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Supervisor proposes first public bank in SF

Eliza Flynn Nov 19, 2019

Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer proposed that San Francisco creates a task force to oversee the formation of a citywide public bank to help fund projects that benefit the public and address local issues. The...

Students write messages of support to incarcerated womxn

Eliza Flynn Nov 19, 2019

Alex Lalama spoke the words of bell hooks while standing atop a small platform in the lobby of Ceaser Chavez, as students began to stop to listen to her speak words of compassion toward incarcerated women:...

SF State Hall of Fame welcomes four new members

Eliza Flynn Nov 5, 2019

Distinguished members of the SF State community dined at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in celebration of the induction of four new members to the SF State Hall of Fame Saturday, Nov. 2. The university’s...

State Senate to vote on gig worker bill this week

State Senate to vote on gig worker bill this week

Eliza Flynn Sep 10, 2019

Scores of independent contractors across the job spectrum appear days away from becoming redefined as employees and securing better work benefits in California. State legislators are set to vote...

Protest Trans Military Ban, White House, Washington, DC USA

Legal definition exclusionary Transgender; students react to Trump’s failed promise to protect individuals

Eliza Flynn Dec 18, 2018

On Oct. 21 the New York Times broke a story about a Department of Health and Human Services memo indicating the Trump administration was seeking to exclude transgender people in a new legal definition...

Hundreds of people dressed up as Santa Claus and gathered at Union Square for SantaCon on Saturday, December 8th, 2018. (Tristen Rowean/Golden Gate Xpress)

Students balance finals and Santa Con

Eliza Flynn Dec 12, 2018

On Saturday afternoon, Union Square in Downtown San Francisco transformed from a popular tourist photo-op to a sea of people donning their best red and white Santa Claus suits and matching hats, ready...

Afro-Cuban Jazz ensemble performs for change

Afro-Cuban Jazz ensemble performs for change

Eliza Flynn Dec 4, 2018

On Dec. 5, in Knuth Hall on SF State’s campus, the Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble will be performing a diverse range of music at their fall concert “Music of Resistance, Dignity and Solidarity”, starting...

SF State alumnus Danny Glover speaks at the “SF State Student Strike 50th anniversary” event, held in the Conference Towers on campus in San Francisco, Calif., on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018. (Evan Moses/ Golden Gate Xpress)

Danny Glover urges ‘beleaguered’ SF State students to organize

Eliza Flynn Nov 15, 2018

When SF State alumnus and Hollywood actor Danny Glover gazed out to a crowd of students from his stage at the SF State Towers Conference Center on Saturday, Nov. 10, he was transported to half a century...

Jewish Studies department to hold lecture with Holocaust researcher

Jewish Studies department to hold lecture with Holocaust researcher

Eliza Flynn Nov 13, 2018

The Department of Jewish Studies at SF State has invited Holocaust researcher Jean-Marc Dreyfus to campus on Nov. 15, to discuss his research in studying the corpses of Holocaust victims. The event will...

Poetry Center to host a teaching seminar on how to tackle social justice issues

Poetry Center to host a teaching seminar on how to tackle social justice issues

Eliza Flynn Oct 31, 2018

Tomorrow night at 7 p.m., the SF State Poetry Center is hosting a POOR Magazine event featuring local “poverty scholars” educating the public on how to tackle poverty and other social issues, in Humanities...

Cherry Glazerr lead vocalist Clementine Creevy performs at SF State in Jack Adams Hall on Thursday, Oct. 18. (Nicole Newman/Golden Gate Xpress)

Cherry Glazerr brings feminist punk to SF State

Eliza Flynn Oct 21, 2018

Los Angeles-based femme grunge-punk band Cherry Glazerr brought gritty guitar riffs, funky bass-lines and unapologetically empowering lyrics to SF State’s campus Thursday night in Jack Adams Hall. Frontwoman...

Family fun in the Outer Sunset

Family fun in the Outer Sunset

Eliza Flynn Oct 17, 2018

The Outer Sunset District of San Francisco celebrated its eighth annual free music festival this past weekend amidst chilly weather, with lots of warm neighborhood love for the whole family. The event...

Lars Adams poses in a clown outfit as he sells items at his table at the Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco on Sunday, Sept. 30, 2018. (Lindsey Moore/Golden Gate Xpress)

San Francisco’s Folsom Street Fair reinforces consent

Eliza Flynn Oct 2, 2018

Under the fierce sun of the last Sunday of September, skin-tight black latex, leather bondage and stark nudity dominated Folsom Street in the SOMA district of San Francisco, with the theme of consent becoming...

Jen Hofer, an author and poet spoke among students during Poetry Night at SF State on Sept. 28. (Nicole Newman/Golden Gate Xpress)

Poetry Center kicks off semester long series

Eliza Flynn Sep 28, 2018

The SF State poetry center is opening its new reading series "Tripwire Cross-Cultural" with a two-night long presentation on September 27 and 28. Writers, poets and literary translators, Jen Hofer...

Poetry Center hosts award-winning queer writers

Poetry Center hosts award-winning queer writers

Eliza Flynn Sep 19, 2018

On Thursday, Sept. 13, the critically acclaimed SF State Poetry Center hosted Whiting Award 2018 recipients, Brontez Purnell, and Tommy Pico, both prolific writers within contemporary LGBTQ+ spoken word...

SF State veteran reflects on the impact of 9/11

SF State veteran reflects on the impact of 9/11

Eliza Flynn Sep 11, 2018

This Sept. 11 marks the seventeenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which involved the hijacking of four commercial passenger planes by the terrorist group al-Qaida, resulting in the deaths...

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