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@kchandra.bsky.social

PhD candidate Architecture, UC Berkeley she/they Ramaytush Ohlone Land Coalition building to liberate the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot site: turkxtaylor.net Kadampa Buddhism

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San Francisco Activists Want to Reclaim the Site of Historic Compton’s Cafeteria Protest On Sunday, protesters draped two banners over the building at 101 Taylor Street in the historic Tenderloin district featuring the words “Liberate Compton’s.”
20.05.2025 19:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Activists Move to Reclaim Compton’s Cafeteria Site From Private Prison Operator San Francisco’s Board of Appeals has granted LGBTQ advocates the right to challenge the continued operation of a for-profit reentry facility run by private prison giant GEO Group at 111 Taylor Street—...
11.05.2025 19:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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'It's erasure': One of San Francisco's most celebrated sites is at a crossroads The site of the Compton's Cafeteria Riot is now owned by one of the country's largest private prison companies. Locals are trying to change that.
09.05.2025 22:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Body allows zoning appeal over prisoner reentry facility in historic SF transgender site An oversight body is allowing LGBTQ advocates and historians to question the ability of a residential reentry facility for recently released prisoners to operate in a transgender historic site in San ...
08.05.2025 17:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Historic Tenderloin halfway house is the focus of San Francisco’s latest zoning battle A historic Tenderloin halfway house is the focus of San Francisco's latest zoning battle, with one group wanting it to be a forever home for transgender people
07.05.2025 20:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Introduction: What if the Earth was a Lesbian? Published in Journal of Lesbian Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Pls check out fresh out of the press: “Introduction: What if the Earth was a Lesbian?” co-authored with @sabinelebel.bsky.social <3

06.05.2025 15:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New Oral History Alert

07.03.2025 02:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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RALLY 4 TRANS POWER & UNITY
In Memorial of Sam Nordquist, Tahiry Broom, Ra’Lasia Wright & Amyri Dior
COMP ON’S CAFETERIA, Turk & Taylor Streets
Tenderloin, San Francisco
March 1st @ 2pm
D O N O T C O M P L Y

Rally 2-4pm
All hands on deck!
@susanstryker.bsky.social

28.02.2025 20:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Donate to Rally for Trans Unity and Power, organized by Shawn Sprockett Trans rights are under assault. Help us organize a rally of support and unity at the s… Shawn Sprockett needs your support for Rally for Trans Unity and Power

I just donated: gofund.me/7daeb81e

23.02.2025 02:15 — 👍 21    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 1
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Rally for Trans Power and Unity
Comp on’s Cafe eria
San Francisco
3/1 @ 2pm

23.02.2025 04:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Workday at the community garden 💚

22.02.2025 20:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Queer Artist Survival Salon.
Great time with @queerlycomplex.bsky.social Beth Stephens and @anniesprinkle.bsky.social

Recipe Title: Hotspring/Underground

14.02.2025 04:33 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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S.F. transgender landmark quietly inducted into National Register of Historic Places At a time when President Donald Trump has targeted transgender people, the site of a famous 1966 uprising has been declared a historic landmark.

‘Bout time!

www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

10.02.2025 05:50 — 👍 111    🔁 20    💬 3    📌 2

Beautiful !

26.01.2025 21:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Volume 11 Issue 4 | TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly | Duke University Press

TSQ Trans* Ecologies Print Issue read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/issue/11/4

25.01.2025 00:19 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 4
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TRANS* ECOLOGIES | Online

TSQ Trans* Ecologies Online Issue www.tsqnow.online/trans-ecolog...

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A Transecological Poetics of Reterritorialization in San Francisco's Tenderloin Abstract. This article responds to Susan Stryker's call to envision a future of justice for the building at the crossroads of Turk and Taylor Streets—the historic site of the Compton's Cafeteria Riot ...

Im very pleased to share my first academic article to be published! Thank you TSQ and @erindurban.bsky.social for making space for this work.

Pls give this link a click / read :)) its free for three months.
I hope you like it!

24.01.2025 16:31 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Photo of the Trans Ecologies issue of the Transgender Studies Quarterly journal. The cover has a brown femme floating in water in a yellow flowing dress.

Photo of the Trans Ecologies issue of the Transgender Studies Quarterly journal. The cover has a brown femme floating in water in a yellow flowing dress.

It’s coming! 🌊 💦 🐋🚰
#transecologies #transgenderstudies

17.01.2025 02:53 — 👍 16    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 2

YESS

20.01.2025 17:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A reminder to everyone in the West - a ceasefire is just the beginning, the goal is liberation. Our work doesn't stop until Palestine is free, from the river to the sea.

15.01.2025 19:02 — 👍 46    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
Memory Work, Oral History and Radical Public History in Global Lesbian Communities: Capturing Experiences, Activism and Memories

Excited to join the editorial board of the Journal of Lesbian Studies in 2025. Check out this Call for Papers on Lesbian Oral history and memory work.

13.01.2025 19:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tenderloin Sunday walks with the TurkxTaylor Initiative: GLIDE Church Service.

12.01.2025 21:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Writing postcards to queer and trans people in prison with Flying Over Walls @sourcherrycomics.bsky.social

12.01.2025 01:16 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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@davidsolnit.bsky.social ❤️LA

09.01.2025 03:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Green Tara 24 hrs retreat

01.01.2025 05:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Look at what was taken in “sweeps” of homeless encampments.

projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...

29.12.2024 20:29 — 👍 1869    🔁 1013    💬 36    📌 90
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شجاعة - Courage

The second slide is the last known photo of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, walking toward Israeli tanks before being detained by Israeli forces after they destroyed the last hospital in northern Gaza. His current condition is unknown.

29.12.2024 13:34 — 👍 176    🔁 71    💬 1    📌 2

Date savedd

24.12.2024 21:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Looking forward :))

24.12.2024 16:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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