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Events
Miss Major and I are scheduling events for 2023-2024 to support our book Miss Major Speaks. Please contact missmajorspeaks@gmail.com for more information.
Selected Events
- 2022
- 12/8: Black & Pink Civil Commitment Report Launch: “Treatment Behind Razor Wire”
- 2021
- 9/27: UCSF Science Policy Group “Hard Questions”: Homelessness, Housing and Eviction
- 6/27: Counterpoints Book Launch, Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
- 2020
- 10/20: Revolutionary Philosophy and Theology, Interlochen Academy
- 2019
- 11/19: Theories of Displacement speaker series, UC Davis
- 4/4: Queer California at Oakland Museum of California
- 2018
Media
- 2022
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↬ Archives
CULTURE
BAY AREA
DISABILITY
EDUCATION
HOUSING
TRANS/QUEER
PRISONS
PALESTINE
CULTURE
See You in Hell: A Queer Artist’s Work Resists the Gender Binary
them. 9/7/2018Cautious living: Black trans women and the politics of documentation
Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (MIT Press/New Museum), 2017New Film Chronicles Life of Transgender Trailblazer Miss Major
Truthout, 11/9/2015Are Humans the Queerest Animal? asks Artist Craig Calderwood
SF Weekly, 9/25/2015The Filmmakers Behind ‘Criminal Queers’ Explain Why “Queer Liberation is Prison Abolition”
In These Times, 6/26/2015Israel’s “Pro-Gay” Occupation: An Interview with Dean Spade
Truthout, 5/1/2015Review: Against Equality Collective’s Prisons Will Not Protect You
Z Magazine, 2/22/2013Thinking About a Cure with Jason Fritz-Michael and Matt Momchilov
No More Potlucks No. 20, March/April 2012Measuring Up
Evan Roberts’ 33 Teeth
Austin Chronicle, 1/13/2012Liberating Liberace
Filmmaker Chris Vargas Remixes the Life of a Gay Idol
East Bay Express, 5/11/2011Living Art
Queer World-Making with Danny Orendorff and Adrienne Skye-Roberts
No More Potlucks No. 14, May/June 2011
BAY AREA
The Killing of Banko Brown Shows What San Francisco’s Real Crisis Looks Like
The Nation, 5/2023Do Not Speak For Us
Street Sheet, 11/2021Evict the Evictors
Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas, 8/2021Black and Palestinian struggle and the fight for Ethnic Studies in California
SF Bay View, 6/21/2021No YIMBYs on Stolen Land
Progressive City, 6/20/2021Landlords, Nonprofit Directors, and Politicians Turned Low-Income Hotels into COVID-19 Hotspots
Perspectives, 7/6/2020How San Francisco’s Homeless Sweeps Endanger Queer Houseless People
them., 6/18/2019Progressive coalition boycotts woke-washing of San Francisco event space
Waging Nonviolence, 4/13/2019
How San Francisco’s Homeless Sweeps Endanger Queer Houseless People
Truthout, 2/20/2019Cities Across the US Are Stripping Homeless People of Their Autonomy
Truthout, 2/20/2019Time After Time: For Transgender Women, Trauma and Confinement Persist after Sentences End
With Cookie Bivens
The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences, Working Toward Freedom (Haymarket Books), 2018Queer and Committed
With Erica Meiners
The Advocate, June/July 2018HIV Is Not a Murder Weapon
Truthout, 9/25/2015Cops shouldn’t be above the Americans with Disabilities Act
Fusion, 3/27/2015Talking Crip Culture with Caitlin Wood
make/shift, Issue 16, Winter/Spring 2014/2015Criptiques Explores the Provocative Side of Disability
The Bilerico Project, 5/18/2014Disabled Americans fight for transport rights
Al Jazeera English, 3/6/2014The Invisible Punishment of Prisoners With Disabilities
The Nation, 7/23/2013Disability Advocates, Nursing Home Industry Battle for Health Care Dollars for Aging, Disabled
Truthout, 4/28/2013How Did Kayla Moore Die?
East Bay Express, 3/5/2013As More Disabled People Sue and Protest, Politicians Draw Line on Accessibility
Truthout, 12/26/2012Is $33,000 Too Much for a Life-Saving Drug?
Huffington Post, 12/26/2012Thinking About a Cure with Jason Fritz-Michael and Matt Momchilov
No More Potlucks No. 20, March/April 2012
Black and Palestinian struggle and the fight for Ethnic Studies in California
SF Bay View, 6/21/2021Pro-Israel and Arab groups wrangle over Arabic instruction in SF schools
Al Jazeera America, 9/1/2015Professor ‘un-hiring’ fuels battle for academic freedom
Waging Nonviolence, 12/4/2014Palestinian Activism Grows at US Universities
Al Jazeera English, 12/6/2013
Do Not Speak For Us
Street Sheet, 11/2021Evict the Evictors
Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas, 8/2021No YIMBYs on Stolen Land
Progressive City, 6/20/2021Landlords, Nonprofit Directors, and Politicians Turned Low-Income Hotels into COVID-19 Hotspots
Perspectives, 7/6/2020How San Francisco’s Homeless Sweeps Endanger Queer Houseless People
them., 6/18/2019Cities Across the US Are Stripping Homeless People of Their Autonomy
Truthout, 2/20/2019Two Propositions Could Decrease LGBTQ+ Homelessness in California
them., 10/15/2018The Growing Power of Seattle YIMBYs
Seattle Weekly, 6/20/2018Looking Back at the Racial Dynamics around Controversial Zoning Bill
Next City, 6/11/2018YIMBYs Exposed: The Techies Hawking Free Market “Solutions” to the Nation’s Housing Crisis
In These Times, June 2018How Queer People Can Fight Back Against Neighborhood Gentrification
them. 2/28/2018Real Estate Execs Disrupt Nonprofit Housing
SF Weekly, 9/28/2017The problem with YIMBY
SF Examiner, 5/21/2017YIMBYs: The Alt-Right Darlings of the Real Estate Industry
Truthout, 5/10/2017Fillmore Tenants go on Strike to Protest Rising Rents
SF Weekly, 12/30/2015Rent control poised for comeback in tech-booming Northern California
Al Jazeera America, 10/20/2015SF gentrification pushes lower-income residents into radioactive areas
Al Jazeera America, 6/4/2015Hot rental market sparks suspicions of landlord arson in San Francisco
Al Jazeera America, 4/2/2015
The Killing of Banko Brown Shows What San Francisco’s Real Crisis Looks Like
The Nation, 5/2023In a Violent Year for LGBTQ People, These Are the Ways We Coped and Fought Back?
Truthout, 12/29/2022On Transgender Day of Remembrance, We Mourn Those Killed. What About the Living?
Truthout, 11/20/2021The Year of COVID, Elections and Police Brutality Also Saw LGBTQ Activism
Truthout, 12/31/2020Abel Cedeño and Queer Youth of Color Are Still Caged for Self-Defense
Truthout, 12/29/2019TLGBQ Activists Took on ICE, the Corporatization of Pride, and More in 2019
Truthout, 12/29/2019How San Francisco’s Homeless Sweeps Endanger Queer Houseless People
them., 6/18/2019Eight LGBTQ-Led Social Justice Struggles the Corporate Media Missed in 2018
Truthout, 12/28/2018How Gentrification Is Eroding San Francisco’s Historic Leather Scene
them. 10/1/2018Time After Time: For Transgender Women, Trauma and Confinement Persist after Sentences End
With Cookie Bivens
The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences, Working Toward Freedom (Haymarket Books), 2018See You in Hell: This Queer Artist’s Work Resists the Gender Binary
them. 9/7/2018Queer and Committed
With Erica Meiners
The Advocate, June/July 2018Queer anti-war activists challenge military inclusion
Waging Nonviolence, 4/30/2018How This Bathhouse’s Sober Sex Night Became a Haven for Queers in Recovery
them. 4/24/2018How Queer People Can Fight Back Against Neighborhood Gentrification
them. 2/28/2018Cautious living: Black trans women and the politics of documentation
Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (MIT Press/New Museum), 2017Beyond The Carceral Logic of Civil Commitment
With Erica Meiners
The Next System, 11/10/2017San Francisco Will Soon Have the World’s First Transgender Cultural District
Vice, 2/2/2017Nine LGBTQ Stories Big Media Missed in 2016
Truthout, 12/28/2016On Trans Day of Remembrance, the Personal Gets Political: An Interview With Reina Gossett
Truthout, 11/20/2016Gay Neoliberal Candidate in San Francisco Disproves Myths About LGBT Values
Truthout, 11/5/2016This Damning New Report Shows Just How Badly the Criminal Justice System Fails Trans People
With Janetta Louise Johnson
Huffington Post, 8/4/2016How a queer liberation collective has stayed radical for almost 40 years
Waging Nonviolence, 7/23/2016How the United States’ First LGBT National Memorial Gets It Wrong
With Grace Dunham
Truthout, 7/2/2016Custody’s long shadow: Reentry support as abolitionist work
With Janetta Louise Johnson
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (AK Press), 2015Ten LGBTQ News Stories the Mainstream Media Ignored in 2015
Truthout, 12/29/2015New Film Chronicles Life of Transgender Trailblazer Miss Major
Truthout, 11/9/2015Are Humans the Queerest Animal? asks Artist Craig Calderwood
SF Weekly, 9/25/2015HIV Is Not a Murder Weapon
Truthout, 9/25/2015The Filmmakers Behind ‘Criminal Queers’ Explain Why “Queer Liberation is Prison Abolition”
In These Times, 6/26/2015In Theaters Now: Israel’s Gay Public Relations Campaign
Bitch, 6/16/2015Israel’s “Pro-Gay” Occupation: An Interview with Dean Spade
Truthout, 5/1/2015How many more trans people need to die before we pay attention?
Fusion, 2/26/2015No to Prison Industrial Complex: San Francisco’s Trans Community Responds to Brutal Murders
Truthout, 2/25/2015Human Rights Campaign Under Fire in LGBT Community
Truthout, 1/11/2015Nine LGBTQ Stories Big Media Ignored in 2014
Truthout, 12/31/2014Transgender Activists Speak Out Against Campaign to End Trans Military Ban
Truthout, 7/21/2014Exposing Israel’s ‘pinkwashing’
Waging Nonviolence, 6/23/2014Trans community gets a public face – Felicia Flames Elizondo on Vicki Marlane
Central City Extra, May 2014Bitch In: Reina Gossett
Bitch, Spring 2014Be Killed or Be Caged?
The Advocate, 7/18/2013How Did Kayla Moore Die?
East Bay Express, 3/5/2013The Queer Case Against Prisons
Truthout, 2/16/2013Erasing Gay and Transgender History
Huffington Post, 2/6/2013Is $33,000 Too Much for a Life-Saving Drug?
Huffington Post, 12/26/2012De-Pinkwashing Israel
Truthout, 11/17/2012Trans Prisoners Fight Abuse
In These Times, 11/2012No More Prisons, No More Closets
Huffington Post, 6/12/2012Thinking About a Cure with Jason Fritz-Michael and Matt Momchilov
No More Potlucks No. 20, March/April 2012The Place ‘It Gets Better’ Forgot
East Bay Express, 2/8/2012Queer and Locked Up
Sexual minorities face tough life behind bars
Davis Enterprise, 2/7/2012Measuring Up
Evan Roberts’ 33 Teeth
Austin Chronicle, 1/13/2012Book Editors Say Queers “Shouldn’t Ask to Sit at the Table — We Should Dismantle the Table”
SF Weekly, 9/7/2011Liberating Liberace
Filmmaker Chris Vargas Remixes the Life of a Gay Idol
East Bay Express, 5/11/2011Living Art
Queer World-Making with Danny Orendorff and Adrienne Skye-Roberts
No More Potlucks No. 14, May/June 2011LGBT Murals Are So Castro
SFist, 2/23/2011What Is It Like to Be Young, Queer, and Behind Bars?
The Abolitionist No. 14, Winter 2011, and The Bilerico Project, 12/13/2010
Cities Across the US Are Stripping Homeless People of Their Autonomy
Truthout, 2/20/2019Two Propositions Could Decrease LGBTQ+ Homelessness in California
them., 10/15/2018San Francisco’s Earthquake-Unsafe Jail Leaves Prisoners in Peril
Truthout, 10/15/2018Time After Time: For Transgender Women, Trauma and Confinement Persist after Sentences End
With Cookie Bivens
The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences, Working Toward Freedom (Haymarket Books), 2018Queer and Committed
With Erica Meiners
The Advocate, June/July 2018Cautious living: Black trans women and the politics of documentation
Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility, 2017Beyond The Carceral Logic of Civil Commitment
With Erica Meiners
The Next System, 11/10/2017Custody’s long shadow: Reentry support as abolitionist work
With Janetta Louise Johnson
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (AK Press), 2015New Film Chronicles Life of Transgender Trailblazer Miss Major
Truthout, 11/9/2015HIV Is Not a Murder Weapon
Truthout, 9/25/2015The Filmmakers Behind ‘Criminal Queers’ Explain Why “Queer Liberation is Prison Abolition”
In These Times, 6/26/2015How many more trans people need to die before we pay attention?
Fusion, 2/26/2015No to Prison Industrial Complex: San Francisco’s Trans Community Responds to Brutal Murders
Truthout, 2/25/2015State Prisons to Institute New Censorship Rules
East Bay Express, 6/17/2014No Longer a Prisoner of the Past
With Martha Wallner
Rhode Island ‘bans the box,’ opening up job opportunities for the formerly incarcerated.
In These Times, 9/2013The Fight Against Putting Teens in Solitary
East Bay Express, 8/21/2013State to Send More Inmates to Fungal-Infected Prisons
East Bay Express, 8/14/2013The Invisible Punishment of Prisoners With Disabilities
The Nation, 7/23/2013Be Killed or Be Caged?
The Advocate, 7/18/2013Hungry for Reform
California prisoners prepare for another hunger strike to protest persistently deplorable conditions
San Francisco Bay Guardian, 7/3/2013Groups Allege California Prison Policies Amount to State-Sanctioned Torture
Fog City Journal, 5/2/2013How Hula Dancing Came to Arizona Prisons
Hyphen, 4/8/2013The Queer Case Against Prisons
Truthout, 2/16/2013Islands in the Sand
Why thousands of Hawaiian prisoners are languishing in the Arizona desert
Hyphen, Spring 2013Trans Prisoners Fight Abuse
In These Times, 11/2012Want Real Safety? Try Jobs and Housing
Huffington Post, 9/18/2012No More Prisons, No More Closets
Huffington Post, 6/12/2012The Place ‘It Gets Better’ Forgot
East Bay Express, 2/8/2012Queer and Locked Up
Sexual minorities face tough life behind bars
Davis Enterprise, 2/7/2012Book Editors Say Queers “Shouldn’t Ask to Sit at the Table — We Should Dismantle the Table”
SF Weekly, 9/7/2011What Is It Like to Be Young, Queer, and Behind Bars?
The Abolitionist No. 14, Winter 2011, and The Bilerico Project, 12/13/2010
Progressive coalition boycotts woke-washing of San Francisco event space
Waging Nonviolence, 4/13/2019Pro-Israel and Arab groups wrangle over Arabic instruction in SF schools
Al Jazeera America, 9/1/2015In Theaters Now: Israel’s Gay Public Relations Campaign
Bitch, 6/16/2015Israel’s “Pro-Gay” Occupation: An Interview with Dean Spade
Truthout, 5/1/2015Professor ‘un-hiring’ fuels battle for academic freedom
Waging Nonviolence, 12/4/2014Exposing Israel’s ‘pinkwashing’
Waging Nonviolence, 6/23/2014Palestinian Activism Grows at US Universities
Al Jazeera English, 12/6/2013De-Pinkwashing Israel
Truthout, 11/17/2012
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