Rahawa Haile

COYOTE’s Guide to Gifts That In No Way Benefit Jeff Bezos We’ve got dreamy soaps and candles, punk rock organizers, addictive beef jerky, and more.

Suds from the Palestinian Soap Cooperative, pickle-scented candles from Dear John—COYOTE's local gift guide has a little something for everyone and not a penny for monopolies.

Imagination &#8220;Start here, and then go about the work of imagining the world anew.&#8221; &#8212;Arimeta Diop, <em>Vanity Fair</em><br /><br />In this revelatory work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagin...

May I also recommend a book that some of you might have missed that came out last year that’s outstanding? “Imagination: A Manifesto” by Ruha Benjamin wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Daymé’s timbre floors me every time I hear it.

COYOTE Independent journalism with a bite!

friends! @coyotemedia.org is dropping our paywall for December so you can see what we’ve been up to even if you have none dollars. All of our posts are currently free to read.

Come check us out & spread the word? www.coyotemedia.org

a ridiculously cute small dog curled up with a tote bag featuring nine cartoon drawings of coyotes by Ace Ty, all with different facial expressions. It reads “how are you feeling today?” And has “independent journalism with a BITE!” at the bottom along with @coyotemediacollective

a flyer for a happy hour that reads “COYOTE x BFF.fm, happy hour, December 2, 2025, 5-8pm, Casements Bar, 2351 Mission St, San Francisco” with a cartoon coyote wearing headphones and carrying a boom box on a purple background

TONIGHT! SF! Join us at Casements in the Mission for food, drinks, a live DJ set from @bff.fm, priceless gossip with journalists and indie music folks, tote bags… what more could you want, truly luma.com/f2jy4dho?tk=...

The end of PEPFAR and global cuts to HIV prevention and treatment are a longterm health crisis and an immediate, fast-moving economic crisis—not dissimilar from the ways that conservatives are waging war on queer and trans people by coming for their jobs:

Every Thanksgiving We Drive to Alcatraz. Except This Year My Thanksgiving tradition includes Alcatraz Island, chain-smoking elders, and gas station hotdogs.

“Ceremony is where we share stories, break bread, and take care of each other. Not ‘Thanksgiving’ — a fiction that covers up the fact that colonizers used to feast after scalping us and destroying our villages.” www.coyotemedia.org/thanksgiving...

“…if you need to talk to your trying-to-be-down auntie about how a land acknowledgement at dinner isn’t enough, please do let her know she can simply text FREESAM to 53-555 and make a tax-deductible donation to actually change the material conditions of Natives.”

Also here: givebutter.com/c/9qW07O

COYOTE First Aid Kit: How to Compassionately Respond to an Overdose Naloxone, rescue breathing, and 911: Learn the do's, don'ts, and best practices for reversing an overdose.

Really proud of my colleagues for launching this new series at @coyotemedia.org -- First Aid Kit, a set of pieces that help you be safer, healthier, and more helpful in your community.

How to respond to an overdose by @nuala.bsky.social

👆🏾This is exactly what happened. People also started using BIPOC as a replacement for the word Black, as though it were some magical, Super Inclusive💫 term and not one about distinct realities. Its original (and useful!) intent was completely lost, and it became widely derided as a tool of erasure.

Getting to read @pochoboymeetsworld.bsky.social’s rap criticism for COYOTE is always such a joy, man. I just know I’m in for hit after hit.

Oakland Rapper Philip Bank$ Is All Gas, No Fakes The late-blooming lyricist opens up about his debut solo album, ‘East Bay Times.’

“[The album] is as much a spiritual hymn as it is a hyphy resistance… especially when Bank$ veers into anger. ‘Oakland Unified’ facetiously points to the loss of Black residents who’ve been pushed to the geographical and cultural fringes (‘Oakland n***** don’t die, they move to Sacramento County’).”

Oakland People's Arms Embargo is stepping up the campaign to get Port Commission to ban weapons parts shipments that transit through the Oak airport to Israel for use in its genocidal war against Palestinians. Rally today at 3 ahead of 4pm public comment at Port.

COYOTE’s service journalism will always be free to read, including today’s guide to helping someone who might be overdosing.

Please send submissions to hello@coyotemedia.org. Written submissions should be under 250 words, while voice memos can be 1–2 minutes long. If you want to share a photo of yourself with Alice, or a memory in another form, please do. We may edit lightly for clarity as needed. Thank you! (3/3)

We are especially interested in hearing from disabled individuals of color, and disabled individuals in general, and will prioritize their responses. Please let us know of any communication needs you may have, or anything else we can do to help you share your memories of Alice. (2/3)

Digital portrait by Jen White-Johnson featuring a photo of Alice Wong, an Asian American woman with honey blonde hair. She is in a wheelchair and there is a tracheostomy at her neck connected to a ventilator. She is wearing a silky multicolored shirt and a bold red lip color. She is looking intently at the camera with the heat of a thousand suns. Behind her are red and purple flowers with a red circle in the background framing her face like a warm sun. The background of the portrait is purple.

Given the passing of disability activist and light-in-the-world Alice Wong, we at COYOTE invite people to share what she and her work meant to them. Whether you knew Alice personally, organized with her, or were simply a fan of her writing, we'd love to hear from you. (1/3)

(📷: Jen White-Johnson)

Proud to share that @coyotemedia.org is launching First Aid Kit, our ✨paywall-free✨ series that helps you navigate the many challenges of living in the Bay Area and beyond.

These stories are a part of our pledge to share critical information during this time of upheaval. ❤️‍🩹

Alice Wong was a luminary, and her light will shine on for many years to come. this is a beautiful tribute from @thesicktimes.org co-founder @mileswgriffis.bsky.social

Date Night at Coast Guard Island Date Night, Coast Guard Island, Before 9:30

"We have childcare until 9:30pm so we bundle up, and trundle our middle-aged asses off to Coast Guard Island. Date night in 2025 isn’t as relaxing as it used to be."

Perimenopause, Fascism, and Other Reasons We’re Not Sleeping Emma and Nuala try to figure out if they’re perimenopausal, wonder if it’s anxiety or the end of the American empire, and designate Tori Amos as their menopause cult leader.

Is it perimenopause, parenthood, the pandemic, or the collapse of the American empire? In this conversation,
@emmaruthless.bsky.social and @nuala.bsky.social unpack post-40 hormones, the failure of Western medicine to serve people with uteruses, and what's keeping them up at night.

Perimenopause, Fascism, and Other Reasons We’re Not Sleeping Emma and Nuala try to figure out if they’re perimenopausal, wonder if it’s anxiety or the end of the American empire, and designate Tori Amos as their menopause cult leader.

"I look at that list [of symptoms] and this is everything that is happening to me. And also I'm 41 years old, and everyone says this is not when it happens."

Today @coyotemedia.org, Nuala and Emma talk about anxiety, perimenopause, and Tori Amos.

That sound you hear is two state fairs flicking out their switchblades.

Hard to overstate the extent to which executives across the arts actually hate the arts (and artists).

Third consecutive OPD report listing zero homicides. Oakland is on track to have of its lowest homicide totals in a decades, with one of the lowest numbers of police in decades also. The how/why should be the number one focus of Public Safety Committee discussions and isn't.

Reposting with alt text because yeah, I remember the discourse around what Black voters would and wouldn’t go for

Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.

This is as big a deal as Mamdani actually? In forever fascist ass MS...???

Like....

Zohran Mamdani’s Win Is Proof We Don’t Have to Settle for Newsom 2028 The Bushwick bisexuals have it! We can ask for so much more, and at COYOTE we plan to.

From all of us at @coyotemedia.org, thank you NYC for making every centrist Californian politician reading the news last night shit their pants.

Zohran Mamdani’s Win Is Proof We Don’t Have to Settle for Newsom 2028 The Bushwick bisexuals have it! We can ask for so much more, and at COYOTE we plan to.

Aside from being stoked for all my NYC pals, I'm also happy that Mamdani offers another vision of the future. One that doesn't include Gavin fucking Newsom.

Also please enjoy my photoshopping of an Aretha hat on our coyote (which was @rahawahaile.bsky.social's idea).

I need someone to bring Aretha’s hat out of retirement IMMEDIATELY