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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s so important that she was a bombshell pin-up girl,” burlesque star Dita Von Teese notes in the film. “It really made all the difference in how she photographed other people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most fascinating elements of \u003cem>Naked Ambition\u003c/em> is the way in which Yeager managed to walk a line between sexually liberated creative and 1950s domestic goddess. Though dedicated to her two daughters and to building a suburban home in Miami, Yeager also had zero qualms about taking photos of women in various states of undress for publications like \u003cem>Playboy\u003c/em>. (Yeager was one of the magazine’s first regular contributors and first female photographers. She counted Hugh Hefner as a close personal friend.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interviewees in the documentary include cultural commentators, Yeager’s friends and family members, individuals tasked with safeguarding Yeager’s legacy, and models with fond memories of working with the photographer, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/herald/name/marcia-ludwig-obituary?id=33129914\">Marcia Valibus\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.maikaihistory.com/2016/08/07/nani-maka-tropical-maiden/\">Nani Maka\u003c/a>. There is also wonderful archival footage of Yeager at work, as well as some words between her and Bettie Page recorded in a 1993 conversation for \u003cem>Interview\u003c/em> magazine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13958173\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13958173\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/bunny_self_portrait_four_copy-e1716246569243.jpg\" alt=\"A beautiful 1950s-era woman wearing a low cut top, looks down towards her camera.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When her career behind the camera began in the 1950s, Bunny Yeager was dubbed the ‘world’s prettiest photographer.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy SF DocFest)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As with many women who make their names working in the sex industry, Yeager’s later life came with some extra challenges. The photographer struggled financially because her tone and aesthetics fell out of favor in the 1970s, as porn hit the mainstream. (“The Yeager photographic style does not parallel the contemporary mood and image of \u003cem>Penthouse\u003c/em> magazine,” one stinging rejection letter reads.) Only with the 1990s rise of rockabilly and swing did Yeager’s work find a new generation of fans. During the lull before, she made ends meet with work in graphic design and even as a nightclub singer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeager’s personal life was also impacted by her career. One of her daughters, Cherilu Irwin, remains ashamed of her mother’s catalog of work, speaking openly of her disapproval in \u003cem>Naked Ambition\u003c/em>. When asked what she thinks her mother’s legacy is, Irwin leaves a long pause before openly wishing Yeager had not followed the career path she followed. Irwin’s longing to disassociate from her mom’s work has also clearly been a source of tension between her and her sister Lisa, who, in contrast, feels very proud of Yeager’s accomplishments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cem>Naked Ambition\u003c/em> isn’t all perfect. One gets the sense that darker elements of Yeager’s story are glossed over for the sake of a more upbeat veneer. There is no commentary about the fact that her husband Bud Irwin was fired from the police force after being charged with falsifying burglary reports. There is little mention of the toll that his suicide in 1977 took on her. The fact that one of her best friends — and favorite models — \u003ca href=\"https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1790519-maria-stinger?language=en-US\">Maria Stinger\u003c/a> died by suicide in 1967 isn’t even touched on, despite the fact that Yeager’s working relationship with Stinger is prominently featured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, \u003cem>Naked Ambition\u003c/em> is an entertaining snapshot of a resourceful and endlessly creative woman who was determined to live life on her own terms. It works fabulously as an introduction to an often-forgotten talent. It’s just a shame that, now and again, it leaves a little too much to the imagination.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/sf-docfest-2024-naked-ambition-steph-and-the-customers/\">‘Naked Ambition’ screens at San Francisco’s Roxie Cinema\u003c/a> as part of SF DocFest, on May 31, 2024 at 6:30 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It may have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dannyluxfr/?hl=en\">DannyLux\u003c/a>’s first time performing in San Francisco. But when the rising regional Mexican music star stepped onto the stage at the Regency Ballroom on May 1, you would have thought he was born and raised in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wearing a Green Day shirt, jumping high in the air and beaming, Danny, or Daniel Balderrama Espinoza, kicked off the show with “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/u4KY82PDyM4?si=gk-K26PgqxF97ZxF\">Ciudad del Sol\u003c/a>” from his latest album, \u003cem>EVOLUXIÓN\u003c/em>. The crowd of mostly young Latinos chanted his name nonstop throughout the show; many had come from as far as Santa Rosa and Gilroy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 20 years old, the Palm Springs-raised, Mexican American singer has a long list of achievements: several Gold-certified singles (the first arrived when he was only 16), a 2023 Coachella performance and a Mexican tour with Coldplay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His appeal transcends language barriers: \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AynDvSkZ8og&t=773s\">His NPR Tiny Desk performance last year\u003c/a> confirmed that fans don’t need to speak Spanish to feel the emotion in his songs, most of them ballads with heartbreaking lyrics accompanied by acoustic guitars and downtempo bass. A little bit bolero, a little bit sierreño, a little bit corrido, but, as the young singer says, always with “el estilo del Danny” — “in Danny’s style.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957047\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957047\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-011-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-011-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-011-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-011-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-011-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-011-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-011-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-011-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DannyLux performs at The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Along with other young talents like Eslabón Armado (NorCal locals from Patterson), Riverside’s Iván Cornejo and Los Del Limit from Midfield, Texas, Danny’s success shows that Mexican Americans are playing a critical role in \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/sad-sirreno-mexican-sad-boys-9523696/\">the future of regional Mexican music\u003c/a>. “Me siento 100% mexicano,” he told KQED in an interview before the show. (More from that conversation below).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danny’s cultural pride begins with his love for his family. After all, he creates so much of his music with them. Next to Danny on stage was his cousin, Eduardo, on bass, and Danny’s longtime friends, Daniel and César, on guitar. Danny’s parents and sister were at the show, rooting for him from backstage. In the middle of “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/oslJpKmdX20?si=Xn0CAmtRUOnReMB5\">Corazón Frío\u003c/a>,” he brought out his mom for a dance and a hug. Thanking his family, Danny looked out at the crowd and added, “Hasta ustedes se sienten como mi familia.” (“Even all of you feel like my family.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with his smooth, melodious voice — which skillfully moved through “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/QdeoocyUk68?si=3Rg_0Yv0eXuqb8k4\">El Dueño De Tu Amor\u003c/a>,” “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/ibZ8Q1QdzCQ?si=BmFuxCFz3wTcEqoT\">Si Supieras\u003c/a>” (a collab with Eslabón Armado) and bachata-infused “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/8HKcNkZ6okc?si=WygjdNymfmc52bcD\">El Hombre Perfecto\u003c/a>” — what makes Danny stand out as a performer is his capacity to be so transparent with his emotions. El regional mexicano has traditionally been a genre where men can openly be vulnerable, and Danny honors that legacy while pushing it forward for a new generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957159\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DannyLux-JY-027_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DannyLux-JY-027_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DannyLux-JY-027_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DannyLux-JY-027_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DannyLux-JY-027_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DannyLux-JY-027_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DannyLux-JY-027_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DannyLux, left, and Dariell Cano, right, perform at The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of his first hits was “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/CULF9lXH87w?si=vim-Je55uoNoQ1eT\">Jugaste y Sufrí\u003c/a>” (another collab with Eslabón Armado) from 2020, a time when many of Danny’s young fans were isolated during COVID-19 lockdowns. The track rapidly spread on TikTok, and became an outlet for young people processing intense grief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On stage, Danny acknowledged the track’s impact. “Estoy aquí gracias a esta canción,” he said (“I’m here thanks to this song”), and asked the crowd to light up their phones. It felt like a full-circle moment, being able to celebrate with the artist a song many of us first heard during so much loneliness and uncertainty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple songs later, the crowd was back to jumping and dancing to “House of Lux,” which seamlessly fuses el regional mexicano with house. “All of my songs, they’re built upon the base of regional mexicano, but I don’t want to stay in a box,” he told KQED, and added that his mind is brimming with new musical ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957049\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957049\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-018-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-018-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-018-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-018-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-018-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-018-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-018-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-018-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melanie Arias, 12, signs along with DannyLux as he performs during his “Tour of Lux” at The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That vision certainly resonates in the Bay Area, where it’s common to go out and hear house, hip-hop, cumbia and Brazilian funk in the same DJ set. And of course, for diehard fans of regional and sierreño, Danny and his grupo brought it home, with Eduardo, Daniel and César rascando la guitarra — breaking into deep, melodic guitar riffs — while Danny interjected with a grito, a holler imbued with emotion that moves from the bottom to the top of your chest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“¡Un grito a todos los dolidos!” — “A grito for all of those feeling grief!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd responded with their own gritos. Danny may not have grown up riding BART or spent Sundays chilling at Dolores Park, but on Wednesday he gave voice to so many young Latinos of the Bay who are coming into their own and seeking the words to define what they feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To adapt \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/28/world/americas/world-cup-mexico-south-korea.html\">a chant of solidarity made popular in Mexico City during the 2018 Men’s World Cup\u003c/a>, “Danny, Danny, hermano, ya eres sanfranciscano.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957053\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957053\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-028-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-028-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-028-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-028-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-028-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-028-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-028-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-028-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DannyLux performs at The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Danny spoke to KQED before his San Francisco show to share more about where he wants to take his music next, why it matters to share what we feel and what it means to balance two cultures — Mexican and Californian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Part of the interview was translated from Spanish.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>Let’s start off with your new album. You’re trying out a lot of new things, bringing things in like tropical and house, along with música regional, and you’re having a lot of fun too. Why is it so important for you to experiment?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DannyLux: \u003c/strong>I feel like experimenting really helps me find myself as an artist. You can’t really say you’re a certain type of genre artist if deep down you like to make more than that. All of my songs, they’re built upon the base of regional mexicano, but I don’t want to stay in a box. I want people from all over the world to be able to hear me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now the regional mexicano genre is going up so much. It’s one of the most popular genres there is. But I don’t want to be like anyone else. A lot of people ask me, “Do you want to be the next Peso Pluma? Do you want to be the next Nata [Natanael Cano]?” But I just want to be the next DannyLux. I just want to be me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957048\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957048\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-016-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-016-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-016-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-016-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-016-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-016-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-016-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-016-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DannyLux fans watch him perform at The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco as apart of his “Tour of Lux” on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And I can imagine that the music you’re listening to is not just música regional. You’re listening to bachata, cumbia, reggaetón.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, I’m listening to a lot of things. I feel just having that knowledge of a lot of different styles of music really helps you as an artist. Honestly, I feel maybe in the future, the songs that I make five years from now are going to sound nothing like the style I make today. I don’t ever want to settle. [aside postid='arts_13956734']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You’ve been creating music for a few years now. Who would you say is your audience? Who do you sing for?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I like to make songs with the intention of singing them to the whole world. To everyone who is in a relationship, who has had their heart broken. I like to write a lot about heartbreak and love. When I’m writing, I want people to identify with the lyrics, so my music doesn’t have a specific audience because any person could hear it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m inspired a lot by boleros from the past, and with that older adults can enjoy my music. And the themes I talk about are for younger people because I’m a young person and I like to write about my own experiences. I think that’s why so many young people identify with my songs, because they carry emotions that they too have felt. It’s something beautiful when you can hear what you are feeling. There are so many emotions that cannot be expressed when you are just talking regularly and music gives you that tool to express what you normally cannot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957158\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DannyLux-JY-013_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DannyLux-JY-013_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DannyLux-JY-013_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DannyLux-JY-013_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DannyLux-JY-013_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DannyLux-JY-013_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DannyLux-JY-013_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">20-year-old Mexican American singer-songwriter DannyLux performs at The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Música regional is very popular among Latino men, but it’s often tough for this group to openly share our emotions. Do you think it’s important that we as men are able to talk about what we’re feeling?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, I think it’s always good to let out what you have inside. If you’re sad, you will never move past that if you’re afraid of saying what you feel. I think it’s good to even cry sometimes — to cry when you’re listening to music. It’s happened to me, that there are times that I feel so sad and I start listening to music. It’s kind of like adding salt to the wound but it really helps to get those emotions out and you eventually do feel better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You’re listening to music feeling sad and then you slowly start getting the urge to dance, right?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s true. I’ve been listening to a lot of EDM and house music and it’s something I’ve always liked. I want to find the perfect blend for my style, bringing together música regional with house music. And we’re working on that right now with a bunch of songs and creating lyrics that carry meaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957051\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957051\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-023-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-023-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-023-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-023-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-023-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-023-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-023-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-023-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DannyLux performs at The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Many of the artists you collaborate with, Iván Cornejo and Eslabón Armado, for example, are all Mexican American just like you. But for a long time, Mexican Americans were not held in the same regard in the genre because they were not born in Mexico — I’m thinking of the pushback Selena got 30 years ago when she began performing in Mexico. How does it make you feel knowing that now, the artists shaping the future of the genre are Mexican American?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My parents are immigrants and they came to the United States when they were around 17. They came over here because they had the dream of giving their kids a better life, and it’s thanks to this that I was born here. Things would have turned out differently had I been born in Mexicali, where they are from. [aside postid='arts_13956554']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contributing to the genre and creating my own style, I think I’m honoring that — my roots, where my parents came from and all the sounds that they brought with them from Mexico. I obviously was born here but I feel 100% Mexican.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And within you, you also represent California. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLKBSg3lUBA\">the music video for “El Hombre Perfecto,”\u003c/a> for example, you and your friends are practicing a choreography for a quinceañera in the front yard of a suburban home — an experience that is so emblematically Californian. Do you feel you’re also adding a uniquely Californian flavor to the genre as well?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I grew up here in California, grabbing on to both worlds and now mixing them together. I think it’s also cool how people in Mexico can then see what the experience is like of a Mexican kid who was born in the United States. It’s truly a mix of me growing up here, raised by Mexican parents who taught me everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Since we’re in the Bay, are there any Northern California artists that have caught your attention?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve always liked the music by \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/artist/marca-mp/\">Marca MP\u003c/a>, from Modesto. Back when I was starting off, I would listen a lot to their music. And the guys from Eslabón Armado are also an inspiration for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It may have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dannyluxfr/?hl=en\">DannyLux\u003c/a>’s first time performing in San Francisco. But when the rising regional Mexican music star stepped onto the stage at the Regency Ballroom on May 1, you would have thought he was born and raised in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wearing a Green Day shirt, jumping high in the air and beaming, Danny, or Daniel Balderrama Espinoza, kicked off the show with “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/u4KY82PDyM4?si=gk-K26PgqxF97ZxF\">Ciudad del Sol\u003c/a>” from his latest album, \u003cem>EVOLUXIÓN\u003c/em>. The crowd of mostly young Latinos chanted his name nonstop throughout the show; many had come from as far as Santa Rosa and Gilroy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 20 years old, the Palm Springs-raised, Mexican American singer has a long list of achievements: several Gold-certified singles (the first arrived when he was only 16), a 2023 Coachella performance and a Mexican tour with Coldplay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His appeal transcends language barriers: \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AynDvSkZ8og&t=773s\">His NPR Tiny Desk performance last year\u003c/a> confirmed that fans don’t need to speak Spanish to feel the emotion in his songs, most of them ballads with heartbreaking lyrics accompanied by acoustic guitars and downtempo bass. A little bit bolero, a little bit sierreño, a little bit corrido, but, as the young singer says, always with “el estilo del Danny” — “in Danny’s style.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957047\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957047\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-011-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-011-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-011-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-011-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-011-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-011-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-011-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-011-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DannyLux performs at The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Along with other young talents like Eslabón Armado (NorCal locals from Patterson), Riverside’s Iván Cornejo and Los Del Limit from Midfield, Texas, Danny’s success shows that Mexican Americans are playing a critical role in \u003ca href=\"https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/sad-sirreno-mexican-sad-boys-9523696/\">the future of regional Mexican music\u003c/a>. “Me siento 100% mexicano,” he told KQED in an interview before the show. (More from that conversation below).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danny’s cultural pride begins with his love for his family. After all, he creates so much of his music with them. Next to Danny on stage was his cousin, Eduardo, on bass, and Danny’s longtime friends, Daniel and César, on guitar. Danny’s parents and sister were at the show, rooting for him from backstage. In the middle of “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/oslJpKmdX20?si=Xn0CAmtRUOnReMB5\">Corazón Frío\u003c/a>,” he brought out his mom for a dance and a hug. Thanking his family, Danny looked out at the crowd and added, “Hasta ustedes se sienten como mi familia.” (“Even all of you feel like my family.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with his smooth, melodious voice — which skillfully moved through “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/QdeoocyUk68?si=3Rg_0Yv0eXuqb8k4\">El Dueño De Tu Amor\u003c/a>,” “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/ibZ8Q1QdzCQ?si=BmFuxCFz3wTcEqoT\">Si Supieras\u003c/a>” (a collab with Eslabón Armado) and bachata-infused “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/8HKcNkZ6okc?si=WygjdNymfmc52bcD\">El Hombre Perfecto\u003c/a>” — what makes Danny stand out as a performer is his capacity to be so transparent with his emotions. El regional mexicano has traditionally been a genre where men can openly be vulnerable, and Danny honors that legacy while pushing it forward for a new generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957159\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DannyLux-JY-027_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DannyLux-JY-027_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DannyLux-JY-027_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DannyLux-JY-027_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DannyLux-JY-027_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DannyLux-JY-027_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DannyLux-JY-027_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DannyLux, left, and Dariell Cano, right, perform at The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of his first hits was “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/CULF9lXH87w?si=vim-Je55uoNoQ1eT\">Jugaste y Sufrí\u003c/a>” (another collab with Eslabón Armado) from 2020, a time when many of Danny’s young fans were isolated during COVID-19 lockdowns. The track rapidly spread on TikTok, and became an outlet for young people processing intense grief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On stage, Danny acknowledged the track’s impact. “Estoy aquí gracias a esta canción,” he said (“I’m here thanks to this song”), and asked the crowd to light up their phones. It felt like a full-circle moment, being able to celebrate with the artist a song many of us first heard during so much loneliness and uncertainty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple songs later, the crowd was back to jumping and dancing to “House of Lux,” which seamlessly fuses el regional mexicano with house. “All of my songs, they’re built upon the base of regional mexicano, but I don’t want to stay in a box,” he told KQED, and added that his mind is brimming with new musical ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957049\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957049\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-018-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-018-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-018-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-018-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-018-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-018-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-018-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-018-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melanie Arias, 12, signs along with DannyLux as he performs during his “Tour of Lux” at The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That vision certainly resonates in the Bay Area, where it’s common to go out and hear house, hip-hop, cumbia and Brazilian funk in the same DJ set. And of course, for diehard fans of regional and sierreño, Danny and his grupo brought it home, with Eduardo, Daniel and César rascando la guitarra — breaking into deep, melodic guitar riffs — while Danny interjected with a grito, a holler imbued with emotion that moves from the bottom to the top of your chest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“¡Un grito a todos los dolidos!” — “A grito for all of those feeling grief!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd responded with their own gritos. Danny may not have grown up riding BART or spent Sundays chilling at Dolores Park, but on Wednesday he gave voice to so many young Latinos of the Bay who are coming into their own and seeking the words to define what they feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To adapt \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/28/world/americas/world-cup-mexico-south-korea.html\">a chant of solidarity made popular in Mexico City during the 2018 Men’s World Cup\u003c/a>, “Danny, Danny, hermano, ya eres sanfranciscano.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957053\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957053\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-028-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-028-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-028-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-028-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-028-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-028-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-028-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-028-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DannyLux performs at The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Danny spoke to KQED before his San Francisco show to share more about where he wants to take his music next, why it matters to share what we feel and what it means to balance two cultures — Mexican and Californian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Part of the interview was translated from Spanish.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí: \u003c/strong>Let’s start off with your new album. You’re trying out a lot of new things, bringing things in like tropical and house, along with música regional, and you’re having a lot of fun too. Why is it so important for you to experiment?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DannyLux: \u003c/strong>I feel like experimenting really helps me find myself as an artist. You can’t really say you’re a certain type of genre artist if deep down you like to make more than that. All of my songs, they’re built upon the base of regional mexicano, but I don’t want to stay in a box. I want people from all over the world to be able to hear me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now the regional mexicano genre is going up so much. It’s one of the most popular genres there is. But I don’t want to be like anyone else. A lot of people ask me, “Do you want to be the next Peso Pluma? Do you want to be the next Nata [Natanael Cano]?” But I just want to be the next DannyLux. I just want to be me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13957048\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13957048\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-016-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-016-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-016-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-016-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-016-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-016-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-016-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240501-DANNYLUX-JY-016-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DannyLux fans watch him perform at The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco as apart of his “Tour of Lux” on Wednesday, May 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And I can imagine that the music you’re listening to is not just música regional. You’re listening to bachata, cumbia, reggaetón.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah, I’m listening to a lot of things. I feel just having that knowledge of a lot of different styles of music really helps you as an artist. Honestly, I feel maybe in the future, the songs that I make five years from now are going to sound nothing like the style I make today. I don’t ever want to settle. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s Note:\u003c/strong> Fit Check is a series about style and personal expression in the Bay Area. See other installments \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/fit-check\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gericault De La Rose — a.k.a. Bimbo Moschino — is glowing on a warm afternoon in April, twin butterflies fluttering around her in the garden behind her apartment. She’s in head-to-toe pastels, poised and Sailor Moon chic. [aside postid='arts_13952566']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she first moved to Oakland from Chicago in 2021 to get her MFA at UC Berkeley, De La Rose didn’t feel this sure of herself. She didn’t have a community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to start over,” she says. “I literally cried every weekend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unbeknownst to her, the revival of a queer subculture was just starting to pop off in her neighborhood. It would redefine her life in the Bay — and it was just a short walk from her front door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One fall morning, while boredom-scrolling on Instagram in bed, she stopped on a flyer for a ballroom event at Soundwave Studios in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, ‘Oh my god, Oakland has a ballroom scene?’” she remembers. “I went over by myself later that week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955603\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-17-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-17-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-17-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-17-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-17-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-17-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-17-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-17-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland’s ballroom scene was where Gericault De La Rose found community. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was dark, and the music was pumping at full volume. De La Rose was wearing black tights, black short shorts, a tank top and Adidas Superstars. Her hair was long at the time, and she felt confident and elegant. The night began with the traditional “Legends, Statements, Stars” acknowledgements, which honor all the local ballroom icons who have paved the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, even after years of being in the Chicago ballroom scene, De La Rose didn’t really know how to vogue. But she decided to join in anyway. That night, she got 10s from the judges for the first time in her life. [aside postid='arts_13913584']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De La Rose, who belongs to The Kiki House of Moschino, is part of a ballroom legacy that began in the ’70s and ’80s in New York City. Per tradition, De La Rose and her siblings compete against other houses in runway, vogue and other categories. Though ballroom has gotten mainstream attention and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13934154/beyonce-review-levis-stadium-2023-renaissance-world-tour\">counts Beyoncé among its fans\u003c/a>, it remains a vital way for queer and gender-nonconforming people of color come together as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13913584/oakland-to-all-ballroom-vogue-lgbtq-mental-health\">chosen families\u003c/a> in the face of societal rejection and other forms of adversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CuHppZLRufC/?hl=en&img_index=1\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballroom was the first home De La Rose found in the Bay Area. It’s also been a space where she’s been able to explore her relationship with style as a trans woman of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was something that I really craved,” she said. “Because yeah, there’s a lot of queer spaces in Oakland, but a lot of them are white.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1707px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956812\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-08_qut-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-08_qut-scaled.jpg 1707w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-08_qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-08_qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-08_qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-08_qut-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-08_qut-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-08_qut-1365x2048.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gericault De La Rose appreciates personal style with a point of view. \u003ccite>(Martin Do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>From normcore to Pokémon trainer\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>De La Rose started medically transitioning when she was 25 years old. She says that before then, she didn’t really know what she was doing when it came to clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was 100% giving Kohl’s,” she laughs. “Khakis, polo shirts — it was very normcore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then something clicked, and an aesthetic fell into place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, OK: pastels, pink,” she says. “I kind of just want to look like a Pokémon trainer, not gonna lie. Also Jules from \u003cem>Euphoria\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956810\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-03_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-03_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-03_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-03_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-03_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-03_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-03_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pastel colors are part of Gericault De La Rose’s signature look. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>De La Rose’s quintessential silhouette is a short pleated skirt, knee-high socks, chunky sneakers and legs for days. Her proclivity for the whimsically feminine shows up in her work as a visual artist, too. For her MFA thesis show at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, De La Rose made a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CvASvGbLDhw/?hl=en&img_index=1\">chandelier\u003c/a> out of draped pastel pink, purple, yellow and blue fabric meant to “capture the splendor of transformation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, being trans was not wanting to be a secret anymore,” she says. “I want to be vibrant. I want to be seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when De La Rose is wearing an outfit that does all that, she feels “like the baddest bitch in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, clothes shopping as a trans woman comes with its challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not all clothing brands are tailored to six-foot-tall women,” she explains. “It’s really hard for me to find pants that have a feminine cut, that accentuate the hips more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So De La Rose does what queer and trans folks have always done: alter, transform and experiment, needle and thread in hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955720\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955720\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-11-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-11-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-11-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-11-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-11-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-11-KQED-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-11-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-11-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For Gericault De La Rose, it’s all about unique details like her safety pin ‘baby’ earring. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The category is: best dressed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“The best dressed people are in the ballroom scene, no shade,” De La Rose says. “Let’s say I go to the Castro, and I go to these gay clubs. It’s giving jeans, maybe a white T-shirt and maybe a black leather jacket, copy-pasted onto everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De La Rose doesn’t just mean in the Bay Area: Ballroom scenes are part of LGBTQ+ communities all over the world, with some of the most influential ones in Paris and New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what makes ballroom folks more stylish?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They know their brands, and they also know how to experiment with their silhouette,” she explains. “The spectrum of masculinity to femininity is all explored.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a world of binary clothes, ballroom folks have dreamt up looks that aren’t just new and custom. They can also compete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything is intentional,” she says. “Because the minute you step into ballroom, the competition starts.” [aside postid='arts_13951605']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That innovation at a high level is what sets ballroom apart. And you know it when you see it, says De La Rose. To get her point across, she pulls up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs1SLGVRkoX/?hl=en&img_index=2\">photo of her ballroom mentor, Soho,\u003c/a> after a recent Oakland to All ball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s in a look to turns heads: long, lime green leather gloves, a white tee printed with a pointy-eared Doberman, a midi cargo skirt and a crocheted, lime green balaclava with dozens of knitted tentacles cascading from chin to chest with the caption, “Urban Streetwear w/ a touch of Futurama Cunt 👽🛸.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outfit is stunning, daring and tells an otherworldly story. It’s a feast in texture alone. It’s the anti-copy paste. And it’s exactly what De La Rose is talking about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De La Rose pulls up another photo, this one of her ballroom brother, Clover, in a look that masters layering and proportions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Creativity,” she says, zooming in. “Like, hello! You see what I mean?”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she first moved to Oakland from Chicago in 2021 to get her MFA at UC Berkeley, De La Rose didn’t feel this sure of herself. She didn’t have a community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to start over,” she says. “I literally cried every weekend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unbeknownst to her, the revival of a queer subculture was just starting to pop off in her neighborhood. It would redefine her life in the Bay — and it was just a short walk from her front door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One fall morning, while boredom-scrolling on Instagram in bed, she stopped on a flyer for a ballroom event at Soundwave Studios in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, ‘Oh my god, Oakland has a ballroom scene?’” she remembers. “I went over by myself later that week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955603\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-17-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-17-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-17-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-17-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-17-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-17-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-17-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-17-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland’s ballroom scene was where Gericault De La Rose found community. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was dark, and the music was pumping at full volume. De La Rose was wearing black tights, black short shorts, a tank top and Adidas Superstars. Her hair was long at the time, and she felt confident and elegant. The night began with the traditional “Legends, Statements, Stars” acknowledgements, which honor all the local ballroom icons who have paved the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, even after years of being in the Chicago ballroom scene, De La Rose didn’t really know how to vogue. But she decided to join in anyway. That night, she got 10s from the judges for the first time in her life. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De La Rose, who belongs to The Kiki House of Moschino, is part of a ballroom legacy that began in the ’70s and ’80s in New York City. Per tradition, De La Rose and her siblings compete against other houses in runway, vogue and other categories. Though ballroom has gotten mainstream attention and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13934154/beyonce-review-levis-stadium-2023-renaissance-world-tour\">counts Beyoncé among its fans\u003c/a>, it remains a vital way for queer and gender-nonconforming people of color come together as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13913584/oakland-to-all-ballroom-vogue-lgbtq-mental-health\">chosen families\u003c/a> in the face of societal rejection and other forms of adversity.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ballroom was the first home De La Rose found in the Bay Area. It’s also been a space where she’s been able to explore her relationship with style as a trans woman of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was something that I really craved,” she said. “Because yeah, there’s a lot of queer spaces in Oakland, but a lot of them are white.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1707px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956812\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-08_qut-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-08_qut-scaled.jpg 1707w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-08_qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-08_qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-08_qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-08_qut-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-08_qut-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-08_qut-1365x2048.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gericault De La Rose appreciates personal style with a point of view. \u003ccite>(Martin Do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>From normcore to Pokémon trainer\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>De La Rose started medically transitioning when she was 25 years old. She says that before then, she didn’t really know what she was doing when it came to clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was 100% giving Kohl’s,” she laughs. “Khakis, polo shirts — it was very normcore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then something clicked, and an aesthetic fell into place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like, OK: pastels, pink,” she says. “I kind of just want to look like a Pokémon trainer, not gonna lie. Also Jules from \u003cem>Euphoria\u003c/em>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956810\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-03_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-03_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-03_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-03_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-03_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-03_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-03_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pastel colors are part of Gericault De La Rose’s signature look. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>De La Rose’s quintessential silhouette is a short pleated skirt, knee-high socks, chunky sneakers and legs for days. Her proclivity for the whimsically feminine shows up in her work as a visual artist, too. For her MFA thesis show at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, De La Rose made a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CvASvGbLDhw/?hl=en&img_index=1\">chandelier\u003c/a> out of draped pastel pink, purple, yellow and blue fabric meant to “capture the splendor of transformation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me, being trans was not wanting to be a secret anymore,” she says. “I want to be vibrant. I want to be seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when De La Rose is wearing an outfit that does all that, she feels “like the baddest bitch in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, clothes shopping as a trans woman comes with its challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not all clothing brands are tailored to six-foot-tall women,” she explains. “It’s really hard for me to find pants that have a feminine cut, that accentuate the hips more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So De La Rose does what queer and trans folks have always done: alter, transform and experiment, needle and thread in hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955720\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955720\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-11-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-11-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-11-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-11-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-11-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-11-KQED-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-11-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240408-GERICAULT-MD-11-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">For Gericault De La Rose, it’s all about unique details like her safety pin ‘baby’ earring. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The category is: best dressed\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“The best dressed people are in the ballroom scene, no shade,” De La Rose says. “Let’s say I go to the Castro, and I go to these gay clubs. It’s giving jeans, maybe a white T-shirt and maybe a black leather jacket, copy-pasted onto everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De La Rose doesn’t just mean in the Bay Area: Ballroom scenes are part of LGBTQ+ communities all over the world, with some of the most influential ones in Paris and New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what makes ballroom folks more stylish?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They know their brands, and they also know how to experiment with their silhouette,” she explains. “The spectrum of masculinity to femininity is all explored.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a world of binary clothes, ballroom folks have dreamt up looks that aren’t just new and custom. They can also compete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything is intentional,” she says. “Because the minute you step into ballroom, the competition starts.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That innovation at a high level is what sets ballroom apart. And you know it when you see it, says De La Rose. To get her point across, she pulls up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cs1SLGVRkoX/?hl=en&img_index=2\">photo of her ballroom mentor, Soho,\u003c/a> after a recent Oakland to All ball.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s in a look to turns heads: long, lime green leather gloves, a white tee printed with a pointy-eared Doberman, a midi cargo skirt and a crocheted, lime green balaclava with dozens of knitted tentacles cascading from chin to chest with the caption, “Urban Streetwear w/ a touch of Futurama Cunt 👽🛸.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outfit is stunning, daring and tells an otherworldly story. It’s a feast in texture alone. It’s the anti-copy paste. And it’s exactly what De La Rose is talking about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De La Rose pulls up another photo, this one of her ballroom brother, Clover, in a look that masters layering and proportions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When photographers come together to show their work, the stories flow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s sure to be the case at the Oakland Photo Workshop on Friday, May 3, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/camerasandcoffeeclub/\">the Oakland Street Photography Collective \u003c/a>and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/eastbayphotocollective/\">East Bay Photo Collective\u003c/a> host “NOTICE.” The event will feature work from top-tier Bay Area street photographers from the Oakland Street Photography Collective, and is curated by pablo circa and Demondre Ward (who are also members of the Oakland Street Photography Collective).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to celebrating the visual art mounted on the walls of the community gallery space in Oakland’s Chinatown, the event will see the group releasing a new zine and partying to the sounds of a DJ set from \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ovrkast/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OVRKAST\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A social media post describing the show explains, “Through the lens of talented photographers, ‘NOTICE’ prompts us to reconsider our perspectives and appreciate the intricate details that often elude our attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13956624 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/EB-34-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a bucket hat and dress shirt hold up a printed photo of themselves. \" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/EB-34-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/EB-34-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/EB-34-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/EB-34-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/EB-34-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/EB-34-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/EB-34-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An attendee at an East Bay Photo Collective event called “Swaptastic,” holds up a printed portrait of themselves. \u003ccite>(Malcolm Wallace)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On display that evening will be the artwork of photographers\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rough_thesis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/pablocirca/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pablo circa\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ruffdraft/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brandon Ruffin\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ariel_mason_/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ariel Mason\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bradleyfowl/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bradley Fowl\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/elbooi/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elvin Catley\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/tareweezy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tare Sang\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rudimarr/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rudi Tcruz\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dre.wick/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Demondre Ward \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/00hsh00t/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kristian Salum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rough_thesis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Najee Tobin\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, whose art will also be showing, is part of the East Bay Photo Collective’s gallery team. 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From inside a brightly painted building on 24th Street, upstairs at the Brava Theater Center, 20 drummers pound out a rhythm for nearly three dozen dancers, shaking the floor as they move. \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13956328\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Binnie.headshot-160x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Binnie.headshot-160x190.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Binnie.headshot.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a typical weeknight rehearsal for \u003ca href=\"https://www.locoblocosf.org/\">Loco Bloco\u003c/a>, whose performers are currently working for hours on end to master intricate choreography and complex drum patterns for their performance at San Francisco’s massive \u003ca href=\"https://carnavalsanfrancisco.org/\">Carnaval celebration\u003c/a> in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A donations-based organization offering free dance and music classes to young people, Loco Bloco primarily serves the Latin and Afro-Latino communities in the Bay Area. Since its founding in 1994, Loco Bloco has influenced countless young participants, giving them a sense of community, stability and core values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956568\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-44-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-44-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-44-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-44-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-44-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-44-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-44-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-44-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antonio ‘Tico’ Dos Santos leads a Loco Bloco drum lesson at Brava Theater in San Francisco on April 22, 2024, to prepare for their performance in Carnaval. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A prime example of this is 15-year-old dancer Jediah Pratt, who began dancing with Loco Bloco when she was just 6 years old. When asked about the benefits of the program, she emphasizes the group’s tight-knit bond, and how much it means to her and her family since moving out of San Francisco with its rising costs. Now living an hour away, she says the program has kept her connected to the city where her family lived for generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956565\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956565\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-31-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-31-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-31-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-31-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-31-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-31-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-31-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-31-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jediah Pratt (center right), 15, practices with a Loco Bloco dance group lead by artistic director Mayela Carrasco at Brava Theater in San Francisco on April 22, 2024, to prepare for their performance in Carnaval. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jediah’s family has a long history with Loco Bloco. Her mother Ramona was introduced to the program by one of its founders, Jose Carrasco, when she was 11, and would watch rehearsals from the sidelines after school before joining in herself as a drummer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many years later, when Jediah was just 5, she saw the group perform — feathers, floats, colors and all — and begged her mom to join. In first grade, her wish came true, and she dutifully showed up to rehearsals, rain or shine. (Once, when a family member died, she remembers wanting to go to Loco Bloco rehearsal instead of their funeral.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956564\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-16-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-16-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-16-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-16-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-16-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-16-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-16-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-16-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jediah Pratt, 15, stands outside Brava Theater in San Francisco on April 22, 2024, before dance practice with the group Loco Bloco to prepare for Carnaval. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“She’s grown up with Loco Bloco, which I think is a beautiful thing,” says Ramona of her daughter. “I’ve asked over and over again, ‘Is this what you really want to do? Because you’re really good at it.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three years ago, the closeness and familial bond of the program gave Jediah and her family a sense of stability after moving to Concord due to high costs and inflation. It was a difficult time, and her new home and school were vastly different from San Francisco. Yet Jediah and her three siblings still attended Loco Bloco every Monday and Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956569\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-48-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-48-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-48-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-48-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-48-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-48-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-48-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-48-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loco Bloco managing director Jose Carrasco leads a drum group during practice at Brava Theater in San Francisco on April 22, 2024, to prepare for their performance in Carnaval. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Jediah is really the best,” said Jose Carrasco, now Loco Bloco’s managing director. “She has really developed into a beautiful artist, and through the years I’ve watched her blossom.” Jediah helps out with the younger kids and their stilts lessons, Carrasco is quick to point out, while Ramona spends her time drumming and volunteering for the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, Jediah’s family moved to Fairfield, an hour away from San Francisco without traffic, where her routine and environment changed once again. She began high school in Fairfield this year, which she described as rough. She didn’t know anybody at first, and went to a school with thousands of kids and “fights every day on the schoolyard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956567\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-35-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jediah Pratt, 15, talks with friends during Loco Bloco dance practice at Brava Theater in San Francisco on April 22, 2024, to prepare for their performance in Carnaval. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, every Monday and Wednesday at 5 p.m., Ramona drives the family down I-80 and through the city’s traffic to Loco Bloco, where Jediah and her siblings dance and drum for hours. They don’t get back home until 11 p.m. While it may sound strenuous, when asked about it, Jediah says, “I feel like everybody is kind of like family. Everyone knows everyone, and we’re always there for each other, looking out for each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For this year’s Carnaval, Jediah is one of just two teens dancing with the adults. Though the rehearsals and dances are difficult, the hardest part of preparing for Carnaval is the costumes, she says. Each year the dancers are given costumes to decorate with rhinestones or other accouterments and make their own. Jediah recalls staying up until one a.m. the night before last year’s Carnaval, trying to finish her outfit and falling asleep with the hot glue gun in hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956563\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-09-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-09-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-09-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jediah Pratt, 15, helps stilt walkers for the group Loco Bloco practice outside Brava Theater in San Francisco on April 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As Jediah continues to navigate the challenges of adjusting to a new environment and the demands of high school life, her dedication to Loco Bloco remains a testament to the power of community and art. Through Loco Bloco, she not only hones her skills as an artist but also cultivates resilience, perseverance, and a sense of belonging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the upcoming Carnaval performance, there’ll be drums, dancing and colorful costumes — and for Jediah, there’ll also be the enduring impact of cultural expression and the bonds forged through shared experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Loco Bloco performs as part of this year’s San Francisco’s Carnaval, running May 25–26 in the Mission District. \u003ca href=\"https://carnavalsanfrancisco.org/\">Details here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Binnie Kenvin is a Junior at University High School. She is passionate about screenwriting, dancing and playing bass, and loves to hang out with her three dogs. In the future she hopes to be a screenwriter. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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From inside a brightly painted building on 24th Street, upstairs at the Brava Theater Center, 20 drummers pound out a rhythm for nearly three dozen dancers, shaking the floor as they move. \u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13956328\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Binnie.headshot-160x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Binnie.headshot-160x190.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Binnie.headshot.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a typical weeknight rehearsal for \u003ca href=\"https://www.locoblocosf.org/\">Loco Bloco\u003c/a>, whose performers are currently working for hours on end to master intricate choreography and complex drum patterns for their performance at San Francisco’s massive \u003ca href=\"https://carnavalsanfrancisco.org/\">Carnaval celebration\u003c/a> in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A donations-based organization offering free dance and music classes to young people, Loco Bloco primarily serves the Latin and Afro-Latino communities in the Bay Area. Since its founding in 1994, Loco Bloco has influenced countless young participants, giving them a sense of community, stability and core values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956568\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956568\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-44-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-44-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-44-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-44-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-44-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-44-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-44-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-44-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antonio ‘Tico’ Dos Santos leads a Loco Bloco drum lesson at Brava Theater in San Francisco on April 22, 2024, to prepare for their performance in Carnaval. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A prime example of this is 15-year-old dancer Jediah Pratt, who began dancing with Loco Bloco when she was just 6 years old. When asked about the benefits of the program, she emphasizes the group’s tight-knit bond, and how much it means to her and her family since moving out of San Francisco with its rising costs. Now living an hour away, she says the program has kept her connected to the city where her family lived for generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956565\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956565\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-31-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-31-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-31-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-31-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-31-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-31-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-31-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-31-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jediah Pratt (center right), 15, practices with a Loco Bloco dance group lead by artistic director Mayela Carrasco at Brava Theater in San Francisco on April 22, 2024, to prepare for their performance in Carnaval. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jediah’s family has a long history with Loco Bloco. 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She began high school in Fairfield this year, which she described as rough. She didn’t know anybody at first, and went to a school with thousands of kids and “fights every day on the schoolyard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956567\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13956567\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-35-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240422-LOCOBLOCO-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jediah Pratt, 15, talks with friends during Loco Bloco dance practice at Brava Theater in San Francisco on April 22, 2024, to prepare for their performance in Carnaval. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, every Monday and Wednesday at 5 p.m., Ramona drives the family down I-80 and through the city’s traffic to Loco Bloco, where Jediah and her siblings dance and drum for hours. They don’t get back home until 11 p.m. While it may sound strenuous, when asked about it, Jediah says, “I feel like everybody is kind of like family. Everyone knows everyone, and we’re always there for each other, looking out for each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For this year’s Carnaval, Jediah is one of just two teens dancing with the adults. Though the rehearsals and dances are difficult, the hardest part of preparing for Carnaval is the costumes, she says. Each year the dancers are given costumes to decorate with rhinestones or other accouterments and make their own. 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"content": "\u003cp>As a child growing up in Kansas City, Ivan McClellan would sing the national anthem at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanroyal.com/rodeo/\">American Royal\u003c/a> rodeo with a youth choir. Those performances are some of his fondest memories, but they’re also bittersweet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13939278']That’s because just about everybody else around him was white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t a place that we felt like we belonged,” McClellan told \u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em> host \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/1018429547/a-martinez\">A Martínez\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Learning about Black rodeos as an adult came as a revelation to him. McClellan spent nearly a decade documenting this unique culture all across the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/04/23/ivan_mcclellan_03_sq-acafa9119030ddf411da2cab26a000dc19d00146.jpg?s=1200&c=75&f=jpeg\" alt=\"Two young Black men seen in a wooded area at dusk, standing on the backs of two horses.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rodney & RJ, McCalla, Ala.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His forthcoming photobook, \u003ca href=\"https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/eight-seconds-miss-rosen/1144643838?ean=9788862088121\">\u003cem>Eight Seconds: Black Rodeo Culture\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, out April 30, features highlights from that journey. The title refers to the minimum amount of time a rider has to stay on a horse or other livestock in order to register a score during a competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of this beauty and energy and environment just stuck to me,” McClellan said about his first encounter with a Black rodeo. “I saw thousands of Black cowboys and they were doing the Cupid Shuffle in the desert and they were cooking turkey legs. And there were Black folks dressed like traditional cowboys. There were also Black folks riding their horses in Jordans and women riding with their braids blowing behind them and their hands with long acrylic nails clutching the reins.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/04/23/ivan_mcclellan_06_custom-d85e2c1b239ef70972128b1ddd896e5162adf770.jpg?s=1200&c=75&f=jpeg\" alt=\"Two Black men on horses race at high speeds around a sandy arena.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"930\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Riders pass a baton during a Pony Express relay race in Okmulgee, Okla.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That event, \u003ca href=\"https://www.greencountryok.com/event/roy-leblanc-okmulgee-invitational-rodeo-%26-festival/69/\">the Roy Leblanc Invitational Rodeo in Oklahoma\u003c/a>, is one McClellan has come to dub “the Super Bowl of Black rodeos.” It is the oldest of its kind in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13955021']He began posting his photographs of the event online. As his social media audience grew, McClellan was soon traveling the country in search of similar happenings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are Black cowboys pretty much everywhere. I mean, there are Black cowboys here in Portland, Ore., where I live, which I think is the last place that I would have expected to find them,” said McClellan, who now runs his own rodeo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went all the way to Oklahoma to realize that there were cowboys up the road from me who have been there for four generations … You’d be hard pressed to find a part of America where there wasn’t at least some some portion of this culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/04/23/ivan_mcclellan_07_custom-0da721f05dccc9141ff2052b7e9719d3d118157d.jpg?s=1200&c=75&f=jpeg\" alt=\"A Black woman in a cowboy hat, shirt and jeans poses inside an industrial enclosure.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"891\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jadayia Kursh, Okmulgee, Okla.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s a narrative largely shunned by Hollywood and the broader mass culture, where the cowboy is consistently portrayed as a white male, be it John Wayne, Val Kilmer or on TV series like \u003cem>Bonanza\u003c/em> (1959-73) and \u003cem>Gunsmoke\u003c/em> (1955-75).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up until a few years ago, “I really thought that term [cowboy] was a joke when applied to a Black person,” McClellan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the term was once a pejorative for African Americans working on ranches and farms, while white cowboys were known as “cowhands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/04/23/ivan_mcclellan_08_custom-f5fa59efb45a4fb53276ba52a59684a8cc36fcc9.jpg?s=1200&c=75&f=jpeg\" alt=\"A Black man lies flat along a horse's back, his hat flying off behind him, as he struggles to stay on the bucking horse.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"891\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrick Liddell, Las Vegas, Nevada.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But ultimately, cowboy became “a shorthand for our noblest ideals,” McClellan said. “A lot of these things our popular culture is hesitant to attribute to a Black person. So I think to have a cowboy rushing in, saving the day with a black face just didn’t jibe with the stories that Hollywood was trying to tell. I think it’s erasure. I think it’s at best, laziness, at worst, very intentional and malicious. But I’m excited to see that transforming before my eyes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyoncé’s recent country-influenced album \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9XHMK3nWr4\">\u003cem>Cowboy Carter\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is the latest iteration of that push for change in popular culture. Lil Nas X challenged the country genre in 2018 with his song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7qovpFAGrQ\">Old Town Road.\u003c/a>” It became a viral hit after sparking widespread conversations \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/05/710021098/lil-nas-x-country-musics-unlikely-son-sparks-conversation-on-genre-and-race\">about genre gatekeeping and Black musicians’ place within country culture\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/04/23/ivan_mcclellan_09_custom-d069a736f1be991e2c90579b2e603ca412549042.jpg?s=1200&c=75&f=jpeg\" alt=\"Two young Black men in full cowboy regalia stand behind a fence in a large warehouse, watching the distance intently. An older Black man stands at their side doing the same.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"894\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bull Riders, Rosenberg, Texas.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was a perfect alley-oop. And Beyoncé is hanging on the rim right now,” said McClellan. “Beyoncé is not only revealing Black cowboy culture, but she’s transforming country music forever and tearing down genres in a way that that I don’t think has ever been done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13939314']For McClellan, there’s now one place where he keeps returning over and over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as cultural impact, there’s nothing like the Roy LeBlanc Invitational Rodeo,” he said. “On the second weekend in August at about 8 p.m. when the sun is going down, everything is gold and all the athletes are filing into the arena for the grand entry. And that is where I like to take photos more than anywhere else on the entire planet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/04/23/ivan_mcclellan_04_custom-6997682f2f6e5a0d922046c6178e1759c11b9ebd.jpg?s=1200&c=75&f=jpeg\" alt=\"A young Black woman in a fringed red shirt and black cowboy hat decorated with a tiara sits on horseback comfortably holding reins.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"930\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rodeo Queen, Okmulgee, Okla.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The broadcast version of this story was produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/896256272/lilly-quiroz\">\u003cem>Lilly Quiroz\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. The digital version was edited by Obed Manuel.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That’s because just about everybody else around him was white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t a place that we felt like we belonged,” McClellan told \u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em> host \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/1018429547/a-martinez\">A Martínez\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Learning about Black rodeos as an adult came as a revelation to him. McClellan spent nearly a decade documenting this unique culture all across the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/04/23/ivan_mcclellan_03_sq-acafa9119030ddf411da2cab26a000dc19d00146.jpg?s=1200&c=75&f=jpeg\" alt=\"Two young Black men seen in a wooded area at dusk, standing on the backs of two horses.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rodney & RJ, McCalla, Ala.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His forthcoming photobook, \u003ca href=\"https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/eight-seconds-miss-rosen/1144643838?ean=9788862088121\">\u003cem>Eight Seconds: Black Rodeo Culture\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, out April 30, features highlights from that journey. The title refers to the minimum amount of time a rider has to stay on a horse or other livestock in order to register a score during a competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>He began posting his photographs of the event online. As his social media audience grew, McClellan was soon traveling the country in search of similar happenings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are Black cowboys pretty much everywhere. I mean, there are Black cowboys here in Portland, Ore., where I live, which I think is the last place that I would have expected to find them,” said McClellan, who now runs his own rodeo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went all the way to Oklahoma to realize that there were cowboys up the road from me who have been there for four generations … You’d be hard pressed to find a part of America where there wasn’t at least some some portion of this culture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/04/23/ivan_mcclellan_07_custom-0da721f05dccc9141ff2052b7e9719d3d118157d.jpg?s=1200&c=75&f=jpeg\" alt=\"A Black woman in a cowboy hat, shirt and jeans poses inside an industrial enclosure.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"891\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jadayia Kursh, Okmulgee, Okla.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s a narrative largely shunned by Hollywood and the broader mass culture, where the cowboy is consistently portrayed as a white male, be it John Wayne, Val Kilmer or on TV series like \u003cem>Bonanza\u003c/em> (1959-73) and \u003cem>Gunsmoke\u003c/em> (1955-75).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up until a few years ago, “I really thought that term [cowboy] was a joke when applied to a Black person,” McClellan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the term was once a pejorative for African Americans working on ranches and farms, while white cowboys were known as “cowhands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/04/23/ivan_mcclellan_08_custom-f5fa59efb45a4fb53276ba52a59684a8cc36fcc9.jpg?s=1200&c=75&f=jpeg\" alt=\"A Black man lies flat along a horse's back, his hat flying off behind him, as he struggles to stay on the bucking horse.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"891\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrick Liddell, Las Vegas, Nevada.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But ultimately, cowboy became “a shorthand for our noblest ideals,” McClellan said. “A lot of these things our popular culture is hesitant to attribute to a Black person. So I think to have a cowboy rushing in, saving the day with a black face just didn’t jibe with the stories that Hollywood was trying to tell. I think it’s erasure. I think it’s at best, laziness, at worst, very intentional and malicious. But I’m excited to see that transforming before my eyes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyoncé’s recent country-influenced album \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9XHMK3nWr4\">\u003cem>Cowboy Carter\u003c/em>\u003c/a> is the latest iteration of that push for change in popular culture. Lil Nas X challenged the country genre in 2018 with his song “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7qovpFAGrQ\">Old Town Road.\u003c/a>” It became a viral hit after sparking widespread conversations \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/05/710021098/lil-nas-x-country-musics-unlikely-son-sparks-conversation-on-genre-and-race\">about genre gatekeeping and Black musicians’ place within country culture\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/04/23/ivan_mcclellan_09_custom-d069a736f1be991e2c90579b2e603ca412549042.jpg?s=1200&c=75&f=jpeg\" alt=\"Two young Black men in full cowboy regalia stand behind a fence in a large warehouse, watching the distance intently. An older Black man stands at their side doing the same.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"894\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bull Riders, Rosenberg, Texas.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was a perfect alley-oop. And Beyoncé is hanging on the rim right now,” said McClellan. “Beyoncé is not only revealing Black cowboy culture, but she’s transforming country music forever and tearing down genres in a way that that I don’t think has ever been done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>For McClellan, there’s now one place where he keeps returning over and over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as cultural impact, there’s nothing like the Roy LeBlanc Invitational Rodeo,” he said. “On the second weekend in August at about 8 p.m. when the sun is going down, everything is gold and all the athletes are filing into the arena for the grand entry. And that is where I like to take photos more than anywhere else on the entire planet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2024/04/23/ivan_mcclellan_04_custom-6997682f2f6e5a0d922046c6178e1759c11b9ebd.jpg?s=1200&c=75&f=jpeg\" alt=\"A young Black woman in a fringed red shirt and black cowboy hat decorated with a tiara sits on horseback comfortably holding reins.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"930\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rodeo Queen, Okmulgee, Okla.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The broadcast version of this story was produced by \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/people/896256272/lilly-quiroz\">\u003cem>Lilly Quiroz\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. The digital version was edited by Obed Manuel.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955737\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-Beyonce%CC%81Fans-JY-050_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a white sequined dress and cowboy hat kneels on one leg on a catwalk, surrounded by the audience and lit in red\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BeyoncéFans-JY-050_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BeyoncéFans-JY-050_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BeyoncéFans-JY-050_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BeyoncéFans-JY-050_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BeyoncéFans-JY-050_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BeyoncéFans-JY-050_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bionka Simone performs Beyoncé’s ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’ at Oasis in San Francisco on Saturday, April 6, 2024. The show drew a sold-out crowd of drag fans and members of the Beyhive as an all-Black cast celebrated the release of Beyoncé’s new album, ‘Cowboy Carter.’ \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of the series \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/fandomvote\">The Fandom Vote\u003c/a>, exploring the election-year concerns and voting preferences of significant pop culture fanbases.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]E[/dropcap]arlier this month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/beyonce\">Beyoncé\u003c/a>’s \u003cem>Cowboy Carter\u003c/em> galloped into the national psyche in all of its flag-waving, countrified glory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Considering Beyoncé’s status as an artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/pop/20366/six-beyonce-pieces-by-women-of-color-that-you-should-read-right-now\">unafraid to invoke political imagery in both her music and her visuals\u003c/a> — not to mention the way this album has turned into a battleground over who “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101905263/from-beyonce-to-lil-hardin-my-black-country-celebrates-the-undersung-black-history-and-future-of-country-music\">owns country\u003c/a>”— it’s unsurprising that many of her fans consider themselves politically conscious, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We at KQED set out to ask Beyoncé fans at San Francisco’s Oasis nightclub, directly before a Beyoncé-themed drag show, about the state of America and the issues with which they’re most concerned in this election year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955649\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955649\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCE%CC%81FANS-JY-014-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A trio of tattooed and flamboyant people, including two in cowboy hats, smile and line up before a pink and red mural.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-014-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-014-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-014-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-014-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-014-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-014-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-014-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Lance Derick, Joshua Carrasco and James Aceves. Carrasco, who is a pediatric resident at UCSF, says access to healthcare and health insurance is a huge factor in his voting decisions. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Joshua Carrasco came to the Beyoncé party with two friends, having arrived in San Francisco from Texas almost a year ago. As a pediatric resident at UCSF, Carrasco says he’s concerned about the links between poor health, underfunded education and a lack of affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it comes to queer communities, housing is such an important social determinate of health that I think is undervalued within the San Francisco area,” Carrasco said. “A lot of the Props that were voted on [in the last election] went in a direction that I was not anticipating. I think San Francisco flaunts itself as progressive, but I think in action, it’s less progressive than I had anticipated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955643\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955643\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCE%CC%81FANS-JY-001-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A smiling woman wearing a wide brimmed black hat and leather jacket stands with a shorter woman wearing her hair in braids and a short skirt. They are standing before a pink and red mural.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-001-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-001-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-001-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-001-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-001-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-001-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-001-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annika Gabriel (L) and Gabby Huckabee (R). Both expressed concern about the age of the presidential candidates, as well as concern for their friends of color. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Asked how she’s feeling about the 2024 election, Annika Gabriel said simply: “I’m real worried about my trans friends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Gabriel’s side was Gabby Huckabee, who said she is “upset for my Muslim friends [and] for my friends of color.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13955021']Huckabee continued, “It’s very upsetting to me that out of everyone they could have possibly chosen for both parties, [Biden and Trump] are the two they still have come up with. I’m not optimistic for the future. I’m still going to vote for Joe Biden. Because I’m very clearly opposed to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/donald-trump-tape-transcript.html\">Donald Trump grabbing people by the pussy\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955645\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955645\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCE%CC%81FANS-JY-003-KQED-e1712693509298.jpg\" alt=\"A Black man smiles broadly in front of a neon-lit O sign at night.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron McCall has the environment at the forefront of his mind during this election year. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite not feeling enthusiastic about either presidential candidate, Aaron McCall was another attendee determined to make a difference in whichever way he can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we are choosing people to vote for, it is not a moral statement and it’s not a statement of who we like,” the climate charity worker emphasized. “It is a statement of who we’re going to work with and who’s going to work with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Republicans have actively said they are going to target and attack queer [folks] and people of color,” McCall continued, “and they’re going to destroy the environment in the process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955647\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCE%CC%81FANS-JY-008-KQED-e1712695709640.jpg\" alt=\"A slender white man in a Beyonce t-shirt, an Arabic man wearing a blue shirt and an Asian woman in a black leather jacket stand with arms around each other outside a nightclub.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Sean Dante Remigio, Mahmoud Dabbah and Mara Lee. Dabbah isn’t happy with President Biden’s support of Israel and feels there isn’t much difference between Biden and Trump. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mahmoud Dabbah, a Palestinian who has lived in America for three years, believes Biden’s ability to get reelected will be greatly impacted by the president’s support of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza\">Israel’s military actions in Gaza.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can see that clearly. I think the whole world is pissed off,” Dabbah said. “This war is horrible and the U.S. is a big part of it. I hope it stops soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13940030']Asked if he worries about the consequences of another Trump presidency, Dabbah stated: “After what I saw from Biden, I don’t care anymore. It’s all the same for me as an immigrant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dabbah’s friend Sean Dante Remigio agreed. “It feels very much a losing game either way,” he said. “I mean, it’s not even choosing between a lesser of two evils. There is no choice. That is the conflict.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1402px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955702\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-09-at-4.57.48-PM.png\" alt=\"Two young people of color stand side by side inside a nightclub with thoughtful expressions on their faces.\" width=\"1402\" height=\"936\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-09-at-4.57.48-PM.png 1402w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-09-at-4.57.48-PM-800x534.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-09-at-4.57.48-PM-1020x681.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-09-at-4.57.48-PM-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-09-at-4.57.48-PM-768x513.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1402px) 100vw, 1402px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L) Rogue and (R) Stephane are both concerned about houselessness and access to healthcare in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Remigio’s thoughts were echoed by Rogue and Stephane. (Both declined to give last names.) Though the friends remain concerned with housing and healthcare in San Francisco, they don’t see an upcoming face-off between Trump and Biden offering real solutions to the nation’s problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like the options are not great,” Stephane, an international student, said. “Even if I was allowed to vote, I would need better options. I don’t really care about either of the candidates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah,” Rogue laughed, “it’s like: Poo-Poo or Pee-Pee!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955648\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCE%CC%81FANS-JY-009-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two white women, one with a ponytail, one with cropped purple hair, stand close together, smiling warmly at each other. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-009-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-009-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-009-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-009-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-009-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-009-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-009-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Married couple Sunny and Reece Johnson are politically disillusioned — one more so than the other. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Also disillusioned with the election are Sunny and Reece Johnson, who’ve been happily married for 11 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will tell you that I have stopped thinking about [the election] because it’s distressing,” Reece said. “I do feel very unmotivated to vote, because I’m so burned out on the drama.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would never \u003cem>not\u003c/em> vote, though,” Sunny interjected. “Never.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reece shrugged. “I would like to say that I would never not vote, but I’m so disenchanted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955651\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCE%CC%81FANS-JY-024-KQED-e1712707940654.jpg\" alt=\"A drag queen strikes a pose in black lingerie and red dressing gown, next to a wooden fence decorated with lights.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xochitl the Queen poses on the roof deck of Oasis shortly before performing on April 5, 2024. Xochitl works in deportation defense at USF Law and uses her drag to make political statements. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One fan who wishes she could vote is drag queen Xochitl. Shortly before her performance as auburn-haired temptress Jolene, Xochitl said she is “low-key scared” about the upcoming election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My future as a performer, as an artist, as an immigrant and as a member of this society is at risk, depending on who wins,” she said. “They say we have a choice, but it’s an illusion of a choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a DACA recipient, Xochitl is not eligible to vote, but strives to make a difference through her job at USF Law. She also utilizes performance to express herself politically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I make my voice heard by doing art, doing drag,” Xochitl explained. “My drag is inherently political. I’ve done numbers on stage where I burn the American flag as protest, as part of my work in deportation defense. I express my fear about drag bans through my art.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955646\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCE%CC%81FANS-JY-006-KQED-e1712693763217.jpg\" alt=\"A person with glasses and short dark haircut, stands hands in pockets in front of a pink and red mural. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dani Arevalos says their biggest concern as a member of the LGBTQ+ community is being respected and acknowledged as a person. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like many people we spoke with at Oasis, LGBTQ issues are front and center for Dani Arevalos, who feels dehumanized by recent attacks on gender nonconforming people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking to the future, my biggest concern is being respected as a human being,” Arevalos said. “I come from the Latin community, and also being LGBTQ … Honestly two very different communities [with] the same issue of being oppressed. I think going forward, being respected and being acknowledged [will help us] to move forward as a nation together.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Asked if he worries about the consequences of another Trump presidency, Dabbah stated: “After what I saw from Biden, I don’t care anymore. It’s all the same for me as an immigrant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dabbah’s friend Sean Dante Remigio agreed. “It feels very much a losing game either way,” he said. “I mean, it’s not even choosing between a lesser of two evils. There is no choice. That is the conflict.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955702\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1402px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955702\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-09-at-4.57.48-PM.png\" alt=\"Two young people of color stand side by side inside a nightclub with thoughtful expressions on their faces.\" width=\"1402\" height=\"936\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-09-at-4.57.48-PM.png 1402w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-09-at-4.57.48-PM-800x534.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-09-at-4.57.48-PM-1020x681.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-09-at-4.57.48-PM-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-09-at-4.57.48-PM-768x513.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1402px) 100vw, 1402px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L) Rogue and (R) Stephane are both concerned about houselessness and access to healthcare in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Remigio’s thoughts were echoed by Rogue and Stephane. (Both declined to give last names.) Though the friends remain concerned with housing and healthcare in San Francisco, they don’t see an upcoming face-off between Trump and Biden offering real solutions to the nation’s problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like the options are not great,” Stephane, an international student, said. “Even if I was allowed to vote, I would need better options. I don’t really care about either of the candidates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah,” Rogue laughed, “it’s like: Poo-Poo or Pee-Pee!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955648\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCE%CC%81FANS-JY-009-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two white women, one with a ponytail, one with cropped purple hair, stand close together, smiling warmly at each other. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-009-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-009-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-009-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-009-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-009-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-009-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCÉFANS-JY-009-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Married couple Sunny and Reece Johnson are politically disillusioned — one more so than the other. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Also disillusioned with the election are Sunny and Reece Johnson, who’ve been happily married for 11 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will tell you that I have stopped thinking about [the election] because it’s distressing,” Reece said. “I do feel very unmotivated to vote, because I’m so burned out on the drama.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would never \u003cem>not\u003c/em> vote, though,” Sunny interjected. “Never.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reece shrugged. “I would like to say that I would never not vote, but I’m so disenchanted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955651\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955651\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCE%CC%81FANS-JY-024-KQED-e1712707940654.jpg\" alt=\"A drag queen strikes a pose in black lingerie and red dressing gown, next to a wooden fence decorated with lights.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xochitl the Queen poses on the roof deck of Oasis shortly before performing on April 5, 2024. Xochitl works in deportation defense at USF Law and uses her drag to make political statements. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One fan who wishes she could vote is drag queen Xochitl. Shortly before her performance as auburn-haired temptress Jolene, Xochitl said she is “low-key scared” about the upcoming election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My future as a performer, as an artist, as an immigrant and as a member of this society is at risk, depending on who wins,” she said. “They say we have a choice, but it’s an illusion of a choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a DACA recipient, Xochitl is not eligible to vote, but strives to make a difference through her job at USF Law. She also utilizes performance to express herself politically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I make my voice heard by doing art, doing drag,” Xochitl explained. “My drag is inherently political. I’ve done numbers on stage where I burn the American flag as protest, as part of my work in deportation defense. I express my fear about drag bans through my art.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955646\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/240405-BEYONCE%CC%81FANS-JY-006-KQED-e1712693763217.jpg\" alt=\"A person with glasses and short dark haircut, stands hands in pockets in front of a pink and red mural. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dani Arevalos says their biggest concern as a member of the LGBTQ+ community is being respected and acknowledged as a person. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like many people we spoke with at Oasis, LGBTQ issues are front and center for Dani Arevalos, who feels dehumanized by recent attacks on gender nonconforming people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953402\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953402\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Person in white beanie, plaid jacket, dark shirt, cross-body bag opens jacket and smiles\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-05-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-05-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-05-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-05-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noah David Coogler poses for a photo in Oakland on Feb. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s Note:\u003c/strong> Fit Check is a series about style and personal expression in the Bay Area. See other installments \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/fit-check\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noah David Coogler — stage name \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ogdayv/\">OG Dayv\u003c/a> — stands outside his grandmother’s house in February as thick, gray clouds condense all over Oakland. In a knit beanie and a quilted jacket, Coogler looks right at home beneath an overcast sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='fit-check' label='More from Fit Check']Even when he’s on stage performing tracks like “Limoncello” from the \u003ci>Wakanda Forever\u003c/i> soundtrack, Coogler keeps it comfy in a bucket hat, Dickies and a roomy trench coat that lightly billows as he moves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would describe my sense of style as the three Cs: comfy, cozy and cool,” says Coogler, who was born in Oakland and now lives in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the Bay is known for its laid-back clothing, Coogler says we don’t give enough credit where credit is due — and he doesn’t mean to Patagonia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953405\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Person sits relaxed in corner of long green couch in living room\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noah David Coogler gets comfy in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Coogler, cozy and cool is Mac Dre on the cover of his 1991 EP \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://i.discogs.com/1mK5OvFj9P61mwJc7fOuu98vgSyjrVCErFnSSFR-87E/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:593/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTk2MzEx/Mi0xNTUyOTMzNDE2/LTQwNjUuanBlZw.jpeg\">California Livin’\u003c/a>\u003c/i>: posted up on a cushy, white couch in jeans and an oversized white baseball tee, leaning back on his elbow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just screams Bay Area,” Coogler says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And whether Coogler is chilling at home playing \u003ci>Pokémon Platinum\u003c/i> on his Nintendo DS or heading out to a music video shoot, there are two cultural touchstones that guide his wardrobe: hip-hop and the Black Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Oversized, underrated\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“From what I’ve observed in my 33 years, hip-hop is the most influential thing on the planet,” Coogler says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes its influence on what people wear. Cool, comfy Bay Area style is Keak Da Sneak wearing oversized T-shirts and jeans in the ’90s. It’s LaRussell sporting Crocs in 2024. And it’s rooted in a fusion of hip-hop and skater culture that began in the mid-’90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954308\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954308\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Person in beanie with cross-body back looks out windows\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noah David Coogler wears a favorite beanie on a rainy day in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Coogler points to the mid-aughts Bay Area rap group The Pack, who came on the scene just as he was figuring out his sense of style, as the embodiment of that fusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Pack — they bridged the gap between rap culture and skate culture,” he says. “They came out of Berkeley and they were baggy: big hoodies, big jeans and the Vans, which was such a crazy polarizing look during a time when everyone was wearing Jordans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The longshoreman-meets-Black Panther aesthetic\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At Coogler’s grandmother’s house, the only decor on the porch is a worn-out “Welcome to Wakanda” doormat — an ode to Coogler’s older brother, co-writer and director of the \u003ci>Black Panther\u003c/i> movies, Ryan Coogler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doormat doesn’t mark the only noteworthy entryway in the neighborhood. Just a few blocks away is the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/02/04/the-black-panther-partys-original-headquarters-in-north-oakland-may-be-replaced-with-apartments/\">original headquarters of the Black Panther Party\u003c/a> on Martin Luther King Jr. Way, another part of Coogler’s family history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11830384']Long before the late Chadwick Boseman took up the mantle of T’Challa, a man named Clarence Thomas (not the Supreme Court Justice) was a student at San Francisco State University in the 1960s. Thomas participated in a wave of student protests organized by the Black Student Union and the Third World Liberation Front that led to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11830384/how-the-longest-student-strike-in-u-s-history-created-ethnic-studies\">the creation of the school’s ethnic studies department\u003c/a> (the country’s first). He’s also Coogler’s uncle and style icon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Panthers never looked disheveled, rusty or dusty — it’s casual clothing, but it’s \u003ci>neat\u003c/i>,” Coogler said.\u003ci> “\u003c/i>And that’s what I always noticed about my uncle — he was always put together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coogler sports a Burberry rain jacket and his favorite gold jewelry staples. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Uncle Clarence wore hardy, wide-legged work pants and a dark blue, wool coat that kept him warm while he worked at the Port of Oakland as a longshoreman, Coogler remembers. And when his uncle wasn’t working — like when he took a young Coogler to a Black history exhibit in Oakland — he carried himself with that same composed ease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even when he wore jeans they would be crisp,” Coogler remembers. “Always had a nice leather belt, nice shirt, really nice jacket and maybe a turtleneck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a throughline between the practical longshoreman workwear and the semi-professional, Ivy-leaning sensibility of the Black Panthers that cohered in Uncle Clarence’s style. And it resonated with Coogler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On stage, Coogler’s Dickies, his roomy houndstooth jacket and his collared dress shirt echo all those entwined memories and local family histories, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953406\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953406\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coogler in a houndstooth coat he wears during performances. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The displacement of style\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Coogler was just a few years old, his parents couldn’t afford to live in Oakland anymore, despite their strong community ties. Like many other Black families, they were forced to move elsewhere — in the Coogler family’s case, to Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh man, so when you walk through Oakland now, when you walk through Berkeley now, you can feel the culture shift,” he says. “I remember growing up in the Bay in the ’90s and the early 2000s — I remember it was minorities everywhere, not just Black people, and what happens is we get priced out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coogler sees the corporate techy style that’s overtaken the Bay as part and parcel of that precipitous gentrification, which has \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/04/01/oakland-home-histories-a-legacy-of-black-homeownership-in-maxwell-park/\">decreased Black homeownership in Oakland\u003c/a> enormously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re a real Bay head, you know that Bay Area people don’t rock Patagonia like that — \u003cem>new\u003c/em> Bay Area people do,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954310\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954310\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Person in plaid jacket, jeans, beanie and sunglasses\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coogler in his ideal silhouette: comfy with a little structure. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gorp-y outerwear and soft basics are still very much a part of the Bay’s vernacular. But the regional brand staples for Coogler are like him — they came up in the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wore North Face, but the reason we wore North Face is because we got a North Face dealer in Berkeley,” he explains. “Gap hoodies — big Bay Area thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coogler wants to move back to Oakland one day, but he recognizes how it’s changed; it’s apparent in how people dress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you remove the people that make a place special, you lose the culture,” he says, “you lose the feel, you lose the zest, the flavor.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Even when he’s on stage performing tracks like “Limoncello” from the \u003ci>Wakanda Forever\u003c/i> soundtrack, Coogler keeps it comfy in a bucket hat, Dickies and a roomy trench coat that lightly billows as he moves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would describe my sense of style as the three Cs: comfy, cozy and cool,” says Coogler, who was born in Oakland and now lives in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while the Bay is known for its laid-back clothing, Coogler says we don’t give enough credit where credit is due — and he doesn’t mean to Patagonia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953405\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Person sits relaxed in corner of long green couch in living room\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-30-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noah David Coogler gets comfy in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Coogler, cozy and cool is Mac Dre on the cover of his 1991 EP \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://i.discogs.com/1mK5OvFj9P61mwJc7fOuu98vgSyjrVCErFnSSFR-87E/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:593/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTk2MzEx/Mi0xNTUyOTMzNDE2/LTQwNjUuanBlZw.jpeg\">California Livin’\u003c/a>\u003c/i>: posted up on a cushy, white couch in jeans and an oversized white baseball tee, leaning back on his elbow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just screams Bay Area,” Coogler says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And whether Coogler is chilling at home playing \u003ci>Pokémon Platinum\u003c/i> on his Nintendo DS or heading out to a music video shoot, there are two cultural touchstones that guide his wardrobe: hip-hop and the Black Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Oversized, underrated\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“From what I’ve observed in my 33 years, hip-hop is the most influential thing on the planet,” Coogler says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes its influence on what people wear. Cool, comfy Bay Area style is Keak Da Sneak wearing oversized T-shirts and jeans in the ’90s. It’s LaRussell sporting Crocs in 2024. And it’s rooted in a fusion of hip-hop and skater culture that began in the mid-’90s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954308\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954308\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Person in beanie with cross-body back looks out windows\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-43-BL-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noah David Coogler wears a favorite beanie on a rainy day in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Coogler points to the mid-aughts Bay Area rap group The Pack, who came on the scene just as he was figuring out his sense of style, as the embodiment of that fusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Pack — they bridged the gap between rap culture and skate culture,” he says. “They came out of Berkeley and they were baggy: big hoodies, big jeans and the Vans, which was such a crazy polarizing look during a time when everyone was wearing Jordans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The longshoreman-meets-Black Panther aesthetic\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At Coogler’s grandmother’s house, the only decor on the porch is a worn-out “Welcome to Wakanda” doormat — an ode to Coogler’s older brother, co-writer and director of the \u003ci>Black Panther\u003c/i> movies, Ryan Coogler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doormat doesn’t mark the only noteworthy entryway in the neighborhood. Just a few blocks away is the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/02/04/the-black-panther-partys-original-headquarters-in-north-oakland-may-be-replaced-with-apartments/\">original headquarters of the Black Panther Party\u003c/a> on Martin Luther King Jr. Way, another part of Coogler’s family history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Long before the late Chadwick Boseman took up the mantle of T’Challa, a man named Clarence Thomas (not the Supreme Court Justice) was a student at San Francisco State University in the 1960s. Thomas participated in a wave of student protests organized by the Black Student Union and the Third World Liberation Front that led to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11830384/how-the-longest-student-strike-in-u-s-history-created-ethnic-studies\">the creation of the school’s ethnic studies department\u003c/a> (the country’s first). He’s also Coogler’s uncle and style icon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Panthers never looked disheveled, rusty or dusty — it’s casual clothing, but it’s \u003ci>neat\u003c/i>,” Coogler said.\u003ci> “\u003c/i>And that’s what I always noticed about my uncle — he was always put together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-07-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coogler sports a Burberry rain jacket and his favorite gold jewelry staples. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Uncle Clarence wore hardy, wide-legged work pants and a dark blue, wool coat that kept him warm while he worked at the Port of Oakland as a longshoreman, Coogler remembers. And when his uncle wasn’t working — like when he took a young Coogler to a Black history exhibit in Oakland — he carried himself with that same composed ease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even when he wore jeans they would be crisp,” Coogler remembers. “Always had a nice leather belt, nice shirt, really nice jacket and maybe a turtleneck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was a throughline between the practical longshoreman workwear and the semi-professional, Ivy-leaning sensibility of the Black Panthers that cohered in Uncle Clarence’s style. And it resonated with Coogler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On stage, Coogler’s Dickies, his roomy houndstooth jacket and his collared dress shirt echo all those entwined memories and local family histories, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953406\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953406\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FITCHECK-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coogler in a houndstooth coat he wears during performances. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The displacement of style\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Coogler was just a few years old, his parents couldn’t afford to live in Oakland anymore, despite their strong community ties. Like many other Black families, they were forced to move elsewhere — in the Coogler family’s case, to Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh man, so when you walk through Oakland now, when you walk through Berkeley now, you can feel the culture shift,” he says. “I remember growing up in the Bay in the ’90s and the early 2000s — I remember it was minorities everywhere, not just Black people, and what happens is we get priced out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coogler sees the corporate techy style that’s overtaken the Bay as part and parcel of that precipitous gentrification, which has \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/04/01/oakland-home-histories-a-legacy-of-black-homeownership-in-maxwell-park/\">decreased Black homeownership in Oakland\u003c/a> enormously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re a real Bay head, you know that Bay Area people don’t rock Patagonia like that — \u003cem>new\u003c/em> Bay Area people do,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954310\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954310\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Person in plaid jacket, jeans, beanie and sunglasses\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240229-FitCheck-14-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coogler in his ideal silhouette: comfy with a little structure. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gorp-y outerwear and soft basics are still very much a part of the Bay’s vernacular. But the regional brand staples for Coogler are like him — they came up in the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wore North Face, but the reason we wore North Face is because we got a North Face dealer in Berkeley,” he explains. “Gap hoodies — big Bay Area thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coogler wants to move back to Oakland one day, but he recognizes how it’s changed; it’s apparent in how people dress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>David Johnson generally wasn’t interested in people posing for his camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the photographer and civil rights activist put it in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0Lcv7xyh-w\">2017 interview\u003c/a> at the University of California, Berkeley: “A big smiling photograph? That wasn’t my style.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson died at his home in Greenbrae, north of San Francisco, earlier this month. According to his stepdaughter, he was suffering from advanced dementia and had pneumonia. He was 97 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13950886']Johnson was the first Black student of the famous nature \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2011/10/07/141149616/retracing-the-steps-of-ansel-adams\">photographer Ansel Adams\u003c/a> and became known as one of the foremost chroniclers of San Francisco’s Black urban culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of his most famous images, shot early in his career in 1946, Johnson depicts a street corner in San Francisco’s Fillmore District — once a hub for the city’s thriving Black community \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957757/why-san-franciscos-fillmore-district-is-no-longer-the-harlem-of-the-west\">until redevelopment later in the century\u003c/a> forced nearly all of them out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2016px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Black-and-white photograph of busy street corner with pedestrian, car and bus traffic\" width=\"2016\" height=\"2560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954239\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-scaled.jpg 2016w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-800x1016.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-1020x1295.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-160x203.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-768x975.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-1209x1536.jpg 1209w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-1613x2048.jpg 1613w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-1920x2438.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2016px) 100vw, 2016px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Looking South on Fillmore, 1946,’ by David Johnson. \u003ccite>(The David Johnson Photograph Archive, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The image has energetic angles and stark contrasts of light and shadow. And it’s shot from above. In the UC Berkeley interview, Johnson said he clambered up four stories on a nearby construction scaffold to get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I focused my camera and took one photograph,” Johnson said. “I was kind of anxious to get this little job over with and go back down to the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A tough childhood\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Johnson was born in 1926 in Jacksonville, Florida, to an impoverished single mother who handed her baby off to be raised by a cousin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/201307251030/photographer-david-johnson-capturing-san-franciscos-black-community-in-the-1940s-and-50s\">2013 interview\u003c/a> with KQED, Johnson said he got his first camera by selling magazine subscriptions door-to-door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just started snapping pictures around the neighborhood. And I got kind of fascinated with that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1758px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of older person sitting in front of framed photo of young person\" width=\"1758\" height=\"2560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954237\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-scaled.jpg 1758w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-800x1165.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-1020x1485.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-160x233.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-768x1118.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-1055x1536.jpg 1055w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-1407x2048.jpg 1407w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-1920x2796.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1758px) 100vw, 1758px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Johnson in 2023 with one of his photographs, ‘Clarence,’ at an award luncheon at UC Berkeley honoring the photographer. \u003ccite>(Peg Skorpinski)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Johnson was drafted into the U.S. Navy right out of high school. He was stationed in San Francisco, where he fell in love with the city, and was then sent to the Philippines for the remainder of World War II. After returning, he wanted to develop his photography skills in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was 1946, and budding photographers were clamoring to get into the program that master lensman Adams had just launched at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco (later known as the San Francisco Art Institute). Its star-studded faculty included Minor White, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston and Dorothea Lange.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>San Francisco-bound\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Johnson wanted in. So he sent Adams a letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wrote to Ansel and said, ‘I’m interested in studying photography. I have the GI Bill. And I would like for you to evaluate my [application].’ Ansel wrote me back and said, ‘There are no vacancies in the class,’” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a student dropped out, making room for Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopped on a segregated train that took him from Jacksonville to San Francisco. After living in Adams’ house for a while, he eventually found a low-rent room in the Fillmore District and started taking lots of photos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/earthakitt-c999363a82294d4177dcc25e58e5746643ec5f4f-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Signed black-and-white photograph of woman posing with children on a stage\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954240\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/earthakitt-c999363a82294d4177dcc25e58e5746643ec5f4f-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/earthakitt-c999363a82294d4177dcc25e58e5746643ec5f4f-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/earthakitt-c999363a82294d4177dcc25e58e5746643ec5f4f-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/earthakitt-c999363a82294d4177dcc25e58e5746643ec5f4f-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/earthakitt-c999363a82294d4177dcc25e58e5746643ec5f4f-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/earthakitt-c999363a82294d4177dcc25e58e5746643ec5f4f-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/earthakitt-c999363a82294d4177dcc25e58e5746643ec5f4f-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/earthakitt-c999363a82294d4177dcc25e58e5746643ec5f4f-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Eartha Kitt with Neighborhood Children, 1947,’ by David Johnson. \u003ccite>( The David Johnson Photograph Archive, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of these images appeared decades later in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8h2meDtdm8&t=186s\">KQED documentary\u003c/a> about the Fillmore’s status — and eventual demise — as one of the country’s most vibrant Black neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11957757']“He would go to the clubs in the evenings, take incredible photographs of musicians,” said Christine Hult-Lewis, the pictorial curator of special collections at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library, which houses the \u003ca href=\"https://search.library.berkeley.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=01UCS_BER:UCB&search_scope=DN_and_CI&tab=Default_UCLibrarySearch&docid=alma991036750439706532\">David Johnson archive\u003c/a>. “He had very easy relationships with people in the barbershops and the folks in the churches and folks on the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said his college instructors encouraged these pursuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Growing up, most of the photographs I have seen of Black people were just not very complimentary,” he told KQED. “I said, ‘My photographs will have Black people photographed in a dignified manner.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Documenting street life, famous figures and civil rights\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Hult-Lewis said that as a freelance press photographer, Johnson took candid photos of Black celebrities who came to town, such as Nat King Cole, Paul Robeson and Langston Hughes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Black-and-white photo of a man signing a book held by another person\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2197\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954241\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-800x687.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-1020x876.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-160x137.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-768x659.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-1536x1318.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-2048x1758.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-1920x1648.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Nat King Cole at Fairmont Hotel, 1949,’ by David Johnson. \u003ccite>(The David Johnson Photograph Archive, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And he used his camera to spark conversations about civil rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s one really iconic photograph of a woman listening to a speech and she’s got kind of a dubious look on her face, but in her glasses are reflected the American flag,” Hult-Lewis said. “There’s another incredible photograph of a young African American boy sitting, holding an American flag in the embrace of a sculpture of Abraham Lincoln.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson also often participated in direct political action. He attended the 1963 March on Washington, and organized the first Black caucus at the University of California, San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1896px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Black-and-white photo of American flag reflected in woman's glasses in a crowd\" width=\"1896\" height=\"2560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954242\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-scaled.jpg 1896w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-800x1080.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-1020x1377.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-160x216.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-768x1037.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-1137x1536.jpg 1137w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-1516x2048.jpg 1516w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-1920x2593.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1896px) 100vw, 1896px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Reflections in Glasses, 1963,’ by David Johnson. \u003ccite>( The David Johnson Photograph Archive, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He was part of a group that successfully sued the San Francisco Unified School District to compel them to more fully desegregate the schools,” Hult-Lewis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson never became a big name like his teacher Adams. By the 1980s he’d stopped taking photos altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But interest in Johnson’s work has grown in recent years, as cities across the country grapple with the negative impacts that urban redevelopment can have. His work is in the collection of major institutions, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/David_S._Johnson/\">San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\u003c/a>, and was the subject of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/david-johnson-zone-1945-1965\">solo exhibition\u003c/a> at San Francisco City Hall in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The photographs tell life, life as it was then, life that cannot be duplicated or recreated in today,” Johnson’s wife, Jacqueline Sue, told KQED in 2013. “It’s a marker of history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Copyright 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Johnson was the first Black student of the famous nature \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2011/10/07/141149616/retracing-the-steps-of-ansel-adams\">photographer Ansel Adams\u003c/a> and became known as one of the foremost chroniclers of San Francisco’s Black urban culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of his most famous images, shot early in his career in 1946, Johnson depicts a street corner in San Francisco’s Fillmore District — once a hub for the city’s thriving Black community \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957757/why-san-franciscos-fillmore-district-is-no-longer-the-harlem-of-the-west\">until redevelopment later in the century\u003c/a> forced nearly all of them out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2016px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Black-and-white photograph of busy street corner with pedestrian, car and bus traffic\" width=\"2016\" height=\"2560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954239\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-scaled.jpg 2016w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-800x1016.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-1020x1295.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-160x203.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-768x975.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-1209x1536.jpg 1209w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-1613x2048.jpg 1613w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/fillmore_custom-53676662fb1086870b49a2b88da8ef2925baba3d-1920x2438.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2016px) 100vw, 2016px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Looking South on Fillmore, 1946,’ by David Johnson. \u003ccite>(The David Johnson Photograph Archive, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The image has energetic angles and stark contrasts of light and shadow. And it’s shot from above. In the UC Berkeley interview, Johnson said he clambered up four stories on a nearby construction scaffold to get it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I focused my camera and took one photograph,” Johnson said. “I was kind of anxious to get this little job over with and go back down to the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A tough childhood\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Johnson was born in 1926 in Jacksonville, Florida, to an impoverished single mother who handed her baby off to be raised by a cousin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/201307251030/photographer-david-johnson-capturing-san-franciscos-black-community-in-the-1940s-and-50s\">2013 interview\u003c/a> with KQED, Johnson said he got his first camera by selling magazine subscriptions door-to-door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just started snapping pictures around the neighborhood. And I got kind of fascinated with that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954237\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1758px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of older person sitting in front of framed photo of young person\" width=\"1758\" height=\"2560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954237\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-scaled.jpg 1758w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-800x1165.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-1020x1485.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-160x233.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-768x1118.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-1055x1536.jpg 1055w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-1407x2048.jpg 1407w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc_3200plus-copy_custom-2acb66c92b261924a955c36c95f0d174297ce25d-1920x2796.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1758px) 100vw, 1758px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Johnson in 2023 with one of his photographs, ‘Clarence,’ at an award luncheon at UC Berkeley honoring the photographer. \u003ccite>(Peg Skorpinski)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Johnson was drafted into the U.S. Navy right out of high school. He was stationed in San Francisco, where he fell in love with the city, and was then sent to the Philippines for the remainder of World War II. After returning, he wanted to develop his photography skills in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was 1946, and budding photographers were clamoring to get into the program that master lensman Adams had just launched at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco (later known as the San Francisco Art Institute). Its star-studded faculty included Minor White, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston and Dorothea Lange.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>San Francisco-bound\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Johnson wanted in. So he sent Adams a letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wrote to Ansel and said, ‘I’m interested in studying photography. I have the GI Bill. And I would like for you to evaluate my [application].’ Ansel wrote me back and said, ‘There are no vacancies in the class,’” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a student dropped out, making room for Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopped on a segregated train that took him from Jacksonville to San Francisco. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“He would go to the clubs in the evenings, take incredible photographs of musicians,” said Christine Hult-Lewis, the pictorial curator of special collections at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library, which houses the \u003ca href=\"https://search.library.berkeley.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=01UCS_BER:UCB&search_scope=DN_and_CI&tab=Default_UCLibrarySearch&docid=alma991036750439706532\">David Johnson archive\u003c/a>. “He had very easy relationships with people in the barbershops and the folks in the churches and folks on the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said his college instructors encouraged these pursuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Growing up, most of the photographs I have seen of Black people were just not very complimentary,” he told KQED. “I said, ‘My photographs will have Black people photographed in a dignified manner.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Documenting street life, famous figures and civil rights\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Hult-Lewis said that as a freelance press photographer, Johnson took candid photos of Black celebrities who came to town, such as Nat King Cole, Paul Robeson and Langston Hughes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Black-and-white photo of a man signing a book held by another person\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2197\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954241\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-800x687.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-1020x876.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-160x137.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-768x659.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-1536x1318.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-2048x1758.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/natkingcole_custom-c89c2cf3da81bc3d63ec8908ad5869544ec480e9-1920x1648.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Nat King Cole at Fairmont Hotel, 1949,’ by David Johnson. \u003ccite>(The David Johnson Photograph Archive, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And he used his camera to spark conversations about civil rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s one really iconic photograph of a woman listening to a speech and she’s got kind of a dubious look on her face, but in her glasses are reflected the American flag,” Hult-Lewis said. “There’s another incredible photograph of a young African American boy sitting, holding an American flag in the embrace of a sculpture of Abraham Lincoln.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson also often participated in direct political action. He attended the 1963 March on Washington, and organized the first Black caucus at the University of California, San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13954242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1896px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Black-and-white photo of American flag reflected in woman's glasses in a crowd\" width=\"1896\" height=\"2560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13954242\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-scaled.jpg 1896w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-800x1080.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-1020x1377.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-160x216.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-768x1037.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-1137x1536.jpg 1137w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-1516x2048.jpg 1516w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/womanwithglasses_custom-605868833ecd9e4570ec10b33f4c4c6680e849a9-1920x2593.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1896px) 100vw, 1896px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Reflections in Glasses, 1963,’ by David Johnson. \u003ccite>( The David Johnson Photograph Archive, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He was part of a group that successfully sued the San Francisco Unified School District to compel them to more fully desegregate the schools,” Hult-Lewis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson never became a big name like his teacher Adams. By the 1980s he’d stopped taking photos altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But interest in Johnson’s work has grown in recent years, as cities across the country grapple with the negative impacts that urban redevelopment can have. His work is in the collection of major institutions, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/David_S._Johnson/\">San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\u003c/a>, and was the subject of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/david-johnson-zone-1945-1965\">solo exhibition\u003c/a> at San Francisco City Hall in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The photographs tell life, life as it was then, life that cannot be duplicated or recreated in today,” Johnson’s wife, Jacqueline Sue, told KQED in 2013. “It’s a marker of history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Copyright 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952711\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-18-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-18-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-18-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-18-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-18-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-18-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-18-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-18-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarahfe Harris Juarbe, a.k.a. Bruja Fe, dances at the Marimacha dance party in Oakland on Feb. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s 11 p.m. on a recent Saturday, and the dance floor at Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://fluid510.com/\">Fluid510\u003c/a> starts filling up with people in cowboy hats and boots, platforms and mesh, neck tattoos and baggy polos, and head-to-toe leather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here at a new queer party called Marimacha, the DJ, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/xulaquiles/\">Xulaquiles\u003c/a>, switches the vibe from 2000s reggaeton to Kali Uchis’ “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/_h-Vcm7hqb4?si=DJOQZ3r3QjD-JH24\">Dame Beso // Muévete\u003c/a>.” The dancers, mostly women and gender-nonconforming people of every style and expression, react accordingly, going from throwing it back to twirling each other in time with the merengue rhythm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952710\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952710\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-15-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-15-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-15-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-15-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-15-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-15-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victoria Fajardo, a.k.a. DJ Xulaquiles a.k.a. Kiki, plays her set at the Marimacha dance party at Fluid510 in Oakland on Feb. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marimacha is among an exciting new surge in queer parties right now in downtown Oakland. On any given Friday or Saturday night, clubgoers can walk from drag show to queer cocktail lounge to Afrobeats night to house music party, all within a half-mile radius. Even more queer events — speed dating, kink workshops, board game nights, open mics and food pop-ups — offer a wealth of weeknight and evening options for those who want more than drinking and dancing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13952162/oakland-public-safety-crime-commentary\">Downtown Oakland’s struggles\u003c/a> get a lot of airtime. But if you only watch cable news and read Nextdoor posts about bipping and chain store closures, you’ll miss the fact that the Town’s LGBTQ+ nightlife scene is flourishing in ways it hasn’t in years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland now boasts at least eight queer venues, many of which opened in the past year. Along with a \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/11/07/oakland-lakeshore-lgbtq-cultural-district-lake-merritt/\">newly designated LGBTQ+ District\u003c/a> near Lakeshore Avenue, this explosion of nightlife has brought new events just as eclectic, creative and politically engaged as Oakland’s queer community itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952709\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952709\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-14-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-14-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-14-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-14-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-14-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-14-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-14-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-14-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People dance at the Marimacha dance party at Fluid510 in Oakland on Feb. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I feel like there’s a renaissance happening right now,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/beauty_botanica/\">Olivia Bianco-Chaidez\u003c/a>, who co-produced Marimacha. “Things are getting spicier again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#queeroaklandvenuelist\">Jump to: Our list of queer venues in Oakland\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>The lay of the land\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Queer nightlife in Oakland has always been more diverse across race and gender than in San Francisco, whose gayborhood, the Castro, has skewed white and male since becoming a mecca over 50 years ago. And while Oakland has long been a haven for queer and trans people of color, pre-pandemic hangout options were slim; brick-and-mortar establishments one could visit any night of the week numbered at less than a handful. [aside postid='arts_13938947']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>January 2020 saw the closure of two adjoining Broadway venues, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13871726/sf-developer-displaces-club-bnb-and-club-21-reducing-oakland-lgbtq-bars-by-half\">Club BnB and Club 21\u003c/a>, after the landlord doubled the clubs’ rent and replaced them with tech offices. At the time, the closure cut Oakland’s number of queer nightlife venues in half, leaving just the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/whitehorsebar/?hl=en\">White Horse\u003c/a> — the North Oakland standby on Telegraph that’s been open since the 1930s — and the drag-and-dancing Broadway hotspot Port Bar, which closed this February, also \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/01/30/oakland-port-bar-closure-landlord-dispute/\">due to a landlord dispute\u003c/a>. (Another landlord dispute forced Bianco-Chaidez and her partner in work and life, Mar Mendoza, who DJs as \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dreamsthedj\">Dreams\u003c/a>, to close their underground venue El Afters last fall, though they \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/elaftersoakland/\">continue to produce events under that banner\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952707\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952707\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-04-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olivia Bianco-Chaidez (left) and Mar Mendoza, a.k.a. Dreams (right), at Fluid510 in Oakland on Feb. 17, 2024. Bianco-Chaidez and Mendoza co-hosted their inaugural Marimacha party, celebrating “the buchona baddies, cunty cabronas, diablo daddies, and all of our sexy community.” \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, against the odds, a flurry of new activity emerged out of the pandemic’s shutdowns. “It was years of turmoil, but also years of envisioning and imagining,” says event producer Yanni Brump, who DJs as \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/djprincessdxddy/\">Princess Dxddy\u003c/a>. “So now, you see the offspring of that in people’s manifestation of having the events they want, the spaces they want to gather.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Queer-owned cocktail lounge \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/friendsandfamilybar/\">Friends and Family\u003c/a> — open to all, but known as a sapphic safe space — launched with to-go service when COVID-19 restrictions began to lift, and now makes a thriving hub on 25th Street for queer chefs, vintners and mixologists. (Its neon-lit bathroom might also be queer Oakland’s most popular dating profile photo backdrop.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2021, Oakland’s downtown also saw the opening of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/quericonightclub/\">Que Rico\u003c/a>, the Latinx-focused venue on 15th Street. It’s home to drag and dancing, as well as parties-with-a-purpose like \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/qumbiaqrew/\">Queer Qumbia\u003c/a>, which recently fundraised for Palestinian Youth Movement and Arab Resource and Organizing Center. Also in 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.thebarsummer.com/\">Summer Bar & Lounge\u003c/a> opened its doors in Old Oakland, and now boasts a packed weekly program of karaoke, drag and go-go dancers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953620\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953620\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Booker (left) pours a drink while Vivi Sousa (right) looks on at Nectar Social Club in Oakland, Calif. on Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s queer nightlife renaissance began to crystalize in 2023, when a critical mass of new venues arrived, catering to a wide array of identities and interests. Across from Que Rico is \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/nectarsocialclub/?hl=en\">Nectar Social Club\u003c/a>, which celebrated its opening last fall with a sprawling block party produced by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13929138/in-oakland-a-drag-fest-for-the-community-by-the-community\">Oaklash\u003c/a>, the progressive drag festival that champions trans performers as well as racial and disability justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since, Nectar’s programming has flourished, with some of the most creative events the Town has to offer. “I focus on people who are doing things that are a little bit alternative, who are building things in a grassroots way, who really understand how to bring together community around whatever creative offering they have,” says owner Jeremy Redford, who DJs as FloridaWTR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13951613\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13951613\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-08-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremy Redford, owner of Nectar Social Club in Oakland, on Feb. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a recent Friday afternoon, Nectar, which operates as a coffee shop by day and a bar by night, is filled with clusters of friends working on laptops, drawing and gossiping over lattes. After dark, DJ Romii and friends spin house music as a couple makes out in the corner and dancers bop around sipping espresso martinis and mocktails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://feelmoresocial.com/\">Feelmore Social Club\u003c/a> is just a couple blocks away on Broadway — it’s a grown-and-sexy cocktail lounge spin-off of Nenna Joiner’s long-running sex shop of the same name. With vintage erotic art adorning the walls, it welcomes the kinky and curious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we really wanted to bring to the bar landscape was a space where sex-positive people could actually expect and think of when you’re talking about like, ‘Hey, where do we [go] for a poly meetup?’” says Joiner, seated at a barstool while a Sade song plays through the speakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13951616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13951616\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-17-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-17-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-17-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-17-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-17-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-17-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-17-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-17-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nenna Joiner, owner of Feelmore Social Club, on Feb 2., 2024 in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last May, Richard Fuentes and Sean Sullivan (the owners of the now-closed Port Bar) opened Fluid510, the aforementioned 250-capacity nightclub next door to Feelmore. As the name might suggest, its programming leans heavily, though not exclusively, queer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a few blocks north toward the Paramount Theater is the elegant, Art Deco-inspired \u003ca href=\"https://www.goingtotownoakland.com/\">Town Bar & Lounge\u003c/a>, whose omnivorous event schedule includes \u003ci>RuPaul’s Drag Race\u003c/i> watch parties, food pop-ups, disco nights and live R&B concerts. On Thursday nights, Town Bar hosts Femme Suite, a weekly Thursday ladies night produced by Dennise Chakra-Kan and Lady Ryan, the power couple behind Lvrgrl at the White Horse and roaming day party The Sweet Spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think me and Ryan definitely have the same vision of curating a space that is safe for our community, and making sure that Black and Brown people are definitely at the forefront of things,” says Chakra-Kan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/1N8A8439-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/1N8A8439-scaled.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/1N8A8439-800x1000.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/1N8A8439-1020x1275.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/1N8A8439-160x200.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/1N8A8439-768x960.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/1N8A8439-1229x1536.jpeg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/1N8A8439-1638x2048.jpeg 1638w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/1N8A8439-1920x2400.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dennise Chakra-Kan and Lady Ryan (left to right) at their Sweet Spot New Year’s Eve party at the White Horse on Dec. 31, 2023. \u003ccite>(Stephen Flynn)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Ready to mingle\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At a day party called Love Spell in February, a distinctly flirty energy buzzes in the room of mostly women at Oakland’s High 5ive Rooftop Bar. Two speed dating rounds — for ages 25-35 and 35+ — just wrapped, and few exuberant folks get the dance floor started. Couples lean in close or sit on each other’s laps, while those who arrived alone browse jewelry and clothing from queer vendors, glancing around in the hopes of making eye contact with an attractive stranger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In our age of Tinder, Feeld and Hinge, it turns out meeting in person is back in style. “I think we’re experiencing phone fatigue and app fatigue,” says Montana Hooks, the one-woman team behind events platform and online publication \u003ca href=\"https://www.queerinoakland.com/\">Queer In Oakland\u003c/a>, which co-produced Love Spell. “It’s almost going full circle again to the simpler times before apps totally saturated the way that we connect socially, and it’s fun and it’s novel again. I definitely think that the popularity of mixers and speed dating in queer communities can speak to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953582\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953582\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240301-Oakland-Queer-Spaces-Montana-Hooks-KSM-01_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240301-Oakland-Queer-Spaces-Montana-Hooks-KSM-01_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240301-Oakland-Queer-Spaces-Montana-Hooks-KSM-01_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240301-Oakland-Queer-Spaces-Montana-Hooks-KSM-01_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240301-Oakland-Queer-Spaces-Montana-Hooks-KSM-01_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240301-Oakland-Queer-Spaces-Montana-Hooks-KSM-01_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240301-Oakland-Queer-Spaces-Montana-Hooks-KSM-01_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Montana Hooks of Queer In Oakland at Fluid510 in Oakland on Feb. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hooks, a longtime Oakland resident who grew up in Fremont, started Queer In Oakland because she struggled to find queer community herself after returning to the Bay from a brief stint in Seattle. The project began with a humble Google calendar of event listings in 2017. After throwing some entrepreneurial mixers — and online events during COVID shutdowns — in 2023 Hooks turned her focus to producing parties, which have now flourished into \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/queerinoakland/\">some of the most eclectic queer events\u003c/a> the Town has to offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, she’s put on an indie music night and a mixer for queer creatives at Nectar Social Club, and a house music night that packed out Amber Lounge on a Thursday. On March 9 at Night Heron, there’s Instinct, a sexy dance party with a dark dress code of red, black, leather and fishnets. A singles night for queer and trans people of color called Tease is slated at Sessions on 15th on March 14, followed by a queer cowgirl party called Wild West (co-produced with Reverse Cowgirl) at Fluid510 on March 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953621\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953621\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-1.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dancer moves in rhythm as the party gets started on Feb. 17, 2024. The Marimacha dance party at Fluid510 is billed as ‘a friki nite of perreo, reggaeton, cumbias & club music.’ \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As we’re becoming stronger as a queer community, I feel we can take up space now in ways that less marginalized communities don’t even have to give a second thought to,” Hooks says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nectar Social Club is certainly doing its part to strengthen the community on and off the dance floor. Recently, it hosted a photography show and launch party for \u003ca href=\"https://pusseimagazine.com/\">\u003ci>Pussei* Magazine\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, as well as artist Shreya’s exhibition of futuristic paintings inspired by South Asian folklore. Rapper and activist Aima the Dreamer, who co-produces the long-running day party \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/wearesoulovely/?hl=en\">Soulovely\u003c/a>, recently launched an open mic night and artist showcase called Groove Gallery, where the night begins with a ritual and freewriting prompt, followed by music and poetry focused on Black and Brown, queer and trans liberation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13951618\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13951618\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-22-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-22-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-22-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-22-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-22-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-22-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-22-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-22-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malik Bey (center) and Ashley Hughes (right) work at their laptops at the bar inside Nectar Social Club on Feb. 2, 2024 in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The future seems so uncertain, and we’ve been holding all of these deep political, social, health-based, economic tensions,” Redford says. “And more so than ever, we need community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[We’re] tapping into people who are just really creative and understand how to get people into the moment, how to get people out of their shell,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those people is Brump, a.k.a. Princess Dxddy. The model and fashion-show producer started DJing last year. They connected with Redford through Oaklash’s Skills for Nightlife Accelerator Program and bonded over a love of music with Afro-diasporic rhythms. Earlier this year, Brump debuted Spirit, an Afrobeats, amapiano and global dance music party at Nectar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Music touches parts of our spirit, and allows our innermost worlds to come to the forefront,” says Brump, noting the importance of safe spaces for femmes and gender-nonconforming people. “To allow ourselves to be free is a very spiritual experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953618\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1707px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953618\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc01245-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"a man in white t shirt and necklace DJs with blue lights and a patterned ceiling in the background\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc01245-scaled.jpg 1707w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc01245-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc01245-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc01245-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc01245-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc01245-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc01245-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc01245-1920x2880.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yanni Brump, who DJs as Princess Dxddy, at their Afrobeats and amapiano party Spirit on Jan. 26, 2024 at Nectar Social Club. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nectar Social Club)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘We still gon’ thrive no matter what’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even with all this new activity, downtown Oakland does feel sleepy these days. The First Friday street fair — a major foot traffic driver for businesses — went on hiatus from January to March, citing financial strain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe it’s the rain; maybe it’s grocery and gas prices; maybe it’s safety concerns or shuttered businesses — you’re not really seeing groups of young people hopping from bar to food truck to bar as they did in previous years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redford points to a new pattern he’s picked up on from event-goers. “The days of people waking up on a Friday and saying, ‘I’m just going to go out in downtown Oakland and walk around’ seem like they’re coming to an end,” he says. “So many people are following and tracking the community leaders [and] builders who they feel aligned with, and they’re putting on their calendars the events … that really resonate with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953622\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953622\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-2.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarahfe Harris Juarbe, a.k.a. Bruja Fe, towls off during a break from dancing at the Marimacha dance party in Oakland on Feb. 17, 2024. Harris Juarbe said they had three costumes to change into for the inaugural party. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Town Bar owner Joshua Huynh alluded to something similar when I visited him on a Friday before doors opened. “You really want something for everyone, literally everyone,” he says of his event schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of all the dance parties and chef pop-ups he’s hosted, the night that reflects the spirit of Town Bar for him was a low-key cookie decorating party on Christmas Eve. “People were like, ‘I had nowhere to go’ and ‘thank you.’ It was a home-y thing, so that was nice,” he recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13951620\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13951620\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-24-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-24-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-24-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-24-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-24-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-24-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-24-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-24-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joshua Huynh, owner of Town Bar and Lounge in Oakland, on Feb. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huynh puts that community feeling into action: He regularly collects donations at the door for the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center’s food bank, and says he’s raised over $15,000 for it since Town Bar opened in April 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know 100% of our money’s directly giving back to the community without a middleman taking a cut,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, that’s been the spirit of Oakland’s queer community. It’s led by people who find themselves at the intersections of multiple marginalized identities, whether immigrant, Black, gender-nonconforming, all of the above or something else entirely. And despite challenges in Oakland and society at large, our queer and trans culture-makers have always poured themselves into creating refuges for joy, self-expression and solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Bianco-Chaidez, the co-producer of the new Marimacha party, says: “We still gon’ thrive no matter what.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952708\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952708\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-07-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dancers at the Marimacha party hosted by EL AFTERS X SFLA QUEER NIGHTLIFE at Fluid510 in Oakland on Feb. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"queeroaklandvenuelist\">\u003c/a>Where to find queer nightlife in Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/elaftersoakland/\">El Afters\u003c/a>. \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cem>Parties and events at rotating venues.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/friendsandfamilybar/\">\u003cstrong>Friends and Family\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (468 25th Street). Cocktail lounge with light bites and events. Open Monday and Tuesday 5-11 p.m., Wednesday-Saturday 5 p.m.-midnight.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://feelmoresocial.com/\">\u003cstrong>Feelmore Social Club\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (1542 Broadway Avenue). Cocktail lounge with kink and sex-positive events. Open Sunday 11-5 p.m., Monday 5-11 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://fluid510.com/\">\u003cstrong>Fluid510\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (1544 Broadway Avenue). Large nightclub with weekly parties, serves food. Open Wednesday and Thursday 4 p.m.-midnight, Friday 4 p.m.-2 a.m., Saturday 11 a.m. – 2 a.m., Sunday 11 a.m.-midnight. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/nectarsocialclub/?hl=en\">\u003cstrong>Nectar Social Club\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (408 15th Street). Coffee shop and bar with evening events and late-night dance parties. Open Tuesday and Wednesday 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Thursday-Saturday 10 a.m.-10 p.m. and until 2 a.m. for special events. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/queerinoakland/\">\u003cstrong>Queer in Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. Parties and events at rotating venues.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/quericonightclub/\">\u003cstrong>Que Rico\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (381 15th Street). Nightclub with drag and DJs. Open Tuesday 6 p.m.–11 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday 5–10:30 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays 5 p.m. – 2 a.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/wearesoulovely/?hl=en\">\u003cstrong>Soulovely\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. Monthly day party on Second Sundays April-October at 7th West (1255 7th Street).\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thebarsummer.com/\">\u003cstrong>Summer Bar & Lounge\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (526 8th Street). Intimate venue with karaoke, drag and dancing. Tuesday-Thursday 8 p.m.-midnight, Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m.-1:30 a.m., Sunday 4-8 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goingtotownoakland.com/\">\u003cstrong>Town Bar & Lounge\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (2001 Broadway Avenue). Art-deco lounge with dancing, food pop-ups and other events. Sunday-Wednesday, 5-11 p.m., Thursday 5 p.m.-midnight, Friday and Saturday 5 p.m.-2 a.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thesweetspotoak/\">\u003cstrong>The Sweet Spot\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. Parties and events at rotating venues.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/whitehorsebar/?hl=en\">\u003cstrong>White Horse Bar\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (6551 Telegraph Avenue). Historic bar and nightclub with a DJs, karaoke, drag and special events. Tuesday-Thursday 5 p.m.-midnight. 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Bruja Fe, dances at the Marimacha dance party in Oakland on Feb. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s 11 p.m. on a recent Saturday, and the dance floor at Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://fluid510.com/\">Fluid510\u003c/a> starts filling up with people in cowboy hats and boots, platforms and mesh, neck tattoos and baggy polos, and head-to-toe leather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here at a new queer party called Marimacha, the DJ, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/xulaquiles/\">Xulaquiles\u003c/a>, switches the vibe from 2000s reggaeton to Kali Uchis’ “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/_h-Vcm7hqb4?si=DJOQZ3r3QjD-JH24\">Dame Beso // Muévete\u003c/a>.” The dancers, mostly women and gender-nonconforming people of every style and expression, react accordingly, going from throwing it back to twirling each other in time with the merengue rhythm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952710\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952710\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-15-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-15-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-15-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-15-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-15-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-15-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victoria Fajardo, a.k.a. DJ Xulaquiles a.k.a. Kiki, plays her set at the Marimacha dance party at Fluid510 in Oakland on Feb. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marimacha is among an exciting new surge in queer parties right now in downtown Oakland. On any given Friday or Saturday night, clubgoers can walk from drag show to queer cocktail lounge to Afrobeats night to house music party, all within a half-mile radius. Even more queer events — speed dating, kink workshops, board game nights, open mics and food pop-ups — offer a wealth of weeknight and evening options for those who want more than drinking and dancing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13952162/oakland-public-safety-crime-commentary\">Downtown Oakland’s struggles\u003c/a> get a lot of airtime. But if you only watch cable news and read Nextdoor posts about bipping and chain store closures, you’ll miss the fact that the Town’s LGBTQ+ nightlife scene is flourishing in ways it hasn’t in years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland now boasts at least eight queer venues, many of which opened in the past year. Along with a \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/11/07/oakland-lakeshore-lgbtq-cultural-district-lake-merritt/\">newly designated LGBTQ+ District\u003c/a> near Lakeshore Avenue, this explosion of nightlife has brought new events just as eclectic, creative and politically engaged as Oakland’s queer community itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952709\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952709\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-14-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-14-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-14-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-14-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-14-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-14-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-14-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-14-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People dance at the Marimacha dance party at Fluid510 in Oakland on Feb. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I feel like there’s a renaissance happening right now,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/beauty_botanica/\">Olivia Bianco-Chaidez\u003c/a>, who co-produced Marimacha. “Things are getting spicier again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#queeroaklandvenuelist\">Jump to: Our list of queer venues in Oakland\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>The lay of the land\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Queer nightlife in Oakland has always been more diverse across race and gender than in San Francisco, whose gayborhood, the Castro, has skewed white and male since becoming a mecca over 50 years ago. And while Oakland has long been a haven for queer and trans people of color, pre-pandemic hangout options were slim; brick-and-mortar establishments one could visit any night of the week numbered at less than a handful. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>January 2020 saw the closure of two adjoining Broadway venues, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13871726/sf-developer-displaces-club-bnb-and-club-21-reducing-oakland-lgbtq-bars-by-half\">Club BnB and Club 21\u003c/a>, after the landlord doubled the clubs’ rent and replaced them with tech offices. At the time, the closure cut Oakland’s number of queer nightlife venues in half, leaving just the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/whitehorsebar/?hl=en\">White Horse\u003c/a> — the North Oakland standby on Telegraph that’s been open since the 1930s — and the drag-and-dancing Broadway hotspot Port Bar, which closed this February, also \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/01/30/oakland-port-bar-closure-landlord-dispute/\">due to a landlord dispute\u003c/a>. (Another landlord dispute forced Bianco-Chaidez and her partner in work and life, Mar Mendoza, who DJs as \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dreamsthedj\">Dreams\u003c/a>, to close their underground venue El Afters last fall, though they \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/elaftersoakland/\">continue to produce events under that banner\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952707\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952707\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-04-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olivia Bianco-Chaidez (left) and Mar Mendoza, a.k.a. Dreams (right), at Fluid510 in Oakland on Feb. 17, 2024. Bianco-Chaidez and Mendoza co-hosted their inaugural Marimacha party, celebrating “the buchona baddies, cunty cabronas, diablo daddies, and all of our sexy community.” \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, against the odds, a flurry of new activity emerged out of the pandemic’s shutdowns. “It was years of turmoil, but also years of envisioning and imagining,” says event producer Yanni Brump, who DJs as \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/djprincessdxddy/\">Princess Dxddy\u003c/a>. “So now, you see the offspring of that in people’s manifestation of having the events they want, the spaces they want to gather.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Queer-owned cocktail lounge \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/friendsandfamilybar/\">Friends and Family\u003c/a> — open to all, but known as a sapphic safe space — launched with to-go service when COVID-19 restrictions began to lift, and now makes a thriving hub on 25th Street for queer chefs, vintners and mixologists. (Its neon-lit bathroom might also be queer Oakland’s most popular dating profile photo backdrop.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2021, Oakland’s downtown also saw the opening of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/quericonightclub/\">Que Rico\u003c/a>, the Latinx-focused venue on 15th Street. It’s home to drag and dancing, as well as parties-with-a-purpose like \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/qumbiaqrew/\">Queer Qumbia\u003c/a>, which recently fundraised for Palestinian Youth Movement and Arab Resource and Organizing Center. Also in 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.thebarsummer.com/\">Summer Bar & Lounge\u003c/a> opened its doors in Old Oakland, and now boasts a packed weekly program of karaoke, drag and go-go dancers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953620\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953620\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Booker (left) pours a drink while Vivi Sousa (right) looks on at Nectar Social Club in Oakland, Calif. on Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s queer nightlife renaissance began to crystalize in 2023, when a critical mass of new venues arrived, catering to a wide array of identities and interests. Across from Que Rico is \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/nectarsocialclub/?hl=en\">Nectar Social Club\u003c/a>, which celebrated its opening last fall with a sprawling block party produced by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13929138/in-oakland-a-drag-fest-for-the-community-by-the-community\">Oaklash\u003c/a>, the progressive drag festival that champions trans performers as well as racial and disability justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since, Nectar’s programming has flourished, with some of the most creative events the Town has to offer. “I focus on people who are doing things that are a little bit alternative, who are building things in a grassroots way, who really understand how to bring together community around whatever creative offering they have,” says owner Jeremy Redford, who DJs as FloridaWTR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13951613\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13951613\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-08-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremy Redford, owner of Nectar Social Club in Oakland, on Feb. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a recent Friday afternoon, Nectar, which operates as a coffee shop by day and a bar by night, is filled with clusters of friends working on laptops, drawing and gossiping over lattes. After dark, DJ Romii and friends spin house music as a couple makes out in the corner and dancers bop around sipping espresso martinis and mocktails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://feelmoresocial.com/\">Feelmore Social Club\u003c/a> is just a couple blocks away on Broadway — it’s a grown-and-sexy cocktail lounge spin-off of Nenna Joiner’s long-running sex shop of the same name. With vintage erotic art adorning the walls, it welcomes the kinky and curious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we really wanted to bring to the bar landscape was a space where sex-positive people could actually expect and think of when you’re talking about like, ‘Hey, where do we [go] for a poly meetup?’” says Joiner, seated at a barstool while a Sade song plays through the speakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13951616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13951616\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-17-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-17-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-17-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-17-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-17-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-17-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-17-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-17-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nenna Joiner, owner of Feelmore Social Club, on Feb 2., 2024 in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last May, Richard Fuentes and Sean Sullivan (the owners of the now-closed Port Bar) opened Fluid510, the aforementioned 250-capacity nightclub next door to Feelmore. As the name might suggest, its programming leans heavily, though not exclusively, queer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a few blocks north toward the Paramount Theater is the elegant, Art Deco-inspired \u003ca href=\"https://www.goingtotownoakland.com/\">Town Bar & Lounge\u003c/a>, whose omnivorous event schedule includes \u003ci>RuPaul’s Drag Race\u003c/i> watch parties, food pop-ups, disco nights and live R&B concerts. On Thursday nights, Town Bar hosts Femme Suite, a weekly Thursday ladies night produced by Dennise Chakra-Kan and Lady Ryan, the power couple behind Lvrgrl at the White Horse and roaming day party The Sweet Spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think me and Ryan definitely have the same vision of curating a space that is safe for our community, and making sure that Black and Brown people are definitely at the forefront of things,” says Chakra-Kan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953589\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/1N8A8439-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/1N8A8439-scaled.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/1N8A8439-800x1000.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/1N8A8439-1020x1275.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/1N8A8439-160x200.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/1N8A8439-768x960.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/1N8A8439-1229x1536.jpeg 1229w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/1N8A8439-1638x2048.jpeg 1638w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/1N8A8439-1920x2400.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dennise Chakra-Kan and Lady Ryan (left to right) at their Sweet Spot New Year’s Eve party at the White Horse on Dec. 31, 2023. \u003ccite>(Stephen Flynn)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Ready to mingle\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At a day party called Love Spell in February, a distinctly flirty energy buzzes in the room of mostly women at Oakland’s High 5ive Rooftop Bar. Two speed dating rounds — for ages 25-35 and 35+ — just wrapped, and few exuberant folks get the dance floor started. Couples lean in close or sit on each other’s laps, while those who arrived alone browse jewelry and clothing from queer vendors, glancing around in the hopes of making eye contact with an attractive stranger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In our age of Tinder, Feeld and Hinge, it turns out meeting in person is back in style. “I think we’re experiencing phone fatigue and app fatigue,” says Montana Hooks, the one-woman team behind events platform and online publication \u003ca href=\"https://www.queerinoakland.com/\">Queer In Oakland\u003c/a>, which co-produced Love Spell. “It’s almost going full circle again to the simpler times before apps totally saturated the way that we connect socially, and it’s fun and it’s novel again. I definitely think that the popularity of mixers and speed dating in queer communities can speak to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953582\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953582\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240301-Oakland-Queer-Spaces-Montana-Hooks-KSM-01_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240301-Oakland-Queer-Spaces-Montana-Hooks-KSM-01_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240301-Oakland-Queer-Spaces-Montana-Hooks-KSM-01_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240301-Oakland-Queer-Spaces-Montana-Hooks-KSM-01_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240301-Oakland-Queer-Spaces-Montana-Hooks-KSM-01_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240301-Oakland-Queer-Spaces-Montana-Hooks-KSM-01_qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/240301-Oakland-Queer-Spaces-Montana-Hooks-KSM-01_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Montana Hooks of Queer In Oakland at Fluid510 in Oakland on Feb. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hooks, a longtime Oakland resident who grew up in Fremont, started Queer In Oakland because she struggled to find queer community herself after returning to the Bay from a brief stint in Seattle. The project began with a humble Google calendar of event listings in 2017. After throwing some entrepreneurial mixers — and online events during COVID shutdowns — in 2023 Hooks turned her focus to producing parties, which have now flourished into \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/queerinoakland/\">some of the most eclectic queer events\u003c/a> the Town has to offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, she’s put on an indie music night and a mixer for queer creatives at Nectar Social Club, and a house music night that packed out Amber Lounge on a Thursday. On March 9 at Night Heron, there’s Instinct, a sexy dance party with a dark dress code of red, black, leather and fishnets. A singles night for queer and trans people of color called Tease is slated at Sessions on 15th on March 14, followed by a queer cowgirl party called Wild West (co-produced with Reverse Cowgirl) at Fluid510 on March 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953621\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953621\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-1.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dancer moves in rhythm as the party gets started on Feb. 17, 2024. The Marimacha dance party at Fluid510 is billed as ‘a friki nite of perreo, reggaeton, cumbias & club music.’ \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As we’re becoming stronger as a queer community, I feel we can take up space now in ways that less marginalized communities don’t even have to give a second thought to,” Hooks says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nectar Social Club is certainly doing its part to strengthen the community on and off the dance floor. Recently, it hosted a photography show and launch party for \u003ca href=\"https://pusseimagazine.com/\">\u003ci>Pussei* Magazine\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, as well as artist Shreya’s exhibition of futuristic paintings inspired by South Asian folklore. Rapper and activist Aima the Dreamer, who co-produces the long-running day party \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/wearesoulovely/?hl=en\">Soulovely\u003c/a>, recently launched an open mic night and artist showcase called Groove Gallery, where the night begins with a ritual and freewriting prompt, followed by music and poetry focused on Black and Brown, queer and trans liberation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13951618\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13951618\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-22-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-22-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-22-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-22-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-22-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-22-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-22-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-22-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malik Bey (center) and Ashley Hughes (right) work at their laptops at the bar inside Nectar Social Club on Feb. 2, 2024 in Oakland. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The future seems so uncertain, and we’ve been holding all of these deep political, social, health-based, economic tensions,” Redford says. “And more so than ever, we need community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[We’re] tapping into people who are just really creative and understand how to get people into the moment, how to get people out of their shell,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those people is Brump, a.k.a. Princess Dxddy. The model and fashion-show producer started DJing last year. They connected with Redford through Oaklash’s Skills for Nightlife Accelerator Program and bonded over a love of music with Afro-diasporic rhythms. Earlier this year, Brump debuted Spirit, an Afrobeats, amapiano and global dance music party at Nectar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Music touches parts of our spirit, and allows our innermost worlds to come to the forefront,” says Brump, noting the importance of safe spaces for femmes and gender-nonconforming people. “To allow ourselves to be free is a very spiritual experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953618\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1707px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953618\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc01245-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"a man in white t shirt and necklace DJs with blue lights and a patterned ceiling in the background\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc01245-scaled.jpg 1707w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc01245-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc01245-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc01245-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc01245-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc01245-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc01245-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/dsc01245-1920x2880.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yanni Brump, who DJs as Princess Dxddy, at their Afrobeats and amapiano party Spirit on Jan. 26, 2024 at Nectar Social Club. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nectar Social Club)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘We still gon’ thrive no matter what’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even with all this new activity, downtown Oakland does feel sleepy these days. The First Friday street fair — a major foot traffic driver for businesses — went on hiatus from January to March, citing financial strain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe it’s the rain; maybe it’s grocery and gas prices; maybe it’s safety concerns or shuttered businesses — you’re not really seeing groups of young people hopping from bar to food truck to bar as they did in previous years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redford points to a new pattern he’s picked up on from event-goers. “The days of people waking up on a Friday and saying, ‘I’m just going to go out in downtown Oakland and walk around’ seem like they’re coming to an end,” he says. “So many people are following and tracking the community leaders [and] builders who they feel aligned with, and they’re putting on their calendars the events … that really resonate with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953622\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1200px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953622\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-2.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/download-2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarahfe Harris Juarbe, a.k.a. Bruja Fe, towls off during a break from dancing at the Marimacha dance party in Oakland on Feb. 17, 2024. Harris Juarbe said they had three costumes to change into for the inaugural party. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Town Bar owner Joshua Huynh alluded to something similar when I visited him on a Friday before doors opened. “You really want something for everyone, literally everyone,” he says of his event schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of all the dance parties and chef pop-ups he’s hosted, the night that reflects the spirit of Town Bar for him was a low-key cookie decorating party on Christmas Eve. “People were like, ‘I had nowhere to go’ and ‘thank you.’ It was a home-y thing, so that was nice,” he recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13951620\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13951620\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-24-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-24-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-24-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-24-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-24-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-24-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-24-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240202-OAKLANDQUEERSPACES-KSM-24-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joshua Huynh, owner of Town Bar and Lounge in Oakland, on Feb. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huynh puts that community feeling into action: He regularly collects donations at the door for the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center’s food bank, and says he’s raised over $15,000 for it since Town Bar opened in April 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know 100% of our money’s directly giving back to the community without a middleman taking a cut,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, that’s been the spirit of Oakland’s queer community. It’s led by people who find themselves at the intersections of multiple marginalized identities, whether immigrant, Black, gender-nonconforming, all of the above or something else entirely. And despite challenges in Oakland and society at large, our queer and trans culture-makers have always poured themselves into creating refuges for joy, self-expression and solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Bianco-Chaidez, the co-producer of the new Marimacha party, says: “We still gon’ thrive no matter what.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952708\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952708\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-07-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/240217-OAKLAND-QUEER-SPACES-KSM-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dancers at the Marimacha party hosted by EL AFTERS X SFLA QUEER NIGHTLIFE at Fluid510 in Oakland on Feb. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Kathryn Styer Martínez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"queeroaklandvenuelist\">\u003c/a>Where to find queer nightlife in Oakland\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/elaftersoakland/\">El Afters\u003c/a>. \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cem>Parties and events at rotating venues.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/friendsandfamilybar/\">\u003cstrong>Friends and Family\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (468 25th Street). Cocktail lounge with light bites and events. Open Monday and Tuesday 5-11 p.m., Wednesday-Saturday 5 p.m.-midnight.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://feelmoresocial.com/\">\u003cstrong>Feelmore Social Club\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (1542 Broadway Avenue). Cocktail lounge with kink and sex-positive events. Open Sunday 11-5 p.m., Monday 5-11 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://fluid510.com/\">\u003cstrong>Fluid510\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (1544 Broadway Avenue). Large nightclub with weekly parties, serves food. Open Wednesday and Thursday 4 p.m.-midnight, Friday 4 p.m.-2 a.m., Saturday 11 a.m. – 2 a.m., Sunday 11 a.m.-midnight. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/nectarsocialclub/?hl=en\">\u003cstrong>Nectar Social Club\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (408 15th Street). Coffee shop and bar with evening events and late-night dance parties. Open Tuesday and Wednesday 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Thursday-Saturday 10 a.m.-10 p.m. and until 2 a.m. for special events. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/queerinoakland/\">\u003cstrong>Queer in Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. Parties and events at rotating venues.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/quericonightclub/\">\u003cstrong>Que Rico\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (381 15th Street). Nightclub with drag and DJs. Open Tuesday 6 p.m.–11 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday 5–10:30 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays 5 p.m. – 2 a.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/wearesoulovely/?hl=en\">\u003cstrong>Soulovely\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. Monthly day party on Second Sundays April-October at 7th West (1255 7th Street).\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thebarsummer.com/\">\u003cstrong>Summer Bar & Lounge\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (526 8th Street). 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"content": "\u003cp>San Jose’s Japantown is small but mighty — a few blocks’ stretch of small businesses that are often overlooked. But they never underdeliver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.jtown.org/history\">Dating back to the early 20th century\u003c/a>, the neighborhood has long been a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13904788/san-jose-japantown-changes-minato-gombei-shuei-do-santo-market\">hub of commerce and community\u003c/a> for Japanese Americans. Over the years, the core of Japantown has also diversified. It’s become a notable intersection for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/sanjosefood\">San Jose’s richly vibrant food offerings \u003c/a>while also incubating one of the South Bay’s best underground scenes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, there’s a tiki lounge, a hidden shop up a narrow flight of stairs that stashes hard-to-find anime DVDs, sushi bars, hot pot restaurants, a slick barbershop, a recording studio, streetwear boutiques, art galleries and more. There are young artists, veteran designers, amateur photographers and general creatives kicking it and cross-pollinating their ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952506\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13952506 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-36-scaled-e1708993242591.jpg\" alt=\"Two people wearing colorful clothing wave at the camera while posing in front of an art exhibit.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1693\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-36-scaled-e1708993242591.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-36-scaled-e1708993242591-800x705.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-36-scaled-e1708993242591-1020x899.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-36-scaled-e1708993242591-160x141.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-36-scaled-e1708993242591-768x677.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-36-scaled-e1708993242591-1536x1354.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shalomy The Homie (left) and Vicky Quach show love at Alex Knowbody’s photo exhibit, titled “La Lucha Sigue,” displayed inside Cukui during last year’s “A Photo Night in Japantown.” \u003ccite>(Alex Knowbody)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among them, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cukui/\">Cukui\u003c/a> has been an anchoring presence since 2008. Built from the post–dot com imagination of Silicon Valley millennials, the clothing shop has survived gentrification for nearly two decades and continues to amplify Shark City’s unique offerings with streetwear rooted in Latinx, Asian and Polynesian cultures and tattoo aesthetics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the legendary OG shop where \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/alexknowbody/?hl=en\">Alex Knowbody\u003c/a> — a Mexican American documentarian from East Side San Jose — got his jumpstart as an intern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, March 9, Knowbody will co-facilitate the second annual “A Photo Night in Japantown” at Cukui and seven other businesses on Jackson Street. The event will be an organic, interconnected affair, featuring photography that aims to shine a light on San Jose’s subcultures and bring people together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952504\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952504\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-40-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-40-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-40-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-40-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-40-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-40-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-40-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-40-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-40-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Jefes de 408 perform a live outdoor set at last year’s inaugural event. \u003ccite>(Alex Knowbody)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s cool to see certain spots like Cukui where it feels like Silicon Valley [tech culture] hasn’t taken over,” Knowbody says of the streetwear brand, which hosts a range of collaborative projects with local culture-pushers from all over the South Bay, including rappers like \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reyresurreccion/\">Rey Resurreccion\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ljames408\">LJames408\u003c/a>, and the air-freshener maker \u003ca href=\"https://www.fuchilafresheners.com/airfresheners/fuckice\">Fúchila\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID='arts_13936639,arts_13904788']\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/b>“Japantown is a big part of that,” he says. “There are big high-rise apartments around now, but we’re trying to keep the culture alive, not gentrified. We’re some like-minded folks with pure passion. I just want to get something going on in my city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to Cukui, Empire Seven, Headliners, No Future Gallery, LNP Gallery, The Coterie Den, Paradox and Coldwater will also open their doors for Photo Night. The loosely themed exhibition will showcase the work of photographers like Knowbody and his main co-conspirators, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/gooseneckmagazine/\">Gooseneck\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/doyouknowtheway/\">Abraham Menor\u003c/a>. It originally started as a simple idea to display each other’s photos and grew into the informal collective’s first-ever showing in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952505\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13952505 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-46-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-46-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-46-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-46-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-46-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-46-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-46-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-46-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A series of photos are displayed inside Coldwater, one of Japantown’s streetwear boutiques that is often at the center of the local arts community. \u003ccite>(Alex Knowbody)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For his part, Knowbody will be setting up a live photo space inside Coldwater, a shop owned by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936639/jubo-iguanas-filipino-burrito-juborrito-collaboration-san-jose\">three Filipino brothers known around town for inventing a Spam-and-garlic-tot burrito\u003c/a>. Their custom-apparel clothing store will transform into a makeshift studio space with a backdrop where visitors can get professional portraits taken. Meanwhile, another exhibit next door will feature Gooseneck’s photographs of San Jose’s low riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last year, [Menor] called me and wanted to have a show and get the block activated, and he asked me If I was down,” recalls Knowbody. “I technically had my first-ever solo show at Cukui, so it made sense. Now I’m super stoked to be a part of this and see Japantown be culturally represented for the whole city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>‘A Photo Night in Japantown’ will happen on Saturday, March 9, along Jackson Street in San Jose’s Japantown, from 4 to 7 p.m. Attendance is free.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Jose’s Japantown is small but mighty — a few blocks’ stretch of small businesses that are often overlooked. But they never underdeliver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.jtown.org/history\">Dating back to the early 20th century\u003c/a>, the neighborhood has long been a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13904788/san-jose-japantown-changes-minato-gombei-shuei-do-santo-market\">hub of commerce and community\u003c/a> for Japanese Americans. Over the years, the core of Japantown has also diversified. It’s become a notable intersection for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/sanjosefood\">San Jose’s richly vibrant food offerings \u003c/a>while also incubating one of the South Bay’s best underground scenes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, there’s a tiki lounge, a hidden shop up a narrow flight of stairs that stashes hard-to-find anime DVDs, sushi bars, hot pot restaurants, a slick barbershop, a recording studio, streetwear boutiques, art galleries and more. There are young artists, veteran designers, amateur photographers and general creatives kicking it and cross-pollinating their ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952506\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13952506 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-36-scaled-e1708993242591.jpg\" alt=\"Two people wearing colorful clothing wave at the camera while posing in front of an art exhibit.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1693\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-36-scaled-e1708993242591.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-36-scaled-e1708993242591-800x705.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-36-scaled-e1708993242591-1020x899.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-36-scaled-e1708993242591-160x141.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-36-scaled-e1708993242591-768x677.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-36-scaled-e1708993242591-1536x1354.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shalomy The Homie (left) and Vicky Quach show love at Alex Knowbody’s photo exhibit, titled “La Lucha Sigue,” displayed inside Cukui during last year’s “A Photo Night in Japantown.” \u003ccite>(Alex Knowbody)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among them, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cukui/\">Cukui\u003c/a> has been an anchoring presence since 2008. Built from the post–dot com imagination of Silicon Valley millennials, the clothing shop has survived gentrification for nearly two decades and continues to amplify Shark City’s unique offerings with streetwear rooted in Latinx, Asian and Polynesian cultures and tattoo aesthetics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the legendary OG shop where \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/alexknowbody/?hl=en\">Alex Knowbody\u003c/a> — a Mexican American documentarian from East Side San Jose — got his jumpstart as an intern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, March 9, Knowbody will co-facilitate the second annual “A Photo Night in Japantown” at Cukui and seven other businesses on Jackson Street. The event will be an organic, interconnected affair, featuring photography that aims to shine a light on San Jose’s subcultures and bring people together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952504\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13952504\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-40-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-40-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-40-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-40-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-40-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-40-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-40-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-40-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-40-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Jefes de 408 perform a live outdoor set at last year’s inaugural event. \u003ccite>(Alex Knowbody)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s cool to see certain spots like Cukui where it feels like Silicon Valley [tech culture] hasn’t taken over,” Knowbody says of the streetwear brand, which hosts a range of collaborative projects with local culture-pushers from all over the South Bay, including rappers like \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reyresurreccion/\">Rey Resurreccion\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ljames408\">LJames408\u003c/a>, and the air-freshener maker \u003ca href=\"https://www.fuchilafresheners.com/airfresheners/fuckice\">Fúchila\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/b>“Japantown is a big part of that,” he says. “There are big high-rise apartments around now, but we’re trying to keep the culture alive, not gentrified. We’re some like-minded folks with pure passion. I just want to get something going on in my city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to Cukui, Empire Seven, Headliners, No Future Gallery, LNP Gallery, The Coterie Den, Paradox and Coldwater will also open their doors for Photo Night. The loosely themed exhibition will showcase the work of photographers like Knowbody and his main co-conspirators, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/gooseneckmagazine/\">Gooseneck\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/doyouknowtheway/\">Abraham Menor\u003c/a>. It originally started as a simple idea to display each other’s photos and grew into the informal collective’s first-ever showing in 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13952505\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13952505 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-46-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-46-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-46-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-46-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-46-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-46-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-46-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/AKCUKILaLuchaSigueRecap-46-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A series of photos are displayed inside Coldwater, one of Japantown’s streetwear boutiques that is often at the center of the local arts community. \u003ccite>(Alex Knowbody)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For his part, Knowbody will be setting up a live photo space inside Coldwater, a shop owned by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13936639/jubo-iguanas-filipino-burrito-juborrito-collaboration-san-jose\">three Filipino brothers known around town for inventing a Spam-and-garlic-tot burrito\u003c/a>. Their custom-apparel clothing store will transform into a makeshift studio space with a backdrop where visitors can get professional portraits taken. Meanwhile, another exhibit next door will feature Gooseneck’s photographs of San Jose’s low riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last year, [Menor] called me and wanted to have a show and get the block activated, and he asked me If I was down,” recalls Knowbody. “I technically had my first-ever solo show at Cukui, so it made sense. Now I’m super stoked to be a part of this and see Japantown be culturally represented for the whole city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>‘A Photo Night in Japantown’ will happen on Saturday, March 9, along Jackson Street in San Jose’s Japantown, from 4 to 7 p.m. Attendance is free.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When we look back on history, all too often we stay focused on the big events — the disasters, the elections, the assassinations. But when it comes to getting an accurate view of a bygone era, it’s almost always the footage of everyday occurrences that tells us the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13950886']\u003cem>Raymond Cooper’s Oakland\u003c/em>, a photography collection currently on display at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebpco.org/opw\">Oakland Photo Workshop\u003c/a>, does just that. In Cooper’s images, we see snapshots of lives and characters, places and social events that vividly take us back to the streets and living rooms of 1970s Oakland. Two young men hanging on a street corner. Children posing with a parked Chrysler Sunbeam. A woman with a beautiful Afro smoking a cigarette on her porch. A Black cowboy riding through a parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953021\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2251px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953021\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/kids.jpg\" alt=\"Two children sit on the floor of a comfortable living room. They are surrounded by green plants, a white lamp behind them. \" width=\"2251\" height=\"1676\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/kids.jpg 2251w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/kids-800x596.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/kids-1020x759.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/kids-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/kids-768x572.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/kids-1536x1144.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/kids-2048x1525.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/kids-1920x1430.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2251px) 100vw, 2251px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Intimate family portraits are a high point of ‘Raymond Cooper’s Oakland.’ \u003ccite>(Rae Alexandra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The images feel warm, familiar and intimate. They might not be of your friends and family, but they’ll make you think of the people who are. And their ability to take us to the least documented corners of the Town of 50 years ago is what makes them just a little bit magical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pictures on display represent an eclectic hodgepodge of Cooper’s two decades working as a photographer. (He also owned Sundance, a camera supply store on Webster Street.) In addition to Cooper’s street and home photography, there are some distinctly ’70s works of futuristic collage, a collection of fashion portraiture and some behind-the-scenes snaps, often involving hair stylists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953026\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1458px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953026\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Screen-Shot-2024-02-26-at-1.58.59-PM.png\" alt=\"A young white man wearing short shorts and knee high tube socks plays an arcade game.\" width=\"1458\" height=\"972\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Screen-Shot-2024-02-26-at-1.58.59-PM.png 1458w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Screen-Shot-2024-02-26-at-1.58.59-PM-800x533.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Screen-Shot-2024-02-26-at-1.58.59-PM-1020x680.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Screen-Shot-2024-02-26-at-1.58.59-PM-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Screen-Shot-2024-02-26-at-1.58.59-PM-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1458px) 100vw, 1458px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Little is known about most of the locations and subjects of Cooper’s photos, but they distinctly reflect the era in which they were taken. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the East Bay Photo Collective/ Aja Cooper)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/stolen-photos-reveal-1970s-oakland-17494418.php\">The story of how Cooper’s photography got this little renaissance\u003c/a> is a delightful one. In 2021, a skateboarder named Ben Tolford rescued several binders of slides that had been dumped next to a trashcan in Oakland. While studying them at home, he found a self-portrait of Cooper that had the photographer’s name on it. He also found a baby picture with the name Aja on it. Tolford used social media to locate her — Aja is Cooper’s daughter — and returned the slides, which had been stolen from her storage space. Many more of Cooper’s photos had previously been lost in a house fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s left of Cooper’s portfolio tells a colorful story about trends, community and belonging. It provides contemporary audiences with an on-the-ground view of everyday Oakland life half a century ago. And it brings back vivid memories for those who lived through it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953030\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/raymondatsundance-scaled-e1708988629717.jpg\" alt=\"A slightly damaged photograph of a Black man on the phone inside a small business. He is waving to the photographer.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1372\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raymond Cooper working at his downtown Oakland photography supply store, Sundance. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the East Bay Photo Collective)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the exhibit’s opening party, an image featuring the downtown Oakland Doggie Diner prompted one man next to me to reminisce about the restaurant’s former proximity to a furniture store that sold, in his words, “the wildest furniture” and “you know, all that leopard print and shag.” Thanks to Raymond Cooper, that’s not so difficult to picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cem>‘Raymond Cooper’s Oakland’ is on display at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebpco.org/opw\">Oakland Photo Workshop\u003c/a> (312 8th Street) through April 21, 2024. Aja Cooper will appear in conversation with ‘East Bay Yesterday’ host Liam O’Donoghue on April 5 at 7 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s left of Cooper’s portfolio tells a colorful story about trends, community and belonging. It provides contemporary audiences with an on-the-ground view of everyday Oakland life half a century ago. And it brings back vivid memories for those who lived through it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13953030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13953030\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/raymondatsundance-scaled-e1708988629717.jpg\" alt=\"A slightly damaged photograph of a Black man on the phone inside a small business. He is waving to the photographer.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1372\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raymond Cooper working at his downtown Oakland photography supply store, Sundance. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the East Bay Photo Collective)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the exhibit’s opening party, an image featuring the downtown Oakland Doggie Diner prompted one man next to me to reminisce about the restaurant’s former proximity to a furniture store that sold, in his words, “the wildest furniture” and “you know, all that leopard print and shag.” Thanks to Raymond Cooper, that’s not so difficult to picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cem>‘Raymond Cooper’s Oakland’ is on display at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebpco.org/opw\">Oakland Photo Workshop\u003c/a> (312 8th Street) through April 21, 2024. Aja Cooper will appear in conversation with ‘East Bay Yesterday’ host Liam O’Donoghue on April 5 at 7 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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