Women on Wheels
Alice Thiu poses for a portrait with her custom-made bike from her bicycle company THESIS at Crissy Field in San Francisco, Calif. on Friday, October 12th, 2018. (Mira Laing) More Continue Reading
Roasts and Robots: How Automation Might Change the Way We Eat
On Market Street in San Francisco near the Montgomery BART station, there’s a tiny, sleek storefront with a black sign reading “CAFE X.” It blends in with pretty much every Continue Reading
What’s Lost in Translation
More than a cluster of words or a set of grammatical rules, a language is a flash of the human spirit, the filter through which the soul of each particular Continue Reading
Punks Against Patriarchy
In a dark bar illuminated by neon lights, bodies clad in an array of colored leather and latex make their way from the wood-top bar to the front of the Continue Reading
Editorial: Words in Red
The Monday morning pro-life advocates came to campus, I got my period. I had been anxiously awaiting its arrival for the last two weeks, and smiled as I looked down Continue Reading
Need an Emergency Lyft?
Nothing says ‘welcome home’ more than throwing up a week’s worth of food. Sheila Huitron was puking her guts out for days, upon her return to San Francisco after a Continue Reading
Prepared for the Worst, Hoping for the Best
It’s not a pleasant sound, but a familiar one to San Francisco locals. BWAAAAHHHHHHHHH. At exactly noon, every Tuesday, across the city from one hundred and nine sirens, a fifteen Continue Reading
Ruff and Rescue: The Value of a Secondhand Pup
A man’s best friend, a phrase created to embody the bond between an individual and a dog. “I chose to adopt because most shelter dogs come from a bad past Continue Reading
The Cultural Taboo of Mental Health
Hillary Peregrina didn’t know what to do with her feelings of depression when she was fourteen. As a Filipina-American teenager, Peregrina felt like she didn’t have a say in her Continue Reading
Paper to Electronic
Slouched on a few chairs outside of the empty shopping center, a group of young men sat laughing, cracking jokes as people walked past them. Smoke filled the air around Continue Reading
My Cosplay does not give Consent
A three-story building fills up as tens of thousands of guests–some in plain clothes, some in elaborate, funny, homemade, or store-bought costumes–go to panels, meet and greet creators of their Continue Reading
Obsessive Disney Disorder
“My first memory of Disney goes back to 1994. The Lion King had just come to theaters, so my mom and aunt took me and my cousin to see it. Continue Reading