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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/breasinclaire?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breanna Sinclairé's \u003c/a>voice has an enviable four-octave range. The classically trained Bay Area vocalist said she's capable of singing almost any part she likes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I could choose to sing baritone if I wanted to,\" Sinclairé said. \"But no, that's just not who I am.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sinclairé is in her early 30s and starting to hit her stride as a soprano. 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She got accepted to the Baltimore School for the Arts and soon found her community among the crowd of misfits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she continued to struggle with her identity there, especially when it came to singing in the choir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"left\" citation=\"Breanna Sinclairé\"]\"I want the world to see me as a woman and as a trained classical singer singing soprano repertoire.\"[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sinclairé was stuck with the guys in the tenor section. And it felt wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And so I continually fought with who I was in high school,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was also in high school that she came face to face with a transgender woman for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was just like, 'Oh my God, like, she's so gorgeous!' I didn't know that even existed,\" Sinclairé said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sinclairé went off to the California Institute of the Arts for her undergraduate degree. It was during her junior year there, with the help of friends, that she began her physical transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had a party when I got my first hormones at Cal Arts,\" Sinclairé said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11773598\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11773598\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Breanna-Sinclaire-800x1129.jpg\" alt=\"Breanna Sinclaire\" width=\"800\" height=\"1129\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Breanna-Sinclaire-800x1129.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Breanna-Sinclaire-160x226.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Breanna-Sinclaire-1020x1440.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Breanna-Sinclaire-850x1200.jpg 850w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Breanna-Sinclaire.jpg 1451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Breanna Sinclaire \u003ccite>(JP Lor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She knew she’d embarked on a difficult journey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm 6-foot-2, so transitioning for me took a lot of work to get to where I am today,\" Sinclairé said, laughing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t just a question of taking hormones and undergoing surgery to transform her appearance into the statuesque, glamorous woman she is today. Sinclairé's transformation basically turned her entire life upside down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My family kind of disowned me,\" she said. \"I didn't have much support.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During her transition, in the summer of 2010, she hit a low. Sinclairé said she’d saved up and flown across the country with a plan to study singing with a coach in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the lessons fell through. The coach stopped returning her emails after she told him she was transitioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then a roommate threw all of her stuff out onto the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He said that he felt uncomfortable with me living there because of who I was,\" Sinclaire said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was homeless for more than two months in New York City. She said she sometimes slept in Central Park. Her only belongings were the couple of dresses and a black purse she’d managed to rescue from the trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I put aside the singing,\" Sinclaire said. \"Because when you're homeless, you're not getting employment and you're on the street, your mind is focused on survival.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, something unbelievable happened to Sinclairé — the sort of thing that usually only happens in the movies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A man saw her while she was standing on the street. They struck up a conversation.[pullquote align=\"left\" citation=\"Breanna Sinclairé\"]\"I put aside the singing because when you're homeless, you're not getting employment and you're on the street, your mind is focused on survival.\"[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I told him that I was a developing opera singer and I was training at Cal Arts,\" Sinclairé said. \"And so what he did was, he wrote me a check.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said this knight in shining armor didn’t want anything in return for the price of the one-way plane ticket back to Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was no sexual exchange,\" Sinclairé said. \"It was just really random. Out of the blue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the man just wanted to see her graduate. So she returned to California to finish her degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it wasn't for him, maybe I wouldn't be here today,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sinclairé said she texted him her undergraduate degree certificate, and eventually her master's certificate as well from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They occasionally still talk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, Sinclairé is focused on taking her career to the next level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe title=\"MEZZO TRAILER\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/wf_1uoZtlfM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has been taken under the wing of Sheri Greenawald, one of the top opera coaches in the country. 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"content": "\u003cp>Opera has a long history of gender play. Women have performed young male roles on stage for hundreds of years, like the lovesick youth Cherubino in Mozart's \"The Marriage of Figaro.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the industry still mostly observes rigid gender codes when it comes to casting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then ... there's \u003ca href=\"https://lucialucas.de/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lucia Lucas\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento-born-and-raised baritone made her debut in May as Don Giovanni with the \u003ca class=\"GoogleAnalyticsET-processed\" href=\"https://tulsaopera.com/\">Tulsa Opera\u003c/a>, becoming the first transgender person to sing a lead role in a standard operatic work in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The New York Times sent a reporter. The Metropolitan Opera sent a casting representative. Lucas had a documentary crew following her around. And her dad, whom she hadn’t seen for a decade, flew in specially for the occasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a lot of pressure to sing well,” Lucas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11773607\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11773607 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-TulsaOpera-Giovanni-Jana-McIntyre-as-Zerlina-Lucia-Lucas-as-Don-Giovanni-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"Jana McIntyre (left) and Lucia Lucas (right) in the 2019 production of 'Don Giovanni' at the Tulsa Opera.\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-TulsaOpera-Giovanni-Jana-McIntyre-as-Zerlina-Lucia-Lucas-as-Don-Giovanni-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-TulsaOpera-Giovanni-Jana-McIntyre-as-Zerlina-Lucia-Lucas-as-Don-Giovanni-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-TulsaOpera-Giovanni-Jana-McIntyre-as-Zerlina-Lucia-Lucas-as-Don-Giovanni-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-TulsaOpera-Giovanni-Jana-McIntyre-as-Zerlina-Lucia-Lucas-as-Don-Giovanni-1200x857.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-TulsaOpera-Giovanni-Jana-McIntyre-as-Zerlina-Lucia-Lucas-as-Don-Giovanni-1920x1372.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-TulsaOpera-Giovanni-Jana-McIntyre-as-Zerlina-Lucia-Lucas-as-Don-Giovanni.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jana McIntyre (left) and Lucia Lucas (right) in the 2019 production of 'Don Giovanni' at the Tulsa Opera. \u003ccite>(Emily Steward)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lucas said she’d been wrestling with questions about her gender identity since she was a kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My mom caught me with makeup,\" Lucas said. \"My dad found my stash of girls clothes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a difficult time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucas started singing in high school. She sang baritone and mostly presented as a man. She almost came out as transgender in college. But her career was starting to unfold. And she fell in love with a fellow opera singer — a woman. They got married. So Lucas decided to put the decision off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t know,\" she said. \"I guess I just sort of thought maybe I can have this 'normal life.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucas moved to Germany in 2009 — where she still resides today — because there were more opportunities for opera singers there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's so many people that would love to have that,\" she said. \"To be a working artist, you know, where they make at least enough money to live and continue doing their art full time. But it wasn't fulfilling for me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11773609\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11773609\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Lucia Lucas' masculine stage persona\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan-1472x1472.jpg 1472w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan-1104x1104.jpg 1104w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan-912x912.jpg 912w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan-550x550.jpg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan-470x470.jpg 470w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lucia Lucas' masculine stage persona. \u003ccite>(Johannes Kaplan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She was about five years into a steady, salaried job as a baritone with a highly regarded German opera house, the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, when she finally decided she had to come out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucas chose the splashy opera ball for the occasion. It was May 2014. One of her company’s artistic directors, Jan Linders, said she made quite an entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"left\" citation=\"Lucia Lucas\"]\"You know, nobody is fired for being trans. They’re fired for being, you know, 90 seconds late, or not complying with the dress code regulations.\"[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were startled,\" Linders said. \"She came fully dressed as a woman. Made it clear that she wanted to be addressed as Lucia from that day on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said after they got over the initial shock, the company grappled with what to do about Lucas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Where should be her dressing room? Should it be in the ladies or the gentlemen floor? How should she be addressed in program books? How could we convey this private change to directors that would cast her?\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11773706,news_11773678,news_11773464' label='Living Authentically: Life As A Transgender Opera Singer']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucas said the opera company ultimately decided not to renew her contract. Her former employer isn’t commenting on that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucas started taking estrogen and underwent surgery. She embarked on a freelance career, singing swaggering Wagnerian baritone roles like Wotan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though her professional status is steadily rising, she’s suspicious of the reasons companies give — if they give any — for failing to follow through on promised auditions or for dropping her from their roster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, nobody is fired for being trans,\" she said. \"They’re fired for being, you know, 90 seconds late, or not complying with the dress code regulations.\"\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nTaking testosterone is an option, albeit a risky one, for trans men seeking to lower their voices. But it’s a different story for trans women hoping to sing in a higher, more traditionally female range, said UCSF voice speech pathologist Sarah Schneider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For trans females, taking female hormones does not actually change the voice,\" Schneider said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said surgery on the vocal folds is a possibility for people who want to sing higher. But it’s a major risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11773630\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11773630 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38976_Lucia-Lucas-bodyshot-Foto-Josh-New-qut-800x1000.jpg\" alt=\"Opera singer Lucia Lucas\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38976_Lucia-Lucas-bodyshot-Foto-Josh-New-qut-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38976_Lucia-Lucas-bodyshot-Foto-Josh-New-qut-160x200.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38976_Lucia-Lucas-bodyshot-Foto-Josh-New-qut-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38976_Lucia-Lucas-bodyshot-Foto-Josh-New-qut-960x1200.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38976_Lucia-Lucas-bodyshot-Foto-Josh-New-qut-1920x2400.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/RS38976_Lucia-Lucas-bodyshot-Foto-Josh-New-qut.jpg 1638w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opera singer Lucia Lucas \u003ccite>(Josh New)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The outcomes are not always predictable, and we don't know if it's going to impact that accessibility to the upper range,\" Schneider said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some vocalists can train their voices to sing in different registers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not the path baritone Lucia Lucas took. She has considered the possibility of training her voice to sing soprano, and has fantasized about playing Wagnerian heroines, like Brunhilde.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I could wake up tomorrow and sing Brunhilde, that would be amazing,\" Lucas said. \"Does it work that way? No.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucas, who’s 39, looks very different today from what she looked like before the surgery and hormones. She has a mane of light-brown curls and favors bright red lipstick. But her bread and butter — that awesome voice — is just the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucas said she often gets compliments at auditions. But the nice words haven’t always translated into contracts. So she often dons fake facial hair and men’s clothing for auditions to prove she can play guys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of people are really confused because they have 'Ms. Lucia Lucas' on their paperwork as a baritone,\" she said. \"But I'm presenting with a beard in masculine attire.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her efforts are starting to pay off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe title=\"Lucia's Voice Documentary Film Clip\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/vGrc163eVJk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has landed a lead role with the English National Opera this October, and her schedule is booked out with singing engagements for the next three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucas said the exposure she’s been getting has been useful for her career. But she said it may be many years before singers like her will be able to shake off the buzz that surrounds them because they're trans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had a theater director in Germany say, 'Oh my gosh, this trans thing, it’s so hot right now.' I don't want that,\" she said. \"I want it to be not a thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucas has been using her platform to advocate for greater inclusivity both within and beyond the world of opera. In a recent speech she gave, the singer said she didn’t once use terms like trans, gay, lesbian or queer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because I wanted to make it an inclusive speech and not an exclusive speech,\" she said. \"When we support each other, it's better for everybody.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Special thanks to the makers of \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Lucia’s Voice,” a feature-length documentary coming in 2020 from \u003ca href=\"https://kkp.film/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kirkpatrick & Kinslow Films\u003c/a>, directed by James Kicklighter. \u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Opera has a long history of gender play. Women have performed young male roles on stage for hundreds of years, like the lovesick youth Cherubino in Mozart's \"The Marriage of Figaro.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the industry still mostly observes rigid gender codes when it comes to casting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then ... there's \u003ca href=\"https://lucialucas.de/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lucia Lucas\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento-born-and-raised baritone made her debut in May as Don Giovanni with the \u003ca class=\"GoogleAnalyticsET-processed\" href=\"https://tulsaopera.com/\">Tulsa Opera\u003c/a>, becoming the first transgender person to sing a lead role in a standard operatic work in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The New York Times sent a reporter. The Metropolitan Opera sent a casting representative. Lucas had a documentary crew following her around. And her dad, whom she hadn’t seen for a decade, flew in specially for the occasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a lot of pressure to sing well,” Lucas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11773607\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11773607 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-TulsaOpera-Giovanni-Jana-McIntyre-as-Zerlina-Lucia-Lucas-as-Don-Giovanni-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"Jana McIntyre (left) and Lucia Lucas (right) in the 2019 production of 'Don Giovanni' at the Tulsa Opera.\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-TulsaOpera-Giovanni-Jana-McIntyre-as-Zerlina-Lucia-Lucas-as-Don-Giovanni-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-TulsaOpera-Giovanni-Jana-McIntyre-as-Zerlina-Lucia-Lucas-as-Don-Giovanni-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-TulsaOpera-Giovanni-Jana-McIntyre-as-Zerlina-Lucia-Lucas-as-Don-Giovanni-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-TulsaOpera-Giovanni-Jana-McIntyre-as-Zerlina-Lucia-Lucas-as-Don-Giovanni-1200x857.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-TulsaOpera-Giovanni-Jana-McIntyre-as-Zerlina-Lucia-Lucas-as-Don-Giovanni-1920x1372.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-TulsaOpera-Giovanni-Jana-McIntyre-as-Zerlina-Lucia-Lucas-as-Don-Giovanni.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jana McIntyre (left) and Lucia Lucas (right) in the 2019 production of 'Don Giovanni' at the Tulsa Opera. \u003ccite>(Emily Steward)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lucas said she’d been wrestling with questions about her gender identity since she was a kid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My mom caught me with makeup,\" Lucas said. \"My dad found my stash of girls clothes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a difficult time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucas started singing in high school. She sang baritone and mostly presented as a man. She almost came out as transgender in college. But her career was starting to unfold. And she fell in love with a fellow opera singer — a woman. They got married. So Lucas decided to put the decision off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t know,\" she said. \"I guess I just sort of thought maybe I can have this 'normal life.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucas moved to Germany in 2009 — where she still resides today — because there were more opportunities for opera singers there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's so many people that would love to have that,\" she said. \"To be a working artist, you know, where they make at least enough money to live and continue doing their art full time. But it wasn't fulfilling for me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11773609\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11773609\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Lucia Lucas' masculine stage persona\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan-1472x1472.jpg 1472w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan-1104x1104.jpg 1104w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan-912x912.jpg 912w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan-550x550.jpg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan-470x470.jpg 470w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lucia Lucas' masculine stage persona. \u003ccite>(Johannes Kaplan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She was about five years into a steady, salaried job as a baritone with a highly regarded German opera house, the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, when she finally decided she had to come out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucas chose the splashy opera ball for the occasion. 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They’re fired for being, you know, 90 seconds late, or not complying with the dress code regulations.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they’ve navigated one of the most competitive and rigid industries — an industry that has been slow to evolve with the times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opera has a long history of gender play, with women performing young male roles on stage for hundreds of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet this rarefied world, with its strict casting codes and ridiculously high barriers to entry, is probably one of the most cloistered industries around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Opera is still a very gendered profession,” said Franks, who sang both soprano and mezzo-soprano roles as a professional in the San Francisco Bay Area but now sings in the baritone range. “They want to put you in a box.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://transequality.org/issues/employment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">research\u003c/a> by the National Center for Transgender Equality, one in four transgender people have lost a job due to bias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard for anyone to break through and make a living as an opera singer, much less a person who doesn’t fit in with the industry’s mostly rigid gender codes when it comes to casting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11773678,news_11773464,news_11773585' label='Living Authentically: Life As A Transgender Opera Singer']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, Sacramento-born-and-raised baritone Lucas, who decided to keep singing with her booming, low-voice type after her physical transition rather than trying to retrain her voice to sing soprano or mezzo roles, is rising to the very top of her profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, she became the first trans singer to perform a lead role in a classic operatic work in the U.S. when she starred in “Don Giovanni” with the Tulsa Opera in Oklahoma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, she will play a lead role with the English National Opera in London.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Lucas said she often dons fake facial hair and standard menswear for auditions to prove she can play roles that normally go to cisgender male performers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people are really confused because they have ‘Ms. Lucia Lucas’ on their paperwork as a baritone,” Lucas said. “But I’m presenting with a beard in masculine attire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11773609\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11773609\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Lucia Lucas' masculine stage persona\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan-1472x1472.jpg 1472w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan-1104x1104.jpg 1104w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan-912x912.jpg 912w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan-550x550.jpg 550w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan-470x470.jpg 470w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/Lucia-Lucas-Masculine-Stage-Persona-Johannes-Kaplan.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lucia Lucas’ masculine stage persona. \u003ccite>(Johannes Kaplan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Hormones & the Human Voice\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When it comes to perceptions around gender transition, most people tend to focus on external physical changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But taking the male hormone testosterone doesn’t only tend to increase body hair and muscle mass. It also lowers the voice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Testosterone thickens the vocal folds,” said UCSF voice speech pathologist Sarah Schneider, who specializes in working with transgender singers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But learning a new lower-pitched way of speaking and singing often comes with enormous challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people describe it as feeling locked in,” Schneider said. “They’re not quite sure how to navigate the lower voice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schneider said surgery for lowering vocal pitch exists. 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But it’s more than a homecoming — it’s occasion for revenge. Odysseus, his son and their allies slaughter the young men who have been courting his wife, Penelope, and despoiling his estate. But that’s not the end of it. The fathers and brothers of the murdered suitors are bent on vengeance themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goddess Athena, who has engineered Odysseus’ return and his attack on the suitors, doesn’t like what she sees brewing: an endless cycle of bloodshed and loss. She appeals to Zeus, her father, to stop it. He points out that she’s distressed about her own handiwork, but says she’s free to intervene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do as your heart desires,” he says. “But let me tell you how it should be done:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now that royal Odysseus has taken his revenge,\u003cbr>\nlet both sides seal their pacts that he shall reign for life,\u003cbr>\nand let us purge their memories of the bloody slaughter\u003cbr>\nof their brothers and their sons. Let them be friends,\u003cbr>\ndevoted as in the old days. Let peace and wealth\u003cbr>\ncome cresting through the land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Would that it were so simple, or that we had gods so direct about pulling the strings. What 9/11 means for me, more than anything, is that there is no going back to what was before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap] went up in the World Trade Center twice. Once during a visit in 1985, once in August 2001, about four weeks before the attacks. I was with my son, Thom, and John and his son, Sean. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11764921/ghost-ship-defendant-max-harris-acquitted-of-all-charges-jury-hung-on-derick-almena\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The split decision\u003c/a> of the Ghost Ship criminal trial stirred up intense emotions on Thursday, and it's clear the 2016 warehouse fire made a lasting impact in our Bay Area communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11764634/ghost-ship-verdict-kqed-invites-you-to-share-your-reactions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">created a space\u003c/a> for you to share your thoughts and reflections after the outcome. Here are some of those responses:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are your thoughts on the criminal trial outcome?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm heavily involved in the local DIY scene and my heart aches. So many of the sanctuaries we misfits build for ourselves aren't up to code. I feel like this could've happened at any of my favorite places: the DIY venues and punk houses where I feel socially safe. I recognize that a conviction may have felt like closure, but I can't imagine that it would have been a true victory. I can all too well picture this tragedy happening at any of the spaces I love, and my own friends on trial. With or without a conviction, there would have been no justice.\" \u003cem>- Caitlin H.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mixed, as I wasn't privy to all the facts, but I obsessed over all media accounts. I felt neutral on Harris and slightly biased against Almena based on media and shared community reporting, but I feel the most confused and pretty much incensed over the landlord, Chor Ng, and her family, who all manage multiple properties and have documented unresolved issues, NOT BEING CHARGED. But allegedly getting $3m in insurance payments. That feels the most criminal and tragic to me.\" \u003cem>- SCP\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"The Ghost Ship Decision\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11764634/ghost-ship-verdict-kqed-invites-you-to-share-your-reactions,KQED Invites You to Share Your Reactions\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS37750__DSC1024-qut-1038x576.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So no one is responsible?\" \u003cem>- Marcia Hagen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am horrified at the jury decision. It is unconscionable that 36 dear souls roasted to death because of inaction and greed on the part of two men in a position to provide a safe environment for their guests. I am left feeling that the jury just wanted to go home - and who could blame them after months of trial and weeks of deliberations fraught with emotion. The system failed these victims and their families.\" \u003cem>- Lynda\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Max Harris never should have been charged and the DA should be ashamed that she charged him instead of the landlord. I could see how jurors could be split over Almena, it was not clear cut. Hopefully they can reach an agreement instead of doing another 6-month trial. This also goes to show that the judge was wrong to reject the plea bargain and the prosecutor was right to offer one, implicitly recognizing weaknesses in the case.\" \u003cem>- Jenny\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I followed this whole trial very closely because it was just such a tragedy. My feelings here at the end: Derick Almena is a cocky, ass who wasn’t ever thinking about something as mundane as “safety.” He was an artist! Inspiring a community! He’s a narcissist, but I don’t think he’s a murderer. Max Harris was just a young kid who got sucked into Almena’s World view. The souls who died attending a concert didn’t know what they were walking into. It’s a horrible tragedy, all around. Social services walked through the property and visited it many times, and never did anything. We all need to pay more attention and do better. Assess every situation you walk into. Know where your exits are. If your gut tells you something’s not right, trust it. It’s all just so sad.\" \u003cem>- Wyoming\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Diego Aguilar-Canabal\"]\"I lost three friends forever. I think about them every day.\"[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have felt conflicted all along. Did Almena have bad intention? There is a lot of blame to go around — the owners of the space, the fire department, the police. There were plenty of entities that could have prevented the catastrophe. Is ruining another person’s life justice?\" \u003cem>- Debora Sayre\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm shocked and sad. As an event manager, I truly don't understand how they weren't both convicted. I've thrown illegal warehouse parties in Oakland, and the rules are 1. Make sure no one dies 2. Space must be easy to evacuate if the fuzz shows up. These guys evacuated themselves (Max went back to \"evacuate\" his cell phone and laptop) and left everyone on the second floor try[ing] to get [out of the] warehouse decorated with doors to nowhere.\" \u003cem>- Anna\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did the Ghost Ship fire impact you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I like most people was overwhelmed by the tragedy. As an artist, I know how little money they had and this was the place for them to create and live. More needs to be done for artists. Look North to Seattle.\" \u003cem>- Bonnie Smith\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='ghost-ship-trial' label='Complete Coverage of the Ghost Ship Trial']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Deeply at an emotional level as someone who's been part of similar communities. We don't fund and pay artists as we should. Many artists sacrifice lifestyle/comfort for art's sake. They should remain safe. I cried over certain musicians whose music was amazing, over the beautiful tribute wall at Highwire Coffee in Berkeley, over the young and innocent lives lost because they went out to support live music and the arts.\" \u003cem>- SCP\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am a friend of the mother of one of the victims whose only child perished. Her loss and emotional well-being is unimaginable.\"\u003cem> - Lynda\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It fragmented and destroyed a once vibrant, open, and creative community.\" \u003cem>- Brian\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I lost three friends forever. I think about them every day.\" \u003cem>- Diego Aguilar-Canabal\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some wrote a letter to one of the people lost in the fire.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Dear child of God, please know you are cherished and your mommy’s wonderful memories of your life will sustain her. She will see you on the other side and you will rejoice in her joining you after her final journey. Although I never met you, I know I missed so much — your kindness, compassion, talent and love for your many friends are your legacy. Sleep well, dear boy.\" \u003cem>- Lynda\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"David Houston\"]\"Rest in Power Jenpop. I know you're the life of the party. Elsewhere.\"[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Rest in Power Jenpop. I know you're the life of the party. Elsewhere.\" \u003cem>- David Houston\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Dear Cash: Your life was too short, but your death was not in vain. I am one of many creatives and arts supporters who learned of your life, your contributions, and your music through the tragedy of the Ghost Ship fire. You're uniquely talented, and I now listen to your music that I so sadly only heard of after your death. Thank you for living your life on your terms and putting your work out. You are loved and missed.\"\u003cem> - SCP\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I understand from my own experience of the loss of my son you have to forgive and feel love for the mistakes made by all to get well emotionally to feel healthy and have a happy good life FORGIVE and let your anger go.\" \u003cem>- Kathy\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am sorry to all who died that night that your life was prematurely shortened. That there aren’t safe spaces on all levels to meet and play music and create. You are loved and missed.\" \u003cem>- Debora Sayre\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>These responses have been lightly edited. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11764921/ghost-ship-defendant-max-harris-acquitted-of-all-charges-jury-hung-on-derick-almena\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The split decision\u003c/a> of the Ghost Ship criminal trial stirred up intense emotions on Thursday, and it's clear the 2016 warehouse fire made a lasting impact in our Bay Area communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11764634/ghost-ship-verdict-kqed-invites-you-to-share-your-reactions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">created a space\u003c/a> for you to share your thoughts and reflections after the outcome. Here are some of those responses:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are your thoughts on the criminal trial outcome?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm heavily involved in the local DIY scene and my heart aches. So many of the sanctuaries we misfits build for ourselves aren't up to code. I feel like this could've happened at any of my favorite places: the DIY venues and punk houses where I feel socially safe. I recognize that a conviction may have felt like closure, but I can't imagine that it would have been a true victory. I can all too well picture this tragedy happening at any of the spaces I love, and my own friends on trial. With or without a conviction, there would have been no justice.\" \u003cem>- Caitlin H.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mixed, as I wasn't privy to all the facts, but I obsessed over all media accounts. I felt neutral on Harris and slightly biased against Almena based on media and shared community reporting, but I feel the most confused and pretty much incensed over the landlord, Chor Ng, and her family, who all manage multiple properties and have documented unresolved issues, NOT BEING CHARGED. But allegedly getting $3m in insurance payments. That feels the most criminal and tragic to me.\" \u003cem>- SCP\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So no one is responsible?\" \u003cem>- Marcia Hagen\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am horrified at the jury decision. It is unconscionable that 36 dear souls roasted to death because of inaction and greed on the part of two men in a position to provide a safe environment for their guests. I am left feeling that the jury just wanted to go home - and who could blame them after months of trial and weeks of deliberations fraught with emotion. The system failed these victims and their families.\" \u003cem>- Lynda\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Max Harris never should have been charged and the DA should be ashamed that she charged him instead of the landlord. I could see how jurors could be split over Almena, it was not clear cut. Hopefully they can reach an agreement instead of doing another 6-month trial. This also goes to show that the judge was wrong to reject the plea bargain and the prosecutor was right to offer one, implicitly recognizing weaknesses in the case.\" \u003cem>- Jenny\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I followed this whole trial very closely because it was just such a tragedy. My feelings here at the end: Derick Almena is a cocky, ass who wasn’t ever thinking about something as mundane as “safety.” He was an artist! Inspiring a community! He’s a narcissist, but I don’t think he’s a murderer. Max Harris was just a young kid who got sucked into Almena’s World view. The souls who died attending a concert didn’t know what they were walking into. It’s a horrible tragedy, all around. Social services walked through the property and visited it many times, and never did anything. We all need to pay more attention and do better. Assess every situation you walk into. Know where your exits are. If your gut tells you something’s not right, trust it. It’s all just so sad.\" \u003cem>- Wyoming\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have felt conflicted all along. Did Almena have bad intention? There is a lot of blame to go around — the owners of the space, the fire department, the police. There were plenty of entities that could have prevented the catastrophe. Is ruining another person’s life justice?\" \u003cem>- Debora Sayre\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm shocked and sad. As an event manager, I truly don't understand how they weren't both convicted. I've thrown illegal warehouse parties in Oakland, and the rules are 1. Make sure no one dies 2. Space must be easy to evacuate if the fuzz shows up. These guys evacuated themselves (Max went back to \"evacuate\" his cell phone and laptop) and left everyone on the second floor try[ing] to get [out of the] warehouse decorated with doors to nowhere.\" \u003cem>- Anna\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did the Ghost Ship fire impact you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I like most people was overwhelmed by the tragedy. As an artist, I know how little money they had and this was the place for them to create and live. More needs to be done for artists. Look North to Seattle.\" \u003cem>- Bonnie Smith\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Deeply at an emotional level as someone who's been part of similar communities. We don't fund and pay artists as we should. Many artists sacrifice lifestyle/comfort for art's sake. They should remain safe. I cried over certain musicians whose music was amazing, over the beautiful tribute wall at Highwire Coffee in Berkeley, over the young and innocent lives lost because they went out to support live music and the arts.\" \u003cem>- SCP\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am a friend of the mother of one of the victims whose only child perished. Her loss and emotional well-being is unimaginable.\"\u003cem> - Lynda\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It fragmented and destroyed a once vibrant, open, and creative community.\" \u003cem>- Brian\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I lost three friends forever. I think about them every day.\" \u003cem>- Diego Aguilar-Canabal\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Some wrote a letter to one of the people lost in the fire.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Dear child of God, please know you are cherished and your mommy’s wonderful memories of your life will sustain her. She will see you on the other side and you will rejoice in her joining you after her final journey. Although I never met you, I know I missed so much — your kindness, compassion, talent and love for your many friends are your legacy. Sleep well, dear boy.\" \u003cem>- Lynda\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Rest in Power Jenpop. I know you're the life of the party. Elsewhere.\" \u003cem>- David Houston\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Dear Cash: Your life was too short, but your death was not in vain. I am one of many creatives and arts supporters who learned of your life, your contributions, and your music through the tragedy of the Ghost Ship fire. You're uniquely talented, and I now listen to your music that I so sadly only heard of after your death. Thank you for living your life on your terms and putting your work out. You are loved and missed.\"\u003cem> - SCP\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I understand from my own experience of the loss of my son you have to forgive and feel love for the mistakes made by all to get well emotionally to feel healthy and have a happy good life FORGIVE and let your anger go.\" \u003cem>- Kathy\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am sorry to all who died that night that your life was prematurely shortened. That there aren’t safe spaces on all levels to meet and play music and create. You are loved and missed.\" \u003cem>- Debora Sayre\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>These responses have been lightly edited. Continue to share your thoughts and reflections in the form below.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfdz-lrcRerdPWFYFk5N7qGfrLLsKcvVQ3dNF1aRcW0U27MvA/viewform?embedded=true\" width=\"640\" height=\"1306\" frameborder=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The criminal trial of Derick Almena and Max Harris, each charged with 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter in the 2016 Oakland Ghost Ship warehouse fire, ended in a mixed decision on Thursday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict for Almena, the Ghost Ship's master tenant, with 10 jurors finding him guilty and two jurors finding him not guilty. A hearing on a possible retrial for Almena is scheduled for Oct. 4, according to the Alameda County District Attorney's Office and Almena's defense attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris, who has been described as the Ghost Ship's creative director and second-in-command, was acquitted of all charges. Harris was released from Santa Rita Jail Thursday night, according to the Alameda County Sheriff's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"The Ghost Ship Decision\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11764634/ghost-ship-verdict-kqed-invites-you-to-share-your-reactions,KQED Invites You to Share Your Reactions\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS37750__DSC1024-qut-1038x576.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement of the deadlock and acquittal came after more than five months of arguments, examination, cross-examination, dismissed jurors and one restart to deliberations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've always felt that Max was innocent, we've always felt that it was a clear case. ... It's scary to have an innocent client that's been in jail for two years,\" said Curtis Briggs, lead attorney for Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm relieved, but my thoughts are with the families right now. I don't want to lose sight, and Max Harris doesn't want to lose sight of the fact that the families are suffering, families who have suffered a great loss. Regardless of our opinions on the case, we acknowledge that it's very difficult.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Referencing the outcome for Almena, Briggs added, \"Until they put the owners of the warehouse on trial, they will continue to get a mistrial.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Serra, who represents Almena, said the mistrial today was not a victory for his client.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/jersiegel/status/1169730003296088066\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm pained. I'm anguished. I'm frustrated, but God damn it, we will win next time,\" referring to a possible retrial for Almena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra said Almena turned to him following the verdict and asked if Harris could be a defense witness in a future retrial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The families are disappointed in the verdicts today, the results of today,\" said Mary Alexander, lead attorney for families of Ghost Ship fire victims in an upcoming, separate civil case. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We look forward to proving the case against the city of Oakland. The city knew, the police knew, the firemen knew that this place had people in it, that they were using it like a cabaret.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/jersiegel/status/1169751027035209728\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/AnnikaSCline/status/1169754718639284225\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a courthouse press conference, Alameda County Chief Assistant District Attorney Kevin Dunleavy said his office remains focused on victims' families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since the beginning of this case, our hearts have been with the families of the 36 victims that died in this unspeakable tragedy,\" he said. \"That still remains our focus, and that will be our focus going forward. The verdict is in against Max Harris. We are going to evaluate our prosecution as it relates to Derick Almena.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several relatives of victims of the 2016 fire expressed shock at the decisions of the jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Vega, who lost her 22-year-old son Alex in the fire, said both Harris and Almena should have been found guilty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody's guilty. I lost my son cause of this. And this is what happens? I am not happy about this,\" Vega said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, District Attorney Nancy O’Malley expressed disappointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While I am disappointed in today’s outcome, I must respect the thoroughness and thoughtfulness of each juror in this matter, as well as the outcome of their deliberations,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11767676\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Ghost-Ship-Firefighters-800x540.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters work outside the Ghost Ship warehouse on the morning of Dec. 3, 2016 in Oakland, the day after a fire there claimed the lives of 36 people.\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11767676\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Ghost-Ship-Firefighters-800x540.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Ghost-Ship-Firefighters-160x108.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Ghost-Ship-Firefighters-1020x689.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Ghost-Ship-Firefighters-1200x810.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Ghost-Ship-Firefighters.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters work outside the Ghost Ship warehouse on the morning of Dec. 3, 2016 in Oakland, the day after a fire there claimed the lives of 36 people. \u003ccite>(Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Ghost Ship Criminal Trial\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The East Oakland warehouse known as the Ghost Ship caught fire just after 11 p.m. on Dec. 2, 2016, the night of an electronic music party, killing 35 concertgoers and one tenant. Fire investigators never determined the cause of the conflagration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution had argued that the actions of Almena and Harris amounted to criminal negligence. They argued the warehouse was illegally converted into an unsafe living space with complete disregard for safety, violating nine fire codes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Deputy District Attorney Autrey James \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11743815/prosecutor-says-ghost-ship-victims-had-no-notice-no-time-and-no-exits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">argued\u003c/a> that the victims didn't have enough notice, time or the ability to exit, due to a lack of sprinklers, alarms and adequate exit signage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='ghost-ship-trial' label='Complete Coverage of the Ghost Ship Trial']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11763874/ghost-ship-victims-had-no-notice-and-no-exits-prosecutors-repeat-in-closing-arguments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">also argued\u003c/a> that Almena almost immediately violated the terms of the lease he signed in November 2013 by allowing people to live there. The prosecution said major alterations to the Ghost Ship were made without the required building permits and that events were held in the building without clearance from the city of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almena testified that he didn't get any permits for any of the work done in the warehouse and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11760153/ghost-ship-trial-defendant-testifies-he-believed-dwellings-could-be-built-in-warehouse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said he thought contractors would get them\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almena also testified that landlord Eva Ng — daughter of warehouse owner Chor Ng — had asked him to get permits but that he had declined, and that \"early on\" in the immediate months after signing the lease \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11760427/ghost-ship-defendant-says-he-wont-blame-anybody-for-deadly-warehouse-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he had asked the Ngs to obtain the proper permits\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors described the interior of the building as a maze stuffed from floor to ceiling with highly flammable materials, including wood, tapestries, statues, furniture and other improvised building components, such as pianos and windows used to delineate hallways and living spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution also argued Harris acted as a kind of second-in-command, collecting rents, issuing eviction notices and helping to organize events like the one on Dec. 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During closing arguments, defense attorneys pointed to testimony by many former tenants and visitors who said they felt the Ghost Ship was safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense also argued that personnel from several agencies, including Oakland's police and fire departments, as well as Child Protective Services, had passed through the warehouse dozens of times in the years leading up to the fire and had never flagged the building, never red-tagged it or issued any eviction notices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Curtis Briggs, who represents Harris, and Tony Serra, who represents Almena, also argued that testimony by at least seven witnesses pointed to arson as the cause of the deadly conflagration and that Almena and Harris couldn't have done anything to prevent it. James said in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11764513/ghost-ship-trial-handed-to-jury-victims-families-await-verdict\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rebuttal to the defense's closing arguments\u003c/a> that there was no evidence of arson and called testimony by a key witness \"unbelievable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Briggs also said Harris' duties at the warehouse were janitorial and not managerial. Harris testified he had only \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11755274/co-defendant-max-harris-tells-jury-there-was-no-sort-of-authority-figure-at-ghost-ship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">used terms like creative or executive director ironically, and said the Ghost Ship was a nonhierarchical collective\u003c/a>. Briggs argued that his client did not have any role in signing the lease and had not even lived in the warehouse when major modifications to the building were made, including the installation of a set of stairs and a side fire exit, both of which Almena neglected to get permits for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense also said in closing arguments that their clients were scapegoats for the city of Oakland, which Serra says failed to enforce its own building and safety regulations. The city is one of several defendants in a civil lawsuit arising from the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Events Leading Up to the Criminal Trial\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Almena and Harris \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11495325/two-reportedly-charged-with-manslaughter-in-oaklands-ghost-ship-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were arrested on June 5, 2017\u003c/a>, and each charged with 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside link1='https://www.kqed.org/arts/program/oakland-warehouse-memorial,Honoring Those Lost to the Ghost Ship Fire' hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/ARTS_OAKLANDFIRE_featured_image-nologo.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11678966/men-plead-no-contest-in-deadly-ghost-ship-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Both pleaded no contest\u003c/a> to the charges on July 3, 2018, in Alameda County Superior Court, with Almena agreeing to a nine-year jail sentence with four years of supervised release. Harris agreed to a six-year jail sentence with four years of supervised release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Aug. 10, 2018, Alameda County Superior Court Judge James Cramer \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686316/judge-rejects-plea-deals-in-deadly-oakland-warehouse-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rejected the pleas\u003c/a>, a decision that put the case on the path to this year's trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In explaining his decision, Cramer said Almena didn't acknowledge responsibility or show remorse for the fatal blaze. He pointed to a 30-page letter to probation officers in which the judge said Almena cast himself as a \"victim and a witness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cramer said the plea deal would have been fair for Harris, but in rejecting it for one defendant, he was bound by the law to reject it for both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge's decision also came a day after more than two dozen mothers, brothers, friends and other family members of the 36 victims \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686120/loved-ones-of-the-ghost-ships-dead-decry-plea-deal-brokered-in-their-name\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told stories of their dead loved ones and criticized the plea deal\u003c/a> reportedly struck to spare them the pain of a criminal trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Cramer rejected the deal, Almena said, \"If I could give each one of you my life, if I could give you my children's lives, I would.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutor Autrey James told the judge after Almena's statement that the victims' families were offended by many of the things he had said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Civil Trial\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Victims' families have alleged in lawsuits that several Oakland city agencies failed in their duty to inspect the Ghost Ship warehouse building or follow up on complaints about the premises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits also claim PG&E failed to properly monitor, inspect and repair electrical equipment that provided power to the building. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n a recent visit to San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House, KQED listener Michelle Morby didn’t like what she saw. In the middle of the champagne-sipping, pre-performance throng, she spotted someone wearing \u003cem>jeans\u003c/em> and \u003cem>white sneakers\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That to me is completely offensive,” Morby said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morby is someone who likes to dress up when she goes out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I got a ticket to the opera tonight, I would pull out a silk jumpsuit. I would wear it with the tallest platform sandals that I have. And I would do my makeup, and I would wear all my jewelry,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like beauty, fashion is very much in the eye of the beholder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the fashion faux pas prompted Morby to ask Bay Curious the question, “Why has the Bay Area become the Casual Capital of the World?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sneakers and jeans at the opera. Yoga pants all day long. Hoodies and puffy vests. The list goes on,” she added. “Don’t say it’s the weather.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re thinking, “It’s not the weather. It’s Mark Zuckerberg with his hoodies and sneakers, and Steve Jobs’ monochrome T-shirts and jeans,” you should definitely read on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s certainly true that Bay Area patrons of high-end arts events like the opera and ballet — as well as fancy restaurants and other places where you might traditionally dress up a bit — are increasingly dressing down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opera singer\u003ca href=\"https://jnaibridgesmezzo.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> J’Nai Bridges\u003c/a>, who recently portrayed “\u003ca href=\"https://sfopera.com/1819season/carmen/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carmen” at the San Francisco Opera\u003c/a>, said she’s noticed Bay Area audiences tend to wear more casual clothes on a night out, compared to some other places, notably big cities in Europe and on the East Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11763831\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11763831 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/T8A9920_test-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"J'Nai Bridges as Carmen at San Francisco Opera.\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/T8A9920_test-800x548.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/T8A9920_test-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/T8A9920_test-1020x699.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/T8A9920_test.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">J’Nai Bridges as “Carmen” at the San Francisco Opera. \u003ccite>(Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In New York, for instance, where I live, it’s the polar opposite,” said Bridges. “People wear gowns, tuxes and really funky couture things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bridges is glad to see people coming to the opera, no matter what they’re wearing, but she personally wishes they’d put a little more effort into their appearance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe I feel like that because, as a performer, we give so much of ourselves,” the opera singer said. “And it’s maybe a respect thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Bay Area isn’t the only place where leisurewear rules. Any number of cities could vie for the title of casual capital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The casual capital of the world appears to be Salt Lake City, Utah,” \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_France\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tan France\u003c/a>, the fashion expert for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/80160037\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Netflix series “Queer Eye,”\u003c/a> told KQED shortly after appearing on KQED Forum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11763695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 590px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11763695 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/tan-and-emmanuel.jpg\" alt=\"Tan France of 'Queer Eye' poses with Emmanuel Hapsis, host of KQED's 'The Cooler' podcast.\" width=\"590\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/tan-and-emmanuel.jpg 590w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/tan-and-emmanuel-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/tan-and-emmanuel-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tan France, left, of ‘Queer Eye’ poses with Emmanuel Hapsis, host of KQED’s ‘The Cooler’ podcast. \u003ccite>(KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>France is British by birth, lives in Salt Lake City, and thinks the Bay Area is much more dressy than Utah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People wear heels and stuff, which is quite surprising,” France said. “You’ve got hills. Why is anyone in a heel?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other places around the U.S. that could equally be considered for the title might be Denver, Austin, Portland and Milwaukee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But going with the premise that casual style is a key part of how people dress in the Bay Area today, a complex picture of how and why that came to be emerges.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The History of Casual in the Bay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11763833\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11763833 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/melissa-leventon-e1564244451474-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Fashion historian Melissa Leventon shows off a pair of shoes from her historic shoe collection at her home in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/melissa-leventon-e1564244451474-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/melissa-leventon-e1564244451474-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/melissa-leventon-e1564244451474-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/melissa-leventon-e1564244451474-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/melissa-leventon-e1564244451474-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/melissa-leventon-e1564244451474-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/melissa-leventon-e1564244451474-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/melissa-leventon-e1564244451474-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/melissa-leventon-e1564244451474-354x472.jpg 354w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/melissa-leventon-e1564244451474.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fashion historian Melissa Leventon shows off a pair of shoes from her historic shoe collection at her home in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco-based fashion historian \u003ca href=\"https://portal.cca.edu/people/mleventon/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Melissa Leventon\u003c/a> said the rise of casual wear in the Bay Area is part of the overall fashion story of California, having to do with economics, Hollywood, immigration patterns and the rise of modern design in the middle of the century in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Leventon, the San Francisco clothing industry was split in the late 1800s and well into the 1900s. On the one hand, San Francisco really was a dress-up town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco was actually a city that kind of prided itself on its elegance,” Leventon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People wore gloves and hats to run errands, and there were catwalk shows in San Francisco’s Union Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leventon said San Francisco was home to some highly sought-after fashion labels. Like \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilli_Ann\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lilli Ann\u003c/a>, founded in the city in the 1930s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The company made beautifully tailored suits, cocktail dresses, evening dresses,” Leventon said. “They made the kind of elegant wear that well-to-do, well-dressed San Franciscans would wear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even working-class San Franciscans who didn’t have lots of spare cash to throw around on fancy duds dressed up in a bid to project a sense of propriety and economic self-improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Union Square, SF Fashion Show (ca.1950s)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/KuubsgP3eTE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there is the other side of San Francisco’s nascent clothing industry — the side focused on making hardy workwear for people like miners and railroad engineers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That side centered around \u003ca href=\"https://www.levi.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Levi’s\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Levi’s is very important and certainly one thing that San Francisco has contributed to the general move to casualness, not only here but everywhere,” Leventon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founded in San Francisco in 1853, Levi’s gradually became hugely influential after inventing the first denim jeans in the 1870s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levi’s was a game changer, especially starting in the 1930s, when the company began marketing its jeans not just as workwear, but also as leisurewear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teenagers became a target market after World War II, and Hollywood helped spread the word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two movies helped popularize jeans,” Leventon said. “‘Rebel Without a Cause’ and ‘The Wild One.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In these movies, James Dean and Marlon Brando \u003cem>smoldered\u003c/em> in denim. Everyone wanted the look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California also became home to some talented architects and designers who had fled Nazi Europe, like Rudi Gernreich, who emigrated from Austria in 1938.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11763835\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 220px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11763835\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Rudi_Gernreich.jpg\" alt=\"Rudi Gernreich\" width=\"220\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Rudi_Gernreich.jpg 220w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Rudi_Gernreich-160x231.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rudi Gernreich \u003ccite>(Philadelphia City Paper)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He did some really groundbreaking designs in the 1950s,” Leventon said. “He was a pioneer of unisex fashions. His clothes were streamlined, youthful and accessible to a wide range of consumers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The free-wheeling styles of designers like Gernreich went hand in hand with other global California exports, like Beat, Black Panther and hippie culture, and Hollywood surf movies. All of this stuff fed a movement in the media and advertising that projected a sense of the Golden State as a place of permissiveness, comfort and ease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea of California as a place where you could get back to nature,” Leventon said. “Nobody’s dressing up and going to the office. You’re putting on your bathing suit and maybe a pair of shorts and a tank top on top of that, and going out to the pool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That idea persists today. You can see a version of it in the yoga pants that many people wear about town. And of course, there’s the jeans, T-shirts, hoodies and sneakers popular with those working in the tech and entertainment industries — two stereotypical looks associated with The Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it’s not surprising that quite a few major leisure fashion brands beyond Levi’s have their roots here. \u003ca href=\"http://gap.com\">The Gap\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.esprit.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Esprit\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://oldnavy.gap.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Old Navy\u003c/a>, (which is owned by Gap), not to mention newer ones like \u003ca href=\"https://www.everlane.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Everlane\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.allbirds.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Allbirds\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://rothys.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rothy’s,\u003c/a> are based in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of these brands, especially the ones that have been around for a while, have fed into the idea of the Bay Area as being a home for casual style.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Our Diverse Fashion Sense\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When it comes down to it, you really can’t put Bay Area style in a box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a lot of diversity here if you open your eyes instead of your mouth,” said Tony Bravo, the San Francisco Chronicle’s fashion reporter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recently took to the streets of downtown San Francisco with KQED to scope out what locals and tourists were wearing. He was casually dressed in baggy jeans, a jacket covered in bright geometric shapes, and a resplendent pair of Converse high-tops festooned in gold and silver glitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11763639\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11763639 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Tnoy-Bravo-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tony Bravo, Man about Town and the San Francisco Chronicles Fashion Reporter lounges in the backroom at The Cavalier in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Tnoy-Bravo-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Tnoy-Bravo-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Tnoy-Bravo-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Tnoy-Bravo-2-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Tnoy-Bravo-2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Tnoy-Bravo-2-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Tnoy-Bravo-2-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Tnoy-Bravo-2-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Tnoy-Bravo-2-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Tnoy-Bravo-2-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Tnoy-Bravo-2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Bravo, man about town and the San Francisco Chronicle’s fashion reporter, lounges in the backroom at The Cavalier in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The thing about walking around San Francisco is, there’s always something for the eye,” Bravo said. “It may not be that Balenciaga ball gown or a perfect three-piece suit. But there might be a great color story. There might just be an impeccably cut piece of outerwear. A great shoe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All kinds of exotic details catch Bravo’s eye around Union Square, from a teen dressed in a black tulle ballet skirt, a pair of leggings and a pink sequined hoodie, to an older person in cropped balloon pants, a big sun hat and a bright yellow top. “I think she looks a little bit like a Van Gogh painting,” Bravo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were, of course, lots of jeans and sneakers. But people clearly expressed themselves with their clothes, whether dressed casually or formally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a great, progressive, sometimes libertine city, and I think that’s reflected in what we wear,” Bravo said. “It’s high, it’s low, it’s simple, it’s extravagant. It is so many things. It is perhaps too many things to categorize.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Show us your style! Share a photo of your Bay Area style on Instagram or Twitter using the hashtag \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/mybayareastyle/\">#mybayareastyle\u003c/a>. We’ll feature some of our favorites on KQED’s social media channels, and in the October \u003ca href=\"http://baycurious.org/newsletter\">Bay Curious newsletter\u003c/a>. Whether you’re in jeans and a T-shirt or an avant-garde creation — we want to celebrate it all! For extra credit, tell us why you love what you’re wearing. Tag your photos by Sept. 20, 2019.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s certainly true that Bay Area patrons of high-end arts events like the opera and ballet — as well as fancy restaurants and other places where you might traditionally dress up a bit — are increasingly dressing down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opera singer\u003ca href=\"https://jnaibridgesmezzo.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> J’Nai Bridges\u003c/a>, who recently portrayed “\u003ca href=\"https://sfopera.com/1819season/carmen/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carmen” at the San Francisco Opera\u003c/a>, said she’s noticed Bay Area audiences tend to wear more casual clothes on a night out, compared to some other places, notably big cities in Europe and on the East Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11763831\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11763831 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/T8A9920_test-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"J'Nai Bridges as Carmen at San Francisco Opera.\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/T8A9920_test-800x548.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/T8A9920_test-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/T8A9920_test-1020x699.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/T8A9920_test.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">J’Nai Bridges as “Carmen” at the San Francisco Opera. \u003ccite>(Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In New York, for instance, where I live, it’s the polar opposite,” said Bridges. “People wear gowns, tuxes and really funky couture things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bridges is glad to see people coming to the opera, no matter what they’re wearing, but she personally wishes they’d put a little more effort into their appearance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe I feel like that because, as a performer, we give so much of ourselves,” the opera singer said. “And it’s maybe a respect thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Bay Area isn’t the only place where leisurewear rules. Any number of cities could vie for the title of casual capital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The casual capital of the world appears to be Salt Lake City, Utah,” \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_France\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tan France\u003c/a>, the fashion expert for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/80160037\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Netflix series “Queer Eye,”\u003c/a> told KQED shortly after appearing on KQED Forum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11763695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 590px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11763695 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/tan-and-emmanuel.jpg\" alt=\"Tan France of 'Queer Eye' poses with Emmanuel Hapsis, host of KQED's 'The Cooler' podcast.\" width=\"590\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/tan-and-emmanuel.jpg 590w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/tan-and-emmanuel-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/tan-and-emmanuel-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tan France, left, of ‘Queer Eye’ poses with Emmanuel Hapsis, host of KQED’s ‘The Cooler’ podcast. \u003ccite>(KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>France is British by birth, lives in Salt Lake City, and thinks the Bay Area is much more dressy than Utah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People wear heels and stuff, which is quite surprising,” France said. “You’ve got hills. Why is anyone in a heel?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other places around the U.S. that could equally be considered for the title might be Denver, Austin, Portland and Milwaukee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But going with the premise that casual style is a key part of how people dress in the Bay Area today, a complex picture of how and why that came to be emerges.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The History of Casual in the Bay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11763833\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11763833 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/melissa-leventon-e1564244451474-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Fashion historian Melissa Leventon shows off a pair of shoes from her historic shoe collection at her home in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/melissa-leventon-e1564244451474-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/melissa-leventon-e1564244451474-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/melissa-leventon-e1564244451474-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/melissa-leventon-e1564244451474-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/melissa-leventon-e1564244451474-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/melissa-leventon-e1564244451474-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/melissa-leventon-e1564244451474-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/melissa-leventon-e1564244451474-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/melissa-leventon-e1564244451474-354x472.jpg 354w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/melissa-leventon-e1564244451474.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fashion historian Melissa Leventon shows off a pair of shoes from her historic shoe collection at her home in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco-based fashion historian \u003ca href=\"https://portal.cca.edu/people/mleventon/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Melissa Leventon\u003c/a> said the rise of casual wear in the Bay Area is part of the overall fashion story of California, having to do with economics, Hollywood, immigration patterns and the rise of modern design in the middle of the century in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Leventon, the San Francisco clothing industry was split in the late 1800s and well into the 1900s. On the one hand, San Francisco really was a dress-up town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco was actually a city that kind of prided itself on its elegance,” Leventon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People wore gloves and hats to run errands, and there were catwalk shows in San Francisco’s Union Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leventon said San Francisco was home to some highly sought-after fashion labels. Like \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilli_Ann\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lilli Ann\u003c/a>, founded in the city in the 1930s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The company made beautifully tailored suits, cocktail dresses, evening dresses,” Leventon said. “They made the kind of elegant wear that well-to-do, well-dressed San Franciscans would wear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even working-class San Franciscans who didn’t have lots of spare cash to throw around on fancy duds dressed up in a bid to project a sense of propriety and economic self-improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Union Square, SF Fashion Show (ca.1950s)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/KuubsgP3eTE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there is the other side of San Francisco’s nascent clothing industry — the side focused on making hardy workwear for people like miners and railroad engineers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That side centered around \u003ca href=\"https://www.levi.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Levi’s\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Levi’s is very important and certainly one thing that San Francisco has contributed to the general move to casualness, not only here but everywhere,” Leventon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Founded in San Francisco in 1853, Levi’s gradually became hugely influential after inventing the first denim jeans in the 1870s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levi’s was a game changer, especially starting in the 1930s, when the company began marketing its jeans not just as workwear, but also as leisurewear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teenagers became a target market after World War II, and Hollywood helped spread the word.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two movies helped popularize jeans,” Leventon said. “‘Rebel Without a Cause’ and ‘The Wild One.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In these movies, James Dean and Marlon Brando \u003cem>smoldered\u003c/em> in denim. Everyone wanted the look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California also became home to some talented architects and designers who had fled Nazi Europe, like Rudi Gernreich, who emigrated from Austria in 1938.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11763835\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 220px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11763835\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Rudi_Gernreich.jpg\" alt=\"Rudi Gernreich\" width=\"220\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Rudi_Gernreich.jpg 220w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Rudi_Gernreich-160x231.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rudi Gernreich \u003ccite>(Philadelphia City Paper)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He did some really groundbreaking designs in the 1950s,” Leventon said. “He was a pioneer of unisex fashions. His clothes were streamlined, youthful and accessible to a wide range of consumers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The free-wheeling styles of designers like Gernreich went hand in hand with other global California exports, like Beat, Black Panther and hippie culture, and Hollywood surf movies. All of this stuff fed a movement in the media and advertising that projected a sense of the Golden State as a place of permissiveness, comfort and ease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea of California as a place where you could get back to nature,” Leventon said. “Nobody’s dressing up and going to the office. You’re putting on your bathing suit and maybe a pair of shorts and a tank top on top of that, and going out to the pool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That idea persists today. You can see a version of it in the yoga pants that many people wear about town. And of course, there’s the jeans, T-shirts, hoodies and sneakers popular with those working in the tech and entertainment industries — two stereotypical looks associated with The Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it’s not surprising that quite a few major leisure fashion brands beyond Levi’s have their roots here. \u003ca href=\"http://gap.com\">The Gap\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.esprit.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Esprit\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://oldnavy.gap.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Old Navy\u003c/a>, (which is owned by Gap), not to mention newer ones like \u003ca href=\"https://www.everlane.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Everlane\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.allbirds.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Allbirds\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://rothys.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rothy’s,\u003c/a> are based in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of these brands, especially the ones that have been around for a while, have fed into the idea of the Bay Area as being a home for casual style.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Our Diverse Fashion Sense\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When it comes down to it, you really can’t put Bay Area style in a box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a lot of diversity here if you open your eyes instead of your mouth,” said Tony Bravo, the San Francisco Chronicle’s fashion reporter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recently took to the streets of downtown San Francisco with KQED to scope out what locals and tourists were wearing. He was casually dressed in baggy jeans, a jacket covered in bright geometric shapes, and a resplendent pair of Converse high-tops festooned in gold and silver glitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11763639\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11763639 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Tnoy-Bravo-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tony Bravo, Man about Town and the San Francisco Chronicles Fashion Reporter lounges in the backroom at The Cavalier in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Tnoy-Bravo-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Tnoy-Bravo-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Tnoy-Bravo-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Tnoy-Bravo-2-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Tnoy-Bravo-2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Tnoy-Bravo-2-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Tnoy-Bravo-2-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Tnoy-Bravo-2-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Tnoy-Bravo-2-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Tnoy-Bravo-2-536x402.jpg 536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Tnoy-Bravo-2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Bravo, man about town and the San Francisco Chronicle’s fashion reporter, lounges in the backroom at The Cavalier in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The thing about walking around San Francisco is, there’s always something for the eye,” Bravo said. “It may not be that Balenciaga ball gown or a perfect three-piece suit. But there might be a great color story. There might just be an impeccably cut piece of outerwear. A great shoe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All kinds of exotic details catch Bravo’s eye around Union Square, from a teen dressed in a black tulle ballet skirt, a pair of leggings and a pink sequined hoodie, to an older person in cropped balloon pants, a big sun hat and a bright yellow top. “I think she looks a little bit like a Van Gogh painting,” Bravo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were, of course, lots of jeans and sneakers. But people clearly expressed themselves with their clothes, whether dressed casually or formally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a great, progressive, sometimes libertine city, and I think that’s reflected in what we wear,” Bravo said. “It’s high, it’s low, it’s simple, it’s extravagant. It is so many things. It is perhaps too many things to categorize.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Show us your style! Share a photo of your Bay Area style on Instagram or Twitter using the hashtag \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/mybayareastyle/\">#mybayareastyle\u003c/a>. We’ll feature some of our favorites on KQED’s social media channels, and in the October \u003ca href=\"http://baycurious.org/newsletter\">Bay Curious newsletter\u003c/a>. Whether you’re in jeans and a T-shirt or an avant-garde creation — we want to celebrate it all! For extra credit, tell us why you love what you’re wearing. Tag your photos by Sept. 20, 2019.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes early in life, and ever since has given herself insulin shots before she eats, to help manage her blood sugar levels. No big deal. But some years ago, she had an upsetting experience at a restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was in the restaurant bathroom, just finishing up her injection when another woman walked in. They both returned to their dinners, but as Sotomayor left the restaurant, she heard the woman from the restroom say: “She’s a drug addict.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sotomayor stopped, turned around, and said: “Madam, I am not a drug addict. I am diabetic, and that injection you saw me give to myself is insulin. It’s the medicine that keeps me alive. If you don’t know why someone’s doing something, just ask them. Don’t assume the worst in people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And walked away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The justice has replayed that scene in her mind many times over the years, and it ultimately led her to write the children’s book \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/755853270/just-ask-be-different-be-brave-be-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just Ask! Be Different, Be Brave, Be You.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to talk about children like me,” Sotomayor says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Just Ask! \u003c/em>is about 12 young people working together to plant a garden. “Each of us is doing what we do best …” Sotomayor explains. “Each child is doing something to contribute to the garden, despite how they’re differently able.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book is illustrated by Rafael López. Sotomayor says she was drawn to his work because of his use of bold, vivid colors. “Coming from Mexico, I grew up surrounded by color,” López says. “Whether you’re in the market, or you were in the fields, or you were just walking around … You can see the buildings of Mexico that are painted so brightly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11771703\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/soto-800x488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/soto.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/soto-160x98.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To him, bright colors represent emotion and diversity. “The whole idea is that you’re bringing this explosion of color … this explosion of diversity that we ideally would like to have in a community,” López explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sotomayor says that the concept of the garden was important to her as she wrote the book. “Just the way gardens have different plants, and different trees, and different kinds of flowers, and different birds and animals that populate the garden, we in our society have different kinds of people, too, doing different kinds of things,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Sotomayor’s favorite scenes in the book shows a young girl named Julia winking at an owl. Julia has Tourette syndrome. “Sometimes I wiggle or make sounds that I can’t control,” Julia says in the book. López says this illustration was one of the most challenging for him to draw, but “there was this sweetness about this animal, this owl, connecting emotionally to Julia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11771704\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/just-ask_int-4p5_custom-5b309a3cfe57f6f5248d687ed8ecbe455d5e5331-s800-c85-800x488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/just-ask_int-4p5_custom-5b309a3cfe57f6f5248d687ed8ecbe455d5e5331-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/09/just-ask_int-4p5_custom-5b309a3cfe57f6f5248d687ed8ecbe455d5e5331-s800-c85-160x98.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López says one of the reasons that he connected to Sotomayor’s children’s story is because his son, Santiago, has autism. “He has taught me so much,” López says. “He’s made me a more patient person … he has made me a better listener, a more understanding person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are two children with autism in the book — and Sotomayor says it’s important that they are depicted in very different ways: Jordon loves to talk about dinosaurs. But Tiana prefers not to talk. “Conditions vary,” Sotomayor says. “Their presentations are never identical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>López says he hopes his son Santiago and other children will recognize themselves in these characters. Though they’ll all come away with different lessons, if these young readers feel empowered, “I think we did our job,” López says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sotomayor says the takeaway of the book is that differences are not bad. “I want every child to understand that whatever condition they bear in life, they are special in a good way,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can learn so much by getting to know someone that perhaps does things a little bit different than you,” López adds. “Be patient and be curious … and don’t be afraid to ask.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Samantha Balaban and Evie Stone produced and edited this interview for broadcast. 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She and her sisters got their start at \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/YouthMariachiMestizo/\">Mariachi Mestizo\u003c/a>, an award-winning youth ensemble founded by her parents in Delano. The group has performed at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center. (Her father, Juan Morales, has played in some of the most famous Mariachi groups in the United States, including Mariachi Sol de Mexico and Mariachi Los Camperos).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales herself has won a number of competitions for voice, violin, and trumpet — including the “Shining Star” award at the highly competitive “Battle of the Mariachis” in San Juan Capistrano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales is starting at Harvard University this fall, where she took a break from orientation to talk to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/tcrmag/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Report Magazine\u003c/a> host Sasha Khokha. 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There's been a huge switch in mariachi, at least in the L.A. area, with a lot of all-female groups. That's something that wasn't around a few years ago, and so they've started to break the stereotype that mariachis are male. I'm lucky to have grown up in a household where my dad was the only male. My family is full of super strong women, with a grand total of 10 tías (\u003cem>aunts\u003c/em>). I also think that was important in helping me feel confident to sing whatever I wanted — songs that tell stories about falling in love, getting your heart broken, dying and joining your lover in heaven. They're very dramatic, and I think I'm a dramatic person. My parents used to say I'm a drama queen. I think the songs fit well with my personality, but they're also narratives that people can relate to. We've all been in love. We've all had our heart broken. We've all felt super emotional about something, and music is a way for me to express those feelings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On singing about the people of Delano: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the community is made up of Mexican immigrants; working in the fields is usually their daytime job, while some people work another job at night. Delano is not a wealthy community, but it is rich in culture, which has played a huge part in my music. I come from a community of people who work tirelessly to provide for their families and to ensure that their kids will have it better. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales comes from a musical family. She and her sisters got their start at \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/YouthMariachiMestizo/\">Mariachi Mestizo\u003c/a>, an award-winning youth ensemble founded by her parents in Delano. The group has performed at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center. (Her father, Juan Morales, has played in some of the most famous Mariachi groups in the United States, including Mariachi Sol de Mexico and Mariachi Los Camperos).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales herself has won a number of competitions for voice, violin, and trumpet — including the “Shining Star” award at the highly competitive “Battle of the Mariachis” in San Juan Capistrano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales is starting at Harvard University this fall, where she took a break from orientation to talk to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/tcrmag/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Report Magazine\u003c/a> host Sasha Khokha. Here is an excerpt from that conversation, edited for brevity and clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770798\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11770798 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38820_image_123986672-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38820_image_123986672-qut.jpg 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38820_image_123986672-qut-160x103.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anaí Morales with her family of musicians. Her parents, Leticia and Juan, teach music to kids at a studio in Delano. Morales' sisters are also musicians. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Anaí Adina)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Mariachi’s influence on kids from the Central Valley:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mariachi music in general is a very important part of Mexican culture; it's present in everything that I do. I think mariachi in a community like Delano — which has a lot of Mexican immigrants and Filipino culture — gives kids a creative outlet and keeps them out of the gang violence that's present in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also nurturing to their cultural backgrounds, I think. A lot of kids enroll in the [mariachi] studio because their grandparents or their parents want them to play that music, or their grandparents and parents were mariachis, so it has a familial vibe to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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(Anaí 's sister, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11567779/at-17-this-mariachi-veteran-is-releasing-her-first-poetry-album\">Xochitl Morales\u003c/a>, is a spoken word artist who has also been featured on The California Report.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770827\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 355px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11770827\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38821_IMG_2307-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38821_IMG_2307-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38821_IMG_2307-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38821_IMG_2307-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38821_IMG_2307-qut-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38821_IMG_2307-qut-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38821_IMG_2307-qut-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38821_IMG_2307-qut-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38821_IMG_2307-qut-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38821_IMG_2307-qut-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38821_IMG_2307-qut-354x472.jpg 354w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38821_IMG_2307-qut.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morales has won a number of competitions for voice, violin, and trumpet — including the “Shining Star” award at the highly competitive “Battle of the Mariachis” in San Juan Capistrano. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Anaí Adina)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On singing about love and heartbreak as a young woman in a male-dominated genre:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don't think there should ever be stereotypes about who can sing what. There's been a huge switch in mariachi, at least in the L.A. area, with a lot of all-female groups. That's something that wasn't around a few years ago, and so they've started to break the stereotype that mariachis are male. I'm lucky to have grown up in a household where my dad was the only male. My family is full of super strong women, with a grand total of 10 tías (\u003cem>aunts\u003c/em>). I also think that was important in helping me feel confident to sing whatever I wanted — songs that tell stories about falling in love, getting your heart broken, dying and joining your lover in heaven. They're very dramatic, and I think I'm a dramatic person. My parents used to say I'm a drama queen. I think the songs fit well with my personality, but they're also narratives that people can relate to. We've all been in love. We've all had our heart broken. We've all felt super emotional about something, and music is a way for me to express those feelings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On singing about the people of Delano: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the community is made up of Mexican immigrants; working in the fields is usually their daytime job, while some people work another job at night. Delano is not a wealthy community, but it is rich in culture, which has played a huge part in my music. I come from a community of people who work tirelessly to provide for their families and to ensure that their kids will have it better. That has inspired me not only to work hard for what I want in my music, but also to pursue higher education so that I can return to my community and give them what they deserve: the chance to seek better opportunities for themselves.\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/AGnwfDgXkHA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/AGnwfDgXkHA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On singing in Mixteco, one of the indigenous languages of Oaxaca:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am not fluent in Mixteco, so at times you can hear my accent or some mispronunciations. 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"content": "\u003cp>Author Susan Straight's new memoir, \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43835294-in-the-country-of-women\">\"In the Country of Women\"\u003c/a> — her first foray into nonfiction — celebrates the orange groves, tumbleweeds and driveway barbecues of Riverside and the Inland Empire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Susan Straight, author and UC Riverside professor of creative writing\"]'In the crucible of our family, race is lesser than family loyalty and survival.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Straight's memoir honors six generations of women in her multi-racial family, offering a history lesson about the violence they endured, and their tenacious pursuit of the California dream. A professor of \u003ca href=\"https://creativewriting.ucr.edu/people/straight/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">creative writing at UC Riverside\u003c/a>, Straight was born and raised in Riverside — her family's “promised land.\" She joined \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Report Magazine\u003c/a> host Sasha Khokha to discuss her literary love letter to her three daughters, and to the place she still calls home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s an excerpt of that conversation:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769404\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11769404 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38632_02-Rosie-and-Alberta-p3-qut-800x490.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38632_02-Rosie-and-Alberta-p3-qut-800x490.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38632_02-Rosie-and-Alberta-p3-qut-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38632_02-Rosie-and-Alberta-p3-qut-1020x625.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38632_02-Rosie-and-Alberta-p3-qut-1200x736.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38632_02-Rosie-and-Alberta-p3-qut.jpg 1840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A torn photo of Susan Straight's mother-in law, Alberta Sims (R), and her sister, Rosie Morris, (L). This fragment inspired Straight to write \"In The County of Women.\" \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Susan Straight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On writing about violence:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fiction, you’re taking things that might frighten you, but you’re writing about them in a fictional lens through imagination. I wrote this memoir about real women like Fine, my father-in-law’s grandmother, and the violence she endured from the time she was orphaned at five years old. She was being beaten every day, [after she was] given away just post-slavery to a white family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770493\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 334px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11770493\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38639_22_Fine_msp-321-wmc-qut-800x1055.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38639_22_Fine_msp-321-wmc-qut-800x1055.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38639_22_Fine_msp-321-wmc-qut-160x211.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38639_22_Fine_msp-321-wmc-qut-1020x1346.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38639_22_Fine_msp-321-wmc-qut-910x1200.jpg 910w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38639_22_Fine_msp-321-wmc-qut-1920x2533.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38639_22_Fine_msp-321-wmc-qut.jpg 1552w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fine Ely Hoffard Rawlings Kemp, Tulsa, Oklahoma. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Susan Straight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Daisy Carter was my daughters' great-grandmother. When Daisy was five years old, she was walking with her mother on a dirt road in Sunflower County, Mississippi. Her mother saw a car speeding toward them and she knew what was going to happen. She threw Daisy up into the ditch, and was hit and killed as the car left. Daisy, at five, was left orphaned. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daisy, who was very beautiful, went on the road as a dancing girl. Each man she met must have been extremely frightening and violent. She had four daughters with four different men. She was married and each time she fled. Eventually she arrived in Calexico, California in 1936 with four beautiful daughters and she never told anyone who their fathers were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[I also wrote] about my own grandmother, who I never met. She died at 50 and I wasn't born yet. She endured a lot of violence at the hands of my grandfather. I think about what violence means now, and looking at the way young women are still treated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think it’s different for girls my daughters' age; you have online harassment and bullying. We had people leaning out of the window of a car and yelling at us, trying to grab us and throw us into a car. But it feels very fraught. It’s all the same thing, considering the danger of what it means to be a woman in this world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770502\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11770502\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38633_03_Ruby-Triboulet-and-Family_msp-48-qut-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38633_03_Ruby-Triboulet-and-Family_msp-48-qut-800x518.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38633_03_Ruby-Triboulet-and-Family_msp-48-qut-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38633_03_Ruby-Triboulet-and-Family_msp-48-qut-1020x660.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38633_03_Ruby-Triboulet-and-Family_msp-48-qut-1200x777.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38633_03_Ruby-Triboulet-and-Family_msp-48-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francois Triboulet, Genevieve Triboulet, Amanda Baldon Triboulet, Emma Triboulet, Carl Triboulet, Ruby Triboulet (Straight's paternal grandmother); in front, Helen Triboulet. Hancock County, Illinois, around 1920; Ruby and Emma are going west. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Susan Straight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On her mother:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mother came here from the Alps of Switzerland and worked in the fields on a farm when she was 15 years old. When her father and stepmother decided they were going to go to Florida, my mom ran away. She went to work for a family as a babysitter, and at night she worked in a diner that served the Oshawa GM Plant. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Book reviews for 'In the Country of Women'\" link1=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/books/review/in-the-country-of-women-susan-straight.html,All in the Family:A Multicultural Memoir\" link2=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/08/07/748132560/in-the-country-of-women-honors-the-strength-and-resilience-of-six-generations,'In the Country of Women' Honors the Strength and Resilience of 6 Generations\" link3=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/susan-straights-memoir-is-a-letter-to-her-daughters--and-a-reckoning-with-americas-past/2019/08/22/e9aa45a6-c358-11e9-b72f-b31dfaa77212_story.html,'In the Country of Women' by Susan Straight book review\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, my mother ended up living on her own in Riverside. She taught herself perfect English by listening to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcyN2CvnJf4\">Vin Scully\u003c/a> do Dodgers broadcasts; today I listen to Dodgers games on the radio and think about my mom wanting her enunciation to be perfect. My mom went back to junior college when she was 40 and I was 12. It was a big deal watching her get her A.A. degree. I was really appreciative of the fact that she was very tenacious as a woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769401\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11769401\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susan Straight (second from right) with the women in her extended family. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Susan Straight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On writing about race:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At our family reunion, there were 100 people and I was the only white person. People always tell jokes about white people around me. They say, “We forgot about you.” I think for my kids, the most important thing is that we have this giant family on both sides. In the crucible of our family, race is lesser than family loyalty and survival. I wrote [the book] as a letter to my three daughters because I wanted them to know how proud I am of their heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11769348 alignleft\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38640_91dOypnXAL-1-qut-800x1214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38640_91dOypnXAL-1-qut-800x1214.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38640_91dOypnXAL-1-qut-160x243.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38640_91dOypnXAL-1-qut-1020x1547.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38640_91dOypnXAL-1-qut-791x1200.jpg 791w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38640_91dOypnXAL-1-qut.jpg 1350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\">\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An excerpt of Straight's memoir:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“In the country of women, we have maps and threads of kin some people find hard to believe. The women could not have dreamed that in this promised land we would still have bullets and fear and murder. Fracture and derision and assault, sharp and revived. I was born here, and I am still here, and I didn’t leave, which doesn’t feel very heroic. You three, my daughters, have laughed at me for looking out the kitchen window of our house toward the hospital where I was born, where your father was born, where you were born. My daily life is a five-mile radius of memory and work and family. You three daughters know this in your genes: You love only orange-blossom honey, because you grew up with that scent and those flowers, that fruit and those bees. You long for Santa Ana winds and sunflowers, tumbleweeds and the laughter of people eating at long unfolded tables in a driveway. We bury descendants of the women, and we serve funeral repasts in church halls built by some of California’s black pioneers. The women in our family are everything: African-American, Mexican-American, Cherokee and Creek, Swiss, Irish and English, French and Filipino, Samoan and Haitian. Some of their heritage remains a mystery.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769400\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11769400\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38636_16-Gaila-Delphine-Rosette-p281-CROP-wmc-qut-800x648.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38636_16-Gaila-Delphine-Rosette-p281-CROP-wmc-qut-800x648.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38636_16-Gaila-Delphine-Rosette-p281-CROP-wmc-qut-160x130.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38636_16-Gaila-Delphine-Rosette-p281-CROP-wmc-qut-1020x826.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38636_16-Gaila-Delphine-Rosette-p281-CROP-wmc-qut-1200x972.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38636_16-Gaila-Delphine-Rosette-p281-CROP-wmc-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Straight's three daughters, Gaila, Delphine, and Rosette Sims. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Susan Straight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what she learned from having James Baldwin as a teacher:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I got [to The University of Massachusetts] Amherst, \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/238093263\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Baldwin was a writer in residence\u003c/a> teaching a workshop. I was stunned because his was one of the first books I ever read at the Riverside Public Library. The first day in class, James Baldwin was so profound, but I was afraid to talk to him. Afterwards his driver and his secretary — they were probably 27 or so and both 6'2\"— saw Dwayne, my husband, who was 6'4\". They said, “Who’s this? We want to play basketball with him.” After that, the three of them would play basketball, and James Baldwin and I would sit in his rental house and talk about fiction. He talked to me about secondary characters saying, “This is the main part and the heart of your story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One night we invited him over for dinner. At the end of the evening he said, “You have to write about home. You must write about this place where you come from.” That changed everything for me. Who we are — and what it means to grow up in a place like \u003ca href=\"https://www.riversideca.gov/visiting-aboutriv.asp\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Riverside\u003c/a>, what it means to be a Californian — was always intrinsically a part of what I wanted to write about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769403\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11769403\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38635_10_Dwayne-and-Susan-Skates_msp-112-wmc-qut-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38635_10_Dwayne-and-Susan-Skates_msp-112-wmc-qut-800x559.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38635_10_Dwayne-and-Susan-Skates_msp-112-wmc-qut-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38635_10_Dwayne-and-Susan-Skates_msp-112-wmc-qut-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38635_10_Dwayne-and-Susan-Skates_msp-112-wmc-qut-1200x838.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38635_10_Dwayne-and-Susan-Skates_msp-112-wmc-qut.jpg 1915w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Straight and her ex-husband Dwayne, her high school sweetheart. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Susan Straight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On staying in Riverside:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a comfort in being someone who can say, “I look out the back window and see the hospital where I was born.” But as a writer who travels around the world, there’s an odd sense that you become a famous writer by leaving home. Over the last five years while I was working on this book, I went to Turkey, Sicily, Salzburg, New York, and San Francisco, and what people wanted to talk to me about was home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11747923,news_11759939,news_11746863 label='Chasing the California Dream']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I went home after some of those trips, walked around, and looked at the wonder of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/the-santa-ana-river-how-it-shaped-orange-county\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Ana River\u003c/a>. Sometimes I run into women who are indigenous; they have a pocket knife and a Tupperware and their grandsons are cutting a specific sage and a specific buckwheat that their great-grandmothers told them help fight diabetes. I can’t think of anywhere I'd rather be than where people have been harvesting the same plants for 20 generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On California:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fascinating thing about Southern California is how many different cities, towns, villages, and communities we have. People think of it as a monolithic place, but if you grow up in El Monte, Ontario, Chino, Riverside, Pico-Union, and Westlake Village, all of it is different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is my tenth book, and I have driven to almost every county in California over the last 30 years talking to women, children, people who were homeless, migrant workers in Greenfield working the lettuce fields. All over my state, I find people who are fiercely protective and loyal to the place they’re from, whether it’s Salinas, Buttonwillow, Riverside, Ontario, Pomona, or Chino. I find that no one really understands just how loyal Californians are to their state, but also to their actual homelands inside this large state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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A professor of \u003ca href=\"https://creativewriting.ucr.edu/people/straight/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">creative writing at UC Riverside\u003c/a>, Straight was born and raised in Riverside — her family's “promised land.\" She joined \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The California Report Magazine\u003c/a> host Sasha Khokha to discuss her literary love letter to her three daughters, and to the place she still calls home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s an excerpt of that conversation:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769404\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11769404 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38632_02-Rosie-and-Alberta-p3-qut-800x490.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38632_02-Rosie-and-Alberta-p3-qut-800x490.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38632_02-Rosie-and-Alberta-p3-qut-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38632_02-Rosie-and-Alberta-p3-qut-1020x625.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38632_02-Rosie-and-Alberta-p3-qut-1200x736.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38632_02-Rosie-and-Alberta-p3-qut.jpg 1840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A torn photo of Susan Straight's mother-in law, Alberta Sims (R), and her sister, Rosie Morris, (L). This fragment inspired Straight to write \"In The County of Women.\" \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Susan Straight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On writing about violence:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fiction, you’re taking things that might frighten you, but you’re writing about them in a fictional lens through imagination. I wrote this memoir about real women like Fine, my father-in-law’s grandmother, and the violence she endured from the time she was orphaned at five years old. She was being beaten every day, [after she was] given away just post-slavery to a white family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770493\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 334px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11770493\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38639_22_Fine_msp-321-wmc-qut-800x1055.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38639_22_Fine_msp-321-wmc-qut-800x1055.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38639_22_Fine_msp-321-wmc-qut-160x211.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38639_22_Fine_msp-321-wmc-qut-1020x1346.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38639_22_Fine_msp-321-wmc-qut-910x1200.jpg 910w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38639_22_Fine_msp-321-wmc-qut-1920x2533.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38639_22_Fine_msp-321-wmc-qut.jpg 1552w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fine Ely Hoffard Rawlings Kemp, Tulsa, Oklahoma. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Susan Straight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Daisy Carter was my daughters' great-grandmother. When Daisy was five years old, she was walking with her mother on a dirt road in Sunflower County, Mississippi. Her mother saw a car speeding toward them and she knew what was going to happen. She threw Daisy up into the ditch, and was hit and killed as the car left. Daisy, at five, was left orphaned. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daisy, who was very beautiful, went on the road as a dancing girl. Each man she met must have been extremely frightening and violent. She had four daughters with four different men. She was married and each time she fled. Eventually she arrived in Calexico, California in 1936 with four beautiful daughters and she never told anyone who their fathers were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[I also wrote] about my own grandmother, who I never met. She died at 50 and I wasn't born yet. She endured a lot of violence at the hands of my grandfather. I think about what violence means now, and looking at the way young women are still treated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think it’s different for girls my daughters' age; you have online harassment and bullying. We had people leaning out of the window of a car and yelling at us, trying to grab us and throw us into a car. But it feels very fraught. It’s all the same thing, considering the danger of what it means to be a woman in this world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11770502\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11770502\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38633_03_Ruby-Triboulet-and-Family_msp-48-qut-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38633_03_Ruby-Triboulet-and-Family_msp-48-qut-800x518.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38633_03_Ruby-Triboulet-and-Family_msp-48-qut-160x104.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38633_03_Ruby-Triboulet-and-Family_msp-48-qut-1020x660.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38633_03_Ruby-Triboulet-and-Family_msp-48-qut-1200x777.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38633_03_Ruby-Triboulet-and-Family_msp-48-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francois Triboulet, Genevieve Triboulet, Amanda Baldon Triboulet, Emma Triboulet, Carl Triboulet, Ruby Triboulet (Straight's paternal grandmother); in front, Helen Triboulet. Hancock County, Illinois, around 1920; Ruby and Emma are going west. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Susan Straight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On her mother:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mother came here from the Alps of Switzerland and worked in the fields on a farm when she was 15 years old. When her father and stepmother decided they were going to go to Florida, my mom ran away. She went to work for a family as a babysitter, and at night she worked in a diner that served the Oshawa GM Plant. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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I was really appreciative of the fact that she was very tenacious as a woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769401\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11769401\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38638_20_Sissters-and-Cousins_msp-307-wmc-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susan Straight (second from right) with the women in her extended family. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Susan Straight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On writing about race:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At our family reunion, there were 100 people and I was the only white person. People always tell jokes about white people around me. They say, “We forgot about you.” I think for my kids, the most important thing is that we have this giant family on both sides. In the crucible of our family, race is lesser than family loyalty and survival. I wrote [the book] as a letter to my three daughters because I wanted them to know how proud I am of their heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11769348 alignleft\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38640_91dOypnXAL-1-qut-800x1214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38640_91dOypnXAL-1-qut-800x1214.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38640_91dOypnXAL-1-qut-160x243.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38640_91dOypnXAL-1-qut-1020x1547.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38640_91dOypnXAL-1-qut-791x1200.jpg 791w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38640_91dOypnXAL-1-qut.jpg 1350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\">\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An excerpt of Straight's memoir:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“In the country of women, we have maps and threads of kin some people find hard to believe. The women could not have dreamed that in this promised land we would still have bullets and fear and murder. Fracture and derision and assault, sharp and revived. I was born here, and I am still here, and I didn’t leave, which doesn’t feel very heroic. You three, my daughters, have laughed at me for looking out the kitchen window of our house toward the hospital where I was born, where your father was born, where you were born. My daily life is a five-mile radius of memory and work and family. You three daughters know this in your genes: You love only orange-blossom honey, because you grew up with that scent and those flowers, that fruit and those bees. You long for Santa Ana winds and sunflowers, tumbleweeds and the laughter of people eating at long unfolded tables in a driveway. We bury descendants of the women, and we serve funeral repasts in church halls built by some of California’s black pioneers. The women in our family are everything: African-American, Mexican-American, Cherokee and Creek, Swiss, Irish and English, French and Filipino, Samoan and Haitian. 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I was stunned because his was one of the first books I ever read at the Riverside Public Library. The first day in class, James Baldwin was so profound, but I was afraid to talk to him. Afterwards his driver and his secretary — they were probably 27 or so and both 6'2\"— saw Dwayne, my husband, who was 6'4\". They said, “Who’s this? We want to play basketball with him.” After that, the three of them would play basketball, and James Baldwin and I would sit in his rental house and talk about fiction. He talked to me about secondary characters saying, “This is the main part and the heart of your story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One night we invited him over for dinner. At the end of the evening he said, “You have to write about home. You must write about this place where you come from.” That changed everything for me. Who we are — and what it means to grow up in a place like \u003ca href=\"https://www.riversideca.gov/visiting-aboutriv.asp\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Riverside\u003c/a>, what it means to be a Californian — was always intrinsically a part of what I wanted to write about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769403\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11769403\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38635_10_Dwayne-and-Susan-Skates_msp-112-wmc-qut-800x559.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38635_10_Dwayne-and-Susan-Skates_msp-112-wmc-qut-800x559.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38635_10_Dwayne-and-Susan-Skates_msp-112-wmc-qut-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38635_10_Dwayne-and-Susan-Skates_msp-112-wmc-qut-1020x712.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38635_10_Dwayne-and-Susan-Skates_msp-112-wmc-qut-1200x838.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/RS38635_10_Dwayne-and-Susan-Skates_msp-112-wmc-qut.jpg 1915w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Straight and her ex-husband Dwayne, her high school sweetheart. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Susan Straight)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On staying in Riverside:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a comfort in being someone who can say, “I look out the back window and see the hospital where I was born.” But as a writer who travels around the world, there’s an odd sense that you become a famous writer by leaving home. 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"content": "\u003cp>There is a person out there with a sly sense of humor, a way with words, a working knowledge of Berkeley history and a desire to impart pithy observations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He or she or they has been going around town the past few months affixing round metal medallions with clever sayings to sidewalks around central Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Karen Flynn, Berkeley business owner\"]‘At first I thought it was something serious but then I read it and thought ‘that’s funny.’ ‘[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Welcome to Berkeley. Now stop doing that,” reads one medallion nailed into the sidewalk near the Berkeley/Oakland border. The other half of the medallion says: “Welcome to Oakland. We missed you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another states: “On this spot, ….David Kravitz finally thought of a witty rejoinder after that dreadful dinner party a week earlier. Mr. Kravitz had wished to say at the time, ‘Some suffer in silence, but others make everyone suffer each time they open their mouth’ to that loudmouthed Mrs. Pearlman.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third located at Delaware and Sacramento streets says, “On this spot, you are directly here. You could have been anywhere else at this moment, rendering this plaque irrelevant, but you’re not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11771313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11771313\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_medallions_complete-stop-800x624.jpg\" alt=\"Medallion left at Cedar and Milvia streets.\" width=\"800\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_medallions_complete-stop-800x624.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_medallions_complete-stop-160x125.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_medallions_complete-stop.jpg 1010w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Medallion left at Cedar and Milvia streets. \u003ccite>( Leslie Cain via @becauseberkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No one seems to know the creator’s identity, even though the question has been posed on Facebook and Twitter and even on Tom Dalzell’s \u003ca href=\"http://quirkyberkeley.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quirky Berkeley\u003c/a> website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These days, just everybody – tout le monde – is talking about the mysterious medallions that are appearing in Berkeley’s sidewalks,” \u003ca href=\"http://quirkyberkeley.com/mysterious-medallions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dalzell wrote\u003c/a>. “You read about them in Berkeleyside, you see them on Twitter, your hip friends are talking about them. ‘Plaque’ might be a better word for what these are, but medallion gives us alliteration with mysterious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The person has followers, people who appreciate their use of words and phrases, their deadpan delivery and the unexpectedness of the medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11771314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11771314\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_medallion_Lesprit-de-lescalier-800x795.jpg\" alt=\"L’esprit de l’escalier medallion on Euclid Avenue.\" width=\"800\" height=\"795\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_medallion_Lesprit-de-lescalier-800x795.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_medallion_Lesprit-de-lescalier-160x159.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_medallion_Lesprit-de-lescalier.jpg 986w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">L’esprit de l’escalier medallion on Euclid Avenue. \u003ccite>(Natasha Beery)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This miniature plaque is embedded at a bus stop near the Rose Garden,” Natasha Beery posted on Facebook on Aug. 8 with a picture of the medallion. “It is one of a series of mysterious markers turning up around town. Have you seen others?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doug Sovern, a political reporter for KCBS Radio, first spotted the Oakland/Berkeley medallion in April. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colleen Neff, who contributes photos to Berkeleyside and Quirky Berkeley, reported that she first saw one in May. (She noted that the creator misspelled Shattuck Avenue as “Shattack.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Flynn, the owner of The Optician on Allston Way just east of Shattuck Avenue, first spotted one of the mysterious medallions in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11771315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11771315\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_Medallions_Strawberry-Creek-medallion-e1566946998413-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The medallions reveal a knowledge of Berkeley's geography, as seen in this medallion's description of Strawberry Creek.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_Medallions_Strawberry-Creek-medallion-e1566946998413-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_Medallions_Strawberry-Creek-medallion-e1566946998413-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_Medallions_Strawberry-Creek-medallion-e1566946998413-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_Medallions_Strawberry-Creek-medallion-e1566946998413.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_Medallions_Strawberry-Creek-medallion-e1566946998413-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_Medallions_Strawberry-Creek-medallion-e1566946998413-632x474.jpg 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_Medallions_Strawberry-Creek-medallion-e1566946998413-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The medallions reveal a knowledge of Berkeley’s geography, as seen in this medallion’s description of Strawberry Creek. \u003ccite>(Frances Dinkelspiel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was out cleaning the windows and I looked down,” she said. “At first I thought it was something serious but then I read it and thought ‘that’s funny.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11655269 label='Berkeley Medallions, Oakland Gnomes']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The medallion by her store is titled “Strawberry Creek,” and it indicates that the creator is familiar with Berkeley geography. It reads: “On this spot, the Strawberry Creek flows deeply buried below this sidewalk … no longer posing a threat to surface dwellers.” (\u003ca href=\"https://strawberrycreek.berkeley.edu/content/strawberry-creek\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strawberry Creek\u003c/a> runs freely through the UC Berkeley campus but is undergrounded when it hits downtown.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another medallion at 1900 Fourth St. — a parking lot across from the now-shuttered Spenger’s restaurant — refers to one of the most contested pieces of land in Berkeley. The property is owned by the Spenger family and Ruegg & Ellsworth, who have sought to build housing there. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/1900-fourth-st\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on the intricacies.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11771316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11771316\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_Medallions_1900-Fourth-St.-800x769.jpg\" alt=\"A medallion left at 1900 Fourth St.\" width=\"800\" height=\"769\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_Medallions_1900-Fourth-St.-800x769.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_Medallions_1900-Fourth-St.-160x154.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Berk_Medallions_1900-Fourth-St..jpg 944w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A medallion left at 1900 Fourth St. \u003ccite>(KL Baxter via @becauseberkeley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Native Americans in the area have protested, as they say the land is sacred to them. One developer tried to get it fast-tracked, evoking California’s SB 35, but the city rebuked the effort. The matter is now in in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is the creator hammering the metal medallions into the sidewalks under the cover of night? During rush hour when people’s attentions are distracted? Why has no one spotted him/her/they in action? #mysteriousmedallions\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Have you seen others?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doug Sovern, a political reporter for KCBS Radio, first spotted the Oakland/Berkeley medallion in April. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colleen Neff, who contributes photos to Berkeleyside and Quirky Berkeley, reported that she first saw one in May. 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