute project called \u003ca href=\"https://ffm.to/level\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Level\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, I listened to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxau-deuEYE&feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kaddo’s latest work\u003c/a>. I mean, he travels twice the distance I do in order to do his work; I had to listen solely off the strength of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve played music from elder statesmen, like E-40, who recently put out \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/e40/sets/practice-makes-paper-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Practice Makes Paper\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a 26-track project for his 26th studio album. I’ve listened to artists in the thick of their career like P-Lo, who between producing for other artists and serving as spokesperson for the 49ers dropped \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/heartbreakplo/sets/shine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I’ve also paid attention to new artists, like \u003ca href=\"https://fanlink.to/DaysWeLost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Sneed\u003c/a>. Man! His \u003cem>Days We Lost\u003c/em> album is \u003cem>made\u003c/em> for looking out of the window during long drives. It’s all about the coming-of-age process; I swear, the song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw7_Fgaf8PU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Junior\u003c/a>” could be a theme song to a movie, playing over old footage from when he was younger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The passing of time, the passing of the scenery. All in a day’s commute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870425\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13870425\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/gBr9EXrV-1-800x1202.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Sneed\" width=\"800\" height=\"1202\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/gBr9EXrV-1-800x1202.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/gBr9EXrV-1-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/gBr9EXrV-1-768x1154.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/gBr9EXrV-1-1020x1533.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/gBr9EXrV-1-799x1200.jpg 799w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/gBr9EXrV-1.jpg 1363w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young Michael Sneed graces the stage at the Life Is Living festival in Oakland, circa 2011. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There was this one morning, a few weeks ago, when my dadmobile pushed past the Red Top Road exit on I-80, headed west. Beyond the cows and the spot where the motorcycle cop sometimes hides, and just before cresting the hillside that separates Fairfield from Vallejo. That’s when Rexx Life Raj’s song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3976ZIbJc8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Fog\u003c/a>” came on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No lie, at that exact moment, wisps of Bay Area fog began to accumulate in front of my car. A few seconds later, I was inside a full fog bank. I let out one of those laughs that deranged people do in the movies, pounding the steering wheel in excitement at the perfect timing of it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ayy, walk through the fog like bay weather / Still undefeated like Mayweather / I know I’m doin’ it right / The universe sendin’ me signs in bold letters,” Raj sang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I feel him. I’m on my path too, and all the signs are there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though I’m late for work in San Francisco, tired of driving 80mph on Interstate 80 in attempts to make it to and from Sacramento in under 80 minutes. Back pains from sitting. Pocket pains from spending. The last three months have been rough. But man, music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s the old saying? 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"content": "\u003cp>Former \u003cem>American Idol\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Fear Factor\u003c/em> contestant, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonella_Barba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Antonella Barba\u003c/a>, was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison this week after being caught with nearly two pounds of fentanyl. During the trial, \u003ca href=\"https://pagesix.com/2019/11/20/american-idol-star-antonella-barba-blames-show-for-drug-arrest/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her attorney stated\u003c/a> that: “The \u003cem>American Idol\u003c/em> experience brought about a detrimental change in Ms. Barba’s life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may not have altered the outcome of her trial, but there is ample evidence to suggest that participating in reality TV competitions can be terrible for your health. Substance abuse has proven to be a recurring issue. \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Herzog\">\u003cem>Survivor China\u003c/em>\u003c/a> winner Todd Herzog reportedly didn’t drink before the show, but has since battled alcoholism; \u003cem>Big Brother\u003c/em> winner \u003ca href=\"https://www.thefix.com/content/15-reality-stars-busted-drugs\">Adam Jasinski\u003c/a> developed an addiction and was caught attempting to sell oxycodone; and \u003ca href=\"https://www.thefix.com/content/15-reality-stars-busted-drugs\">\u003cem>Storage Wars\u003c/em>‘ Mark Balelo\u003c/a> killed himself two days after being arrested for meth possession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From \u003cem>America’s Next Top Model \u003c/em>alone\u003cem>,\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.etonline.com/news/160363_6_horrible_things_that_happened_to_top_model_contestants_after_the_show_ended\">Jael Strauss\u003c/a> developed a major meth habit; \u003ca href=\"https://www.etonline.com/news/160363_6_horrible_things_that_happened_to_top_model_contestants_after_the_show_ended\">Lisa D’Amato\u003c/a> ended up on \u003cem>Celebrity Rehab\u003c/em> thanks to amphetamines, cocaine, mushrooms and alcohol dependency; and Renee Alway, six years after her elimination, \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/renee-alway-americas-top-model-prison/story?id=28236042\">landed herself a 12-year prison\u003c/a> sentence for multiple burglaries, car thefts and weapons charges stemming from a heroin addiction. Alway says that after the show, “It was just closed door after closed door… I couldn’t get past the reality TV stigma that had been put on me… and then there’s the pressure of the fans. ‘Where are you?’ ‘What happened?’ It’s almost like a setup for failure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/qy3c4dNzEJ0?t=203\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reality TV is now such a ubiquitous genre, it’s easy to forget that, especially for regular people with zero media training, the whirlwind of having one’s life put under a microscope and dissected on social media can be far more than anxiety-inducing—it can be literally life-endangering. The list of post-reality TV suicides is sobering, to say the least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two Season 14 \u003cem>Bachelor\u003c/em> contestants, \u003ca href=\"https://bachelor-nation.fandom.com/wiki/Alexa_McAllister\">Alexa McAllister\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gia_Allemand\">Gia Allemand\u003c/a>, committed suicide after the show, as did \u003ca href=\"https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/bachelorette-contestant-julien-hugs-suicide-note-read-aloud-at-funeral-20101311/\">Julien Hug\u003c/a> who appeared on \u003cem>The Bachelorette\u003c/em> in 2009. \u003cem>Kitchen Nightmares’\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.imdb.com/news/ni4642572\">Joseph Cerniglia\u003c/a> jumped off a bridge, while \u003cem>Hell’s Kitchen\u003c/em> contestant \u003ca href=\"https://hellskitchen.fandom.com/wiki/Rachel_Brown\">Rachel Brown\u003c/a> and \u003cem>MasterChef\u003c/em>’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2013/10/13/showbiz/masterchef-joshua-marks-suicide/index.html\">Joshua Marks\u003c/a> shot themselves. \u003cem>The Voice\u003c/em>’s \u003ca href=\"https://woldcnews.com/1515526/anthony-riley-former-voice-contestant-dies-of-apparent-suicide/\">Anthony Riley\u003c/a> and \u003cem>X Factor\u003c/em> contestant \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Battle\">Simone Battle\u003c/a> both hanged themselves. \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtOesRewO9c\">Paula Goodspeed\u003c/a> took an overdose in front of Paula Abdul’s house after being rejected from \u003cem>American Idol\u003c/em>. And before \u003cem>Real Housewives of Beverly Hills\u003c/em>‘ \u003ca href=\"https://www.eonline.com/fr/news/258422/timeline-of-a-tragedy-real-housewives-russell-armstrong-was-always-depressed\">Russell Armstrong\u003c/a> killed himself in 2011, he said that being on TV “took our manageable problems and made them worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the UK, \u003cem>Love Island\u003c/em> contestants have been the subject of much concern, after two, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wikihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Thalassitis/Mike_Thalassitis\">Mike Thalassitis\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Gradon\">Sophie Gradon\u003c/a>, took their own lives. Gradon’s boyfriend \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-47623086\">Aaron Armstrong\u003c/a> followed suit less than three weeks after she died. And he’s not the only spouse to have suffered—after appearing on \u003cem>Megan Wants A Millionaire\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jasmine_Fiore\">Ryan Jenkins\u003c/a> murdered his girlfriend, Jasmine Fiore, then hanged himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serious issues were established decades ago around the well-being of individuals who appear on reality TV. In 1995, 32-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Scott_Amedure\">Scott Amedure\u003c/a> was murdered after sharing fantasies about his friend Jonathan Schmitz on \u003cem>The Jenny Jones Show. \u003c/em>Schmitz had been told that he was there to meet a secret admirer, whom he had assumed would be a woman. Three days after the friends appeared on the show, Schmitz killed Amedure with a shotgun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five years later, Nancy Campbell-Panitz was beaten to death by her ex-husband, Ralf Panitz, after the pair appeared in a \u003cem>Jerry Springer\u003c/em> episode titled “Secret Mistresses Confronted.” Panitz was convicted of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jerry-springer-murder-conviction/\">second degree murder\u003c/a>. That same year, the talk show \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgive_or_Forget\">\u003cem>Forgive Or Forget\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, hosted by Robin Givens, featured a 17-year-old named \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/g2/story/0,3604,347943,00.html\">Charlene Burkey\u003c/a>, who was pregnant with her third child. Her boyfriend Larry Kieper appeared alongside her, skipping out on a court date related to weapons possession charges to do so. The night before the show aired, Burkey was shot twice in the head. Two friends of Kieper’s were arrested and charged with her murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EvUzzbzFNc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the families of Amedure and Campbell-Panitz sued the TV networks responsible for \u003cem>Jones\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Springer\u003c/em>. But after a Court of Appeals verdict overturned a $30 million dollar award to Scott Amedure’s family, stating that TV shows have no legal duty to protect their guests, Campbell-Panitz’s son dropped his lawsuit. Both shows continued for many years, and the controversial format was adopted by other countries around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just this year, in May, a 63-year-old man named \u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/talk-show-guest-died-by-suicide-after-failing-liedetector-test-onair-and-being-dumped-by-his-girlfriend-123837728.html\">Steve Dymond took his own life\u003c/a> a week after appearing on Britain’s premier tabloid talk show. During his appearance on \u003cem>The Jeremy Kyle Show \u003c/em>(somewhere in tone between \u003cem>Jerry Springer\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Dr. Phil\u003c/em>)\u003cem>, \u003c/em>Dymond had been given a polygraph test that concluded that he had been unfaithful to his fiancé. She promptly broke up with him. During the highly-publicized inquest into his death, it was revealed that two hours before being sent home from the studio, Dymond told a researcher for the show that \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/07/jeremy-kyle-show-guest-said-i-wish-i-was-dead-coroner-told\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he wished he was dead\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the furor following Dymond’s death, Carla Wright, an ex-TV researcher on \u003cem>The Trisha Goddard Show—\u003c/em>which ran from 1998 to 2009 in the UK, and between 2012 and 2014 in the US—\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/15/jeremy-kyle-cruelty-guests-death-show-tv\">admitted in \u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that little regard was given to the welfare of the guests on these kinds of shows. “We pounced on them, with their lives in crisis,” she wrote, “and told them this was a chance to make positive change… For compliance, we would do a mental health check asking about medication, diagnosis and suicide attempts. Depression and anxiety were okay, as far as we were concerned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One \u003cem>Love Island\u003c/em> contestant, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/_domlever?lang=en\">Dom Lever\u003c/a>, confirmed on Twitter after his time on the show that, “You get a psychological evaluation before and after you go on the show, but hands down, once you are done on the show, you don’t get any support unless you’re number one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the public chews up and spits out contestant after contestant on a neverending assembly line of shows, it’s increasingly apparent that not enough is being done to safeguard the health and safety of those participating. These shows have always been guilty pleasures for most of us. But what happens when the guilt starts to outweigh the pleasure?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the networks expect us to keep tuning in, they need to do far more to protect the people that appear on them. 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And before \u003cem>Real Housewives of Beverly Hills\u003c/em>‘ \u003ca href=\"https://www.eonline.com/fr/news/258422/timeline-of-a-tragedy-real-housewives-russell-armstrong-was-always-depressed\">Russell Armstrong\u003c/a> killed himself in 2011, he said that being on TV “took our manageable problems and made them worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the UK, \u003cem>Love Island\u003c/em> contestants have been the subject of much concern, after two, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wikihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Thalassitis/Mike_Thalassitis\">Mike Thalassitis\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Gradon\">Sophie Gradon\u003c/a>, took their own lives. Gradon’s boyfriend \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-47623086\">Aaron Armstrong\u003c/a> followed suit less than three weeks after she died. And he’s not the only spouse to have suffered—after appearing on \u003cem>Megan Wants A Millionaire\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jasmine_Fiore\">Ryan Jenkins\u003c/a> murdered his girlfriend, Jasmine Fiore, then hanged himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serious issues were established decades ago around the well-being of individuals who appear on reality TV. In 1995, 32-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Scott_Amedure\">Scott Amedure\u003c/a> was murdered after sharing fantasies about his friend Jonathan Schmitz on \u003cem>The Jenny Jones Show. \u003c/em>Schmitz had been told that he was there to meet a secret admirer, whom he had assumed would be a woman. Three days after the friends appeared on the show, Schmitz killed Amedure with a shotgun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five years later, Nancy Campbell-Panitz was beaten to death by her ex-husband, Ralf Panitz, after the pair appeared in a \u003cem>Jerry Springer\u003c/em> episode titled “Secret Mistresses Confronted.” Panitz was convicted of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jerry-springer-murder-conviction/\">second degree murder\u003c/a>. That same year, the talk show \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgive_or_Forget\">\u003cem>Forgive Or Forget\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, hosted by Robin Givens, featured a 17-year-old named \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/g2/story/0,3604,347943,00.html\">Charlene Burkey\u003c/a>, who was pregnant with her third child. Her boyfriend Larry Kieper appeared alongside her, skipping out on a court date related to weapons possession charges to do so. The night before the show aired, Burkey was shot twice in the head. Two friends of Kieper’s were arrested and charged with her murder.\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/3EvUzzbzFNc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/3EvUzzbzFNc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Both the families of Amedure and Campbell-Panitz sued the TV networks responsible for \u003cem>Jones\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Springer\u003c/em>. But after a Court of Appeals verdict overturned a $30 million dollar award to Scott Amedure’s family, stating that TV shows have no legal duty to protect their guests, Campbell-Panitz’s son dropped his lawsuit. Both shows continued for many years, and the controversial format was adopted by other countries around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just this year, in May, a 63-year-old man named \u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/talk-show-guest-died-by-suicide-after-failing-liedetector-test-onair-and-being-dumped-by-his-girlfriend-123837728.html\">Steve Dymond took his own life\u003c/a> a week after appearing on Britain’s premier tabloid talk show. During his appearance on \u003cem>The Jeremy Kyle Show \u003c/em>(somewhere in tone between \u003cem>Jerry Springer\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Dr. Phil\u003c/em>)\u003cem>, \u003c/em>Dymond had been given a polygraph test that concluded that he had been unfaithful to his fiancé. She promptly broke up with him. During the highly-publicized inquest into his death, it was revealed that two hours before being sent home from the studio, Dymond told a researcher for the show that \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/07/jeremy-kyle-show-guest-said-i-wish-i-was-dead-coroner-told\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he wished he was dead\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the furor following Dymond’s death, Carla Wright, an ex-TV researcher on \u003cem>The Trisha Goddard Show—\u003c/em>which ran from 1998 to 2009 in the UK, and between 2012 and 2014 in the US—\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/15/jeremy-kyle-cruelty-guests-death-show-tv\">admitted in \u003cem>The Guardian\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that little regard was given to the welfare of the guests on these kinds of shows. “We pounced on them, with their lives in crisis,” she wrote, “and told them this was a chance to make positive change… For compliance, we would do a mental health check asking about medication, diagnosis and suicide attempts. Depression and anxiety were okay, as far as we were concerned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One \u003cem>Love Island\u003c/em> contestant, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/_domlever?lang=en\">Dom Lever\u003c/a>, confirmed on Twitter after his time on the show that, “You get a psychological evaluation before and after you go on the show, but hands down, once you are done on the show, you don’t get any support unless you’re number one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the public chews up and spits out contestant after contestant on a neverending assembly line of shows, it’s increasingly apparent that not enough is being done to safeguard the health and safety of those participating. These shows have always been guilty pleasures for most of us. But what happens when the guilt starts to outweigh the pleasure?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s been two weeks since AfroTech has come and gone in Oakland, and I’m still hearing things about it—some good, and some not so good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/571621730266616/\">Thursday, Nov. 21\u003c/a>, The Town Experience hosts an open forum from 5:30pm–7:30pm at the Uptown in Oakland for people to share their experiences. Charlese Banks of The Town Experience is the lead organizer of the upcoming forum, which AfroTech management says they’ll use to inform next year’s conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The demand for something like this was high,” says Banks. “So we’re going to have a constructive feedback session.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s good, because for the past few days, the conversation has been living rent-free inside of my head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conference, which aims to connect the black community with the tech industry, was a beautiful gathering with thousands of people in attendance. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/He-s-working-to-diversify-the-tech-industry-14833097.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Students from local schools\u003c/a> were represented, Congresswoman Barbara Lee was honored for her work and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101874437/bernard-tyson-ceo-of-kaiser-permanente-dies-at-60\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernard J. Tyson\u003c/a>, the first African American chief executive officer of Kaiser Permanente, spoke just hours before he passed in his sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the streets just outside of the conference, brown-skinned women in yellow blazers with long curly locs walked past dark-skinned men in collard shirts with deep waves. I hadn’t seen that many black folks concentrated at one spot in Oakland since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13832886/were-still-here-bbqn-while-black-draws-out-oaklanders-in-force\">BBQ’n While Black\u003c/a>. Walking around at night, I saw groups of black folks trickling into a private event at Plank in Jack London Square, packed house-party-style inside of Miss Ollies in Old Oakland and circled-up at the bar inside of 7th West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870003\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13870003\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"At the West Oakland Youth Center, young people making video games with assistance from the Hidden Genius Project and The David Glover Digital Technology Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the West Oakland Youth Center, young people making video games with assistance from the The Hidden Genius Project and The David Glover Digital Technology Center. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, before the official start of the conference, I stopped by the West Oakland Youth Center, where folks from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.degetc.org/\">David Glover Emerging Technology Center\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.hiddengeniusproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Hidden Genius Project\u003c/a> had teamed up with the\u003ca href=\"https://www.fam1stfamilyfoundation.org/\"> Fam1st Family Foundation\u003c/a> to hold a coding workshop for a bouncy group of preteen boys and girls, all of them African American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re here doing this all the time,” said Akeem Brown, Program Director with The Hidden Genius Project. They meet there regularly, every Tuesday and Thursday, AfroTech or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was like a sitcom the way he finished his sentence and not even a minute later, a guy named Tony walked in the youth center—black luggage bag on wheels in tow—fresh off the airplane from Los Angeles. He said he was in town for the conference, and wanted to apply for a job with The Hidden Genius Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so the conference was a job fair, technical workshop and family reunion all in one. As The Hidden Genius Project’s Executive Director Brandon Nicholson told me, “It’s just like Howard Homecoming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I could see that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The black working class and middle class, coming together to strive for further upward mobility and simultaneously celebrate black excellence… all while some disenfranchised locals feel overlooked. That’s how it was when I was at Howard University. That’s how some felt about AfroTech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the free community stage and open workshops, it was the closed sessions, private clubs and $450 conference ticket price that left a number of people feeling like it wasn’t for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few people told me in person, while others left comments on chat boards. And then there was this thread attached to\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OGpenn/status/1192926822771478528?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a tweet\u003c/a> I posted during the conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right before I left AfroTech in Old Oakland on Friday, I talked to a guy named Ron, an unsheltered guy who lives on the corner of Eighth & Clay Streets with his partner. I simply asked him if he’d seen any changes in the way he’s been treated this weekend, given there was a conference celebrating black excellence in the extremely lucrative field of technology, right there in his backyard. “Na, they step over me just like everyone else,” Ron told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I tweeted the interaction out. It ruffled a few feathers, for better or worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870017\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13870017\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM-800x570.png\" alt=\"A sound response. \" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM-800x570.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM-160x114.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM-768x547.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM-1020x726.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM.png 1194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sound response.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t a shot at AfroTech, or even a commentary on the attendees. It was just an observation; a note about the conflicting juxtaposition I’d just witnessed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I mean, on one hand, you’ve got people talking about how \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/awholecatfish/status/1192915445801635840?s=20\">AfroTech had downtown Oakland looking like Wakanda\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on the other hand, here’s Ron, a homeless African American man. In a place where \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandhomelessresponse.com/the-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">70% of the unsheltered people are African American\u003c/a>. A place that’s currently going through a homeless crisis that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700750/after-scathing-un-report-on-homelessness-advocates-demand-oakland-stop-sidewalk-sweeps\">United Nations\u003c/a> has called “cruel and inhuman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A place where, literally as AfroTech was going on, a group of unsheltered people were \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/Longtime-Oakland-residents-now-homeless-14815555.php\">evicted from an encampment\u003c/a>—many of them African American Oakland natives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And days later, as I type this, Dominique Walker and Sameerah Karim, two African American mothers associated with the group \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/moms4housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moms 4 Housing\u003c/a>, have commandeered a vacant house in West Oakland that was foreclosed on and then purchased by \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/qw-mCADmygF91V0nh8YBoy?domain=wedgewood-inc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wedgewood Properties.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s drastic times in the town right now when it comes to black folks and housing. And I can’t stop thinking about it. Reading about it. Researching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A further illustration of the point about race and class: between 2008-2017, the median annual household income of black residents moving into the Bay Area was approximately 42% higher than that of black residents moving out of the Bay Area, according to Issi Romem, founder and director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.metrosight.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MetroSight\u003c/a>, a consulting firm which provides research and analysis into city data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, over that same 10-year period, the Bay Area had more black residents leave (about 149,000) than arrive (about 109,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, there’s more black folks going than coming. And those who are coming to the Bay Area have deeper pockets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What can be done?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I in no way think homelessness is a byproduct of AfroTech. Nor is it the immediate responsibility of the attendees. But there’s a clear opportunity for something to be done, something that bridges the overwhelming amount of unsheltered black folks on the streets of the Bay Area and African Americans in tech—an industry that’s exacerbated the cost of living in the Bay Area, and one of the many driving forces, along with lack of government oversight and greedy developers, pushing gentrification in this region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People in the Bay Area are working every day to solve this problem. Hopefully before next year’s AfroTech, something significant can be done. Because bruh, I don’t recall seeing any unsheltered folks being stepped over in Wakanda.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the streets just outside of the conference, brown-skinned women in yellow blazers with long curly locs walked past dark-skinned men in collard shirts with deep waves. I hadn’t seen that many black folks concentrated at one spot in Oakland since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13832886/were-still-here-bbqn-while-black-draws-out-oaklanders-in-force\">BBQ’n While Black\u003c/a>. Walking around at night, I saw groups of black folks trickling into a private event at Plank in Jack London Square, packed house-party-style inside of Miss Ollies in Old Oakland and circled-up at the bar inside of 7th West.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870003\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13870003\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"At the West Oakland Youth Center, young people making video games with assistance from the Hidden Genius Project and The David Glover Digital Technology Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EI0N485U8AAf6cZ.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the West Oakland Youth Center, young people making video games with assistance from the The Hidden Genius Project and The David Glover Digital Technology Center. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, before the official start of the conference, I stopped by the West Oakland Youth Center, where folks from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.degetc.org/\">David Glover Emerging Technology Center\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.hiddengeniusproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Hidden Genius Project\u003c/a> had teamed up with the\u003ca href=\"https://www.fam1stfamilyfoundation.org/\"> Fam1st Family Foundation\u003c/a> to hold a coding workshop for a bouncy group of preteen boys and girls, all of them African American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re here doing this all the time,” said Akeem Brown, Program Director with The Hidden Genius Project. They meet there regularly, every Tuesday and Thursday, AfroTech or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was like a sitcom the way he finished his sentence and not even a minute later, a guy named Tony walked in the youth center—black luggage bag on wheels in tow—fresh off the airplane from Los Angeles. He said he was in town for the conference, and wanted to apply for a job with The Hidden Genius Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so the conference was a job fair, technical workshop and family reunion all in one. As The Hidden Genius Project’s Executive Director Brandon Nicholson told me, “It’s just like Howard Homecoming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I could see that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The black working class and middle class, coming together to strive for further upward mobility and simultaneously celebrate black excellence… all while some disenfranchised locals feel overlooked. That’s how it was when I was at Howard University. That’s how some felt about AfroTech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the free community stage and open workshops, it was the closed sessions, private clubs and $450 conference ticket price that left a number of people feeling like it wasn’t for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few people told me in person, while others left comments on chat boards. And then there was this thread attached to\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OGpenn/status/1192926822771478528?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a tweet\u003c/a> I posted during the conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right before I left AfroTech in Old Oakland on Friday, I talked to a guy named Ron, an unsheltered guy who lives on the corner of Eighth & Clay Streets with his partner. I simply asked him if he’d seen any changes in the way he’s been treated this weekend, given there was a conference celebrating black excellence in the extremely lucrative field of technology, right there in his backyard. “Na, they step over me just like everyone else,” Ron told me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I tweeted the interaction out. It ruffled a few feathers, for better or worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13870017\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13870017\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM-800x570.png\" alt=\"A sound response. \" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM-800x570.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM-160x114.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM-768x547.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM-1020x726.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-18-at-12.58.43-PM.png 1194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sound response.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t a shot at AfroTech, or even a commentary on the attendees. It was just an observation; a note about the conflicting juxtaposition I’d just witnessed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I mean, on one hand, you’ve got people talking about how \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/awholecatfish/status/1192915445801635840?s=20\">AfroTech had downtown Oakland looking like Wakanda\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on the other hand, here’s Ron, a homeless African American man. In a place where \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandhomelessresponse.com/the-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">70% of the unsheltered people are African American\u003c/a>. A place that’s currently going through a homeless crisis that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700750/after-scathing-un-report-on-homelessness-advocates-demand-oakland-stop-sidewalk-sweeps\">United Nations\u003c/a> has called “cruel and inhuman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A place where, literally as AfroTech was going on, a group of unsheltered people were \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/Longtime-Oakland-residents-now-homeless-14815555.php\">evicted from an encampment\u003c/a>—many of them African American Oakland natives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And days later, as I type this, Dominique Walker and Sameerah Karim, two African American mothers associated with the group \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/moms4housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moms 4 Housing\u003c/a>, have commandeered a vacant house in West Oakland that was foreclosed on and then purchased by \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/qw-mCADmygF91V0nh8YBoy?domain=wedgewood-inc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wedgewood Properties.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s drastic times in the town right now when it comes to black folks and housing. And I can’t stop thinking about it. Reading about it. Researching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A further illustration of the point about race and class: between 2008-2017, the median annual household income of black residents moving into the Bay Area was approximately 42% higher than that of black residents moving out of the Bay Area, according to Issi Romem, founder and director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.metrosight.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MetroSight\u003c/a>, a consulting firm which provides research and analysis into city data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, over that same 10-year period, the Bay Area had more black residents leave (about 149,000) than arrive (about 109,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, there’s more black folks going than coming. And those who are coming to the Bay Area have deeper pockets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What can be done?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I in no way think homelessness is a byproduct of AfroTech. Nor is it the immediate responsibility of the attendees. But there’s a clear opportunity for something to be done, something that bridges the overwhelming amount of unsheltered black folks on the streets of the Bay Area and African Americans in tech—an industry that’s exacerbated the cost of living in the Bay Area, and one of the many driving forces, along with lack of government oversight and greedy developers, pushing gentrification in this region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Wondering about the best podcasts for trips, long drives or (let’s face it) airport delays?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the holidays fast approaching, chances are you’ll find yourself hitting the road or sky, and in need of binge-worthy audio to entertain you. Never fear: below, we’ve collected seven of the most immersive, compelling and (sorry) \u003cem>transporting\u003c/em> podcast episodes to recently come out of KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cue up these picks on your podcast platform of choice—or scroll to the end to download the Spotify playlist—and you’ll never be bored while stuck in traffic or delayed at the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782405/tunnels-under-san-francisco-inside-the-dark-dangerous-world-of-the-sewers\">Secret Tunnels Under San Francisco? \u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nFrom \u003cem>Bay Curious\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13869970\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/RS39796_Tunnel_02-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/RS39796_Tunnel_02-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/RS39796_Tunnel_02-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/RS39796_Tunnel_02-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/RS39796_Tunnel_02-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/RS39796_Tunnel_02-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/RS39796_Tunnel_02-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every episode of \u003cem>Bay Curious\u003c/em> is sparked by audience curiosity about local conundrums–and they’ve received a \u003cem>lot\u003c/em> of questions about whether there’s a network of mystery tunnels under San Francisco. This dark-and-dirty episode takes listeners to a place it’s likely they will never actually visit; a very real labyrinth that sprawls deep underground—AKA the city’s vast sewer system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to the episode to explore this underworld with the \u003cem>Bay Curious\u003c/em> team. Between lethal gases, fast-flowing rivers of sewage and the risk of getting lost in the darkness, you’ll probably be glad to take this tour \u003cem>virtually\u003c/em> via your headphones, rather than IRL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782405/tunnels-under-san-francisco-inside-the-dark-dangerous-world-of-the-sewers\">Listen at kqed.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/secret-tunnels-under-san-francisco/id1172473406?i=1000455577910\">Listen on Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Also available on NPR One, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11777723/blind-beekeeper-relies-on-the-sound-of-the-swarm-to-keep-her-hives-happy\">Blind Beekeeper Relies on Sound to Keep Her Hives Happy\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nFrom \u003cem>The California Report Magazine\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13869926 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/RS39379_beekeeper2-qut-1020x679.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1020\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/RS39379_beekeeper2-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/RS39379_beekeeper2-qut-1020x679-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/RS39379_beekeeper2-qut-1020x679-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/RS39379_beekeeper2-qut-1020x679-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think I could be a good beekeeper without being able to see.” This special episode from \u003cem>The California Report Magazine\u003c/em>’s weekly podcast immerses the listener in the world of Aerial: a Bay area nurse who lost her sight after using tampered eyedrops. Navigating her new reality, she found purpose and meaning in the hobby she’d enjoyed since she was a teen: beekeeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen as Aerial explains how she knows whether her swarm—she calls them “her girls”—are happy, and how to hear their “waggle dance” (the movement bees make to tell others where to find pollen). After experiencing this episode, you’ll never hear bees again the same way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11777723/blind-beekeeper-relies-on-the-sound-of-the-swarm-to-keep-her-hives-happy\">Listen at kqed.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blind-beekeeper-relies-on-sound-to-keep-her-hives-happy/id1314750545?i=1000452376183\">Listen on Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Also available on NPR One, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/102783/queer-eyes-jonathan-van-ness-on-turning-red-states-pink-one-makeover-at-a-time\">\u003cem>Queer Eye\u003c/em>‘s Jonathan Van Ness on Turning Red States Pink\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nFrom \u003cem>The Cooler\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13869925\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Jonathan-Van-Ness.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Jonathan-Van-Ness.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Jonathan-Van-Ness-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Jonathan-Van-Ness-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most engrossing podcast interviews are the ones where you feel you’ve been teleported into the room with the people in question—and this 2018 interview with the infamously personable \u003cem>Queer Eye\u003c/em> star Jonathan Van Ness on KQED’s pop culture podcast \u003cem>The Cooler\u003c/em> is no exception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a conversation that ranges from raucous to heartfelt and intimate, Van Ness talks to hosts Emmanuel Hapsis, Jamedra Brown-Fleischman and Carly Severn about growing up gay in a small town, dealing with online trolls, the healing power of figure skating and a particularly controversial moment from \u003cem>Queer Eye\u003c/em>’s second season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/102783/queer-eyes-jonathan-van-ness-on-turning-red-states-pink-one-makeover-at-a-time\">Listen at kqed.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/queer-eyes-jonathan-van-ness-on-turning-red-states-pink/id1041117499?i=1000407027183\">Listen on Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Also available on NPR One, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/42/joy-may-16th\">Joy\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nfrom \u003cem>Truth Be Told \u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13869927\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EventBrite_TBT.R-1920x960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EventBrite_TBT.R-1920x960.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EventBrite_TBT.R-1920x960-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EventBrite_TBT.R-1920x960-800x400.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EventBrite_TBT.R-1920x960-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EventBrite_TBT.R-1920x960-1020x510.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EventBrite_TBT.R-1920x960-1200x600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is it OK to feel joy when it feels like the world is burning? In the first episode of KQED’s advice show made by people of color for people of color, host Tonya Mosley brings us to her hometown of Detroit, Michigan—the “epicenter of pleasure in the midst of turmoil,” as she calls it. Mosley sits down with her grandmother Ernestine Mosley and \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> bestselling author Adrienne Maree Brown for some hard questions, deep laughs, and much-needed affirmations about why it’s not only OK to feel joy, but it’s absolutely necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And stay tuned: \u003cem>Truth Be Told\u003c/em> returns for a second season in early 2020!\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/42/joy-may-16th\">Listen at kqed.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/joy-episode-1/id1462216572?i=1000438248776\">Listen on Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Also available on NPR One, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11780279/native-american-occupation-at-alcatraz-50-years\">‘We’re Still Here’\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nFrom\u003cem> The Bay\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13869928\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_2671-1-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1020\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_2671-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_2671-1-1020x765-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_2671-1-1020x765-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_2671-1-1020x765-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this episode of\u003cem> The Bay\u003c/em>, KQED reporter Alice Woelfle follows along with Native people from across the West Coast in a ceremonial canoe journey around Alcatraz Island. First, we hear the building of a tule boat, then the sound of paddle hitting the water as members of different tribes, territories, communities and families embark on their paddle around the island before returning to shore to be greeted by Ohlone elders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The paddle commemorated the 50-year anniversary of the occupation of Alcatraz, a movement which lasted 19 months and brought widespread visibility for American Indian civil rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11780279/native-american-occupation-at-alcatraz-50-years\">Listen at kqed.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/were-still-here-canoe-journey-to-alcatraz-to-remember/id1350043452?i=1000453734022\">Listen on Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Also available on NPR One, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13859970/rightnowish-miko-marks-and-the-oakland-rollers\">Oakland’s Rollerskating Country Singer\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nFrom \u003cem>Rightnowish\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13869929\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/oakland-rollers-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/oakland-rollers-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/oakland-rollers-800x450-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/oakland-rollers-800x450-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where do country singing and roller skating collide? On a small cul-de-sac on the southern side of Lake Merritt in Oakland, according to musician Miko Marks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as I put these skates on, I feel like I’m a kid again,” Marks says in this episode of \u003cem>Rightnowish\u003c/em>, KQED’s new arts and culture podcast hosted by Pendarvis Harshaw. After nearly a decade of touring the nation as a country singer, Marks’s love for roller skating completely transformed her sense of play—and her music. Put on your skates (and your headphones!) and listen to the full episode to hear more about Marks’s new sound and new take on life with wheels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13859970/rightnowish-miko-marks-and-the-oakland-rollers\">Listen at kqed.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/oaklands-rollerskating-country-singer/id1482187648?i=1000455674283\">Listen on Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Also available on NPR One, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/54326/childhood-as-resume-building-why-play-needs-a-comeback\">Childhood as ‘Resume-Building’: Why Play Needs A Comeback\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nFrom \u003cem>MindShift\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13869973\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/DSC5859-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/DSC5859-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/DSC5859-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/DSC5859-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/DSC5859-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/DSC5859-1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/DSC5859-1-1200x801.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember when you were a kid and there was a designated time just for playing? 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Between lethal gases, fast-flowing rivers of sewage and the risk of getting lost in the darkness, you’ll probably be glad to take this tour \u003cem>virtually\u003c/em> via your headphones, rather than IRL.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11782405/tunnels-under-san-francisco-inside-the-dark-dangerous-world-of-the-sewers\">Listen at kqed.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/secret-tunnels-under-san-francisco/id1172473406?i=1000455577910\">Listen on Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Also available on NPR One, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11777723/blind-beekeeper-relies-on-the-sound-of-the-swarm-to-keep-her-hives-happy\">Blind Beekeeper Relies on Sound to Keep Her Hives Happy\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nFrom \u003cem>The California Report Magazine\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13869926 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/RS39379_beekeeper2-qut-1020x679.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1020\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/RS39379_beekeeper2-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/RS39379_beekeeper2-qut-1020x679-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/RS39379_beekeeper2-qut-1020x679-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/RS39379_beekeeper2-qut-1020x679-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think I could be a good beekeeper without being able to see.” This special episode from \u003cem>The California Report Magazine\u003c/em>’s weekly podcast immerses the listener in the world of Aerial: a Bay area nurse who lost her sight after using tampered eyedrops. Navigating her new reality, she found purpose and meaning in the hobby she’d enjoyed since she was a teen: beekeeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen as Aerial explains how she knows whether her swarm—she calls them “her girls”—are happy, and how to hear their “waggle dance” (the movement bees make to tell others where to find pollen). After experiencing this episode, you’ll never hear bees again the same way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11777723/blind-beekeeper-relies-on-the-sound-of-the-swarm-to-keep-her-hives-happy\">Listen at kqed.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blind-beekeeper-relies-on-sound-to-keep-her-hives-happy/id1314750545?i=1000452376183\">Listen on Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Also available on NPR One, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/102783/queer-eyes-jonathan-van-ness-on-turning-red-states-pink-one-makeover-at-a-time\">\u003cem>Queer Eye\u003c/em>‘s Jonathan Van Ness on Turning Red States Pink\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nFrom \u003cem>The Cooler\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13869925\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Jonathan-Van-Ness.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Jonathan-Van-Ness.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Jonathan-Van-Ness-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/Jonathan-Van-Ness-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most engrossing podcast interviews are the ones where you feel you’ve been teleported into the room with the people in question—and this 2018 interview with the infamously personable \u003cem>Queer Eye\u003c/em> star Jonathan Van Ness on KQED’s pop culture podcast \u003cem>The Cooler\u003c/em> is no exception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a conversation that ranges from raucous to heartfelt and intimate, Van Ness talks to hosts Emmanuel Hapsis, Jamedra Brown-Fleischman and Carly Severn about growing up gay in a small town, dealing with online trolls, the healing power of figure skating and a particularly controversial moment from \u003cem>Queer Eye\u003c/em>’s second season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/102783/queer-eyes-jonathan-van-ness-on-turning-red-states-pink-one-makeover-at-a-time\">Listen at kqed.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/queer-eyes-jonathan-van-ness-on-turning-red-states-pink/id1041117499?i=1000407027183\">Listen on Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Also available on NPR One, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/42/joy-may-16th\">Joy\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nfrom \u003cem>Truth Be Told \u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13869927\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EventBrite_TBT.R-1920x960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EventBrite_TBT.R-1920x960.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EventBrite_TBT.R-1920x960-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EventBrite_TBT.R-1920x960-800x400.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EventBrite_TBT.R-1920x960-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EventBrite_TBT.R-1920x960-1020x510.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/EventBrite_TBT.R-1920x960-1200x600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is it OK to feel joy when it feels like the world is burning? In the first episode of KQED’s advice show made by people of color for people of color, host Tonya Mosley brings us to her hometown of Detroit, Michigan—the “epicenter of pleasure in the midst of turmoil,” as she calls it. Mosley sits down with her grandmother Ernestine Mosley and \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> bestselling author Adrienne Maree Brown for some hard questions, deep laughs, and much-needed affirmations about why it’s not only OK to feel joy, but it’s absolutely necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And stay tuned: \u003cem>Truth Be Told\u003c/em> returns for a second season in early 2020!\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/42/joy-may-16th\">Listen at kqed.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/joy-episode-1/id1462216572?i=1000438248776\">Listen on Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Also available on NPR One, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11780279/native-american-occupation-at-alcatraz-50-years\">‘We’re Still Here’\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nFrom\u003cem> The Bay\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13869928\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_2671-1-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1020\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_2671-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_2671-1-1020x765-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_2671-1-1020x765-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/IMG_2671-1-1020x765-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this episode of\u003cem> The Bay\u003c/em>, KQED reporter Alice Woelfle follows along with Native people from across the West Coast in a ceremonial canoe journey around Alcatraz Island. 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On a small cul-de-sac on the southern side of Lake Merritt in Oakland, according to musician Miko Marks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as I put these skates on, I feel like I’m a kid again,” Marks says in this episode of \u003cem>Rightnowish\u003c/em>, KQED’s new arts and culture podcast hosted by Pendarvis Harshaw. After nearly a decade of touring the nation as a country singer, Marks’s love for roller skating completely transformed her sense of play—and her music. Put on your skates (and your headphones!) and listen to the full episode to hear more about Marks’s new sound and new take on life with wheels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13859970/rightnowish-miko-marks-and-the-oakland-rollers\">Listen at kqed.org\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/oaklands-rollerskating-country-singer/id1482187648?i=1000455674283\">Listen on Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Also available on NPR One, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/54326/childhood-as-resume-building-why-play-needs-a-comeback\">Childhood as ‘Resume-Building’: Why Play Needs A Comeback\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nFrom \u003cem>MindShift\u003c/em>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13869973\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/DSC5859-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/DSC5859-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/DSC5859-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/DSC5859-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/DSC5859-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/DSC5859-1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/DSC5859-1-1200x801.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember when you were a kid and there was a designated time just for playing? 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"content": "\u003cp>Tourism in Oakland isn’t new. Hell, even in the 1800s, when colonizers settled in the Bay and built San Francisco into a world-class city, Oakland was the other coast—or “contra costa”—where wealthy folks would buy summer vacation homes to get away from the big city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 200 years later, tourism in Oakland is still a thing. According to \u003ca href=\"https://assets.simpleviewinc.com/simpleview/image/upload/v1/clients/oakland/vo_annual_report_v14web_8c3853f1-5a7f-47d4-af9c-dce272897864.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visit Oakland’s 2018 Annual Report\u003c/a>, an estimated 3.8 million people visited Oakland in 2017, bringing $668 million along with them (a 6.5% increase from the previous year). Oakland has been mentioned as a top tourism destination in the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Essence\u003c/em> and, most recently, \u003ca href=\"https://travelnoire.com/48-hours-black-owned-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this Travel Noire piece\u003c/a> about spending 48 hours in black-owned Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This Thursday through Saturday, when Oakland hosts this year’s AfroTech conference, thousands of new people will become part of that history of tourism in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conference is one of the biggest tech happenings in the United States. 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Just last month \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/five-years-tech-diversity-reports-little-progress/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wired\u003c/a> noted that while a few big-name tech companies—Facebook, Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft—have been transparent about their diversity numbers for the past five years, still, virtually nothing has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But folks like DeBaun believe that the narrative about a lack of access is inaccurate. “People aren’t looking in the right places,” she says. “AfroTech is breaking down those barriers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the three-day span, events will take place all around Oakland’s downtown area, from the Marriott Convention Center to Jack London Square, and what some folks refer to as the Uptown neighborhood; \u003ca href=\"https://experience.afrotech.com/schedule/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here’s a full list of happenings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One event this weekend that’s not on that list is \u003ca href=\"https://thetownexperience.com/product/game-fest-19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Gameday ’19\u003c/a>, at the Esports Arena on Saturday night. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]K[/dropcap]eanu Reeves stepped out over the weekend holding hands with artist and longtime friend, \u003ca href=\"https://alexandragrant.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alexandra Grant\u003c/a>. The new couple’s debut at the LACMA Art and Film Gala prompted an immediate, enthusiastic response on social media that was centered around two things: The public desire to see Keanu Reeves happy after a litany of \u003ca href=\"https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/how-unbearable-grief-saw-keanu-20814493\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">personal tragedies\u003c/a>, and the fact that Grant is in her forties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Travon/status/1191543326706561025\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/AngryBlackLady/status/1191526193121513472\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MissBrittHayes/status/1191515987566383104\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 55-year-old actor’s decision to date a 46-year-old woman with grey hair was seen by a majority of commenters as a badge of honor, and further confirmation that Reeves is one of the good ones. This reaction was in direct contrast to how the world simultaneously greeted the news that Dennis Quaid, age 65, is engaged to 26-year-old Laura Savoie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/megweiss13/status/1189280467264196609\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/theflans/status/1191190014115364865\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/OliviaJRowe/status/1191574822930788352\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our obsession with \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetalko.com/the-20-biggest-age-difference-couples-in-hollywood/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hollywood age gaps\u003c/a> is nothing new. And though Sarah Paulson has received her \u003ca href=\"https://www.oprahmag.com/entertainment/a27043410/sarah-paulson-holland-taylor-relationship/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fair share of scrutiny\u003c/a> for her relationship with Holland Taylor, 32 years her senior, and Demi Moore raised some eyebrows when she married Ashton Kutcher, this is a conversation that almost always focuses on famous men and their girlfriends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is, while these discussions are usually dressed up as either critiques or endorsements of the male celebrities in question, judging them on the ages of the women they date reinforces ideas about female partners as trophies; accessories that serve only to reflect the men they’re attached to. [aside postid='pop_104230']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make matters worse, basing our judgements on the ages of these women in relation to their partners suggests that even in 2019, a woman is defined first by her relationship, then by her age, then by her actual accomplishments. When Dennis Quaid and his current girlfriend are discussed, it comes up only in the footnotes that Savoie is a PhD student who already has a bachelor’s degree in accounting. No one seems all that interested in the fact that she clearly has ambitions beyond her famous boyfriend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cultural tendency to correlate a woman’s value with her age leaves women at the mercy of inconstant ideas around youth and beauty, versus maturity and experience—and that dichotomy invites insecurities for all. Regardless of which end of the scale women fall on, they can’t win. If you’re young, you’re hot but you don’t know enough yet; if you’re older, you’re smart but less physically desirable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A further reflection of this arrived over the weekend, when even \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/68229/why-does-emma-watsons-feminism-irritate-so-many-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">outspoken feminist\u003c/a> Emma Watson admitted to feeling crappy about her age as it pertains to her relationship status. “Cut to 29,” she told \u003ca href=\"https://www.vogue.co.uk/news/article/emma-watson-on-fame-activism-little-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">British \u003cem>Vogue\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, “and I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I feel so stressed and anxious.’ And I realize it’s because there is suddenly this bloody influx of subliminal messaging around. If you have not built a home, if you do not have a husband, if you do not have a baby, and you are turning 30 … There’s just this incredible amount of anxiety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/104230/how-pop-culture-gave-generations-of-women-a-fear-of-40\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Single women over 40\u003c/a> may scoff at how Watson feels about 30, but her decision to identify as “self-partnered” instead of “single,” in order to feel more empowered about her own status is a move that has been warmly welcomed by thousands of women online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/h_tucks/status/1191670750438133761\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/_sophiedarling/status/1191788480319365120\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women being defined by their relationship statuses is an old problem that stretches beyond age. As Kate Bolick pointed out in 2015’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Spinster-Making-Life-Ones-Own/dp/0385347154\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Spinster\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, “Whom to marry and when will it happen—these two questions define every woman’s existence, regardless of where she was raised or what religion she does or doesn’t practice. She may grow up to love women instead of men, or to decide she simply doesn’t believe in marriage. No matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This, despite the fact that women have been pushing back against these confinements for at least a century. All the way back in 1889, for example, when \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/digivictorian/status/964842367508516864?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Tit-Bits\u003c/em> magazine\u003c/a> asked women why they were spinsters, the responses were sharp, bordering on acerbic. 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"content": "\u003cp>Simone de Beauvoir famously wrote that “one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman,” a claim I could imagine making writer and critic Andrea Long Chu roll her eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the very least, Chu has an update: “Everyone is female,” she writes in the appropriately titled \u003cem>Females, \u003c/em>her first book, “and everyone hates it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chu has earned a reputation over the past few years as one of the sharpest new thinkers on gender and sexuality with her essays on, among other topics, transgender identity, feminism and television. (She has also picked up a rather loyal following \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/theorygurl\">on Twitter\u003c/a>, where she treats her mental health, PhD candidature and pop-culture diet all with equal wit and consideration.) In \u003cem>Females\u003c/em>—part memoir, part theoretical intervention—Chu explores and defends this claim about universal femaleness, perhaps as much to herself as to anyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, the “female” identity on which the book is based is admittedly less a biological condition than an existential one. Chu describes it as an experience “defined by self-negation” that includes “any psychic operation in which the self is sacrificed to make room for the desires of another.” In other words, to be female—which, remember, we all are—is to not express your own desires, identity, personality but rather those of others, impressed upon you. And gender, it follows for Chu, is what people do to deal with the terrible fact of being female.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that sounds dramatic or provocative, that’s largely Chu’s style. In 2018, she wrote a \u003ca href=\"https://nplusonemag.com/issue-30/essays/on-liking-women/\">powerful essay\u003c/a> in the magazine \u003cem>n+1\u003c/em> about transness and the history of feminist organizing that theorist Sandy Stone credited with launching a “second wave” of transgender studies; later that year, Chu wrote an \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/24/opinion/sunday/vaginoplasty-transgender-medicine.html\">opinion piece\u003c/a> for \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> about transgender people’s rights to medical care. In both cases—and in much of her writing—Chu meticulously frames the popular debate about transgender people, then positions her own point of view on another plane entirely. She’s just as bored by those known colloquially as trans-exclusionary radical feminists, or TERFs, who deny transgender people’s identities outright as she is by the common refrain that transgender people are simply “born in the wrong body” (as when Caitlyn Jenner joked to Diane Sawyer that God gave her “the soul of a woman”). At a moment when society is largely starting to gain a vocabulary for talking, albeit in less-than-nuanced ways, about transgender civil rights, Chu’s refusal to support any mainstream narratives have made her a somewhat controversial figure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she simply isn’t interested in straightforward, respectable answers. What most of these narratives don’t account for, she argues in \u003cem>Females\u003c/em>, is desire, in all its messy, definitional power. Chu asks: Instead of something stable and inherent—known and knowable, and inescapable right down to our very souls—what if gender is an extension of who we \u003cem>want\u003c/em> to be? What if this quality of \u003cem>wanting\u003c/em> didn’t separate transgender people from cisgender people, but were instead a universal condition of gender itself?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chu writes ferociously and exactingly about the nature of desire: what it makes us do; who it makes us become; grounding these questions in the culture of everyday life. Desire is how \u003cem>Fight Club\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Matrix\u003c/em> get twisted in the hands of the internet “manosphere” into models of male supremacy; it’s what lies beneath feminist disagreements about pornography from the ’90s and why they play out today both in the alt-right and in Hollywood movies; it’s there in the scrupulous beauty routines of a famous trans YouTuber. “Most desire is nonconsensual,” she admits in a chapter of \u003cem>Females\u003c/em> about pornography, and all the ways we try to engage with it—hide from it, ignore it, indulge it—indelibly shape us. Desire, for Chu, is gender’s centrifugal force; it’s what makes us all so \u003cem>female\u003c/em> to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chu puts these cultural products in conversation with the work of revered theorists: Sigmund Freud; Catharine MacKinnon; Andrea Dworkin; and Shulamith Firestone. But no one is so close to Chu’s heart in \u003cem>Females\u003c/em> as Valerie Solanas, the author and artist famous for writing the \u003cem>SCUM Manifesto\u003c/em>, a radical text bent on eliminating the male sex (and for shooting and nearly killing Andy Warhol in 1968). \u003cem>Females\u003c/em> started as an essay about Solanas’ play \u003cem>Up Your A–\u003c/em>—which Solanas hoped, desperately and unsuccessfully, that Warhol would produce—and lines from the play anchor each chapter. Solanas didn’t just give Chu an entrypoint into her first book; it was after encountering Solanas’ work, Chu writes, that she began to come to terms with being transgender. (At the end of one chapter, she reflects on being told about a pornographic video in which two characters are seduced by a professor who reads \u003cem>SCUM\u003c/em>, “turning them into lesbians.” Chu says the plotline “made instant, perfect sense. It’s what Valerie did to me.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solanas is often written off as an extremist, or an unfortunate and problematic accident of the second wave—but it’s heartening to watch Chu take her seriously, taking her to task while looking at her legacy with generosity and scrutiny. If Chu knows that \u003cem>Females\u003c/em>‘ central organizing thesis is wildly untenable, it’s in Solanas’ spirit that she pursues it nonetheless. “Valerie would make statements not because they were accurate or true, but simply because she wanted to,” Chu writes; later, “We share this, I think: a preference for indefensible claims, for following our ambivalence to the end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, \u003cem>Females\u003c/em> is not a polemic; it’s not a guide to escaping the tyranny of our supposed powerlessness in the face of desire. Instead, it is one woman’s attempt to make sense of a time when the possibilities for identity feel terrifying and punishingly limitless, wondering what it might look like to accept our inescapable femaleness—even if we don’t always play by its rules, Chu argues, it might help to know how the points are scored. Beneath the veneer of \u003cem>Females\u003c/em>‘ provocation, those indefensible ideas, it is a surprisingly tender book that aims to tend to a universal ache: the frayed knot of selfhood, desire and power through which, Chu argues, we might try to see ourselves and each other more clearly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Simone de Beauvoir famously wrote that “one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman,” a claim I could imagine making writer and critic Andrea Long Chu roll her eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the very least, Chu has an update: “Everyone is female,” she writes in the appropriately titled \u003cem>Females, \u003c/em>her first book, “and everyone hates it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chu has earned a reputation over the past few years as one of the sharpest new thinkers on gender and sexuality with her essays on, among other topics, transgender identity, feminism and television. (She has also picked up a rather loyal following \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/theorygurl\">on Twitter\u003c/a>, where she treats her mental health, PhD candidature and pop-culture diet all with equal wit and consideration.) In \u003cem>Females\u003c/em>—part memoir, part theoretical intervention—Chu explores and defends this claim about universal femaleness, perhaps as much to herself as to anyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, the “female” identity on which the book is based is admittedly less a biological condition than an existential one. Chu describes it as an experience “defined by self-negation” that includes “any psychic operation in which the self is sacrificed to make room for the desires of another.” In other words, to be female—which, remember, we all are—is to not express your own desires, identity, personality but rather those of others, impressed upon you. And gender, it follows for Chu, is what people do to deal with the terrible fact of being female.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that sounds dramatic or provocative, that’s largely Chu’s style. In 2018, she wrote a \u003ca href=\"https://nplusonemag.com/issue-30/essays/on-liking-women/\">powerful essay\u003c/a> in the magazine \u003cem>n+1\u003c/em> about transness and the history of feminist organizing that theorist Sandy Stone credited with launching a “second wave” of transgender studies; later that year, Chu wrote an \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/24/opinion/sunday/vaginoplasty-transgender-medicine.html\">opinion piece\u003c/a> for \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> about transgender people’s rights to medical care. In both cases—and in much of her writing—Chu meticulously frames the popular debate about transgender people, then positions her own point of view on another plane entirely. She’s just as bored by those known colloquially as trans-exclusionary radical feminists, or TERFs, who deny transgender people’s identities outright as she is by the common refrain that transgender people are simply “born in the wrong body” (as when Caitlyn Jenner joked to Diane Sawyer that God gave her “the soul of a woman”). At a moment when society is largely starting to gain a vocabulary for talking, albeit in less-than-nuanced ways, about transgender civil rights, Chu’s refusal to support any mainstream narratives have made her a somewhat controversial figure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she simply isn’t interested in straightforward, respectable answers. What most of these narratives don’t account for, she argues in \u003cem>Females\u003c/em>, is desire, in all its messy, definitional power. Chu asks: Instead of something stable and inherent—known and knowable, and inescapable right down to our very souls—what if gender is an extension of who we \u003cem>want\u003c/em> to be? What if this quality of \u003cem>wanting\u003c/em> didn’t separate transgender people from cisgender people, but were instead a universal condition of gender itself?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chu writes ferociously and exactingly about the nature of desire: what it makes us do; who it makes us become; grounding these questions in the culture of everyday life. Desire is how \u003cem>Fight Club\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Matrix\u003c/em> get twisted in the hands of the internet “manosphere” into models of male supremacy; it’s what lies beneath feminist disagreements about pornography from the ’90s and why they play out today both in the alt-right and in Hollywood movies; it’s there in the scrupulous beauty routines of a famous trans YouTuber. “Most desire is nonconsensual,” she admits in a chapter of \u003cem>Females\u003c/em> about pornography, and all the ways we try to engage with it—hide from it, ignore it, indulge it—indelibly shape us. Desire, for Chu, is gender’s centrifugal force; it’s what makes us all so \u003cem>female\u003c/em> to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chu puts these cultural products in conversation with the work of revered theorists: Sigmund Freud; Catharine MacKinnon; Andrea Dworkin; and Shulamith Firestone. But no one is so close to Chu’s heart in \u003cem>Females\u003c/em> as Valerie Solanas, the author and artist famous for writing the \u003cem>SCUM Manifesto\u003c/em>, a radical text bent on eliminating the male sex (and for shooting and nearly killing Andy Warhol in 1968). \u003cem>Females\u003c/em> started as an essay about Solanas’ play \u003cem>Up Your A–\u003c/em>—which Solanas hoped, desperately and unsuccessfully, that Warhol would produce—and lines from the play anchor each chapter. Solanas didn’t just give Chu an entrypoint into her first book; it was after encountering Solanas’ work, Chu writes, that she began to come to terms with being transgender. (At the end of one chapter, she reflects on being told about a pornographic video in which two characters are seduced by a professor who reads \u003cem>SCUM\u003c/em>, “turning them into lesbians.” Chu says the plotline “made instant, perfect sense. It’s what Valerie did to me.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solanas is often written off as an extremist, or an unfortunate and problematic accident of the second wave—but it’s heartening to watch Chu take her seriously, taking her to task while looking at her legacy with generosity and scrutiny. If Chu knows that \u003cem>Females\u003c/em>‘ central organizing thesis is wildly untenable, it’s in Solanas’ spirit that she pursues it nonetheless. “Valerie would make statements not because they were accurate or true, but simply because she wanted to,” Chu writes; later, “We share this, I think: a preference for indefensible claims, for following our ambivalence to the end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>This month, in news confirming that we live on the most surreal timeline, Tom DeLonge (“the nasal one”) from Blink-182 joined forces with the U.S. Army to hunt for extraterrestrials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s 2019, everyone!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bizarro development came after DeLonge’s \u003ca href=\"https://dpo.tothestarsacademy.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UFO research organization\u003c/a> (why \u003cem>wouldn’t\u003c/em> he have one of those?) published footage which the Navy later confirmed contained at least one unidentified flying object. DeLonge also says that his research team is currently running tests on an “\u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwnezk/tom-delonges-ufo-organization-says-its-obtained-exotic-metals-unknown-to-science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">exotic material\u003c/a>” he believes came from a spacecraft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That last part apparently proved too tempting for the Army. Now, their Combat Capabilities Development Command wants to spend the next five years helping DeLonge’s team of 12 researchers (including ex-government employees) to develop E.T.-hunting equipment, with the goal of using it to enhance Army “ground vehicles.” If you need proof, you can see the\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/army/TTSA-ARMY-CRADA.pdf&hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> contract\u003c/a> in full (signed by DeLonge’s sister, Kari) online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to ideas about outer space, Tom DeLonge has lived on his own planet for many years now. His obsession with aliens, in particular, has been present for his entire career. 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The following year, he named his firstborn Jonas Rocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMl8cQjBfqk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, DeLonge has released a children’s book called \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18877915-the-lonely-astronaut-on-christmas-eve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Lonely Astronaut on Christmas Eve\u003c/a>, \u003c/em>a paranormal graphic novel for teens called \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/books/edition/Strange_Times/pWCsDQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Strange Times \u003c/em>\u003c/a>(that’s apparently being turned into a \u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/tom-delonge-strange-times-tv-series-766982/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">series for TBS\u003c/a>) and \u003ca href=\"https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/tom-delonge-may-have-had-an-alien-encounter-at-area-51-2015192/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">camped out\u003c/a> at Area 51.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, DeLonge told \u003ca href=\"https://www.papermag.com/tom-delonge-ufos-interview-1427513207.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Paper\u003c/em> \u003c/a>that he was in touch with “sources from the government,” adding that his phone had been tapped and that he was aware of mind-control experiments being used against members of the public. “The same technology that we use to find oil underground,” he said, “can zap somebody at the same frequency that the brain operates on, and it can cause some really horrific things to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2016, DeLonge was fully immersed in the life of a UFOlogist, telling \u003ca href=\"https://www.mic.com/articles/140196/why-tom-de-longe-took-a-break-from-blink-182-to-expose-the-truth-about-aliens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Mic\u003c/em>\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>When you’re an individual like me, dealing with something that’s a national security issue, and you’re being gifted with the opportunity to communicate something you’ve been passionate about your whole life—something that has the opportunity to change the world over time—being a small part of that is enormously important for my life path. But I can’t do everything. I can’t tour nine months out of the year with enough time to do the enormity of what I’m setting out to do.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Before the Army got involved, DeLonge received a major endorsement for his UFOlogy work earlier this year, when the History Channel paired with his organization for a series titled \u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/shows/unidentified-inside-americas-ufo-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. The series shone a spotlight on experts and witnesses, one of whom noted, “If these things are hostile, we’re screwed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Truth be told, DeLonge and the Army getting together to try and save the planet is definitely not the worst thing that’s happened. 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