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She was dating a man who was friends with a harp builder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s when the dream came rushing back,” Muhammad says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Didn’t I say I wanted to do this when I was a shorty back in Compton, watching an episode of \u003cem>I Love Lucy\u003c/em>? I said I wanted to do this!”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Do we, as Black people, do this?’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Muhammad bought her first harp on layaway for $400. But she had no idea how to play it, so she started taking lessons. It was a humbling experience. At 30 years old, she was the oldest student in the class. Her peers also had more resources and a lineage of European classical music training. And one other big thing stood out: the color of her skin. Her friends and family questioned what she, a Black woman, was doing playing a harp: “Do we, as Black people, do that?” she says, remembering those conversations. She recalls one particularly painful moment when a friend called her up to go out dancing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Hey girl, I can’t go, I’m practicing. I’m learning how to play the harp,’” she told her friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The friend says: “‘Harp? Girl, you are old and Black, and we don’t do that.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She remembers looking at the phone and then looking at her harp. Back then, she says, you could slam the phone down. But she didn’t. She just hung up and let her talk to the dial tone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Destiny Muhammad wasn’t deterred by her friend’s doubts or the obstacles that stood in her way. In her heart, she knew she didn’t have a choice: “Even though the path didn’t appear charted, I knew that I had to move forward on it in the only way I could,” she says. “For Destiny Muhammad, the path was always invisible until I would take the step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995889\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995889\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/DESTINY-MUHAMMAD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman playing the harp with several sunflowers behind her.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/DESTINY-MUHAMMAD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/DESTINY-MUHAMMAD-01-KQED-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/DESTINY-MUHAMMAD-01-KQED-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/DESTINY-MUHAMMAD-01-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/DESTINY-MUHAMMAD-01-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/DESTINY-MUHAMMAD-01-KQED-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Destiny Muhammad at a Bay Area Farmers Market circa 2005. \u003ccite>(Photo Courtesy of Destiny Muhammad)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her big break came when she started playing at farmers markets around the Bay Area. She would spend hours playing to no one in particular, slowly adding more songs into her sets and then her own improvised pieces as she got more comfortable. And then someone walked up to her and asked her to play at their wedding. That was her first paid gig.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>From Celtic to Coltrane\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Destiny Muhammad calls her musical style “Celtic to Coltrane.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m cross-pollinating between straight-ahead Celtic music and straight-ahead jazz… I hear the jazz in the Celtic music,” she explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the first songs she learned to play were traditional Celtic compositions. She was captivated by the stories behind these classics, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeP5tDroavw\">the Irish song “The Butterfly Jig” from the early 1900s\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muhammad says that when researching the song, she found it was originally called “The Widow’s Jig” because so many women lost their husbands during the Irish Potato Famine. When these widows came with their children to the United States, the song’s name changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Butterflies are symbolic, at least for me, of transformation and evolution,” Muhammad says. “And that just brought it to life for me. I have kept it in at least a part of my sets because I love that story of transformation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/q-0flgjUBfE?si=myjmd6-4sLBYDDVP&t=117\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coltrane in “Celtic to Coltrane” refers to none other than the multi-instrumentalist Alice Coltrane. Known as Alice McLeod before she married fellow jazz musician John Coltrane, Alice was one of the few harpists in the jazz world in the late 1960s. Her music is ethereal, free, and genre-bending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000831\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2502px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000831\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Cropped_Coltrane.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photo of a Black woman playing the harp\" width=\"2502\" height=\"2424\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Cropped_Coltrane.jpg 2502w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Cropped_Coltrane-800x775.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Cropped_Coltrane-1020x988.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Cropped_Coltrane-160x155.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Cropped_Coltrane-1536x1488.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Cropped_Coltrane-2048x1984.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Cropped_Coltrane-1920x1860.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2502px) 100vw, 2502px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">American jazz musician and composer Alice Coltrane (1937 – 2007), playing a harp, circa 1965. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I heard Alice Coltrane on the radio on the jazz station. And I’m hearing this pentatonic empress just flourishing. I was like, ‘Oh my God, what is that?’” Muhammad remembers. She plays songs written by both Coltranes in her sets, and you can hear the influence of these two jazz greats in her original compositions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Composing with the edginess of Oakland\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Today, Destiny Muhammad works as a composer, performer and teacher in the Bay Area, where she’s been for the last 30 years. She composes original scores for her group, The Destiny Muhammad Trio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWuJKGB3nCM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her style of composition is personal and inspired by another jazz great: “Duke Ellington would write scores out for his musicians. But as opposed to putting sax here, drum here, he would put the person’s name because he knew exactly how they were going to interpret what he shared with them,” Muhammad says. “And that’s the way I feel with many of the musicians. When I pick a person … I’ve already felt them breathe life into my composition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also doesn’t feel constrained to rely on traditional sheet music notation: “If you ever look at sheet music, especially music that’s scored out for a particular type of ensemble, the composer will have markings or words in there about how to interpret. They might even usually have it in Italian. My Italian is at zero. So I wrote, “‘Give me a gangsta feel right here. Hella gangster right here.’ You know, I live in Oakland. We say stuff like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says her musicians in Oakland respond well to this unorthodox composition because they play with a unique “gutsiness” and “edginess” that she loves. “There’s a level of refinement without being edited,” she says. “I love Oakland and the Bay Area for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The long way around\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Destiny Muhammad describes her career trajectory as “the long way around.” She says she probably could have been famous earlier, but it would have compromised her integrity. Like the time, a photographer asked her if she wanted to do a photoshoot naked in the woods with her harp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘How about we don’t!’” Muhammad says, laughing. “There are just some things I’m just not going to do. I have too many ancestors to answer to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This doesn’t mean she hasn’t had brushes with major celebrity though. In 2019, Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, invited her to play at his infamous Sunday Services in Los Angeles. These weekly concerts were hosted at secret locations and featured a gospel choir, music, and speakers. Guests included David Letterman, Katy Perry, Brad Pitt, and A$AP Rocky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muhammad played a few Sundays before she was cut. “I am grateful. I can honestly say he paid on time,” she says of the experience working with Ye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the funds that I secured from my work with him helped us to purchase another vehicle. Amen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990530\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990530\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240611-DestinyMuhammad-22-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Woman playing the harp in white while people do yoga behind her. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240611-DestinyMuhammad-22-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240611-DestinyMuhammad-22-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240611-DestinyMuhammad-22-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240611-DestinyMuhammad-22-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240611-DestinyMuhammad-22-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Destiny Muhammad, a Bay Area musician, vocalist and composer, plays the harp during a yoga class at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco on June 12. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of her weekly gigs now is playing the harp during a yoga class at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral. Hearing her play in this space with soaring ceilings and light filtering in through stained glass windows adds a reverence to her music. She plays with her eyes closed, head bowed as if in prayer. Here, Muhammad isn’t just playing music; she’s channeling something bigger through it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The spirit of humanity, even in the midst of the madness as we see it now. I know the spirit is good. The real spirit is good. I get a chance to evoke it every opportunity I get.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s what keeps her as excited about the harp today as she was when she got her first one on layaway 30 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">S\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>itting on stage with her harp resting in her lap, Destiny Muhammad repeats this mantra: “Excellence, Beauty, and Success.” It’s part mic-check and part pump-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she first started learning to play the harp, the Oakland-based composer and musician used to suffer from stage fright. Now, more than 30 years later, she commands the stage with a presence fit for a woman who calls herself the “sound sculptress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her acclaimed career has been peppered with awards and honors, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.recordingacademy.com/membership/governance\">Governor of the Board for the SF Chapter of the Recording Academy\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://arts.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CAC_INA_2021_Fellows.pdf\">California Arts Council Legacy Fellow\u003c/a>. But before she was any of this, she was a self-described “shorty in Compton,” inspired by \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZuh8r93yqM\">watching Harpo Marx play the harp on an episode of \u003cem>I Love Lucy\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muhammad was 9 years old, and that was the first time she had ever seen a harp. She was mesmerized. “That’s what I want to do,” she remembers saying. But when she ran out to tell her mom her revelation, she was stopped in her tracks. Her mother had just gotten divorced from her father, and they were struggling, living in what she calls the “projects,” surviving on welfare and food stamps. Playing the harp was not a dream that Muhammad could afford to have. So she put it in the back of her mind, where it lived quietly for the next decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she graduated high school, she hoped to go to college to finally be able to study music, but financial circumstances required her to follow her mother’s advice instead and get her barber’s license. She opened her first barber shop when she was 21 years old. It was the height of the crack epidemic, but she was making a good living for herself, and she liked the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995890\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995890\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/DESTINY-MUHAMMAD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people in a barber shop, one about to cut the other's hair.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/DESTINY-MUHAMMAD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/DESTINY-MUHAMMAD-02-KQED-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/DESTINY-MUHAMMAD-02-KQED-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/DESTINY-MUHAMMAD-02-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/DESTINY-MUHAMMAD-02-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/DESTINY-MUHAMMAD-02-KQED-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Destiny Muhammad at her barbershop circa 1990. \u003ccite>(Photo Courtesy of Destiny Muhammad)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then, serendipity struck. She was dating a man who was friends with a harp builder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s when the dream came rushing back,” Muhammad says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Didn’t I say I wanted to do this when I was a shorty back in Compton, watching an episode of \u003cem>I Love Lucy\u003c/em>? I said I wanted to do this!”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Do we, as Black people, do this?’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Muhammad bought her first harp on layaway for $400. But she had no idea how to play it, so she started taking lessons. It was a humbling experience. At 30 years old, she was the oldest student in the class. Her peers also had more resources and a lineage of European classical music training. And one other big thing stood out: the color of her skin. Her friends and family questioned what she, a Black woman, was doing playing a harp: “Do we, as Black people, do that?” she says, remembering those conversations. She recalls one particularly painful moment when a friend called her up to go out dancing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Hey girl, I can’t go, I’m practicing. I’m learning how to play the harp,’” she told her friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The friend says: “‘Harp? Girl, you are old and Black, and we don’t do that.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She remembers looking at the phone and then looking at her harp. Back then, she says, you could slam the phone down. But she didn’t. She just hung up and let her talk to the dial tone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Destiny Muhammad wasn’t deterred by her friend’s doubts or the obstacles that stood in her way. In her heart, she knew she didn’t have a choice: “Even though the path didn’t appear charted, I knew that I had to move forward on it in the only way I could,” she says. “For Destiny Muhammad, the path was always invisible until I would take the step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995889\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995889\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/DESTINY-MUHAMMAD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman playing the harp with several sunflowers behind her.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/DESTINY-MUHAMMAD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/DESTINY-MUHAMMAD-01-KQED-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/DESTINY-MUHAMMAD-01-KQED-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/DESTINY-MUHAMMAD-01-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/DESTINY-MUHAMMAD-01-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/DESTINY-MUHAMMAD-01-KQED-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Destiny Muhammad at a Bay Area Farmers Market circa 2005. \u003ccite>(Photo Courtesy of Destiny Muhammad)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her big break came when she started playing at farmers markets around the Bay Area. She would spend hours playing to no one in particular, slowly adding more songs into her sets and then her own improvised pieces as she got more comfortable. And then someone walked up to her and asked her to play at their wedding. That was her first paid gig.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>From Celtic to Coltrane\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Destiny Muhammad calls her musical style “Celtic to Coltrane.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m cross-pollinating between straight-ahead Celtic music and straight-ahead jazz… I hear the jazz in the Celtic music,” she explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the first songs she learned to play were traditional Celtic compositions. She was captivated by the stories behind these classics, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeP5tDroavw\">the Irish song “The Butterfly Jig” from the early 1900s\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muhammad says that when researching the song, she found it was originally called “The Widow’s Jig” because so many women lost their husbands during the Irish Potato Famine. When these widows came with their children to the United States, the song’s name changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Butterflies are symbolic, at least for me, of transformation and evolution,” Muhammad says. “And that just brought it to life for me. I have kept it in at least a part of my sets because I love that story of transformation.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/q-0flgjUBfE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/q-0flgjUBfE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The Coltrane in “Celtic to Coltrane” refers to none other than the multi-instrumentalist Alice Coltrane. Known as Alice McLeod before she married fellow jazz musician John Coltrane, Alice was one of the few harpists in the jazz world in the late 1960s. Her music is ethereal, free, and genre-bending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000831\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2502px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000831\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Cropped_Coltrane.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photo of a Black woman playing the harp\" width=\"2502\" height=\"2424\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Cropped_Coltrane.jpg 2502w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Cropped_Coltrane-800x775.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Cropped_Coltrane-1020x988.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Cropped_Coltrane-160x155.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Cropped_Coltrane-1536x1488.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Cropped_Coltrane-2048x1984.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Cropped_Coltrane-1920x1860.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2502px) 100vw, 2502px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">American jazz musician and composer Alice Coltrane (1937 – 2007), playing a harp, circa 1965. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I heard Alice Coltrane on the radio on the jazz station. And I’m hearing this pentatonic empress just flourishing. I was like, ‘Oh my God, what is that?’” Muhammad remembers. She plays songs written by both Coltranes in her sets, and you can hear the influence of these two jazz greats in her original compositions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Composing with the edginess of Oakland\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Today, Destiny Muhammad works as a composer, performer and teacher in the Bay Area, where she’s been for the last 30 years. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The long way around\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Destiny Muhammad describes her career trajectory as “the long way around.” She says she probably could have been famous earlier, but it would have compromised her integrity. Like the time, a photographer asked her if she wanted to do a photoshoot naked in the woods with her harp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘How about we don’t!’” Muhammad says, laughing. “There are just some things I’m just not going to do. I have too many ancestors to answer to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This doesn’t mean she hasn’t had brushes with major celebrity though. In 2019, Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, invited her to play at his infamous Sunday Services in Los Angeles. These weekly concerts were hosted at secret locations and featured a gospel choir, music, and speakers. Guests included David Letterman, Katy Perry, Brad Pitt, and A$AP Rocky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muhammad played a few Sundays before she was cut. “I am grateful. I can honestly say he paid on time,” she says of the experience working with Ye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the funds that I secured from my work with him helped us to purchase another vehicle. Amen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990530\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990530\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240611-DestinyMuhammad-22-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Woman playing the harp in white while people do yoga behind her. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240611-DestinyMuhammad-22-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240611-DestinyMuhammad-22-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240611-DestinyMuhammad-22-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240611-DestinyMuhammad-22-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240611-DestinyMuhammad-22-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Destiny Muhammad, a Bay Area musician, vocalist and composer, plays the harp during a yoga class at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco on June 12. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of her weekly gigs now is playing the harp during a yoga class at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral. Hearing her play in this space with soaring ceilings and light filtering in through stained glass windows adds a reverence to her music. She plays with her eyes closed, head bowed as if in prayer. Here, Muhammad isn’t just playing music; she’s channeling something bigger through it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The spirit of humanity, even in the midst of the madness as we see it now. I know the spirit is good. The real spirit is good. I get a chance to evoke it every opportunity I get.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s what keeps her as excited about the harp today as she was when she got her first one on layaway 30 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To some, a lowrider might just be a car with hydraulics, but amongst the most passionate followers, lowriding is a culture with its own aesthetic, attitude and history. Lowriding aficionados can now be found globally — in the streets of France, Japan, Dubai and more — each with their own style. But the origins of this artistic automotive subculture are still hotly debated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Bay Curious listener heard that lowriding got its start in both Los Angeles and San José. They asked us to explore the lowriding origin story or stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professor John Ulloa, the Dean of Arts and Social Science at West Valley College, has spent time researching the history of lowriding for his podcast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says to start at ground zero we have to focus on one group of lowriders, the subculture of \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230913-pachucos-the-latinx-subculture-that-defied-the-us\">pachucos\u003c/a> in East Los Angeles in the 1940s. Pachuco is Spanish for punk, and the group was made up of primarily Mexican American youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘All my friends know the lowrider’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Pachuco culture is provocative in nature, it really comes out of jazz culture, big band and swing,” Ulloa said. “These kids, by a white dominant paradigm, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/artbound/pachucos-not-just-mexican-american-males-or-juvenile-delinquents\">were othered and seen as foreign\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pachucos were children during the Great Depression, and they’d seen friends and family members deported en masse to Mexico — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002189/over-1-million-were-deported-to-mexico-nearly-100-years-ago-most-of-them-were-u-s-citizens\">even if they were legal citizens\u003c/a>. So these kids were about fighting assimilation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001113\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001113\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-34-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1235\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-34-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-34-KQED-800x494.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-34-KQED-1020x630.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-34-KQED-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-34-KQED-1536x948.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-34-KQED-1920x1186.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The engine of ‘El Diablo,’ a 1963 GMC truck at the annual King of the Streets car show at the Palace of Fine Arts on Aug. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pachuco culture developed in the shadow of World War II, at a time when many Americans were rationing gas, food, and not buying new clothes to save resources for the war effort. Rationing was seen as patriotic, but the pachuco style was extravagant. They wore zoot suits: a clothing style from jazz culture that was popular with Black, Latino and Filipino youth. It featured ballooned pants, exaggerated shoulder pads, and nice hats topped off with a single large feather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole presentation was really flamboyant and seen as not only criminalized but completely un-American,” Ulloa said. “It was the antithesis of the white Anglo picket fence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001111\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001111\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-32-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-32-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-32-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-32-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-32-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-32-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-32-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the annual King of the Streets car show at the Palace of Fine Arts on Aug. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pachucos also went against the grain when it came to American car culture. In the late ’40s and early ’50s, white Americans were hacking their hot rod cars to go fast. But the pachucos were doing the exact opposite. They bought less expensive, older cars and customized them to go low and slow. Before the advent of hydraulics, that meant making the car heavier to force it lower to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You ‘slam it,’” said Ulloa, “Literally with sandbags, with rocks, with cinder blocks, with bricks, whatever you could find that was heavy to put in the trunk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the argument for Los Angeles being the birthplace of lowriding is compelling. But, Ulloa said, the San José scene is extremely significant in terms of lowrider history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001107\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001107\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-21-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-21-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-21-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-21-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-21-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-21-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-21-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tracy Gallardo sits in her dream car, a 1958 Chevy Impala, at the annual King of the Streets car show at the Palace of Fine Arts on Aug. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Do You Know the Way to San Jose?’ \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“The San José argument largely has to do with [it being] the birthplace of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101875250/san-jose-founded-lowrider-magazine-icon-of-chicano-car-culture-goes-out-of-print\">\u003cem>Lowrider\u003c/em> magazine\u003c/a>,” Ulloa said. “It was a lifestyle magazine, it wasn’t just cars and vehicles — it was people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1977 while studying at San Jose State, Sonny Madrid launched \u003cem>Lowrider \u003c/em>magazine, a monthly publication that celebrated Chicano culture. A small staff, including some of Madrid’s friends, wrote articles about fashion, music, politics — it was a hit at the newsstands at just the right time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001102\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001102\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-7-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-7-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-7-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-7-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-7-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-7-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-7-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The steering wheel of a Buick Regal with ‘SF’ on it at the annual King of the Streets car show at the Palace of Fine Arts on Aug. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ulloa stamps the first five years of \u003cem>Lowrider \u003c/em>being published as the “Golden Era,” because people were already lowriding but its circulation was able to reach audiences beyond San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>Lowrider \u003c/em>magazine was able to give everyone access to see what people were doing all over the Southwest,” said Ulloa. “The youth had \u003cem>Lowrider\u003c/em> magazine, whether they were lowriding or not — they were able to see themselves at a car show as participants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001105\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001105\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Monte Carlo parked on three wheels outside of the Palace of Fine Arts during the annual King of the Streets car show on Aug. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lowrider\u003c/em> solidified lowriding as a culture in California, and then the circulation of the magazine went international. The Letters to the Editor section of the magazine was filled with submissions from readers in Great Britain, France, all over the world, giving praise for the magazine’s content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When there’s a global phenomenon, there’s always a local take on it. Each city adds their own flare to lowriding. People in the know can often spot a Bay Area lowrider versus one from L.A., or San Antonio, or Japan. Maybe it’s a custom paint job, or a tire size popular in a certain area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001110\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001110\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-31-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-31-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-31-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-31-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-31-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-31-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-31-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1963 Chevy Impala enters the Palace of Fine Arts during the annual King of the Streets car show on Aug. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Everywhere lowriding goes, the community leaves a mark. Ulloa won’t settle the debate about the origins starting in Los Angeles or San José. He said it originates in the Mexican American experience in the southwestern part of the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Ulloa, where lowriding started doesn’t matter. But why people care does. Everyone wants to own a piece of history, he said, especially when there are communities who have had their histories systemically erased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To learn more about lowriding, check out these episodes of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13923205/best-of-roll-with-us-a-sisterhood-of-lowriding\">Rightnowish \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/trulyca/99/everything-comes-from-the-streets\">Truly CA\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>And if you want to know how lowriding — once banned in California — finally became legal, check out this episode of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966254/california-lifts-decades-old-ban-on-lowrider-cruising\">The Bay\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001112\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001112\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-33-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-33-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-33-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-33-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-33-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-33-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-33-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car with a sign reading ‘I’m not old, I’m classic’ is displayed on a 1964 GMC truck at the annual King of the Streets car show at the Palace of Fine Arts on Aug. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>When Naomi Barrios and her sister Rosie were teenagers in the 1980s, they would look forward to cruising around Salinas every Friday and Saturday night. They’d roll low and slow, down Alisal Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(music begins)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Naomi Barrios: \u003c/strong>That was the best. Meeting people, seeing cars, having fun, enjoying the music, flirting with guys. It was fun!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Naomi and Ros would cruise in a burgundy Pontiac Firebird … sporty looking car … with a regal yellow firebird painted on the hood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Naomi Barrios:\u003c/strong> After we would cruise a little bit, a couple times, you know, three times. Then we would park, at a Winchell’s Donut place. That was our spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> In the parking lot people, mostly from Salina’s Chicano community, would line up their immaculate cars and show off their newest modifications. I’m talking leather seats, shiny rims and precise paint jobs. These cars weren’t simply modes of transportation. They were creative vessels, canvases for artistic expression, one’s pride and joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Naomi Barrios: \u003c/strong>It was a big crowd hanging out there outside. Inside everybody ordering, chatting. Everybody had their music on. Again, just looking at their cars, meeting new people, making new friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> The whole thing … it was a scene. One that was popping up in communities all across California. That’s because California is the birthplace of lowriding culture … but where exactly that birthplace is has been a point of contention. Some folks say Lowriding started down in L.A., others say things got going in San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> A Bay Curious listener asked us to unpack the dispute. You selected the question in a public voting round. So, today on the show, we’ll explore the lowriding origin story … or stories. Then, we’ll learn how lowriding became criminalized, and catch up on where things are at today. I’m Olivia Allen-Price. We roll … right after this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sponsor Message\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>So, did lowriding start in San José or L.A.? Or somewhere else all together? To start today’s episode, Bay Curious intern, Ana De Almeida Amaral, headed out to a car show to get the lay of the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral (in tape):\u003c/strong> So I’m in a parking lot and there are dozens of cars just parked along both sides, and they’re painted all sorts of beautiful colors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral: \u003c/strong>Right behind the palace of fine arts in San Francisco, over a hundred people are gathered for the King of the Streets car show. In the middle of the parking lot, a sparkly, lime green Chevy is parked — with the hood popped revealing a shiny chrome engine. Nearby is a light blue two-seater, with a painting of a nude woman on the hood. The car is balanced on three wheels — one wheel 3 feet in the air — showing off its hydraulic suspension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral: \u003c/strong>People stand around cars that look like art pieces, drinking, eating, and talking all about the features. A car owner named Carlos brags about his ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos:\u003c/strong> That’s my car right there, El Mas Gangster de Todos. It’s a 1948 Buick Super 50. It’s all original … original chromes, original paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> As I walked down rows and rows of lifted, candy painted, and tricked out cars, I bumped into Anthony, who was wiping his white car’s exterior with a towel even though, to me, it already looked pristine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anthony:\u003c/strong> This is a 1969 Chevy Caprice, it has a 350 small block, uh brand new block. It has hydraulics, it’s lifted front and back — were from the BLVD Kings Car Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> And how long have you been working on cars?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anthony:\u003c/strong> Oof, since I was a kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> He points to an older man working on the car with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anthony:\u003c/strong> He basically taught me everything I know, the first car I remember him having was a ’72 Impala, so that basically got me into it. And then I remember growing up in the mission, seeing all the mini-trucks going up and down the mission. So, it’s been all my life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> Other people I spoke to shared the same passion for this art form and a deep pride in the lowriding culture. But when I asked about the origins of lowriding, I got a lot of answers …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral (in tape):\u003c/strong> Where do you think that it got started?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anthony: \u003c/strong>Oh, L.A. all day. Everybody knows, lowriding got started in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Man 1 at the car show:\u003c/strong> In my hometown, Turlock, California. Cause I was a kid from there! [laughs]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Man 2 at the car show:\u003c/strong> Hmmm, it’s been said San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Man 3 at the car show:\u003c/strong> From what I understand, it started somewhere in Baja California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Robert:\u003c/strong> I think it started with every little kid who had a Hot Wheels and stole their mom’s nail polish and started candy painting their hot wheels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Out on the streets, Ana didn’t find a straight answer, so we passed it off to reporter Sebastian Miño-Bucheli to dive deeper into the world of lowriding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian Miño-Bucheli:\u003c/strong> It’s clear that within the lowriding community, this matter isn’t settled. So I talked to someone who has been studying lowriding for a long time … Professor John Ulloa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Ulloa:\u003c/strong> It’s debatable. I mean, it’s hotly debated. Hotly debated. Everybody wants to claim ground zero for low riding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian Miño-Bucheli:\u003c/strong> Ulloa is the dean of arts and social science at West Valley College. He says one tough thing about this question is that lowriding has evolved a lot over time …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Ulloa:\u003c/strong> A lot of people say, well, it’s a it’s a car with hydraulics on it. But if you’re looking at culture and you’re looking at stance of car, you’re looking at attitude, you’re looking at aesthetics. Um, you know, the clothing and in tandem with the cars and, you know. Just the presence of, you know, how one presents themselves culturally… I think that we really have to be looking at the pachucos of the 1940s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Jazzy mellow music from the 1940s era)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian Miño-Bucheli:\u003c/strong> Here comes the argument for Los Angeles being the birthplace of lowriding …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian Miño-Bucheli:\u003c/strong> The pachucos were a subculture of predominantly Mexican American young people that thrived in East Los Angeles around World War II. Pachuco means “Punk” in Spanish\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were kids during the Great Depression, and had seen their friends and family members of Mexican descent deported en masse, even those who were American citizens. It was part of the U.S. government’s “repatriation” program … which ultimately saw the mass deportation of about a million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Ulloa: \u003c/strong>These kids, by a white dominant paradigm, were othered and seen as foreign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian Miño-Bucheli:\u003c/strong> The U.S., and white society had not treated their families well, so the pachucos were all about resisting assimilation, and instead creating something of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Ulloa: \u003c/strong>Pachuco culture is provocative in nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(music ends)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian Miño-Bucheli:\u003c/strong> During World War II, many Americans were showing their patriotism by rationing … using less gas, eating less food, not buying new clothes. The idea was to save resources for the war effort. But the pachucos … they were rocking the Zoot suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Ulloa: \u003c/strong>You have an exaggerated aesthetic with ballooned out pants, exaggerated shoulders in the coats. Um, you know, topped off with a nice hat with a big single feather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian Miño-Bucheli:\u003c/strong> This clothing style came from jazz culture and it was popular amongst Black, Latino and Filipino youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Ulloa: \u003c/strong>So the whole presentation was really flamboyant and seen as not only criminalized but completely un-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian Miño-Bucheli:\u003c/strong> Around this time, in the ’40s, White Americans were hacking their hotrod cars to go fast. So pachucos did the exact opposite. They went low and slow … sending a clear message about their nonconformity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Ulloa: \u003c/strong>Necessity is the mother of all invention, right so. It was cheap to get a ’30s car and work on it, you know make it your own. You lower it in the back or you lower it all the way around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian Miño-Bucheli:\u003c/strong> And this was decades before hydraulics came on the scene, so getting low meant filling the trunk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Ulloa: \u003c/strong>You slam it quote unquote as we say. Literally. With sandbags, with rocks, with cinder blocks, with bricks, whatever you could find that was heavy to put in the trunk. What that would do is that would take the car from sitting level, to being lowered in the back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian Miño-Bucheli:\u003c/strong> The pachucos also pushed against the grain with candy-colored paint jobs and Chicano art. These cars were a loud and proud statement about their culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Ulloa: \u003c/strong>Low and slow was the antithesis of hot rod fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian Miño-Bucheli:\u003c/strong> So if we’re looking at who are the OG lowriders, the first to start driving low and slow, Los Angeles and the pachucos have a compelling argument. But then where does this San Jose argument come from? What stake does that city have in lowriding culture?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Ulloa:\u003c/strong> The San José argument largely has to do with it’s the birthplace of \u003cem>Lowrider\u003c/em> magazine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Mellow 1970s era music)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian Miño-Bucheli: \u003c/strong>In 1977, a guy named Sonny Madrid was a student at San Jose State. With a few friends, he launched \u003cem>Lowrider\u003c/em> magazine, a monthly that celebrated Chicano culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Ulloa:\u003c/strong> It was a lifestyle magazine. It wasn’t just cars and vehicles. It was people. Right …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian Miño-Bucheli: \u003c/strong>The magazine had articles about fashion, music, politics. And it was hitting newsstands at just the right time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Ulloa:\u003c/strong> The Golden Era, as I’ve timestamped it, was from 1977 to 1982 and those were the first five years of \u003cem>Lowrider\u003c/em> magazine. People were already lowriding prior to \u003cem>Lowrider\u003c/em> magazine, but now what \u003cem>Lowrider\u003c/em> magazine did is it was able to give everyone access to see what people were doing all over the Southwest, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian Miño-Bucheli: \u003c/strong>It helped solidify lowriding as a culture. And then it exported that culture making it into a global phenomenon. The Letters to the Editor section of the magazine put that on full display.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Ulloa:\u003c/strong> There were letters in there from Great Britain, Scandinavia, France, Germany, all over the world. People are saying, “Hey, I just got your magazine in my hand, and this is so cool. We don’t have this here, but as soon as we can, we will.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian Miño-Bucheli: \u003c/strong>And when there’s a global phenomenon going around, there’s always a local take on the phenomenon. Each city adds their own flare to lowriding. People in the know can often spot a Bay Area lowrider versus one from L.A. or one from San Antonio, or Japan. Maybe it’s a custom paint job. Or a tire size popular in a certain area. Everywhere lowriding goes, the community leaves a mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Blues begins)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian Miño-Bucheli: \u003c/strong>At the end of the day, Ulloa won’t settle the debate about if lowriding started in Los Angeles … or if what came out of San José and \u003cem>Lowrider\u003c/em> magazine was so unique it was something new altogether …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Ulloa:\u003c/strong> Safely we can say that lowriding originates in the Mexican American experience in the southwestern part of the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian Miño-Bucheli: \u003c/strong>To Ulloa, where lowriding started doesn’t matter. But why people care does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>John Ulloa:\u003c/strong> The real question is why are people planting that flag? That’s the deeper question and everybody wants to own history. Especially communities that have historically had their histories systematically erased, swept under the rug, ignored, altered, unheard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Music in the clear for a few seconds and then fades)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Sebastian, Lowriding has such a fascinating history in this state. And while we can celebrate that it was born here, it hasn’t always been accepted here. Can you explain how lowriding first became criminalized?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian Miño-Bucheli: \u003c/strong>If we go back to the pachucos in the 1940s, they were surrounded by military personnel in Los Angeles waiting to leave to fight in World War II. And the presence of pachucos did not sit well with them. They thought zoot suits were unpatriotic … a sign of gang affiliation. And that’s a narrative that the local press really fed into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian Miño-Bucheli: \u003c/strong>There were a series of violent clashes where off-duty servicemen, police and white civilians attacked the pachucos, known as the Zoot Suit Riots. Anyone caught by the mob were stripped of their zoot suits and beaten. That’s where we start to see pachuco culture become targeted by police. Racial profiling is happening. And it extends to people driving lowriders. This criminalization of lowriding would play out for decades to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>In 1982, the state of California passed a law that allowed cities to implement cruising bans … over concerns about traffic, noise and crime. It also set limits on how much a car could be lowered. And then Soon after that cities like Sacramento, Fresno, L.A. and San José all had cruising bans on the books. What happened to the community in those places?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian Miño-Bucheli: \u003c/strong>The culture didn’t go anywhere, but people did get creative. People kept lowriding, eventually car shows started happening. These were sanctioned events where the lowriding community could still gather. But ultimately, activists started working to change things. And it worked! Just last year, California passed AB 436, a law that overturns the cruising bans, and lifts that prohibition on how low cars can go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re still seeing how it all plays out on the local level, but this last May, East San José had their first lowrider event since the ban was lifted for Cinco de Mayo. And people I spoke with there were optimistic about the future. And they were really happy to be there that day to share in the community and culture. They said finally we’re able to do this again!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Sebastian Miño-Bucheli. Thanks for your reporting on this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian Miño-Bucheli: \u003c/strong>You’re welcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Music with trumpets begins)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>KQED’s podcast The Bay has an excellent episode from when the cruising ban was lifted last year, that gets a lot more into how it was criminalized. It’s called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966254/california-lifts-decades-old-ban-on-lowrider-cruising\">California Lifts Decades-Old Ban on Lowrider Cruising.\u003c/a>” We’ll link to it in our show notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Also in our show notes is a link to the web story for this Bay Curious podcast episode — check it out for some awesome photos of that lowrider car show our intern Ana went to, along with several videos KQED has produced about lowriders over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED. If you like what we’re doing here at Bay Curious, please consider becoming a KQED member today. Learn more at \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/donate\">KQED.org/donate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>This episode was produced by Ana De Almeida Amaral, Amanda Font, Christopher Beale, and me Olivia Allen-Price. Special thanks to Katrina Schwartz, Katie Sprenger, Jen Chien, Maha Sanad, Holly Kernan and the whole KQED Family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>I’m Olivia Allen-Price … hoping you have a wonderful week. Bye!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To some, a lowrider might just be a car with hydraulics, but amongst the most passionate followers, lowriding is a culture with its own aesthetic, attitude and history. Lowriding aficionados can now be found globally — in the streets of France, Japan, Dubai and more — each with their own style. But the origins of this artistic automotive subculture are still hotly debated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Bay Curious listener heard that lowriding got its start in both Los Angeles and San José. They asked us to explore the lowriding origin story or stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professor John Ulloa, the Dean of Arts and Social Science at West Valley College, has spent time researching the history of lowriding for his podcast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says to start at ground zero we have to focus on one group of lowriders, the subculture of \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230913-pachucos-the-latinx-subculture-that-defied-the-us\">pachucos\u003c/a> in East Los Angeles in the 1940s. Pachuco is Spanish for punk, and the group was made up of primarily Mexican American youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘All my friends know the lowrider’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Pachuco culture is provocative in nature, it really comes out of jazz culture, big band and swing,” Ulloa said. “These kids, by a white dominant paradigm, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/artbound/pachucos-not-just-mexican-american-males-or-juvenile-delinquents\">were othered and seen as foreign\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pachucos were children during the Great Depression, and they’d seen friends and family members deported en masse to Mexico — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002189/over-1-million-were-deported-to-mexico-nearly-100-years-ago-most-of-them-were-u-s-citizens\">even if they were legal citizens\u003c/a>. So these kids were about fighting assimilation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001113\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001113\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-34-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1235\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-34-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-34-KQED-800x494.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-34-KQED-1020x630.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-34-KQED-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-34-KQED-1536x948.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-34-KQED-1920x1186.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The engine of ‘El Diablo,’ a 1963 GMC truck at the annual King of the Streets car show at the Palace of Fine Arts on Aug. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pachuco culture developed in the shadow of World War II, at a time when many Americans were rationing gas, food, and not buying new clothes to save resources for the war effort. Rationing was seen as patriotic, but the pachuco style was extravagant. They wore zoot suits: a clothing style from jazz culture that was popular with Black, Latino and Filipino youth. It featured ballooned pants, exaggerated shoulder pads, and nice hats topped off with a single large feather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole presentation was really flamboyant and seen as not only criminalized but completely un-American,” Ulloa said. “It was the antithesis of the white Anglo picket fence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001111\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001111\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-32-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-32-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-32-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-32-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-32-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-32-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-32-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the annual King of the Streets car show at the Palace of Fine Arts on Aug. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pachucos also went against the grain when it came to American car culture. In the late ’40s and early ’50s, white Americans were hacking their hot rod cars to go fast. But the pachucos were doing the exact opposite. They bought less expensive, older cars and customized them to go low and slow. Before the advent of hydraulics, that meant making the car heavier to force it lower to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You ‘slam it,’” said Ulloa, “Literally with sandbags, with rocks, with cinder blocks, with bricks, whatever you could find that was heavy to put in the trunk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the argument for Los Angeles being the birthplace of lowriding is compelling. But, Ulloa said, the San José scene is extremely significant in terms of lowrider history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001107\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001107\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-21-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-21-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-21-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-21-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-21-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-21-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-21-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tracy Gallardo sits in her dream car, a 1958 Chevy Impala, at the annual King of the Streets car show at the Palace of Fine Arts on Aug. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Do You Know the Way to San Jose?’ \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“The San José argument largely has to do with [it being] the birthplace of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101875250/san-jose-founded-lowrider-magazine-icon-of-chicano-car-culture-goes-out-of-print\">\u003cem>Lowrider\u003c/em> magazine\u003c/a>,” Ulloa said. “It was a lifestyle magazine, it wasn’t just cars and vehicles — it was people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1977 while studying at San Jose State, Sonny Madrid launched \u003cem>Lowrider \u003c/em>magazine, a monthly publication that celebrated Chicano culture. A small staff, including some of Madrid’s friends, wrote articles about fashion, music, politics — it was a hit at the newsstands at just the right time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001102\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001102\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-7-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-7-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-7-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-7-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-7-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-7-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-7-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The steering wheel of a Buick Regal with ‘SF’ on it at the annual King of the Streets car show at the Palace of Fine Arts on Aug. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ulloa stamps the first five years of \u003cem>Lowrider \u003c/em>being published as the “Golden Era,” because people were already lowriding but its circulation was able to reach audiences beyond San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>Lowrider \u003c/em>magazine was able to give everyone access to see what people were doing all over the Southwest,” said Ulloa. “The youth had \u003cem>Lowrider\u003c/em> magazine, whether they were lowriding or not — they were able to see themselves at a car show as participants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001105\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001105\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Monte Carlo parked on three wheels outside of the Palace of Fine Arts during the annual King of the Streets car show on Aug. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lowrider\u003c/em> solidified lowriding as a culture in California, and then the circulation of the magazine went international. The Letters to the Editor section of the magazine was filled with submissions from readers in Great Britain, France, all over the world, giving praise for the magazine’s content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When there’s a global phenomenon, there’s always a local take on it. Each city adds their own flare to lowriding. People in the know can often spot a Bay Area lowrider versus one from L.A., or San Antonio, or Japan. Maybe it’s a custom paint job, or a tire size popular in a certain area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001110\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001110\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-31-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-31-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-31-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-31-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-31-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-31-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-31-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1963 Chevy Impala enters the Palace of Fine Arts during the annual King of the Streets car show on Aug. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Everywhere lowriding goes, the community leaves a mark. Ulloa won’t settle the debate about the origins starting in Los Angeles or San José. He said it originates in the Mexican American experience in the southwestern part of the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Ulloa, where lowriding started doesn’t matter. But why people care does. Everyone wants to own a piece of history, he said, especially when there are communities who have had their histories systemically erased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To learn more about lowriding, check out these episodes of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13923205/best-of-roll-with-us-a-sisterhood-of-lowriding\">Rightnowish \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/trulyca/99/everything-comes-from-the-streets\">Truly CA\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>And if you want to know how lowriding — once banned in California — finally became legal, check out this episode of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966254/california-lifts-decades-old-ban-on-lowrider-cruising\">The Bay\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001112\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12001112\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-33-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-33-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-33-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-33-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-33-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-33-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240817_LOWRIDERS_GC-33-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A car with a sign reading ‘I’m not old, I’m classic’ is displayed on a 1964 GMC truck at the annual King of the Streets car show at the Palace of Fine Arts on Aug. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>When Naomi Barrios and her sister Rosie were teenagers in the 1980s, they would look forward to cruising around Salinas every Friday and Saturday night. They’d roll low and slow, down Alisal Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(music begins)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Naomi Barrios: \u003c/strong>That was the best. Meeting people, seeing cars, having fun, enjoying the music, flirting with guys. It was fun!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Naomi and Ros would cruise in a burgundy Pontiac Firebird … sporty looking car … with a regal yellow firebird painted on the hood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Naomi Barrios:\u003c/strong> After we would cruise a little bit, a couple times, you know, three times. Then we would park, at a Winchell’s Donut place. That was our spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> In the parking lot people, mostly from Salina’s Chicano community, would line up their immaculate cars and show off their newest modifications. I’m talking leather seats, shiny rims and precise paint jobs. These cars weren’t simply modes of transportation. They were creative vessels, canvases for artistic expression, one’s pride and joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Naomi Barrios: \u003c/strong>It was a big crowd hanging out there outside. Inside everybody ordering, chatting. Everybody had their music on. Again, just looking at their cars, meeting new people, making new friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> The whole thing … it was a scene. One that was popping up in communities all across California. That’s because California is the birthplace of lowriding culture … but where exactly that birthplace is has been a point of contention. Some folks say Lowriding started down in L.A., others say things got going in San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> A Bay Curious listener asked us to unpack the dispute. You selected the question in a public voting round. So, today on the show, we’ll explore the lowriding origin story … or stories. Then, we’ll learn how lowriding became criminalized, and catch up on where things are at today. I’m Olivia Allen-Price. We roll … right after this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sponsor Message\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>So, did lowriding start in San José or L.A.? Or somewhere else all together? To start today’s episode, Bay Curious intern, Ana De Almeida Amaral, headed out to a car show to get the lay of the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral (in tape):\u003c/strong> So I’m in a parking lot and there are dozens of cars just parked along both sides, and they’re painted all sorts of beautiful colors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral: \u003c/strong>Right behind the palace of fine arts in San Francisco, over a hundred people are gathered for the King of the Streets car show. In the middle of the parking lot, a sparkly, lime green Chevy is parked — with the hood popped revealing a shiny chrome engine. Nearby is a light blue two-seater, with a painting of a nude woman on the hood. The car is balanced on three wheels — one wheel 3 feet in the air — showing off its hydraulic suspension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral: \u003c/strong>People stand around cars that look like art pieces, drinking, eating, and talking all about the features. A car owner named Carlos brags about his ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carlos:\u003c/strong> That’s my car right there, El Mas Gangster de Todos. It’s a 1948 Buick Super 50. It’s all original … original chromes, original paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> As I walked down rows and rows of lifted, candy painted, and tricked out cars, I bumped into Anthony, who was wiping his white car’s exterior with a towel even though, to me, it already looked pristine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anthony:\u003c/strong> This is a 1969 Chevy Caprice, it has a 350 small block, uh brand new block. It has hydraulics, it’s lifted front and back — were from the BLVD Kings Car Club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> And how long have you been working on cars?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anthony:\u003c/strong> Oof, since I was a kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> He points to an older man working on the car with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anthony:\u003c/strong> He basically taught me everything I know, the first car I remember him having was a ’72 Impala, so that basically got me into it. And then I remember growing up in the mission, seeing all the mini-trucks going up and down the mission. So, it’s been all my life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral:\u003c/strong> Other people I spoke to shared the same passion for this art form and a deep pride in the lowriding culture. But when I asked about the origins of lowriding, I got a lot of answers …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ana De Almeida Amaral (in tape):\u003c/strong> Where do you think that it got started?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anthony: \u003c/strong>Oh, L.A. all day. Everybody knows, lowriding got started in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Man 1 at the car show:\u003c/strong> In my hometown, Turlock, California. Cause I was a kid from there! 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Especially communities that have historically had their histories systematically erased, swept under the rug, ignored, altered, unheard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Music in the clear for a few seconds and then fades)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Sebastian, Lowriding has such a fascinating history in this state. And while we can celebrate that it was born here, it hasn’t always been accepted here. Can you explain how lowriding first became criminalized?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian Miño-Bucheli: \u003c/strong>If we go back to the pachucos in the 1940s, they were surrounded by military personnel in Los Angeles waiting to leave to fight in World War II. And the presence of pachucos did not sit well with them. They thought zoot suits were unpatriotic … a sign of gang affiliation. And that’s a narrative that the local press really fed into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian Miño-Bucheli: \u003c/strong>There were a series of violent clashes where off-duty servicemen, police and white civilians attacked the pachucos, known as the Zoot Suit Riots. Anyone caught by the mob were stripped of their zoot suits and beaten. That’s where we start to see pachuco culture become targeted by police. Racial profiling is happening. And it extends to people driving lowriders. This criminalization of lowriding would play out for decades to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>In 1982, the state of California passed a law that allowed cities to implement cruising bans … over concerns about traffic, noise and crime. It also set limits on how much a car could be lowered. And then Soon after that cities like Sacramento, Fresno, L.A. and San José all had cruising bans on the books. What happened to the community in those places?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian Miño-Bucheli: \u003c/strong>The culture didn’t go anywhere, but people did get creative. People kept lowriding, eventually car shows started happening. These were sanctioned events where the lowriding community could still gather. But ultimately, activists started working to change things. And it worked! Just last year, California passed AB 436, a law that overturns the cruising bans, and lifts that prohibition on how low cars can go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re still seeing how it all plays out on the local level, but this last May, East San José had their first lowrider event since the ban was lifted for Cinco de Mayo. And people I spoke with there were optimistic about the future. And they were really happy to be there that day to share in the community and culture. They said finally we’re able to do this again!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Sebastian Miño-Bucheli. Thanks for your reporting on this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sebastian Miño-Bucheli: \u003c/strong>You’re welcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>(Music with trumpets begins)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>KQED’s podcast The Bay has an excellent episode from when the cruising ban was lifted last year, that gets a lot more into how it was criminalized. It’s called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966254/california-lifts-decades-old-ban-on-lowrider-cruising\">California Lifts Decades-Old Ban on Lowrider Cruising.\u003c/a>” We’ll link to it in our show notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Also in our show notes is a link to the web story for this Bay Curious podcast episode — check it out for some awesome photos of that lowrider car show our intern Ana went to, along with several videos KQED has produced about lowriders over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED. If you like what we’re doing here at Bay Curious, please consider becoming a KQED member today. Learn more at \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/donate\">KQED.org/donate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>This episode was produced by Ana De Almeida Amaral, Amanda Font, Christopher Beale, and me Olivia Allen-Price. Special thanks to Katrina Schwartz, Katie Sprenger, Jen Chien, Maha Sanad, Holly Kernan and the whole KQED Family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price: \u003c/strong>I’m Olivia Allen-Price … hoping you have a wonderful week. Bye!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>"
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of the KQED 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]T[/dropcap]wo years ago, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998109/olivia-rodrigo-guts-san-francisco-chase-center-bag-policy-pinkpantheress\">pop star Olivia Rodrigo\u003c/a> had a direct message for the five Supreme Court justices that ruled in favor of overturning \u003ci>Roe v. Wade\u003c/i>:\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-madmajyuc\"> “We hate you.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m devastated and terrified that so many women and so many girls are going to die because of this,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-madmajyuc\">Rodrigo said onstage at England’s Glastonbury Festival\u003c/a> before dedicating the Lily Allen song “Fuck You” to the justices, calling each out by name. “[They] have shown us that, at the end of the day, they truly don’t give a shit about freedom,” Rodrigo said to the massive crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999077\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11999077\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1264\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych2-800x395.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych2-1020x504.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych2-160x79.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych2-1536x758.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych2-2048x1011.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych2-1920x948.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isabella Nuñez wears sunglasses reading ‘Olivia Rodrigo World Tour’ at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 21-year-old singer has been no less vocal on her wildly popular — and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13962051/review-olivia-rodrigo-san-francisco-chase-center-guts-tour\">critically acclaimed\u003c/a> — \u003ci>Guts\u003c/i> world tour, which came to San Francisco for two shows in early August. Rodrigo has \u003ca href=\"https://www.eifoundation.org/partners/olivia-rodrigos-fund-4-good/\">partnered\u003c/a> with the National Network of Abortion Funds, an organization dedicated to increasing access to abortion care across the United States, and has donated a portion of ticket sales to local and statewide abortion care groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodrigo’s sharp, bold songs are also steeped in stylistic references to \u003ca href=\"https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/4/9/riot-grrrl-movement-retrospective-thinkpiece-punk-rock/#:~:text=Riot%20Grrrl%20has%20historically%20been,identity%2C%20politics%2C%20and%20abortion.\">riot-grrrl\u003c/a>, the 1990s punk feminist movement that championed reproductive rights and abortion access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13960424']Reproductive rights are a cause that resonates strongly with fans, like 20-year-old Elizabeth Feliciano, who traveled from Reno to the Bay Area to see Rodrigo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m Christian myself, and I don’t think I’d ever get an abortion. But I think it’s up to everyone to have a choice in their own body,” Feliciano said. “I also think our country’s made on the premises of free religion. So we can’t force religion on anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999076\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11999076\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1269\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych1-800x396.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych1-1020x505.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych1-160x79.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych1-1536x761.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych1-2048x1015.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych1-1920x951.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Feliciano, 20, poses for a photo for the Olivia Rodrigo concert at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Feliciano was one of nearly 20,000 attendees at Chase Center in San Francisco for Rodrigo’s Friday show. Excitement buzzed in the air as fans — clad in Rodrigo’s instantly recognizable black-purple-surly protagonist-of-a-teen-movie \u003ca href=\"https://www.teenvogue.com/story/olivia-rodrigo-complete-style-evolution\">Y2K-meets-’90s\u003c/a> aesthetic — took pictures, bought merch and lounged in the sun as they waited for the gates to open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998800\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998800\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Monsour, with “pink” written on his head for the Olivia Rodrigo concert at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With a pivotal presidential election just months away, many fans also spoke candidly of their anxiety about the future of the country. Along with reproductive rights, fans raised concerns about the cost of living, immigration justice, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997961/an-opportunity-how-do-pro-palestinian-advocates-feel-about-a-kamala-harris-candidacy\">the ongoing siege of Gaza\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent change at the top of the Democratic ticket, meanwhile, brought new enthusiasm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The election] makes me very nervous, but I’m glad that Kamala Harris is running,” said 21-year-old Lauryn Ige of Wailuku, Hawaii. “It’d be really cool to have a woman for president. I like what she stands for. I very much care about the topic of women’s bodies and them choosing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998799\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lauryn Ige, 21, wears purple flower earrings for the Olivia Rodrigo concert at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rodrigo has already shown support for Democratic presidential candidate Vice President \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/kamala-harris\">Kamala Harris\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/olivia-rodrigo-kamala-harris-19597411\">reposting an Instagram video\u003c/a> of Harris vowing to restore abortion access in the country. \u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">Harris has made abortion a major pillar of her campaign and has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996803/where-do-kamala-harris-and-joe-biden-diverge-on-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more vocal about it\u003c/a> than her predecessor, Biden.\u003c/span> Abortion care is also a cause that has greatly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/11/09/1134834724/michigan-abortion-amendment-midterm-results\">mobilized voters\u003c/a> — especially women — in states where it was at risk of being further restricted or even banned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ nomination has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-07-31/kamala-harris-uses-tiktok-to-pull-in-gen-z-voters-after-biden-s-exit\">energized\u003c/a> a \u003ca href=\"https://iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/47th-edition-spring-2024\">Gen Z and millennial voting bloc,\u003c/a> many of whom had been open about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13960424/megan-thee-stallion-stans-hotties-election-biden-trump-san-francisco\">the despondency they previously felt about Biden as the Democratic candidate\u003c/a>. But much of the ensuing media coverage has now speculated on \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/363560/gen-z-brat-coconut-kamala-harris-vote-young-voter?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=voxdotcom&utm_campaign=vox.social\">whether or not Harris can actually bring more young people to the polls. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1270px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998793\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1270\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-3-KQED.jpg 1270w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-3-KQED-800x1260.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-3-KQED-1020x1606.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-3-KQED-160x252.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-3-KQED-975x1536.jpg 975w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1270px) 100vw, 1270px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seth Angeles, 24, holds up a flag of Olivia Rodrigo at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Strong in what we believe in’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California, just 37% of youth voters — ages 18 to 29, as defined by \u003ca href=\"https://circle.tufts.edu/\">Tufts University’s data\u003c/a> — turned out for the 2016 presidential election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. In the 2020 presidential election between Trump and Biden, youth voter turnout rose to 54%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some at Rodrigo’s San Francisco concert, November’s general election will be their first time voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hoping that all the young voters come out to vote, especially because we’re one of the percentage of people that don’t vote,” said 20-year-old Heather Esguerra from Santa Clara. “So hopefully, because she’s in the running now, we all come out to vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998791\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998791\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1294\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-1-KQED-800x518.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-1-KQED-1020x660.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-1-KQED-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-1-KQED-1536x994.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-1-KQED-1920x1242.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Aarty Sharma, Natally Martin, Heather Esguerra and Khyati Mahajan hang out at the Chase Center before Olivia Rodrigo’s concert in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Esguerra was attending the concert with San Jose’s Aarty Sharma, 20, who said she hoped Harris would reinstate abortion rights nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, it’s the woman’s choice. It’s our body,” Sharma said. “I think we should have an opinion about it at the very minimum, and we should be able to make that choice for ourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13959370']Sharma gave a nervous laugh as she added: “I’m really, really hoping that it will change for the better. Because right now it’s not looking too good, I’m not gonna lie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esguerra said that no matter who was inaugurated in January 2025, she believed in the power of Gen Z to steer the direction of the country in the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are very strong in what we believe in,” Esguerra said. “Especially us being so young and fighting for what we want. I think it’s very good for us to already start doing that, despite what’s going to happen with our government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998792\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998792\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-2-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-2-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-2-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heather Esguerra’s glittery eyeshadow makeup for Olivia Rodrigo’s concert at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As Esguerra talked, another one of their friends — 19-year-old Khyati Mahajan from Santa Clara — brightened up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of [Esguerra’s] answer, I feel hopeful,” Mahajan said. “I felt very sad before because global warming, and everything is really bad right now. People are not taking action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Mahajan, Harris is “more of a moderate candidate than I would have liked. I definitely want someone more liberal, who’s going to make more change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998797\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998797\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1388\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-8-KQED-800x555.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-8-KQED-1020x708.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-8-KQED-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-8-KQED-1536x1066.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-8-KQED-1920x1332.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betsy Romero, 23, wears a purple cowboy hat for the Olivia Rodrigo concert at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘It’s kind of scary thinking we could lose our rights’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Richmond residents Linda Scruggs, 24, and Betsy Romero, 23, also hope Harris will pull through in November. “I am concerned that we’re going down a really bad path, like going back to the past instead of progressing as a country,” Scruggs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just think our country’s going really towards a racist, sexist environment,” she added. “So many people have already fought to change that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a Mexican American, Romero said the Republican party’s stance on abortion and immigration particularly worried her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13955679']“It’s kind of scary thinking we could lose our rights as not only women but immigrants,” Romero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Romero said she recognized the importance of influencers and celebrities like Rodrigo in politics. In fact, Romero became more interested in politics by following New York Rep. \u003ca href=\"https://www.twitch.tv/aoc\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Twitch channel\u003c/a>, where the politician plays games with other popular streamers. Now, she’s planning to help with voter registration on her college campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Celebrities are a great way to get their audiences to contribute [to causes],” Romero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999079\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11999079\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych3-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1264\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych3-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych3-800x395.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych3-1020x504.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych3-160x79.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych3-1536x758.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych3-2048x1011.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Olivia.diptych3-1920x948.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ananya Bahugudumbi, 20, wears a purple butterfly on her hair for the Olivia Rodrigo concert at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Twenty-year-old San Jose resident Ananya Bahugudumbi will also be voting for the first time this November. She feels that stars like Rodrigo have a definite responsibility to their younger fans who look up to them. “Personally, if I had that kind of influence, I would be using it to talk about the things that are important to me and that are important to the world as a whole,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bahugudumbi also wanted elected representatives to keep the average American in mind when making decisions. “There’s a lot of issues in the world going on right now, and I think that a lot of it is influenced by money. People who have power,” Bahugudumbi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elected representatives, she said, “should remember that the people who are voting for them are like the people here at this concert.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Excitement buzzed in the air as fans — clad in Rodrigo’s instantly recognizable black-purple-surly protagonist-of-a-teen-movie \u003ca href=\"https://www.teenvogue.com/story/olivia-rodrigo-complete-style-evolution\">Y2K-meets-’90s\u003c/a> aesthetic — took pictures, bought merch and lounged in the sun as they waited for the gates to open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998800\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998800\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-11-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-11-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Monsour, with “pink” written on his head for the Olivia Rodrigo concert at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With a pivotal presidential election just months away, many fans also spoke candidly of their anxiety about the future of the country. Along with reproductive rights, fans raised concerns about the cost of living, immigration justice, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997961/an-opportunity-how-do-pro-palestinian-advocates-feel-about-a-kamala-harris-candidacy\">the ongoing siege of Gaza\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent change at the top of the Democratic ticket, meanwhile, brought new enthusiasm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The election] makes me very nervous, but I’m glad that Kamala Harris is running,” said 21-year-old Lauryn Ige of Wailuku, Hawaii. “It’d be really cool to have a woman for president. I like what she stands for. 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In the 2020 presidential election between Trump and Biden, youth voter turnout rose to 54%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some at Rodrigo’s San Francisco concert, November’s general election will be their first time voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hoping that all the young voters come out to vote, especially because we’re one of the percentage of people that don’t vote,” said 20-year-old Heather Esguerra from Santa Clara. “So hopefully, because she’s in the running now, we all come out to vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998791\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998791\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1294\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-1-KQED-800x518.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-1-KQED-1020x660.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-1-KQED-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-1-KQED-1536x994.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-1-KQED-1920x1242.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Aarty Sharma, Natally Martin, Heather Esguerra and Khyati Mahajan hang out at the Chase Center before Olivia Rodrigo’s concert in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Esguerra was attending the concert with San Jose’s Aarty Sharma, 20, who said she hoped Harris would reinstate abortion rights nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, it’s the woman’s choice. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Sharma gave a nervous laugh as she added: “I’m really, really hoping that it will change for the better. Because right now it’s not looking too good, I’m not gonna lie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esguerra said that no matter who was inaugurated in January 2025, she believed in the power of Gen Z to steer the direction of the country in the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are very strong in what we believe in,” Esguerra said. “Especially us being so young and fighting for what we want. I think it’s very good for us to already start doing that, despite what’s going to happen with our government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998792\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998792\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-2-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-2-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-2-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heather Esguerra’s glittery eyeshadow makeup for Olivia Rodrigo’s concert at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As Esguerra talked, another one of their friends — 19-year-old Khyati Mahajan from Santa Clara — brightened up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of [Esguerra’s] answer, I feel hopeful,” Mahajan said. “I felt very sad before because global warming, and everything is really bad right now. People are not taking action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Mahajan, Harris is “more of a moderate candidate than I would have liked. I definitely want someone more liberal, who’s going to make more change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998797\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998797\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1388\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-8-KQED-800x555.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-8-KQED-1020x708.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-8-KQED-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-8-KQED-1536x1066.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/20240802_OLIVIAPOLITICS_GC-8-KQED-1920x1332.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betsy Romero, 23, wears a purple cowboy hat for the Olivia Rodrigo concert at the Chase Center in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘It’s kind of scary thinking we could lose our rights’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Richmond residents Linda Scruggs, 24, and Betsy Romero, 23, also hope Harris will pull through in November. “I am concerned that we’re going down a really bad path, like going back to the past instead of progressing as a country,” Scruggs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just think our country’s going really towards a racist, sexist environment,” she added. “So many people have already fought to change that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a Mexican American, Romero said the Republican party’s stance on abortion and immigration particularly worried her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Texting your ex may be a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj9qJsJTsjQ&pp=ygUdYmFkIGlkZWEgcmlnaHQgb2xpdmlhIHJvZHJpZ28%3D\">bad idea — \u003cem>right?\u003c/em>\u003c/a> — but seeing Olivia Rodrigo live in San Francisco for her \u003ca href=\"https://store.oliviarodrigo.com/pages/gutsworldtour\">world \u003cem>Guts\u003c/em> tour\u003c/a> will probably be anything but.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unbearably cool singer, who captures the angst and embarrassment of your early 20s like few other artists, will be playing two nights at Chase Center on Friday and Saturday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, if you’ve got tickets for one of Rodrigo’s SF shows on Aug. 2 or 3 and want to quit worrying about logistics, keep reading our guide to everything from Chase Center bag policy, parking, tickets and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And be aware: \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2024/music/news/pinkpantheress-cancels-all-2024-tour-dates-1236093345/\">Rodrigo no longer has her opening act PinkPantheress for these shows\u003c/a>, which means she’ll be most likely starting her performances earlier. Be sure to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ChaseCenter\">follow Chase Center on social media\u003c/a> for any more last-minute updates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#chase-center-bag-policy\">What’s the Chase Center bag policy?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#olivia-rodrigo-tickets\">Can I still get Olivia Rodrigo tickets?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#chase-center-parking\">Where is parking for Chase Center?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What time does the show at Chase Center start?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Doors are \u003ca href=\"https://www.chasecenter.com/events/olivia-rodrigo-20240802\">slated to open at 6:45 p.m.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big update for those with tickets: On Thursday, Rodrigo’s original opener for the shows, bedroom pop singer \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oftolPu9qp4\">PinkPantheress\u003c/a>, canceled all her tours this year saying she wanted \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2024/music/news/pinkpantheress-cancels-all-2024-tour-dates-1236093345/\">“to focus on my physical health and overall wellbeing.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means that Rodrigo will now be performing in San Francisco earlier — likely around 8 p.m. Previously, she was scheduled to start performing after PinkPantheress between 8:30 p.m. and 9 p.m., so if you were planning on skipping her opener, you may wish to adjust your plans slightly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with many concerts, be prepared for a long night. If you don’t mind spoilers, you can view \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2WxbQjSs5xcKRRcgIH5xQW?go=1&sp_cid=5058e06b8fff0221638077912ec7938f&utm_source=embed_player_p&utm_medium=desktop\">Rodrigo’s likely setlist for San Francisco on her official Spotify playlist\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are an American Express cardholder, you may get to see \u003ca href=\"https://store.oliviarodrigo.com/pages/guts-bus-amex\">the Guts tour bus\u003c/a> outside the venue. When you enter, you can take pictures in a purple-tinged flashback to the ’90s, a bedroom decorated like the surly protagonist of a coming-of-age movie. If you buy some merch, you may get a complimentary gift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px; min-width: 325px;\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@bestofoliviarodrigo/video/7345864876662721835\" data-video-id=\"7345864876662721835\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@bestofoliviarodrigo\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@bestofoliviarodrigo?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@bestofoliviarodrigo\u003c/a> Olivia’s tour bus 💜 Video: @livies hq ❤️ \u003ca title=\"badfeelingjt\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/badfeelingjt?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#badfeelingjt\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"popstar\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/popstar?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#popstar\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"singer\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/singer?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#singer\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"oliviarodrigo\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/oliviarodrigo?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#oliviarodrigo\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"concert\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/concert?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#concert\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"trendy\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/trendy?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#trendy\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"songwriter\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/songwriter?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#songwriter\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"talent\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/talent?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#talent\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"guts\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/guts?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#GUTS\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"fyp\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/fyp?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#fyp\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"music\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/music?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#music\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ Bad Feeling (Oompa Loompa) - Jagwar Twin\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/Bad-Feeling-Oompa-Loompa-7308817011554912257?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ Bad Feeling (Oompa Loompa) – Jagwar Twin\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bus visit is first-come, first-served, and the time it opens has varied from city to city. Familiarize yourself with the other \u003ca href=\"https://store.oliviarodrigo.com/pages/guts-bus-amex\">caveats on Rodrigo’s website around tour bus access\u003c/a>, and consider monitoring fan page \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/LiviesHQ\">Livies HQ on social media\u003c/a> to get updates.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"chase-center-bag-policy\">\u003c/a>What’s the Chase Center bag policy?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Backpacks (except for single-compartment drawstring bags) and hard-sided bags of any kind are prohibited from entering Chase Center. Any other bag you bring must be smaller than 14 x 14 x 6 inches in size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bags that do not meet the requirements can be checked at one of two bag check locations for a fee of $10. Bag check is at the corner of 16th Street and Terry Francois Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some more \u003ca href=\"https://www.chasecenter.com/a-to-z-guide\">things you cannot bring into the Olivia Rodrigo shows at Chase Center\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Bottles and cans.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Refillable water bottles.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Signs over 11 x 17 inches or attached to any pole or stick.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Masks that cover the whole face. (Face coverings to lower your risks of catching — or spreading — COVID-19, like N95 masks, are allowed, which is just as well given \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987343/covid-bay-area-wastewater-variant-symptoms-isolation-guidance\">the current COVID-19 surge in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Lights, tripods and professional recording equipment. Flash photography is not allowed.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Noise-making devices, such as air horns, whistles or cow bells.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Weapons and self-defense items of any kind, including mace, knives and tasers.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Selfie sticks.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>What else can you bring to Chase Center? These items include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Baby bags, plastic bottles and formula.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Diaper bags (with a child).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bags accepted as medical bags.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Umbrellas.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Binoculars.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>While portable phone chargers are not prohibited, Chase Center also offers charging stations compatible with most cellphone devices. Guests may rent a portable charger to take back to their seats for $2 per 30 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How do I know if I’ve got a good seat at the Olivia Rodrigo Chase Center show?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you are anxious about anything obscuring your sight of the stage or how you want to get to your seat fast, you can check out the view from your seat using \u003ca href=\"https://warriors.io-media.com/web/index.html\">Chase Center’s Virtual Venue map\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What should I know about accessibility at Chase Center?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chase Center addresses questions about accessibility in its online \u003ca href=\"https://www.chasecenter.com/a-to-z-guide\">A to Z Guide\u003c/a>, which includes information about accessible parking, hearing assistance, ADA-compliant restrooms and service animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The venue says guests can request complimentary wheelchair escorts by visiting the kiosks located at \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.nba.com/teams/uploads/sites/1610612744/2024/02/CC_Portals_Map_Update_3202x2550_2024-.jpg\">Portal 13 and Portal 52\u003c/a> or texting 833-CC4-FANS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To schedule an American Sign Language interpreter, guests should contact guestexperiences@warriors.com ahead of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998153\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998153\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1705\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olivia Rodrigo performs at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., as part of her GUTS world tour. \u003ccite>(Kyle Gustafson/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"chase-center-parking\">\u003c/a>What should I know about parking at and near Chase Center?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are \u003ca href=\"https://www.ticketmaster.com/chase-center-parking-olivia-rodrigo-san-francisco-california-08-02-2024/event/1C005F2D8AAF19AE\">some tickets left\u003c/a> for official parking at Chase Center, at around $50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The venue’s website also refers fans to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.parkwhiz.com/chase-center-parking/\">third-party parking website ParkWhiz\u003c/a> for other non-Chase Center parking options nearby. It costs $56 to reserve a spot at the nearest garage, which is about a 10-minute walk from the venue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheaper options starting at $12 are available for those willing and able to trek over a mile on foot — or take public transit for the last mile or two. So, if you’re driving to the show but haven’t secured your parking yet, consider wearing comfier shoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What about using rideshare services like Lyft and Uber at Chase Center?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While getting to the venue using a rideshare service might be fairly smooth, trying to find a car after the show is almost certainly going to be a challenge — speaking from personal experience. Due to surge pricing, it will also be far more expensive to get an Uber or Lyft as you exit the venue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are\u003ca href=\"https://images.ctfassets.net/0lzgl3qjkmm1/6k8OJ6yu4tTfjV4wHsmKTG/0b4cc696d2b3f2360ad34bbc16ffbffd/uber-map.png\"> multiple designated pickup and drop-off zones\u003c/a> located within one block of Chase Center. Upon arrival, use one of the designated passenger loading zones (white curbs) along Terry A Francois Boulevard for a safe curbside drop-off. The website also notes, under “\u003ca href=\"https://www.chasecenter.com/a-to-z-guide\">Drop-off Locations,\u003c/a>” that “if you prefer to walk/take the train to a location where it’s easier to ride-hail, we encourage taking the train/walking along Forth Street towards the Forth and King Caltrain Station.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As you leave the show, the rideshare apps will automatically show you the best places to get picked up within a five-minute walk radius.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accessible drop-offs and pickups are along the curb of 16th Street and Terry Francois Boulevard, with accessible entry and exit from the East Entrance. For folks with mobility considerations, the venue can provide a wheelchair to transport guests from Thrive City Plaza or the main lobby to their seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What’s the best way to take public transit to the Olivia Rodrigo concert?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Public transit schedules can always be subject to change. Check the timings for your route on the day of the show itself, and be sure of your very last service home. Chase Center has a \u003ca href=\"https://chasecenter.com/transportation-guide\">comprehensive guide to public transportation\u003c/a> on its website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/CC_BM_20231005_CC_Transportation_MapCC_BM_20231005_CC_Transportation_Map_1080x1080.jpg\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SF Muni\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any Chase Center patron who shows their event ticket at Muni turnstiles and boarding platforms can \u003ca href=\"https://www.chasecenter.com/transportation-guide\">ride Muni \u003cem>without \u003c/em>charge\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a Muni Metro rail stop serving the venue on the T Third Street line, which connects Chinatown and Sunnydale. See \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/routes/t-third-street\">the Muni Metro schedule\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BART\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several BART stations have convenient connections to get to the venue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni Route 22 connects to the 16th Street and Mission BART station. This stop is located on Third Street and Gene Friend Way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni Route 15 serves as a connection to Montgomery Street BART station. This stop is located on Third Street and Warriors Way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can transfer to the new Union Square Muni Metro rail station from Powell BART station via the underground corridor to take the T Third Street line or S Shuttle Mission Bay line to the UCSF/Chase Center stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can find more information and schedules \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/\">on the BART website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Caltrain\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you take Caltrain to San Francisco, you can walk 15–20 minutes along Fourth Street and turn left on Gene Friend Way to Chase Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also transfer from the Caltrain station to the Muni Metro T Third Street platform, which is located across the street, and take Muni to the UCSF/Chase Center stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On weekdays, the last Caltrain from San Francisco departs at 12:03 a.m. \u003ca href=\"https://www.caltrain.com/\">See the Caltrain schedule here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Biking\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chase Center offers guests free bike valet for the first 300 bikes an hour before start time. The valet is available along 16th Street. Public bike parking is available along 16th Street and Terry Francois Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also a \u003ca href=\"https://www.lyft.com/bikes/bay-wheels\">Lyft/Bay Wheels bike share station\u003c/a> at the intersection of Warriors Way and Terry Francois Boulevard. While they’re convenient and easy to use, the limited availability of these bikes means you should have a backup plan — or you might get stranded.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"olivia-rodrigo-tickets\">\u003c/a>Can I still get a ticket for the Olivia Rodrigo shows?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to Ticketmaster, tickets to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ticketmaster.com/olivia-rodrigo-tickets/artist/2836194\">both shows are sold out\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can find resale tickets on sites like \u003ca href=\"https://www.stubhub.com/olivia-rodrigo-tickets/performer/101864867\">StubHub\u003c/a> — with some ranging around $350 — but make sure you’re not purchasing fake tickets. Read more tips about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956083/taylor-swift-levis-stadium-eras-santa-clara-tickets#taylorswifttickets\">avoiding ticket resale scams\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What time does the show at Chase Center start?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Doors are \u003ca href=\"https://www.chasecenter.com/events/olivia-rodrigo-20240802\">slated to open at 6:45 p.m.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big update for those with tickets: On Thursday, Rodrigo’s original opener for the shows, bedroom pop singer \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oftolPu9qp4\">PinkPantheress\u003c/a>, canceled all her tours this year saying she wanted \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2024/music/news/pinkpantheress-cancels-all-2024-tour-dates-1236093345/\">“to focus on my physical health and overall wellbeing.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means that Rodrigo will now be performing in San Francisco earlier — likely around 8 p.m. Previously, she was scheduled to start performing after PinkPantheress between 8:30 p.m. and 9 p.m., so if you were planning on skipping her opener, you may wish to adjust your plans slightly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with many concerts, be prepared for a long night. If you don’t mind spoilers, you can view \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2WxbQjSs5xcKRRcgIH5xQW?go=1&sp_cid=5058e06b8fff0221638077912ec7938f&utm_source=embed_player_p&utm_medium=desktop\">Rodrigo’s likely setlist for San Francisco on her official Spotify playlist\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are an American Express cardholder, you may get to see \u003ca href=\"https://store.oliviarodrigo.com/pages/guts-bus-amex\">the Guts tour bus\u003c/a> outside the venue. When you enter, you can take pictures in a purple-tinged flashback to the ’90s, a bedroom decorated like the surly protagonist of a coming-of-age movie. If you buy some merch, you may get a complimentary gift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px; min-width: 325px;\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@bestofoliviarodrigo/video/7345864876662721835\" data-video-id=\"7345864876662721835\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@bestofoliviarodrigo\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@bestofoliviarodrigo?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@bestofoliviarodrigo\u003c/a> Olivia’s tour bus 💜 Video: @livies hq ❤️ \u003ca title=\"badfeelingjt\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/badfeelingjt?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#badfeelingjt\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"popstar\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/popstar?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#popstar\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"singer\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/singer?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#singer\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"oliviarodrigo\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/oliviarodrigo?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#oliviarodrigo\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"concert\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/concert?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#concert\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"trendy\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/trendy?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#trendy\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"songwriter\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/songwriter?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#songwriter\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"talent\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/talent?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#talent\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"guts\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/guts?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#GUTS\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"fyp\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/fyp?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#fyp\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"music\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/music?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#music\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ Bad Feeling (Oompa Loompa) - Jagwar Twin\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/Bad-Feeling-Oompa-Loompa-7308817011554912257?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ Bad Feeling (Oompa Loompa) – Jagwar Twin\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bus visit is first-come, first-served, and the time it opens has varied from city to city. Familiarize yourself with the other \u003ca href=\"https://store.oliviarodrigo.com/pages/guts-bus-amex\">caveats on Rodrigo’s website around tour bus access\u003c/a>, and consider monitoring fan page \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/LiviesHQ\">Livies HQ on social media\u003c/a> to get updates.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"chase-center-bag-policy\">\u003c/a>What’s the Chase Center bag policy?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Backpacks (except for single-compartment drawstring bags) and hard-sided bags of any kind are prohibited from entering Chase Center. Any other bag you bring must be smaller than 14 x 14 x 6 inches in size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bags that do not meet the requirements can be checked at one of two bag check locations for a fee of $10. Bag check is at the corner of 16th Street and Terry Francois Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some more \u003ca href=\"https://www.chasecenter.com/a-to-z-guide\">things you cannot bring into the Olivia Rodrigo shows at Chase Center\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Bottles and cans.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Refillable water bottles.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Signs over 11 x 17 inches or attached to any pole or stick.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Masks that cover the whole face. (Face coverings to lower your risks of catching — or spreading — COVID-19, like N95 masks, are allowed, which is just as well given \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987343/covid-bay-area-wastewater-variant-symptoms-isolation-guidance\">the current COVID-19 surge in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Lights, tripods and professional recording equipment. Flash photography is not allowed.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Noise-making devices, such as air horns, whistles or cow bells.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Weapons and self-defense items of any kind, including mace, knives and tasers.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Selfie sticks.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>What else can you bring to Chase Center? These items include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Baby bags, plastic bottles and formula.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Diaper bags (with a child).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bags accepted as medical bags.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Umbrellas.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Binoculars.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>While portable phone chargers are not prohibited, Chase Center also offers charging stations compatible with most cellphone devices. Guests may rent a portable charger to take back to their seats for $2 per 30 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How do I know if I’ve got a good seat at the Olivia Rodrigo Chase Center show?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you are anxious about anything obscuring your sight of the stage or how you want to get to your seat fast, you can check out the view from your seat using \u003ca href=\"https://warriors.io-media.com/web/index.html\">Chase Center’s Virtual Venue map\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What should I know about accessibility at Chase Center?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chase Center addresses questions about accessibility in its online \u003ca href=\"https://www.chasecenter.com/a-to-z-guide\">A to Z Guide\u003c/a>, which includes information about accessible parking, hearing assistance, ADA-compliant restrooms and service animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The venue says guests can request complimentary wheelchair escorts by visiting the kiosks located at \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.nba.com/teams/uploads/sites/1610612744/2024/02/CC_Portals_Map_Update_3202x2550_2024-.jpg\">Portal 13 and Portal 52\u003c/a> or texting 833-CC4-FANS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To schedule an American Sign Language interpreter, guests should contact guestexperiences@warriors.com ahead of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998153\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998153\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1705\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Rodrigo2-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olivia Rodrigo performs at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., as part of her GUTS world tour. \u003ccite>(Kyle Gustafson/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"chase-center-parking\">\u003c/a>What should I know about parking at and near Chase Center?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>There are \u003ca href=\"https://www.ticketmaster.com/chase-center-parking-olivia-rodrigo-san-francisco-california-08-02-2024/event/1C005F2D8AAF19AE\">some tickets left\u003c/a> for official parking at Chase Center, at around $50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The venue’s website also refers fans to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.parkwhiz.com/chase-center-parking/\">third-party parking website ParkWhiz\u003c/a> for other non-Chase Center parking options nearby. It costs $56 to reserve a spot at the nearest garage, which is about a 10-minute walk from the venue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheaper options starting at $12 are available for those willing and able to trek over a mile on foot — or take public transit for the last mile or two. So, if you’re driving to the show but haven’t secured your parking yet, consider wearing comfier shoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What about using rideshare services like Lyft and Uber at Chase Center?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While getting to the venue using a rideshare service might be fairly smooth, trying to find a car after the show is almost certainly going to be a challenge — speaking from personal experience. Due to surge pricing, it will also be far more expensive to get an Uber or Lyft as you exit the venue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are\u003ca href=\"https://images.ctfassets.net/0lzgl3qjkmm1/6k8OJ6yu4tTfjV4wHsmKTG/0b4cc696d2b3f2360ad34bbc16ffbffd/uber-map.png\"> multiple designated pickup and drop-off zones\u003c/a> located within one block of Chase Center. Upon arrival, use one of the designated passenger loading zones (white curbs) along Terry A Francois Boulevard for a safe curbside drop-off. The website also notes, under “\u003ca href=\"https://www.chasecenter.com/a-to-z-guide\">Drop-off Locations,\u003c/a>” that “if you prefer to walk/take the train to a location where it’s easier to ride-hail, we encourage taking the train/walking along Forth Street towards the Forth and King Caltrain Station.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As you leave the show, the rideshare apps will automatically show you the best places to get picked up within a five-minute walk radius.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accessible drop-offs and pickups are along the curb of 16th Street and Terry Francois Boulevard, with accessible entry and exit from the East Entrance. For folks with mobility considerations, the venue can provide a wheelchair to transport guests from Thrive City Plaza or the main lobby to their seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>What’s the best way to take public transit to the Olivia Rodrigo concert?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Public transit schedules can always be subject to change. Check the timings for your route on the day of the show itself, and be sure of your very last service home. Chase Center has a \u003ca href=\"https://chasecenter.com/transportation-guide\">comprehensive guide to public transportation\u003c/a> on its website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/CC_BM_20231005_CC_Transportation_MapCC_BM_20231005_CC_Transportation_Map_1080x1080.jpg\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SF Muni\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any Chase Center patron who shows their event ticket at Muni turnstiles and boarding platforms can \u003ca href=\"https://www.chasecenter.com/transportation-guide\">ride Muni \u003cem>without \u003c/em>charge\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a Muni Metro rail stop serving the venue on the T Third Street line, which connects Chinatown and Sunnydale. See \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/routes/t-third-street\">the Muni Metro schedule\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BART\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several BART stations have convenient connections to get to the venue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni Route 22 connects to the 16th Street and Mission BART station. This stop is located on Third Street and Gene Friend Way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni Route 15 serves as a connection to Montgomery Street BART station. 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While they’re convenient and easy to use, the limited availability of these bikes means you should have a backup plan — or you might get stranded.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"olivia-rodrigo-tickets\">\u003c/a>Can I still get a ticket for the Olivia Rodrigo shows?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to Ticketmaster, tickets to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ticketmaster.com/olivia-rodrigo-tickets/artist/2836194\">both shows are sold out\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can find resale tickets on sites like \u003ca href=\"https://www.stubhub.com/olivia-rodrigo-tickets/performer/101864867\">StubHub\u003c/a> — with some ranging around $350 — but make sure you’re not purchasing fake tickets. 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"content": "\u003cp>When Derrick Skye began the process of composing his piece “Prisms, Cycles, Leaps,” he was watching YouTube videos about Jupiter. He was captivated by the way the planet’s stripes and swirls move at different speeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost like there’s a river going at one speed, and something is floating over the top of the river at a different rate,” said the Los Angeles-based composer. He wanted to somehow capture this idea in the new piece, so he created a flute solo melody that sounds like it’s detached from the rhythm underneath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That rhythm is based on a bell pattern from traditional Ewe music; the Ewe people are an ethnic group living in Ghana and Togo. But instead of being played on a bell or a drum, Skye decided that the strings would play the challenging pattern. “That particular rhythm is a little bit tricky to get into the body,” said Skye. “But that’s fine with me: I think we all have to want to go on an adventure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once he had the rhythm and the melody down, Skye used those as a framework to improvise and find the other parts of the piece. “I like to set up parameters, and then discover on top of those,” he said. The basses and cellos perform a rhythm that’s based on a traditional Ewe piece called Adzogbo, which is usually played on a lead drum called atsimevu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prisms, Cycles, Leaps” is a work in three parts. The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra performed the first part back in 2015, and the second in 2018. The third part premiered in April this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCVLScWOdsY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The meaning behind ‘Prisms, Cycles, Leaps’ actually goes back to the meaning of all my work,” Skye explained. “[Which is that] I love struggling to create holistic music … where you can have a total embrace of every style of music equally, and [explore] what kind of music can come out when you value every genre and every approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a Southern California native, Skye aims to create a musical language that reflects the way the state embraces people. “This place really feels a lot like what I go through when I’m writing my music,” he said. “There are people from all over the world in this state. Everybody’s here, trying to figure out how to work together, grow together, and excel together. There’s frustrations. But somehow, we manage to press on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skye has always been drawn to music, even as a child. “I remember being at church and seeing the drum set,” he said. “I just thought that was super cool, and it felt good when I heard it. So I was like, I wonder how I can make those sounds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998279\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998279\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/L1054055-Crediting-Madison-Phipps-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/L1054055-Crediting-Madison-Phipps-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/L1054055-Crediting-Madison-Phipps-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/L1054055-Crediting-Madison-Phipps-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/L1054055-Crediting-Madison-Phipps-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/L1054055-Crediting-Madison-Phipps-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/L1054055-Crediting-Madison-Phipps-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/L1054055-Crediting-Madison-Phipps-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derrick Skye conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, April 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Madison Phipps)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His other passion was space: Skye has always been fascinated by the cosmos. “For the majority of my younger years, I wanted to be an astronaut.” But this lofty dream went on the back burner, and Skye pursued music: he played the trombone in music class at school. “I practiced really, really hard. I always want to be the best I can be at something when I put my mind to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skye continued playing the trombone when he went to study at UCLA. He was heading home after practice one night, when he heard West African music drifting from a concert hall. He went inside to check it out, and was hooked. This fascination led him to explore Indian classical music too, and then music from the Balkans. Those three cultures form the building blocks of Skye’s work today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always wanted to hear an orchestra play these types of things, and I just could never hear it. So I started writing it,” Skye said. “The most interesting stuff to me comes out of when things merge together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the reason Derrick resonates with so many different musical traditions is because he has a really diverse ancestry: He has Nigerian, Ghanaian, Congolese British, Irish and Indigenous American heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After graduating, Derrick worked as a teaching artist for the LA Philharmonic, and assistant conductor for the Santa Clarita Valley Youth Orchestra — alongside composing his music. He decided to submit “Prisms, Cycles, Leaps” to the LA Chamber Orchestra through a new music program. “I assumed that it was highly likely that I could end up just being a one hit wonder in classical music, and I just refused to go out like that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998283\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998283\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/YASI6727-Crediting-Yasi-aka-Jasmine-Safaeian.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/YASI6727-Crediting-Yasi-aka-Jasmine-Safaeian.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/YASI6727-Crediting-Yasi-aka-Jasmine-Safaeian-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/YASI6727-Crediting-Yasi-aka-Jasmine-Safaeian-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/YASI6727-Crediting-Yasi-aka-Jasmine-Safaeian-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/YASI6727-Crediting-Yasi-aka-Jasmine-Safaeian-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derrick Skye conducting the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra at Walt Disney Concert Hall. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jasmine Sefaeian)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Skye decided to take matters into his own hands. He gathered a group of musician friends together to record a CD of the piece, which is unusual in classical music. He then released it at the same time as the orchestra premiered the piece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was selling the CD there in person. People walked out of the hall and they were like, ‘wow, I wish I could hear that again.’ I was like, ‘Oh, guess what, you can!’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Word spread, and Skye’s career began to take off. “Prisms, Cycles, Leaps” was played by orchestras in Canada, the UK and the Netherlands. Then new commissions started rolling in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was over the moon,” he said. “I thought, I just might make this work. I might be able to have this highly sought after job in the classical world where someone says, ‘well what do you do?’, and you say, ‘I write orchestra music for concerts.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skye has collaborated with the LA Chamber Orchestra for almost 10 years, and serves as one of its artistic advisors. Executive director Ben Cadwallader said Skye is “one of those artists where if you give him a boundary or a genre, he doesn’t just push outside it, he redefines it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998285\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998285\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/EG-SF-11-Crediting-Nicole-Mago.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1597\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/EG-SF-11-Crediting-Nicole-Mago.jpg 2400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/EG-SF-11-Crediting-Nicole-Mago-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/EG-SF-11-Crediting-Nicole-Mago-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/EG-SF-11-Crediting-Nicole-Mago-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/EG-SF-11-Crediting-Nicole-Mago-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/EG-SF-11-Crediting-Nicole-Mago-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/EG-SF-11-Crediting-Nicole-Mago-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skye with the San Francisco Symphony and vocalist Ellie Goulding in November 2023. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nicole Mago)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He has this obsession with creating new forms of expression. I don’t know of a composer, I don’t know of an artist, who accomplishes this with more elegance and artistry, and authenticity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the way Skye achieves this authenticity is through learning. He considers himself a lifelong student, and regularly takes classes with expert teachers. Skye is aware that there can be questions over who is entitled to make music from different traditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have this idea of cultural appropriation,” he said. “What I always do is tell the truth. I don’t know absolutely everything there is to know about West African music. But I don’t need to know everything there is to know about West African music for it to be a part of my life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[It’s about saying] ‘I was inspired by this legacy of music and these people in that legacy.’ And that has to be enough. Because if that’s not enough, then we’re going to go back to segregation, where only the people from West Africa can play West African music. And I’m not doing that. I don’t think anybody wants that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just need to be honest with where your knowledge ends, and how you’ve incorporated these things in your art. Because ultimately, everybody borrows from everyone, forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skye doesn’t only draw from different cultures; he blends genres and forms too. In a new piece released last year, called “God of the Gaps,” he brought Persian classical music together with electronic music. His starting point was a sample of tar, a Persian stringed instrument, played by his teacher Pirayeh Pourafar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAug5xuOY2Y\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skye is a musician who refuses to conform to convention; it’s an approach he takes to his own identity too. In the summer of 2021, he changed his last name from Spiva — which was the name given to his enslaved ancestors — to Skye. “I just don’t like accepting things for the way they are because that’s the way it is,” he said.\u003cbr>\nHe chose the name Skye as a nod to his love of astronomy. “I felt like that best described the essence of my being, is always looking up and looking out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially Skye was apprehensive, primarily about his family’s reaction, but they’ve been supportive. “I just felt empowered,” he said. “I got to change my name. And I got to make sure that the state called me what I wanted to be called. And this is the same state with the history of erasing people’s names and culture. I was able to get them [to acknowledge] … ‘this is what I’m going to be called’ and have them say it. And they did that. And I was happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This idea of being recognized and feeling valued is actually what Skye wants his audience to feel. 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The third part premiered in April this year.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/FCVLScWOdsY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/FCVLScWOdsY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“The meaning behind ‘Prisms, Cycles, Leaps’ actually goes back to the meaning of all my work,” Skye explained. “[Which is that] I love struggling to create holistic music … where you can have a total embrace of every style of music equally, and [explore] what kind of music can come out when you value every genre and every approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a Southern California native, Skye aims to create a musical language that reflects the way the state embraces people. “This place really feels a lot like what I go through when I’m writing my music,” he said. “There are people from all over the world in this state. Everybody’s here, trying to figure out how to work together, grow together, and excel together. There’s frustrations. But somehow, we manage to press on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skye has always been drawn to music, even as a child. “I remember being at church and seeing the drum set,” he said. “I just thought that was super cool, and it felt good when I heard it. So I was like, I wonder how I can make those sounds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998279\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998279\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/L1054055-Crediting-Madison-Phipps-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/L1054055-Crediting-Madison-Phipps-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/L1054055-Crediting-Madison-Phipps-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/L1054055-Crediting-Madison-Phipps-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/L1054055-Crediting-Madison-Phipps-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/L1054055-Crediting-Madison-Phipps-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/L1054055-Crediting-Madison-Phipps-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/L1054055-Crediting-Madison-Phipps-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derrick Skye conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, April 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Madison Phipps)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His other passion was space: Skye has always been fascinated by the cosmos. “For the majority of my younger years, I wanted to be an astronaut.” But this lofty dream went on the back burner, and Skye pursued music: he played the trombone in music class at school. “I practiced really, really hard. I always want to be the best I can be at something when I put my mind to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skye continued playing the trombone when he went to study at UCLA. He was heading home after practice one night, when he heard West African music drifting from a concert hall. He went inside to check it out, and was hooked. This fascination led him to explore Indian classical music too, and then music from the Balkans. Those three cultures form the building blocks of Skye’s work today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always wanted to hear an orchestra play these types of things, and I just could never hear it. So I started writing it,” Skye said. “The most interesting stuff to me comes out of when things merge together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the reason Derrick resonates with so many different musical traditions is because he has a really diverse ancestry: He has Nigerian, Ghanaian, Congolese British, Irish and Indigenous American heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After graduating, Derrick worked as a teaching artist for the LA Philharmonic, and assistant conductor for the Santa Clarita Valley Youth Orchestra — alongside composing his music. He decided to submit “Prisms, Cycles, Leaps” to the LA Chamber Orchestra through a new music program. “I assumed that it was highly likely that I could end up just being a one hit wonder in classical music, and I just refused to go out like that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998283\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998283\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/YASI6727-Crediting-Yasi-aka-Jasmine-Safaeian.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/YASI6727-Crediting-Yasi-aka-Jasmine-Safaeian.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/YASI6727-Crediting-Yasi-aka-Jasmine-Safaeian-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/YASI6727-Crediting-Yasi-aka-Jasmine-Safaeian-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/YASI6727-Crediting-Yasi-aka-Jasmine-Safaeian-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/YASI6727-Crediting-Yasi-aka-Jasmine-Safaeian-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derrick Skye conducting the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra at Walt Disney Concert Hall. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jasmine Sefaeian)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Skye decided to take matters into his own hands. He gathered a group of musician friends together to record a CD of the piece, which is unusual in classical music. He then released it at the same time as the orchestra premiered the piece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was selling the CD there in person. People walked out of the hall and they were like, ‘wow, I wish I could hear that again.’ I was like, ‘Oh, guess what, you can!’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Word spread, and Skye’s career began to take off. “Prisms, Cycles, Leaps” was played by orchestras in Canada, the UK and the Netherlands. Then new commissions started rolling in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was over the moon,” he said. “I thought, I just might make this work. I might be able to have this highly sought after job in the classical world where someone says, ‘well what do you do?’, and you say, ‘I write orchestra music for concerts.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skye has collaborated with the LA Chamber Orchestra for almost 10 years, and serves as one of its artistic advisors. Executive director Ben Cadwallader said Skye is “one of those artists where if you give him a boundary or a genre, he doesn’t just push outside it, he redefines it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998285\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998285\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/EG-SF-11-Crediting-Nicole-Mago.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1597\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/EG-SF-11-Crediting-Nicole-Mago.jpg 2400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/EG-SF-11-Crediting-Nicole-Mago-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/EG-SF-11-Crediting-Nicole-Mago-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/EG-SF-11-Crediting-Nicole-Mago-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/EG-SF-11-Crediting-Nicole-Mago-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/EG-SF-11-Crediting-Nicole-Mago-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/EG-SF-11-Crediting-Nicole-Mago-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Skye with the San Francisco Symphony and vocalist Ellie Goulding in November 2023. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Nicole Mago)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He has this obsession with creating new forms of expression. I don’t know of a composer, I don’t know of an artist, who accomplishes this with more elegance and artistry, and authenticity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the way Skye achieves this authenticity is through learning. He considers himself a lifelong student, and regularly takes classes with expert teachers. Skye is aware that there can be questions over who is entitled to make music from different traditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have this idea of cultural appropriation,” he said. “What I always do is tell the truth. I don’t know absolutely everything there is to know about West African music. But I don’t need to know everything there is to know about West African music for it to be a part of my life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[It’s about saying] ‘I was inspired by this legacy of music and these people in that legacy.’ And that has to be enough. Because if that’s not enough, then we’re going to go back to segregation, where only the people from West Africa can play West African music. And I’m not doing that. I don’t think anybody wants that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just need to be honest with where your knowledge ends, and how you’ve incorporated these things in your art. Because ultimately, everybody borrows from everyone, forever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skye doesn’t only draw from different cultures; he blends genres and forms too. In a new piece released last year, called “God of the Gaps,” he brought Persian classical music together with electronic music. His starting point was a sample of tar, a Persian stringed instrument, played by his teacher Pirayeh Pourafar.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/QAug5xuOY2Y'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/QAug5xuOY2Y'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Skye is a musician who refuses to conform to convention; it’s an approach he takes to his own identity too. In the summer of 2021, he changed his last name from Spiva — which was the name given to his enslaved ancestors — to Skye. “I just don’t like accepting things for the way they are because that’s the way it is,” he said.\u003cbr>\nHe chose the name Skye as a nod to his love of astronomy. “I felt like that best described the essence of my being, is always looking up and looking out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially Skye was apprehensive, primarily about his family’s reaction, but they’ve been supportive. “I just felt empowered,” he said. “I got to change my name. And I got to make sure that the state called me what I wanted to be called. And this is the same state with the history of erasing people’s names and culture. I was able to get them [to acknowledge] … ‘this is what I’m going to be called’ and have them say it. And they did that. And I was happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This idea of being recognized and feeling valued is actually what Skye wants his audience to feel. 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"content": "\u003cp>In the spring of 2023, Vice President Kamala Harris gave a speech at a Washington, D.C. event celebrating \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/05/10/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-at-swearing-in-ceremony-of-commissioners-for-the-white-house-initiative-on-advancing-educational-equity-excellence-and-economic-opportunity-for-hispanics/\">efforts to advance opportunities for Hispanic Americans\u003c/a>. While her actual remarks were pretty short, one moment from the speech \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/g-s1-13327/kamala-harris-coconut-tree-meme-context-unburdened-in-the-context\">has taken over the internet in the past few days\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she explained the importance of providing opportunities not just to young people but to everyone around them, Harris shared something that her mother used to tell her:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She would say to us, ‘I don’t know what’s wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/evil_female/status/1755948453228683675\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris took a moment to laugh and then went on to explain what her mother meant: “You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This moment soon made its way to X (formerly Twitter) where it circulated for months in different meme pages — \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/TimesNewJohann/status/1790462287083409561\">usually without the original context\u003c/a> — where users resonated with Harris’ humor and the quirkiness of the “coconut tree” expression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the clip — now a meme — gained wider recognition this week when Harris became the likely Democratic nominee on Monday \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/22/g-s1-12804/kamala-harris-delegates-nominee-dnc-vote\">after receiving the support of enough party delegates to secure the nomination\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsurprisingly, right-leaning pages have used the clip, along with \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1815112666924699853\">other videos that show Harris laughing\u003c/a>, to argue that she shouldn’t be president. But many Democrats \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/g-s1-13327/kamala-harris-coconut-tree-meme-context-unburdened-in-the-context\">have embraced the coconut tree imagery\u003c/a> and on TikTok and Instagram, young people are making viral videos that \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C93K1pVBMUh/\">remix the coconut tree clip with songs from Charli XCX’s latest album, \u003cem>brat\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s already \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-07-24/kamala-harris-memes-coconut-brat-summer\">a plethora of explainers out there\u003c/a> that \u003ca href=\"https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/07/24/entertainment/memes-kamala-harris\">try to explain the meaning behind the different coconut tree memes\u003c/a>, along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/kamala-harris-brat-meaning-mean-slang-charli-xcx-what-does-hq-rcna163026\">what links Harris with Charli XCX\u003c/a> in the first place. But in the spirit of the original speech that started it all, we wanted to understand the context of all in which these memes live in and what came before them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spoke with two other KQED journalists with deep experience in covering both politics and Gen Z culture — politics correspondent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mlagos\">Marisa Lagos\u003c/a> and host of The California Report \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mbolanos\">Madi Bolaños\u003c/a> — to talk about how the state of the 2024 race, Harris’ political trajectory and questions of both gender and race brought us some of these viral Harris memes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marisa, \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996837/who-is-kamala-harris-a-look-back-at-kqeds-coverage\">\u003cstrong>you’ve covered Kamala Harris for a long time\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>. Does this image of Harris laughing at herself, being genuine in these moments, square up with what you’ve seen of her over the years?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lagos:\u003c/strong> Totally. She, in my experience as a reporter, was at her best, off the record when she wasn’t having to think about what she was saying because she is legitimately funny and warm. And I think that’s a hard thing sometimes, especially as a woman of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s put a very fine point on it: The reason that Republicans have used her laughing and her persona to attack her [comes with the] subtext that she’s not serious enough to be a leader. It’s very clearly pointed as a dog whistle at some of her identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the flip side, that is what makes her a good politician. I have seen her in a room with people, and she’s really good at connecting, it’s retail politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even for people like me who have covered her for two decades, this seems way more authentic than the “serious Kamala Harris buttoned-down” politician trope. And let’s be real, she has to push [that forward] in certain situations. It is a serious job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bolaños:\u003c/strong> Marisa, to your point that Republicans have used her laughter to argue that she’s not serious. That’s what Gen Z loves about her. The word right now for Gen Z is ‘unserious.’ … Gen Z is eating that up for breakfast, lunch and dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They really are big fans of how carefree she is. It’s interesting that what they try to use against her is what’s working in her favor right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Annie_Wu_22/status/1815470696719593909\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let’s talk about “seriousness” more. Part of Donald Trump’s appeal to his supporters is that he does not behave like other politicians. He can say anything he wants and that makes him a man of the people. On the other hand, female politicians who have sought the presidency, like Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren, worked a lot on presenting themselves as very serious politicians to appeal to voters.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And now, we’re seeing certain voters respond positively to a female politician who embraces her humor and her more authentic self. Could we be seeing a shift in what’s expected of women in politics?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lagos:\u003c/strong> I hope so. God, I hope so. I do think it’s too early to know because she’d have to win for that shift to really be realized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she can win, I do think that this opens new doors and avenues for female leaders to be themselves and not have to just fit in a box. What we’ve seen historically, I feel, is women being expected to act like men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s women like Nancy Pelosi that have turned some of that on their head, especially just in the way she presents herself. She’s a very feminine person. And I think that in itself is unique because Kamala does not dress the way that Pelosi does. She’s been a prosecutor. She wore dark suits. That’s been her vibe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She loosened it up on the campaign trail four years ago. She’s got that look with the blazer, jeans and Converse tennis shoes going on, which, I will say, is one of my looks when I’m out reporting. I tell people, “This is my Kamala look,” and they know what I mean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bolaños:\u003c/strong> Regardless if she wins or not, she is changing the culture of how you can present yourself in these spaces and also engaging a lot of people … who otherwise wouldn’t have cared very much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My cousin who’s 18 and has \u003cem>never \u003c/em>talked to me about politics randomly, no context, sent me \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNunEq6o/\">a TikTok, featuring the Charli XCX song ‘Girl, so confusing version with lorde’\u003c/a> and it has different clips of Kamala and Hillary Clinton. And again, we do not talk about anything political, ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@flextillerson/video/7389827831796157739\" data-video-id=\"7389827831796157739\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@flextillerson\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@flextillerson?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@flextillerson\u003c/a> i hope they work it out on the remix \u003ca title=\"kamalaharris\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/kamalaharris?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#kamalaharris\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"kamala\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/kamala?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#kamala\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"brat\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/brat?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#brat\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"bratsummer\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/bratsummer?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#bratsummer\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"coconuttree\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/coconuttree?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#coconuttree\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"girlsoconfusing\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/girlsoconfusing?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#girlsoconfusing\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"lorde\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/lorde?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#lorde\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"hillaryclinton\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/hillaryclinton?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#hillaryclinton\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - aly\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7389827861015202602?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ original sound – aly\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let’s talk about Charli XCX. There’s so many \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thecut.com/article/kamala-harris-charli-xcx-brat-memes.html\">\u003cstrong>stories out there that try to explain why young people are making these TikToks\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> remixing Harris clips with songs from \u003cem>brat\u003c/em>. Madi, when journalists try to explain Gen Z humor, what do you think is missing?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bolaños:\u003c/strong> I think that it’s hilarious to see older people try to understand something that is also kind of hard to explain. It’s one of those things that “if you know, you know.” It’s a vibe. You can’t explain a vibe online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You have to be online all the time.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bolaños:\u003c/strong> Exactly. When it’s coming from someone who just exists in that vibe, you’re already there. You don’t have to explain anything. You can just talk about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whereas these older people are like 20, 50 chapters behind — they’re still trying to wrap their minds around what this can be — when the conversation could be so much more forward if everyone was just on the same page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With that being said, even those conversations are being turned into memes and audio sounds. One conversation with a Fox News reporter, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@megagahubert/video/7394997370238323998\">people are putting that on TikTok\u003c/a> and saying, ‘this is kind of brat.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@megagahubert/video/7394997370238323998\" data-video-id=\"7394997370238323998\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@megagahubert\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@megagahubert?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@megagahubert\u003c/a> the brats are so assembling. Lfg project coconut!!! 💚 \u003ca title=\"brat\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/brat?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#brat\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"kamala\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/kamala?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#kamala\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"harris2024\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/harris2024?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#harris2024\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"kamalaharris\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/kamalaharris?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#kamalaharris\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"election\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/election?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#election\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"kamalahq\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/kamalahq?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#kamalahq\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ brats run the world - megaga\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/brats-run-the-world-7394997349795351327?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ brats run the world – megaga\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This is also humor that takes the same thing and applies it to a different context, over and over again — which is very much a product of internet culture. And young people now have been online since elementary school.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@anatomyofafall/video/7390902639271169310\" data-video-id=\"7390902639271169310\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@anatomyofafall\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@anatomyofafall?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@anatomyofafall\u003c/a> this is what will flash before your eyes the moment right before you die \u003ca title=\"foryou\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/foryou?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#foryou\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"brat\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/brat?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#brat\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"trending\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/trending?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#trending\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"popculture\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/popculture?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#popculture\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"kamalaharris\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/kamalaharris?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#kamalaharris\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"biden\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/biden?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#biden\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"2024election\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/tag/2024election?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#2024election\u003c/a> \u003ca title=\"♬ coconut tree core - m🕺🎞️\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/coconut-tree-core-7390902669105253150?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ coconut tree core – m🕺🎞️\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let’s stay on the topic of Charli XCX’s support for Harris. It’s been a while since celebrity endorsements made \u003cem>such \u003c/em>a splash — the only other recent example is \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/taylor-swift-endorses-joe-biden-president-n1242483\">\u003cstrong>Taylor Swift endorsing Joe Biden in 2020\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>. Celebrity endorsements were such a bigger deal in the 2000s and 2010s as we saw with both Obama campaigns. Marisa, how do celebrity endorsements usually play out for candidates?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lagos:\u003c/strong> I think like anything in politics, the hope is: It can get you attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not enough to win, right? These things are far more complicated than that. And this isn’t going to be enough for Kamala Harris to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that there’s ways that you can take these pop culture references — endorsements, things like that — and play them out to engage people or to excite people. Maybe you were going to go vote for her anyway, but now you’re going to volunteer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not ever going to be the silver bullet to winning the presidency. We have to remember that this is still going to be a race decided in a handful of states by a handful of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>After \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/charli_xcx/status/1815182384066707861\">\u003cstrong>Charli XCX sent out that tweet for Harris\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>, we also had some folks react to this with some cringe:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/lllliatttt/status/1815455947814584545\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We’re having fun right now with this politics-pop culture crossover — at the moment, it feels like a slay — but when does a slay become cringe?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bolaños:\u003c/strong> I think that it becomes a cringe when they lean into it too hard. I think Hillary [Clinton] leaned into it way too hard. There’s a way to be a part of the joke without being \u003cem>in \u003c/em>the group chat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kamala doing her thing and then having her campaign take these natural moments and make it into more memes, that’s what’s really working right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she were to go online and say, “Hey, I’m brat,” that would get a little cringe. I don’t think she can acknowledge it too directly. She has to just keep doing what she’s doing, because that creates the memes itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqednews/video/7395672242350214442\" data-video-id=\"7395672242350214442\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@kqednews\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqednews?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@kqednews\u003c/a>You’ve seen the memes, the fan edits, the internet discourse – Here’s a rundown of how the Internet rallied around Kamala Harris by getting to work making edits of Harris’s memorable moments set to songs from Charli XCX’s sixth album, Brat.\u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - KQED News\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7395672230607113003?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ original sound – KQED News\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let’s stay on the topic of Charli XCX’s support for Harris. It’s been a while since celebrity endorsements made \u003cem>such \u003c/em>a splash — the only other recent example is \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/taylor-swift-endorses-joe-biden-president-n1242483\">\u003cstrong>Taylor Swift endorsing Joe Biden in 2020\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>. Celebrity endorsements were such a bigger deal in the 2000s and 2010s as we saw with both Obama campaigns. Marisa, how do celebrity endorsements usually play out for candidates?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lagos:\u003c/strong> I think like anything in politics, the hope is: It can get you attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not enough to win, right? These things are far more complicated than that. And this isn’t going to be enough for Kamala Harris to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that there’s ways that you can take these pop culture references — endorsements, things like that — and play them out to engage people or to excite people. Maybe you were going to go vote for her anyway, but now you’re going to volunteer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s not ever going to be the silver bullet to winning the presidency. We have to remember that this is still going to be a race decided in a handful of states by a handful of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>After \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/charli_xcx/status/1815182384066707861\">\u003cstrong>Charli XCX sent out that tweet for Harris\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>, we also had some folks react to this with some cringe:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/mixed-race\">\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">This post is part of a \u003c/i>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">series of stories\u003c/i>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\"> featured on The California Report Magazine about the experience of being mixed race.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated July 31, 2024\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Kamala Harris’ candidacy for president is putting her under a microscope — not just her political career but everything about her background, including her mixed-race heritage as a Black and South Asian woman. \u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">Her opponent, former President Donald Trump, only threw more of a spotlight on her racial identity on Wednesday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/31/politics/donald-trump-kamala-harris-black-nabj/index.html\">when he falsely claimed\u003c/a> that she used to identify as an Indian woman but \u003c/i>\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\">\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">“\u003c/i>\u003c/b>happened to turn Black.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But Harris has always embraced her multiracial heritage. “I was raised with a deep sense of pride in my cultural background,” she told the podcast \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/asian-enough-kamala-harris/id1501446978?i=1000479213707\">Asian Enough\u003c/a>, in 2020. “\u003c/span>I’ve never had an identity crisis. I’m really comfortable in who I am.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\">Although Harris grew up mostly with her South Asian mother, she also strongly identified with her Black roots. “There were never any false choices,” Harris told Asian Enough. “We learned…that you can cook okra with mustard seeds or with dried shrimp and and spicy sausages.”\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Harris’ visibility as one of California’s most famous multiracial people inspired a \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/mixedrace\">series\u003c/a> on The California Report Magazine called Mixed!, originally published in the Spring of 2023.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Identity is always complicated, and for multiracial folks who straddle many identities, it can be isolating. It can also be invigorating and rich to belong to multiple communities and celebrate that complexity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More From the California Report's 'Mixed' Series\" postID=\"news_11894797,news_11894597\"]The latest census shows we mixed-race people are a demographic to pay attention to: 2020 data reflects a 276% increase in people who identify as multiracial compared to 2010. Yet mixed-race folks are only beginning to find space for our stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Report Magazine’s host, Sasha Khokha and guest host, Marisa Lagos, delve into the mixed-race experience grounded in their own backgrounds. They talk with trailblazing artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894597/what-are-you-artist-kip-fulbeck-gives-mixed-race-people-a-chance-to-answer-in-their-own-words\">Kip Fulbeck\u003c/a>, whose photo projects are a platform for mixed-race folks to answer the question “What Are You?” in their own voices. 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My dad would tell me what it was like for my grandmother as a Black woman of color growing up in Arkansas. We would dive back [into our family history] and see how my Native American ancestors were sold in slavery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If I just check one box, I feel like it doesn’t fully represent who I am. But when I check multiple boxes, I’m always questioning if I have enough of that heritage, enough of that ethnicity to check that box. And you’re in the middle of having a mini-identity crisis because you’re not sure which box to check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was reading about this mixed Iranian journalist who is saying how her mixed experience was like floating. It’s kind of cool because, yeah, ambiguous skin means that you’re accepted in different groups and different ethnicities and you get to experience that diversity. But there are also negatives to that because you’re ambiguous. People are going to assign stereotypes based on what they think you are and you don’t have control over that.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Dylan Morimoto, San Francisco\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894644\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 448px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Dylan-Morimoto.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894644 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Dylan-Morimoto.jpg\" alt=\"A family of three stands well-dressed in front of a few trees, outside on the grass. On the left, the mother is Jewish in a violet jacket and short gray hair, to the right is the father who is Japanese, sporting a brush-like mustache and in a suit and trenchcoat, with a slight smile that may be characterized as a smirk, and their son is in the center, well dressed in a suit with a close cropped haircut of his black hair, himself smirking.\" width=\"448\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Dylan-Morimoto.jpg 448w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Dylan-Morimoto-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dylan Morimoto, center, with his parents. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dylan Morimoto)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My father is from Auburn, California, and he’s Japanese, and my mom was born in Germany. She’s Jewish. My father was incarcerated during World War II. My [dad’s whole] family was incarcerated or interned during World War II. And then my mom, you know, left Nazi Germany. You know, I don’t look Jewish. I don’t really think I look kind of Asian-ish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the Trump administration, [it was] really upsetting, given my family’s history. It’s nice to see, for me personally, I was happy to see Kamala Harris get elected, and seeing her, you know an African American and Asian woman, was really, really cool. And a Jewish husband and a mixed family. I am in the same situation. I have two stepkids, so it’s nice to see that diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>Sharon Ng, San Francisco\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894642\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sharon-Ng.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894642 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sharon-Ng-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A multiracial family, all decked out in mulitcolored Hawaiian style shirts. They're standing on a street with a similarly multi-colored mural behind them. The Argentinian father is bald, standing in the back on the left, with a bit of a serious look, the mother on the right, also in the back, is of multiracial Chinese and Latina descent, smiling with long earrings and shoulder-length black hair. Their two daughters stand in front of them, each sporting smiles and shoulder-length dark hair. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sharon-Ng-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sharon-Ng-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sharon-Ng-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sharon-Ng-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sharon-Ng.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon Ng, right, with her husband and daughters. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sharon Ng)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Our family is kind of China-Latina mashed up. I am Chinese Malaysian and grew up in Vancouver, Canada. My American husband’s family is Argentinian but he grew up in France. We met in New York. When people ask my daughter what her heritage is, she says, “I am half Chinese and half Brooklyn!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While I am Chinese by blood, culturally I struggled as a child to understand my “Chineseness” because I did not grow up speaking Mandarin at home, nor did I have the benefit of an extended family of aunties and grandparents to provide context about how to be Chinese. With limited Chinese affirmation and sense of place, it was quite confusing because Vancouver was really white in the ’70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[My husband] Ian’s story is similar. He didn’t grow up speaking Spanish because the U.S. was all about assimilation back then. We feel that learning Spanish will help anchor our kids in part of their roots, which we don’t feel we really had (we know our parents tried their very best). Together we are creating new traditions of what is beautiful and delicious: turkey stuffed with sticky rice, with empanadas and chimichurri on the side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, we dream that our girls have a sense of belonging and experience affirmation of their multifaceted identities and cultural ways of being a “hyphenated” American. We feel really blessed to live in San Francisco, where we have lots of other friends who are raising mixed-race families. It really normalizes things for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Adrien Colón, Oakland\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894641\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 604px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Adrien-Colon.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894641 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Adrien-Colon.jpg\" alt=\"A photo with an older, vintage camera look, inside a room with a Christmas tree on the left, white ceiling and wood paneling behind a family of three. The mother is White with brown straight hair, holding her son who is in what look like white and red trim pajamas with a Pac Man logo. The father on the right is Puerto Rican, sporting a bit of a serious face, with a dark brown beard and what the child in the middle, now grown up, described as an Afro. The father is in a striped beige polo, and the boy, who is looking down, has his arm around his neck \" width=\"604\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Adrien-Colon.jpg 604w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Adrien-Colon-160x128.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adrien Colón as a toddler, with his parents. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Adrien Colón)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So my mom is white and my dad is Puerto Rican. And I think growing up as a kid, I never really questioned it. And it was not until I got a little older that I heard this story about my dad not being allowed in my great-grandparents’ home. They were very much against my mom marrying my dad, and they wouldn’t allow him in their home because of the way that he looked, because of the color of his skin, the Afro that he wore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I continue to piece together my family tree, and seeing these people who come from all of these different places, and knowing that … if something had happened to any one of them, that I wouldn’t be here, which is a wild thought.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Stephen Zendejas, Tracy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894640\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Stephen-Zendajas.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894640 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Stephen-Zendajas.jpg\" alt=\"A family of five stand, well-dressed, against an ornate door. They're all smiling. From left to right: a woman in a black and white patterned top with her arms behind her back, an older woman (the mom) in a dark blue blouse with a black undershirt and white necklace, a taller man (the dad) in a light blue dress shirt and navy blue patterned tie (his hair has specks of gray), a shorter woman in a simple black dress and a necklace with a pendant, a young man in a suit and tie similar to the older man's. \" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Stephen-Zendajas.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Stephen-Zendajas-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Zendejas, right, with his parents and siblings. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Stephen Zendajas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My dad is a third-generation Mexican American and my mom is an immigrant from the Philippines who is half Chinese. I would describe growing up as mixed race [as] kind of confusing and complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think the concept of racial identity is sometimes still foreign and confusing to me because it’s more social than it is scientific. But it’s also not something that we can just completely ignore either.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>David Risher, San Francisco\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894639\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/David-Risher.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894639 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/David-Risher.jpg\" alt=\"A bald man smiling, squinting a bit in the sun. He is multiracial, Black and white, standing in a paisley-patterned blue and white shirt against a background of trees that is slightly out of focus. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/David-Risher.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/David-Risher-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Risher. \u003ccite>(Courtesy fo David Risher)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[There are ] so many stories from my childhood in the ’70s. I can’t count the number of times someone cocked his or her head at me, paused, and asked, “I’ve got a question for you. What are you?” It was so uncomfortable. My answer at the time: “My mother is white, my father is Black. So I’m both.” Today, I just say I’m biracial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a story that sticks with me from my time attending summer camp as a kid. One day, just before parents’ weekend, I overheard a fellow camper say, “I don’t know about you, but I’d be ashamed if I were you about having a Black dad and a white mom.” In fact, I wasn’t the least ashamed. But hearing that made me wonder, “Should I be?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And [there’s] another story from my undergraduate years at Princeton. One evening, my well-meaning Black dorm mate brings me into her room and says, “David, at some point, you’re going to have to choose. If you don’t, others will for you, and they’ll make their decision based on who your girlfriend is.” I was shocked, but I got it. People are detectives looking for clues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, after years working at Microsoft and then as an executive at Amazon, I run a Bay Area nonprofit called Worldreader. We use technology and local books from all around the world to help children discover the joy of reading. We’ve helped 19 million children so far, and we’re just getting started. One thing that sets us apart: No matter where we operate — in Africa, India, South America, or the U.S. — we lead with books from local publishers, full of stories of doctors, astronauts, scientists and writers who look like our readers. I bet you see the connection: If you can’t see it, you can’t be it!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Ruben Villareal Halprin, San Francisco\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894638\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Ruben-Villareal-Halprin.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894638 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Ruben-Villareal-Halprin.jpg\" alt='A father who \"Black Cuban\" sports close cropped hair and a mustache and a gray T-shirt, profiled from the side and looking at the camera. On his back is a smiling baby with lighter skin in a baby backpack, wearing a blue T-shirt. 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I love being mixed. I love dancing between the lines of the binaries that this society has built up. … In a way, I represent the breaking of cultural and institutional barriers that exist or existed. But breaking down barriers may just be a poetic way of saying you’re being slammed into a wall. And that’s certainly what it sometimes felt like growing up mixed.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"anchor\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n[hearken id=\"7528\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/7528.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The latest census shows we mixed-race people are a demographic to pay attention to: 2020 data reflects a 276% increase in people who identify as multiracial compared to 2010. Yet mixed-race folks are only beginning to find space for our stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Report Magazine’s host, Sasha Khokha and guest host, Marisa Lagos, delve into the mixed-race experience grounded in their own backgrounds. They talk with trailblazing artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894597/what-are-you-artist-kip-fulbeck-gives-mixed-race-people-a-chance-to-answer-in-their-own-words\">Kip Fulbeck\u003c/a>, whose photo projects are a platform for mixed-race folks to answer the question “What Are You?” in their own voices. We also listen in on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894797/what-does-it-mean-to-be-mixed-a-conversation-between-generations\">conversation between two listeners\u003c/a> who share a similar background (Black/Filipina) but straddle different generations, which informs how they understand their identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To bring you, our audience, into this series, The California Report and KQED have been reaching out to listeners to ask, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11894632/growing-up-mixed-and-grappling-with-the-question-what-are-you-listeners-weigh-in#anchor\">“What’s something only fellow mixed folks understand about growing up mixed?”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some of those responses, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947732/kqed-asked-about-your-experiences-growing-up-mixed-race-heres-what-you-told-us\">with more here\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cb>Dianna K. Bautista, Berkeley\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894645\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Dianna-Bautista.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894645 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Dianna-Bautista-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"A multiracial family stands together outside, with a copper-colored guardrail, trees and a forest in the background. The father is tall in a light blue hoodie, with an arm around the mother who is in a black jacket and smiling, with their daughter on the far left in a red hoodie and glasses, also smiling. They appear to be on a tourist trip. \" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Dianna-Bautista-800x449.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Dianna-Bautista-1020x572.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Dianna-Bautista-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Dianna-Bautista-1536x862.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Dianna-Bautista.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dianna K. Bautista, left, with her parents. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dianna K. Bautista)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I’m Filipino on my mom’s side, and my dad is mixed like me. He is Filipino, African American, Native American, French and Spanish. My dad would tell me what it was like for my grandmother as a Black woman of color growing up in Arkansas. We would dive back [into our family history] and see how my Native American ancestors were sold in slavery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If I just check one box, I feel like it doesn’t fully represent who I am. But when I check multiple boxes, I’m always questioning if I have enough of that heritage, enough of that ethnicity to check that box. And you’re in the middle of having a mini-identity crisis because you’re not sure which box to check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was reading about this mixed Iranian journalist who is saying how her mixed experience was like floating. It’s kind of cool because, yeah, ambiguous skin means that you’re accepted in different groups and different ethnicities and you get to experience that diversity. But there are also negatives to that because you’re ambiguous. People are going to assign stereotypes based on what they think you are and you don’t have control over that.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Dylan Morimoto, San Francisco\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894644\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 448px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Dylan-Morimoto.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894644 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Dylan-Morimoto.jpg\" alt=\"A family of three stands well-dressed in front of a few trees, outside on the grass. On the left, the mother is Jewish in a violet jacket and short gray hair, to the right is the father who is Japanese, sporting a brush-like mustache and in a suit and trenchcoat, with a slight smile that may be characterized as a smirk, and their son is in the center, well dressed in a suit with a close cropped haircut of his black hair, himself smirking.\" width=\"448\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Dylan-Morimoto.jpg 448w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Dylan-Morimoto-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dylan Morimoto, center, with his parents. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dylan Morimoto)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My father is from Auburn, California, and he’s Japanese, and my mom was born in Germany. She’s Jewish. My father was incarcerated during World War II. My [dad’s whole] family was incarcerated or interned during World War II. And then my mom, you know, left Nazi Germany. You know, I don’t look Jewish. I don’t really think I look kind of Asian-ish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the Trump administration, [it was] really upsetting, given my family’s history. It’s nice to see, for me personally, I was happy to see Kamala Harris get elected, and seeing her, you know an African American and Asian woman, was really, really cool. And a Jewish husband and a mixed family. I am in the same situation. 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Their two daughters stand in front of them, each sporting smiles and shoulder-length dark hair. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sharon-Ng-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sharon-Ng-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sharon-Ng-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sharon-Ng-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Sharon-Ng.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon Ng, right, with her husband and daughters. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sharon Ng)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Our family is kind of China-Latina mashed up. I am Chinese Malaysian and grew up in Vancouver, Canada. My American husband’s family is Argentinian but he grew up in France. We met in New York. When people ask my daughter what her heritage is, she says, “I am half Chinese and half Brooklyn!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While I am Chinese by blood, culturally I struggled as a child to understand my “Chineseness” because I did not grow up speaking Mandarin at home, nor did I have the benefit of an extended family of aunties and grandparents to provide context about how to be Chinese. With limited Chinese affirmation and sense of place, it was quite confusing because Vancouver was really white in the ’70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[My husband] Ian’s story is similar. He didn’t grow up speaking Spanish because the U.S. was all about assimilation back then. We feel that learning Spanish will help anchor our kids in part of their roots, which we don’t feel we really had (we know our parents tried their very best). Together we are creating new traditions of what is beautiful and delicious: turkey stuffed with sticky rice, with empanadas and chimichurri on the side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, we dream that our girls have a sense of belonging and experience affirmation of their multifaceted identities and cultural ways of being a “hyphenated” American. We feel really blessed to live in San Francisco, where we have lots of other friends who are raising mixed-race families. It really normalizes things for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Adrien Colón, Oakland\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894641\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 604px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Adrien-Colon.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894641 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Adrien-Colon.jpg\" alt=\"A photo with an older, vintage camera look, inside a room with a Christmas tree on the left, white ceiling and wood paneling behind a family of three. The mother is White with brown straight hair, holding her son who is in what look like white and red trim pajamas with a Pac Man logo. The father on the right is Puerto Rican, sporting a bit of a serious face, with a dark brown beard and what the child in the middle, now grown up, described as an Afro. The father is in a striped beige polo, and the boy, who is looking down, has his arm around his neck \" width=\"604\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Adrien-Colon.jpg 604w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Adrien-Colon-160x128.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adrien Colón as a toddler, with his parents. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Adrien Colón)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So my mom is white and my dad is Puerto Rican. And I think growing up as a kid, I never really questioned it. And it was not until I got a little older that I heard this story about my dad not being allowed in my great-grandparents’ home. They were very much against my mom marrying my dad, and they wouldn’t allow him in their home because of the way that he looked, because of the color of his skin, the Afro that he wore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I continue to piece together my family tree, and seeing these people who come from all of these different places, and knowing that … if something had happened to any one of them, that I wouldn’t be here, which is a wild thought.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Stephen Zendejas, Tracy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894640\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Stephen-Zendajas.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894640 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Stephen-Zendajas.jpg\" alt=\"A family of five stand, well-dressed, against an ornate door. They're all smiling. From left to right: a woman in a black and white patterned top with her arms behind her back, an older woman (the mom) in a dark blue blouse with a black undershirt and white necklace, a taller man (the dad) in a light blue dress shirt and navy blue patterned tie (his hair has specks of gray), a shorter woman in a simple black dress and a necklace with a pendant, a young man in a suit and tie similar to the older man's. \" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Stephen-Zendajas.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Stephen-Zendajas-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Zendejas, right, with his parents and siblings. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Stephen Zendajas)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My dad is a third-generation Mexican American and my mom is an immigrant from the Philippines who is half Chinese. I would describe growing up as mixed race [as] kind of confusing and complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think the concept of racial identity is sometimes still foreign and confusing to me because it’s more social than it is scientific. But it’s also not something that we can just completely ignore either.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>David Risher, San Francisco\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894639\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/David-Risher.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894639 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/David-Risher.jpg\" alt=\"A bald man smiling, squinting a bit in the sun. He is multiracial, Black and white, standing in a paisley-patterned blue and white shirt against a background of trees that is slightly out of focus. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/David-Risher.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/David-Risher-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Risher. \u003ccite>(Courtesy fo David Risher)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[There are ] so many stories from my childhood in the ’70s. I can’t count the number of times someone cocked his or her head at me, paused, and asked, “I’ve got a question for you. What are you?” It was so uncomfortable. My answer at the time: “My mother is white, my father is Black. So I’m both.” Today, I just say I’m biracial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a story that sticks with me from my time attending summer camp as a kid. One day, just before parents’ weekend, I overheard a fellow camper say, “I don’t know about you, but I’d be ashamed if I were you about having a Black dad and a white mom.” In fact, I wasn’t the least ashamed. But hearing that made me wonder, “Should I be?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And [there’s] another story from my undergraduate years at Princeton. One evening, my well-meaning Black dorm mate brings me into her room and says, “David, at some point, you’re going to have to choose. If you don’t, others will for you, and they’ll make their decision based on who your girlfriend is.” I was shocked, but I got it. People are detectives looking for clues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, after years working at Microsoft and then as an executive at Amazon, I run a Bay Area nonprofit called Worldreader. We use technology and local books from all around the world to help children discover the joy of reading. We’ve helped 19 million children so far, and we’re just getting started. One thing that sets us apart: No matter where we operate — in Africa, India, South America, or the U.S. — we lead with books from local publishers, full of stories of doctors, astronauts, scientists and writers who look like our readers. I bet you see the connection: If you can’t see it, you can’t be it!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Ruben Villareal Halprin, San Francisco\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894638\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Ruben-Villareal-Halprin.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894638 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/Ruben-Villareal-Halprin.jpg\" alt='A father who \"Black Cuban\" sports close cropped hair and a mustache and a gray T-shirt, profiled from the side and looking at the camera. On his back is a smiling baby with lighter skin in a baby backpack, wearing a blue T-shirt. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Paris Olympics is almost upon us and with over 10,000 athletes competing in 32 sports, it can be tough to know what to watch and who to root for. In the interest of narrowing down your viewing options, here then are the incredible Bay Area athletes who’ll be competing in Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Artistic Swimming\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jacklyn Luu\u003c/strong> hails from Milpitas, is a graduate student at Stanford University and a proud, second-generation Vietnamese American. She can also — like the rest of her artistic swimming team — hold her breath underwater for a frighteningly long time. This is one of the most captivating sports of the Summer Olympics, and this is the first year the U.S. women’s team has made it to the team event since 2008. Go, Jacklyn!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993805\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/twins-badminton-scaled-e1720808610530.jpg\" alt=\"Two young women of Asian descent stand smiling together, holding up medals and commemorative toys.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twins and badminton partners Annie Xu (left) and Kerry Xu pose with their silver medals after the women’s doubles final event of the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago. \u003ccite>(PABLO VERA/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Badminton\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Imagine being the parent of an Olympian. The pride! The awe! The near-constant desire to smugly point at your perfectly formed offspring and say, “Look what I made!” Now imagine being the parents of 24-year-old twin sisters \u003cstrong>Kerry and Annie Xu\u003c/strong>. These San José-born, UC Berkeley graduates will be playing as a doubles team, having taken up badminton at the age of 8. Their friends at Milpitas’ Bay Badminton Club, where they’ve been training for the last 14 years, will be cheering them on every step of the way — just probably not as loudly as their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The twins aren’t the Bay’s only badminton talent heading to Paris. Fremont’s \u003cstrong>Jennie Gai\u003c/strong> and Foster City’s \u003cstrong>Joshua Yuan\u003c/strong> will also be hitting the courts. Yuan has openly admitted that when he first started playing at South San Francisco’s Bay Badminton Center, he “didn’t like it, [but] my parents forced me to continue.” Gai also once said that her folks gave her the choice of tennis or badminton, and she landed on the latter because “tennis is too much sun.” Proof positive that wonderful things \u003cem>can\u003c/em> come from forcing your reluctant children to exercise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948154\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948154\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1486638855.jpg\" alt=\"Basketball player pumps fist and shouts in victory with crowd behind him.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"703\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1486638855.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1486638855-800x549.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1486638855-1020x700.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1486638855-160x110.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors celebrates during the third quarter in Game 7 of the Western Conference first-round playoffs against the Sacramento Kings at Golden 1 Center on April 30, 2023, in Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Basketball\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Warriors head coach \u003cstrong>Steve Kerr\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>Steph Curry\u003c/strong> are off to Paris. It’ll be Kerr’s second Olympics, having coached at the 2021 Tokyo Games, but Curry’s first time. Grant Hill, managing director of USA Basketball, said Curry was “almost giddy” when he found out he’d make the cut. Show ’em how it’s done, Chef Curry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayward’s \u003cstrong>Chelsea Gray\u003c/strong> and Walnut Creek’s \u003cstrong>Sabrina Ionescu\u003c/strong> will be holding things down on the women’s team. Gray already has a gold medal from Tokyo and is probably about to get another — the USA women’s basketball team has won for the last seven consecutive Olympics. Ionescu is a perfect addition to keep that roll going. Last year, she set an NBA record at the annual 3-point competition, scoring 37 out of a potential 40 points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Decathlon\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It takes a special kind of (masochistic?) competitor to choose the decathlon as their sport of choice. After an entire day of sprinting, running, long jump, shot put and high jump competitions, athletes have to roll right on back the next day to run hurdles, throw discus, do pole vault, throw javelins and, oh yes, partake in more running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep an eye on \u003cstrong>Harrison Williams\u003c/strong>, a 6-foot-5-inch Stanford graduate who’s competing in his first Olympics. He spent his entire time at Stanford breaking the university’s decathlon records, so fingers crossed he can perform similar feats in Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Discus\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Technically, he’s on Team Lithuania, but \u003cstrong>Mykolas Alekna\u003c/strong> will be repping UC Berkeley at the 2024 Games, too. The psychology student is already a well-known athlete in his home country, but his profile is rising across the U.S. because of the low-key manner in which he keeps performing extraordinary feats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, Alekna broke the oldest world record in track and field when he threw the discus nearly 244 feet. Needless to say, Alekna’s gold prospects are pretty solid — especially when you consider that his dad, Virgilijus Alekna, won gold medals for discus throwing at both the Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993809\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/fencing-scaled-e1720808587710.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing fencing gear sits on a log in a wooded area. He is smiling and casually holding a foil.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexander Massialas in San Francisco, May 2020. \u003ccite>(Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Fencing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Like Mykolas Alekna, \u003cstrong>Alexander Massialas\u003c/strong> had some sizable shoes to fill — his father, Greg, was on the American fencing teams that competed in the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games. Also like Alekna, Massialas — born and raised in San Francisco — is not struggling to keep up with his talented pop. The Stanford University graduate is already in possession of three Olympic medals — a silver he won in 2016 and two bronzes he earned as part of the men’s fencing team in 2016 and 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Massialas’ most notable teammates from those last two games is \u003cstrong>Gerek Meinhardt\u003c/strong>, who, in 2008, became the youngest athlete to ever compete on a U.S. Olympic fencing team. Raised in San Francisco, Meinhardt found his love of fencing early in life and via a family friend who coached the sport. That coach? None other than Greg Massialas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Maia Chamberlain\u003c/b>, born in Menlo Park, is headed to her first Olympics as the women’s saber replacement athlete. Though she studied architecture at Princeton and now lives in New York, Chamberlain still considers the Bay Area “home turf”; she started out her Olympic year with a national gold medal at the January North American Cup in San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Gymnastics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stanford University sophomore \u003cstrong>Asher Hong \u003c/strong>is heading to Paris in search of gold this month, having placed first on rings in the Olympic trials. And it’s no wonder — head to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C9L6DYZumnV/?hl=en\">Hong’s Instagram page\u003c/a> to see some of his truly astonishing physical feats. The 20-year-old will be accompanied by fellow Stanford gymnast \u003cstrong>Khoi Young\u003c/strong> who’ll be acting as an alternate for the U.S. team.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Hammer Throwing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley graduate \u003cstrong>Camryn Rogers\u003c/strong> will be spinning at high speeds and hurling hammers with her trademark strength and precision for Team Canada. You’ll want to root for her anyway — Rogers is the reigning world champion, has a day job working as a special education advocate, and considers her fellow Cal athletes as a second family. The \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> once called her “the Stephen Curry of her sport — dominant and engaging and likable.” Rogers is someone you can’t help but cheer for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993810\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Daniela-M-scaled-e1720808561524.jpg\" alt=\"A tanned woman kite boarding in open water.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1187\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniela Moroz during day 4 of the Paris 2024 sailing test event in Marseille. \u003ccite>(Clive Mason/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Kiteboarding\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For those wondering if there’s a more peculiar Olympic activity than hammer throwing, the answer to that might be kiteboarding. After all, this sport involves humans strapping small boards to their feet, large sails to their bodies, and then throwing themselves at bodies of water. One of those humans is \u003cstrong>Daniela Moroz\u003c/strong> from Lafayette, a six-time Formula Kite World Champion who won her first at the age of 15. This is the first year that kiteboarding has been included in the Olympics, and Moroz is thrilled to face the new level of competition. “I am ready for the challenge,” she recently stated on \u003ca href=\"https://www.danielamoroz.com/about\">her website\u003c/a>, “and I can’t wait to experience everything that will happen along the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Long Jump\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Born and raised in the East Bay, \u003cstrong>Malcolm Clemons\u003c/strong> — a current student at the University of Florida in Gainesville — can’t believe how far he’s come. In a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C9P7piJujMT/?img_index=1\">Instagram post\u003c/a>, the long jumper wrote: “From a kid with big dreams in East Oakland, California to an Olympian — what a journey. I thank God for everything. Thank you to my family for all the love and support and to everyone in my village who believed in me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993814\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993814\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Okeefe-scaled-e1720808653971.jpg\" alt=\"A female marathon runner smiles broadly with her arms outstretched, partially wrapped in an American flag. She has a patch of blood on the front of her shirt.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fiona O’Keeffe smiles after placing first during the 2024 US Olympic Team Trials in Florida last February. \u003ccite>(Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Marathon\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Long-distance runner \u003cstrong>Fiona O’Keeffe\u003c/strong> hails from Davis, graduated from Stanford, and qualified for this year’s Olympics in record time. The fact that the Olympic trial was her first ever professionally run marathon? No biggie, apparently. “There was some level of fear of the unknown,” O’Keeffe told NBC. “But I was really excited to just go run the marathon and see what I could do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When O’Keefe crossed the finish line \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CitiusMag/status/1754617970481885495\">bleeding through her track top\u003c/a>, she took it with characteristic stoicism. “Yes, the red stuff on my bib was blood,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/fiona_okeeffe/p/C2-7w6-LeGf/?img_index=2\">she later explained on Instagram\u003c/a>. “[I] made the rookie move of stashing a gel in my sports bra and proceeding to drench myself with water on the course, resulting in a little chafing situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rowing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ben Davison\u003c/strong> has been based in Oakland since 2019 and trains with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiarowingclub.com/about\">California Rowing Club\u003c/a>. This will be his second Olympic competition, having competed in the U.S. Men’s 8+ in Tokyo in 2021. He’ll be cheered on by the many rowers he trains as an assistant coach at the Oakland Strokes rowing club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Oakland-based rower heading to Paris is \u003cstrong>Sorin Koszyk \u003c/strong>who last year won the men’s championship singles race in record time. \u003ca href=\"https://usrowing.org/rosters/2023-senior-national-team/sorin-koszyk\">Koszyk’s U.S. Rowing profile\u003c/a> says, “Sorin enjoys spending time with friends and Jenga.” Someone had better have a tower lined up for him at the end of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Skiff\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’re not a boaty person, you might not yet know what a skiff is. Technically, skiffs are any small, open, flat-bottomed sailboats. In the Olympics, the Men’s and Women’s Skiff category describes humans operating in pairs, hanging off the side of skiffs, going at ludicrously high speeds while operating a series of wires and pulleys. Skiff looks extremely challenging, but try telling that to San Francisco’s \u003cstrong>Hans Henken\u003c/strong>, who’s competing in the Olympics for the very first time. He and teammate Ian Barrows are currently ranked second in the world and are clearly not to be trifled with — especially when you consider Henken has a master’s degree from Stanford in aeronautical and astronautical engineering. That should help move things along quite nicely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993816\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/minna-scaled-e1720808755545.jpg\" alt=\"A teenage girl skateboards the end of a ramp she's about to drop back into.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minna Stess skates on day 3 of the Olympic Qualifier Series in Shanghai on May 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Fred Lee/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Skateboarding\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hailing from Petaluma, 18-year-old daredevil \u003cstrong>Minna Stess\u003c/strong> has been throwing herself down unfeasibly giant ramps her whole life. (Literally — she started skating as a toddler.) Egged on by a supportive family who built a mini skatepark in their backyard for her to practice on, Stess has been sponsored by the likes of Vans, Independent Trucks and Santa Cruz Skateboards since she was a pre-teen. “I’ve always been competitive,” she told \u003cem>Teen Vogue\u003c/em> earlier this year. “But I never thought the Olympics would be something that I could be doing. It’s kind of crazy that this is all happening now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also repping the Bay from his skateboard is \u003cstrong>Nyjah Huston\u003c/strong>, originally from Davis. Like Stess, Huston was a skateboarding child prodigy, on the X Games circuit by age 11, and now in possession of 13 gold medals from competing in them. He’s also earned six world championship trophies. Huston has long tried to use his platform for good. In 2010, he started a nonprofit called \u003ca href=\"https://letitflow.org/\">Let It Flow\u003c/a> with the hopes of getting clean water to communities in need all over the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Soccer\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park’s \u003cstrong>Tierna Davidson\u003c/strong> and San José’s \u003cstrong>Naomi Girma\u003c/strong> will both be showing off their fancy footwork on the Parisian pitch this summer. Davidson has played for Stanford, won a bronze medal in Tokyo in 2021, and is the youngest on the women’s Olympic soccer team. (She should be used to that by now — she was also the youngest person on the 2019 World Cup women’s team.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Girma, another Stanford graduate, is known as a team player in every sense of the word. She credits her Ethiopian parents — who moved to the U.S. in the early 1980s — with instilling in her strong values and a generous spirit. “Their sacrifices are the only reason I am where I am today,” she recently told NBC Sports. Girma was declared player of the year by the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team last year because, yes, she’s just that good.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Swimming\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Bay has a healthy number of swimmers at the Paris Olympics this year, but Stanford graduate \u003cstrong>Katie Ledecky\u003c/strong> is undoubtedly the most intimidating. Ledecky has already earned seven Olympic gold medals and another 21 world championship golds. Can anyone beat that? We’re about to find out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley graduates \u003cstrong>Abbey Weitzel\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>Ryan Murphy\u003c/strong> will also be swimming in Paris. Weitzel earned two medals (one gold, one silver) at the Rio Olympics in 2016 and another two in Tokyo in 2021 (one silver, one bronze). Murphy has four Olympic golds to his name and, back in 2009, broke a backstroke world record. None of it has gone to his head, though. After marrying his college sweetheart in 2023, Murphy credited his new wife with much of his success. “I think she’s someone who definitely gets me just motivated about life,” Murphy told \u003cem>People\u003c/em> magazine. “She’s super optimistic, and I think that’s just been really helpful for me in terms of my approach to the sport.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evgenii Somov\u003c/strong>, who was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and moved to Oakland in 2022 after swimming for the University of Louisville, will compete in Paris as an “Individual Neutral Athlete” in the 100-meter breaststroke. Since Russian (and Belarussian) athletes were banned from this year’s Olympics due to the war in Ukraine, Somov has improbably qualified and will race without any state support. Parents of swimmers he’s coached in the Bay Area launched a GoFundMe to help pay for Somov’s expenses, which include his flights and high-tech swimwear. “It comes down to, I either want to go, or I don’t want to go,” he told the \u003ci>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/i> about his drive to compete. “And I want to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Table Tennis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Redwood City’s \u003cstrong>Lily Zhang\u003c/strong> started her table tennis career as the youngest female on the U.S. women’s team. She was just 12 years old at the time. Zhang, a former UC Berkeley student, was the youngest member of the U.S. team to compete in 2012’s London Olympics and also took part in the 2021 Tokyo Games. She can undoubtedly provide some inspiration to San José’s \u003cstrong>Rachel Sung\u003c/strong>, who is heading to the Olympics for the very first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kanak Jha\u003c/strong> from Milpitas — who was the U.S. national champion four years in a row (2016–2019) — is also heading to the Olympics, followed by a small cloud of controversy. Jha got hit with a one-year suspension in 2023 for failing three drug tests within 12 months. 2024 will not be Jha’s first Olympics, though. He also competed in 2016 and 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993818\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/CJ-tae-scaled-e1720808823434.jpg\" alt=\"Two men engaged in martial arts. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CJ Nickolas (left) competes against Miguel Angel Trejos at the Pan American Games in 2022. \u003ccite>(JAVIER TORRES/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Taekwondo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The tale of\u003cstrong> Carl “CJ” Nickolas\u003c/strong>’ athletic career is a heartwarming one of family togetherness. Born in Oakland, Nickolas started taekwondo at the age of 3 at the same time his mom Denise took up the sport. Denise’s achievements were impressive — at 43 years old, the fourth-degree black belt won a national championship. That, and her work ethic in general, has provided Nickolas with nonstop inspiration since he was a kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s where I learned about hard work,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinij.com/2024/07/08/how-east-bay-taekwondo-fighter-cj-nickolas-became-a-gold-medal-contender-at-the-paris-olympics/\">he told the \u003cem>Marin Independent Journal\u003c/em>\u003c/a> earlier this year. “I wanted to work harder than her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nickolas’ prospects at the Olympics are pretty good. He’s currently ranked number two in his weight class and entering the games focused and confident — just like his mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Water Polo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area has a ridiculous amount of female talent in the water polo category this year. There’s \u003cstrong>Jewel Roemer\u003c/strong>, who hails from Martinez and competes for Stanford. There are former Stanford students \u003cstrong>Jordan Raney,\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Ryann Neushul \u003c/strong>and \u003cstrong>Ella Woodhead \u003c/strong>(who was born and raised in San Anselmo) — all impressive competitors. There’s also San José’s \u003cstrong>Jenna Flynn\u003c/strong>, who earned first place in the 2024 World Aquatics Championships \u003cem>and\u003c/em> the 2023 Pan American Games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Best of all, \u003cstrong>Maggie Steffens\u003c/strong> — yet another Stanford graduate — is heading back to the Olympics with the goal of winning her fourth gold medal. Originally from San Ramon and now living in Danville, Steffens has been a top goal scorer in each of the last three Olympics. What’s more, the team captain has long been a beacon for women’s water polo. One so bright, in fact, she inspired Flavor Flav to step up as the official hype man of U.S. women’s water polo. Back in May, Flav publicly pledged to sponsor Steffens and the whole team, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/FlavorFlav/status/1786906613971865696\">stating on X\u003c/a>: “The US Women’s Waterpolo team has won the GOLD MEDAL THREE OLYMPICS IN A ROW,,, these women should not have to be working 2-3 side jobs to be able to compete.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amen to that, Flav.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re wondering where the men are, adorable San Anselmo brothers \u003cstrong>Quinn and Dylan Woodhead\u003c/strong> are both heading to Paris, too. “When you can compete with someone out of a place of love and trust,” Dylan recently told NBC Bay Area, “it’s really easy.” Awww.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Wrestling\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Bay is represented by a major contender in women’s wrestling this summer. Born in Walnut Creek, \u003cstrong>Amit Elor\u003c/strong> has been wrestling since the age of 9 and wins gold medals seemingly everywhere she goes. In 2023 alone, Elor took gold at the World Championships, the Pan American Championships, the U23 World Championships and the Junior World Championships. Oh, and she won gold in three out of four of those competitions the year before as well. No reason why she won’t do the same in Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Paris Olympics will be broadcast by NBC and Peacock between July 26 and Aug. 11. Check \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcolympics.com/schedule\">NBC’s schedule\u003c/a> for details.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Paris Olympics is almost upon us and with over 10,000 athletes competing in 32 sports, it can be tough to know what to watch and who to root for. In the interest of narrowing down your viewing options, here then are the incredible Bay Area athletes who’ll be competing in Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Artistic Swimming\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jacklyn Luu\u003c/strong> hails from Milpitas, is a graduate student at Stanford University and a proud, second-generation Vietnamese American. She can also — like the rest of her artistic swimming team — hold her breath underwater for a frighteningly long time. This is one of the most captivating sports of the Summer Olympics, and this is the first year the U.S. women’s team has made it to the team event since 2008. Go, Jacklyn!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993805\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/twins-badminton-scaled-e1720808610530.jpg\" alt=\"Two young women of Asian descent stand smiling together, holding up medals and commemorative toys.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twins and badminton partners Annie Xu (left) and Kerry Xu pose with their silver medals after the women’s doubles final event of the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago. \u003ccite>(PABLO VERA/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Badminton\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Imagine being the parent of an Olympian. The pride! The awe! The near-constant desire to smugly point at your perfectly formed offspring and say, “Look what I made!” Now imagine being the parents of 24-year-old twin sisters \u003cstrong>Kerry and Annie Xu\u003c/strong>. These San José-born, UC Berkeley graduates will be playing as a doubles team, having taken up badminton at the age of 8. Their friends at Milpitas’ Bay Badminton Club, where they’ve been training for the last 14 years, will be cheering them on every step of the way — just probably not as loudly as their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The twins aren’t the Bay’s only badminton talent heading to Paris. Fremont’s \u003cstrong>Jennie Gai\u003c/strong> and Foster City’s \u003cstrong>Joshua Yuan\u003c/strong> will also be hitting the courts. Yuan has openly admitted that when he first started playing at South San Francisco’s Bay Badminton Center, he “didn’t like it, [but] my parents forced me to continue.” Gai also once said that her folks gave her the choice of tennis or badminton, and she landed on the latter because “tennis is too much sun.” Proof positive that wonderful things \u003cem>can\u003c/em> come from forcing your reluctant children to exercise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948154\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948154\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1486638855.jpg\" alt=\"Basketball player pumps fist and shouts in victory with crowd behind him.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"703\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1486638855.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1486638855-800x549.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1486638855-1020x700.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1486638855-160x110.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors celebrates during the third quarter in Game 7 of the Western Conference first-round playoffs against the Sacramento Kings at Golden 1 Center on April 30, 2023, in Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Basketball\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Warriors head coach \u003cstrong>Steve Kerr\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>Steph Curry\u003c/strong> are off to Paris. It’ll be Kerr’s second Olympics, having coached at the 2021 Tokyo Games, but Curry’s first time. Grant Hill, managing director of USA Basketball, said Curry was “almost giddy” when he found out he’d make the cut. Show ’em how it’s done, Chef Curry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayward’s \u003cstrong>Chelsea Gray\u003c/strong> and Walnut Creek’s \u003cstrong>Sabrina Ionescu\u003c/strong> will be holding things down on the women’s team. Gray already has a gold medal from Tokyo and is probably about to get another — the USA women’s basketball team has won for the last seven consecutive Olympics. Ionescu is a perfect addition to keep that roll going. Last year, she set an NBA record at the annual 3-point competition, scoring 37 out of a potential 40 points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Decathlon\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It takes a special kind of (masochistic?) competitor to choose the decathlon as their sport of choice. After an entire day of sprinting, running, long jump, shot put and high jump competitions, athletes have to roll right on back the next day to run hurdles, throw discus, do pole vault, throw javelins and, oh yes, partake in more running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep an eye on \u003cstrong>Harrison Williams\u003c/strong>, a 6-foot-5-inch Stanford graduate who’s competing in his first Olympics. He spent his entire time at Stanford breaking the university’s decathlon records, so fingers crossed he can perform similar feats in Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Discus\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Technically, he’s on Team Lithuania, but \u003cstrong>Mykolas Alekna\u003c/strong> will be repping UC Berkeley at the 2024 Games, too. The psychology student is already a well-known athlete in his home country, but his profile is rising across the U.S. because of the low-key manner in which he keeps performing extraordinary feats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, Alekna broke the oldest world record in track and field when he threw the discus nearly 244 feet. Needless to say, Alekna’s gold prospects are pretty solid — especially when you consider that his dad, Virgilijus Alekna, won gold medals for discus throwing at both the Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 Olympics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993809\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/fencing-scaled-e1720808587710.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing fencing gear sits on a log in a wooded area. He is smiling and casually holding a foil.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexander Massialas in San Francisco, May 2020. \u003ccite>(Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Fencing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Like Mykolas Alekna, \u003cstrong>Alexander Massialas\u003c/strong> had some sizable shoes to fill — his father, Greg, was on the American fencing teams that competed in the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games. Also like Alekna, Massialas — born and raised in San Francisco — is not struggling to keep up with his talented pop. The Stanford University graduate is already in possession of three Olympic medals — a silver he won in 2016 and two bronzes he earned as part of the men’s fencing team in 2016 and 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Massialas’ most notable teammates from those last two games is \u003cstrong>Gerek Meinhardt\u003c/strong>, who, in 2008, became the youngest athlete to ever compete on a U.S. Olympic fencing team. Raised in San Francisco, Meinhardt found his love of fencing early in life and via a family friend who coached the sport. That coach? None other than Greg Massialas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Maia Chamberlain\u003c/b>, born in Menlo Park, is headed to her first Olympics as the women’s saber replacement athlete. Though she studied architecture at Princeton and now lives in New York, Chamberlain still considers the Bay Area “home turf”; she started out her Olympic year with a national gold medal at the January North American Cup in San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Gymnastics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stanford University sophomore \u003cstrong>Asher Hong \u003c/strong>is heading to Paris in search of gold this month, having placed first on rings in the Olympic trials. And it’s no wonder — head to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C9L6DYZumnV/?hl=en\">Hong’s Instagram page\u003c/a> to see some of his truly astonishing physical feats. The 20-year-old will be accompanied by fellow Stanford gymnast \u003cstrong>Khoi Young\u003c/strong> who’ll be acting as an alternate for the U.S. team.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Hammer Throwing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley graduate \u003cstrong>Camryn Rogers\u003c/strong> will be spinning at high speeds and hurling hammers with her trademark strength and precision for Team Canada. You’ll want to root for her anyway — Rogers is the reigning world champion, has a day job working as a special education advocate, and considers her fellow Cal athletes as a second family. The \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> once called her “the Stephen Curry of her sport — dominant and engaging and likable.” Rogers is someone you can’t help but cheer for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993810\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Daniela-M-scaled-e1720808561524.jpg\" alt=\"A tanned woman kite boarding in open water.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1187\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniela Moroz during day 4 of the Paris 2024 sailing test event in Marseille. \u003ccite>(Clive Mason/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Kiteboarding\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For those wondering if there’s a more peculiar Olympic activity than hammer throwing, the answer to that might be kiteboarding. After all, this sport involves humans strapping small boards to their feet, large sails to their bodies, and then throwing themselves at bodies of water. One of those humans is \u003cstrong>Daniela Moroz\u003c/strong> from Lafayette, a six-time Formula Kite World Champion who won her first at the age of 15. This is the first year that kiteboarding has been included in the Olympics, and Moroz is thrilled to face the new level of competition. “I am ready for the challenge,” she recently stated on \u003ca href=\"https://www.danielamoroz.com/about\">her website\u003c/a>, “and I can’t wait to experience everything that will happen along the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Long Jump\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Born and raised in the East Bay, \u003cstrong>Malcolm Clemons\u003c/strong> — a current student at the University of Florida in Gainesville — can’t believe how far he’s come. 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She has a patch of blood on the front of her shirt.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fiona O’Keeffe smiles after placing first during the 2024 US Olympic Team Trials in Florida last February. \u003ccite>(Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Marathon\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Long-distance runner \u003cstrong>Fiona O’Keeffe\u003c/strong> hails from Davis, graduated from Stanford, and qualified for this year’s Olympics in record time. The fact that the Olympic trial was her first ever professionally run marathon? No biggie, apparently. “There was some level of fear of the unknown,” O’Keeffe told NBC. “But I was really excited to just go run the marathon and see what I could do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When O’Keefe crossed the finish line \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CitiusMag/status/1754617970481885495\">bleeding through her track top\u003c/a>, she took it with characteristic stoicism. “Yes, the red stuff on my bib was blood,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/fiona_okeeffe/p/C2-7w6-LeGf/?img_index=2\">she later explained on Instagram\u003c/a>. “[I] made the rookie move of stashing a gel in my sports bra and proceeding to drench myself with water on the course, resulting in a little chafing situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rowing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ben Davison\u003c/strong> has been based in Oakland since 2019 and trains with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiarowingclub.com/about\">California Rowing Club\u003c/a>. This will be his second Olympic competition, having competed in the U.S. Men’s 8+ in Tokyo in 2021. He’ll be cheered on by the many rowers he trains as an assistant coach at the Oakland Strokes rowing club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Oakland-based rower heading to Paris is \u003cstrong>Sorin Koszyk \u003c/strong>who last year won the men’s championship singles race in record time. \u003ca href=\"https://usrowing.org/rosters/2023-senior-national-team/sorin-koszyk\">Koszyk’s U.S. Rowing profile\u003c/a> says, “Sorin enjoys spending time with friends and Jenga.” Someone had better have a tower lined up for him at the end of this.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Skiff\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’re not a boaty person, you might not yet know what a skiff is. Technically, skiffs are any small, open, flat-bottomed sailboats. In the Olympics, the Men’s and Women’s Skiff category describes humans operating in pairs, hanging off the side of skiffs, going at ludicrously high speeds while operating a series of wires and pulleys. Skiff looks extremely challenging, but try telling that to San Francisco’s \u003cstrong>Hans Henken\u003c/strong>, who’s competing in the Olympics for the very first time. He and teammate Ian Barrows are currently ranked second in the world and are clearly not to be trifled with — especially when you consider Henken has a master’s degree from Stanford in aeronautical and astronautical engineering. That should help move things along quite nicely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993816\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/minna-scaled-e1720808755545.jpg\" alt=\"A teenage girl skateboards the end of a ramp she's about to drop back into.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minna Stess skates on day 3 of the Olympic Qualifier Series in Shanghai on May 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Fred Lee/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Skateboarding\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hailing from Petaluma, 18-year-old daredevil \u003cstrong>Minna Stess\u003c/strong> has been throwing herself down unfeasibly giant ramps her whole life. (Literally — she started skating as a toddler.) Egged on by a supportive family who built a mini skatepark in their backyard for her to practice on, Stess has been sponsored by the likes of Vans, Independent Trucks and Santa Cruz Skateboards since she was a pre-teen. “I’ve always been competitive,” she told \u003cem>Teen Vogue\u003c/em> earlier this year. “But I never thought the Olympics would be something that I could be doing. It’s kind of crazy that this is all happening now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also repping the Bay from his skateboard is \u003cstrong>Nyjah Huston\u003c/strong>, originally from Davis. Like Stess, Huston was a skateboarding child prodigy, on the X Games circuit by age 11, and now in possession of 13 gold medals from competing in them. He’s also earned six world championship trophies. Huston has long tried to use his platform for good. In 2010, he started a nonprofit called \u003ca href=\"https://letitflow.org/\">Let It Flow\u003c/a> with the hopes of getting clean water to communities in need all over the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Soccer\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Menlo Park’s \u003cstrong>Tierna Davidson\u003c/strong> and San José’s \u003cstrong>Naomi Girma\u003c/strong> will both be showing off their fancy footwork on the Parisian pitch this summer. Davidson has played for Stanford, won a bronze medal in Tokyo in 2021, and is the youngest on the women’s Olympic soccer team. (She should be used to that by now — she was also the youngest person on the 2019 World Cup women’s team.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Girma, another Stanford graduate, is known as a team player in every sense of the word. She credits her Ethiopian parents — who moved to the U.S. in the early 1980s — with instilling in her strong values and a generous spirit. “Their sacrifices are the only reason I am where I am today,” she recently told NBC Sports. Girma was declared player of the year by the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team last year because, yes, she’s just that good.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Swimming\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Bay has a healthy number of swimmers at the Paris Olympics this year, but Stanford graduate \u003cstrong>Katie Ledecky\u003c/strong> is undoubtedly the most intimidating. Ledecky has already earned seven Olympic gold medals and another 21 world championship golds. Can anyone beat that? We’re about to find out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley graduates \u003cstrong>Abbey Weitzel\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>Ryan Murphy\u003c/strong> will also be swimming in Paris. Weitzel earned two medals (one gold, one silver) at the Rio Olympics in 2016 and another two in Tokyo in 2021 (one silver, one bronze). Murphy has four Olympic golds to his name and, back in 2009, broke a backstroke world record. None of it has gone to his head, though. After marrying his college sweetheart in 2023, Murphy credited his new wife with much of his success. “I think she’s someone who definitely gets me just motivated about life,” Murphy told \u003cem>People\u003c/em> magazine. “She’s super optimistic, and I think that’s just been really helpful for me in terms of my approach to the sport.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Evgenii Somov\u003c/strong>, who was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and moved to Oakland in 2022 after swimming for the University of Louisville, will compete in Paris as an “Individual Neutral Athlete” in the 100-meter breaststroke. Since Russian (and Belarussian) athletes were banned from this year’s Olympics due to the war in Ukraine, Somov has improbably qualified and will race without any state support. Parents of swimmers he’s coached in the Bay Area launched a GoFundMe to help pay for Somov’s expenses, which include his flights and high-tech swimwear. “It comes down to, I either want to go, or I don’t want to go,” he told the \u003ci>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/i> about his drive to compete. “And I want to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Table Tennis\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Redwood City’s \u003cstrong>Lily Zhang\u003c/strong> started her table tennis career as the youngest female on the U.S. women’s team. She was just 12 years old at the time. Zhang, a former UC Berkeley student, was the youngest member of the U.S. team to compete in 2012’s London Olympics and also took part in the 2021 Tokyo Games. She can undoubtedly provide some inspiration to San José’s \u003cstrong>Rachel Sung\u003c/strong>, who is heading to the Olympics for the very first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kanak Jha\u003c/strong> from Milpitas — who was the U.S. national champion four years in a row (2016–2019) — is also heading to the Olympics, followed by a small cloud of controversy. Jha got hit with a one-year suspension in 2023 for failing three drug tests within 12 months. 2024 will not be Jha’s first Olympics, though. He also competed in 2016 and 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993818\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993818\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/CJ-tae-scaled-e1720808823434.jpg\" alt=\"Two men engaged in martial arts. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CJ Nickolas (left) competes against Miguel Angel Trejos at the Pan American Games in 2022. \u003ccite>(JAVIER TORRES/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Taekwondo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The tale of\u003cstrong> Carl “CJ” Nickolas\u003c/strong>’ athletic career is a heartwarming one of family togetherness. Born in Oakland, Nickolas started taekwondo at the age of 3 at the same time his mom Denise took up the sport. Denise’s achievements were impressive — at 43 years old, the fourth-degree black belt won a national championship. That, and her work ethic in general, has provided Nickolas with nonstop inspiration since he was a kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s where I learned about hard work,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinij.com/2024/07/08/how-east-bay-taekwondo-fighter-cj-nickolas-became-a-gold-medal-contender-at-the-paris-olympics/\">he told the \u003cem>Marin Independent Journal\u003c/em>\u003c/a> earlier this year. “I wanted to work harder than her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nickolas’ prospects at the Olympics are pretty good. He’s currently ranked number two in his weight class and entering the games focused and confident — just like his mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Water Polo\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area has a ridiculous amount of female talent in the water polo category this year. There’s \u003cstrong>Jewel Roemer\u003c/strong>, who hails from Martinez and competes for Stanford. There are former Stanford students \u003cstrong>Jordan Raney,\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Ryann Neushul \u003c/strong>and \u003cstrong>Ella Woodhead \u003c/strong>(who was born and raised in San Anselmo) — all impressive competitors. There’s also San José’s \u003cstrong>Jenna Flynn\u003c/strong>, who earned first place in the 2024 World Aquatics Championships \u003cem>and\u003c/em> the 2023 Pan American Games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Best of all, \u003cstrong>Maggie Steffens\u003c/strong> — yet another Stanford graduate — is heading back to the Olympics with the goal of winning her fourth gold medal. Originally from San Ramon and now living in Danville, Steffens has been a top goal scorer in each of the last three Olympics. What’s more, the team captain has long been a beacon for women’s water polo. One so bright, in fact, she inspired Flavor Flav to step up as the official hype man of U.S. women’s water polo. Back in May, Flav publicly pledged to sponsor Steffens and the whole team, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/FlavorFlav/status/1786906613971865696\">stating on X\u003c/a>: “The US Women’s Waterpolo team has won the GOLD MEDAL THREE OLYMPICS IN A ROW,,, these women should not have to be working 2-3 side jobs to be able to compete.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amen to that, Flav.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re wondering where the men are, adorable San Anselmo brothers \u003cstrong>Quinn and Dylan Woodhead\u003c/strong> are both heading to Paris, too. “When you can compete with someone out of a place of love and trust,” Dylan recently told NBC Bay Area, “it’s really easy.” Awww.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Wrestling\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Bay is represented by a major contender in women’s wrestling this summer. Born in Walnut Creek, \u003cstrong>Amit Elor\u003c/strong> has been wrestling since the age of 9 and wins gold medals seemingly everywhere she goes. In 2023 alone, Elor took gold at the World Championships, the Pan American Championships, the U23 World Championships and the Junior World Championships. Oh, and she won gold in three out of four of those competitions the year before as well. No reason why she won’t do the same in Paris.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Paris Olympics will be broadcast by NBC and Peacock between July 26 and Aug. 11. Check \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcolympics.com/schedule\">NBC’s schedule\u003c/a> for details.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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