Beth Winegarner

I’m just a smol business owner.

Contemplate, for a moment, the difference:

Small business owner
Small-business owner

There is something deeply funny seeing racist dipshits who try to say there is no meaningful cultural difference between cultures in Africa or Asia turn around and crush down European cultures the same way. "English, Welsh, Scots and Irish people are basically the same" buddy there have been wars.

I have seen Cold Refuge and it's great! My piece is planned for the Nob Hill Gazette this summer so keep an eye out (and of course I'll share it all over social media).

Waterlog Waterlog is a short documentary which tells the story of writer Joe Minihane and his battle with anxiety. Finding an antidote in the form of wild swimming Joe…

I'm working on an essay about how I became a Bay swimmer, and finally found this beautiful short documentary that I watched years ago & then couldn't find again:

vimeo.com/286134403

So excited that @charliejane.bsky.social will be at our Babylon Salon this Sat!! 🤩

City Cemetery: It's Just Like Podcast Episode · Dead Reckoning · March 6 · 1h 6m

DEAD RECKONING SEASON TWO IS STARTING!

Do you have a favorite cemetery and, if so, why is it City Cemetery, which currently lies hidden under Lincoln Park Golf Course and the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco? You know the one, with 20,000 people lying unmarked and invisible?

It all started with a kitten — Beth Winegarner Two kittens, actually.  One day last summer, I looked out the windows into our backyard, and noticed a kitten standing on the low cement wall that separates our patio from our garden.  See...

Adventures in stray cat management:

www.bethwinegarner.com/bite-sized-b...

"The incidence of sleepwalking may be increased in children with migraine, and it has been proposed as a minor diagnostic criterion for migraine."

Non-Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Parasomnias and Migraine: A Role of Orexinergic Projections Sleep and migraine share a common pathophysiological substrate, although the underlying mechanisms are unknown. The serotonergic and orexinergic systems are both involved in the regulation of sleep/wake cycle, and numerous studies show that both are ...

The other day, I had my first appointment with a new neurologist who specializes in migraine. She asked me whether I used to sleepwalk or talk (both, in my case). Turns out there's a connection.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

A phlebotomist today said "welcome back," which tells you some things about how often I need blood draws. Then again, we did bond over tattoos last time.

The launch party for @laurencjohnson.bsky.social's novel THE WEST FACADE, will be taking place at @greenapplebooks.bsky.social on 3/11 at 7pm PST with @taracampbell.bsky.social and @bethwinegarner.bsky.social!

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Today in eugenics news:

New book ‘Unsung Heroines’ celebrates 35 Bay Area women you need to know “Unsung Heroes: 35 Women Who Changed the Bay Area,” new book by KQED reporter and producer Rae Alexandra, out March 17.

“I got really angry about the underrepresentation of women in public spaces in San Francisco,” Alexandra said. “I was complaining about it constantly, to passengers on Muni and to people in bars. And then I realized: I write for a living.”

missionlocal.org/2026/03/sf-u...

The Smithsonian's queer erasure of an AIDS artwork should alarm us all By omitting the tragic story behind Felix González-Torres "Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.), the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery is setting a perilous precedent, warns art scholar Ignacio Da...

"My worries began when the exhibition's introductory sign omitted Felix's connection to the AIDS crisis. My fears turned into outrage when I read the museum label ... which, instead of explaining the installation's title and meaning, refers to "175 pounds as ideal weight.""

Return to Earth: Human Composting Takes Root in Brooklyn Green-Wood Cemetery will start offering a service called Natural Organic Reduction, where a human body is decomposed naturally and turned into soil.

"Each decomposed body will result in about a cubic yard of fertile soil that will then be used to nurture plant life across the cemetery, officials said. The historic cemetery already allows for green burials, which forgoes embalming the body to let it decompose naturally."

Why I Don’t Regret the “Pornographic” Scene That Got My Book Banned Perhaps I should have borrowed a euphemism from a 1970s bodice-ripper and called it a “manroot.” Or resorted to child-friendly British slang and called it a “willy.” Euphemisms, after all, have lon…

'I’ve watched with dismay as the sexual violence I experienced as a child has been labeled pornography, dismissed as fiction, called part of a “pedophile agenda.” Strangers have sent me hate mail calling me a “nasty woman.”'

lithub.com/why-i-dont-r...

Leonardo da Vinci "was not above questionable methods, reportedly obtaining bodies through informal deals with hospitals and executioners. The identities of his subjects remain unknown."

The dark history of medical illustrations and the question of consent Historical anatomy textbooks are built on the bodies of prisoners, the poor and the powerless – and we’re still using them today.

"Most texts and imagery feature people who never gave permission to be dissected, let alone depicted for eternity. Should we keep using these images? Or does that make us complicit in a long history of medical exploitation?" h/t @courtneyminick.bsky.social

theconversation.com/the-dark-his...

We are not alone with Winston the Wonderdog, a lover, not a fighter, @drjudymelinek.bsky.social

If you're not watching "Shrinking" on Apple TV, you're missing one of the best (and funniest) performances of Harrison Ford's career.

www.facebook.com/watch/?v=607...

I love it when a child of immigrants wins a gold medal for the US.

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

Confessions of a Former Body Positivity Influencer YouTube video by New York Times Opinion

This is indistinguishable from right-wing anti-SJW agitprop

I have a new poem out today, published by Ability Maine’s Breath & Shadow journal, which focuses on the work of disabled writers:

www.abilitymaine.org/bs2026feb/%2...

No one wants to take health advice from a guy that looks like a meth wrapped slim jim that you cooked in the microwave for threeminutes straight.

The apps don't think this is a real word.

Today's effort is a pigeon I saw at the park with my kids a couple of weeks ago

I painted this rotted Jack o lantern bc I believe in self portraiture

But I have genuinely forgotten how to be loose w my paint stroke, how to be. Like. Painterly. It's gone. I feel like a monkey trying to use a coloring book.