The student-run magazine of San Francisco State University

Xpress Magazine
The student-run magazine of San Francisco State University

Xpress Magazine
The student-run magazine of San Francisco State University

Xpress Magazine
Cash Martinez

Cash Martinez, Social Media Editor

Cash Grace Martinez (he/they) is a 2Spirit transgender & Southern Pomo storyteller based in San Francisco. His work has been featured in the Press Democrat, the Bohemian, Pacific Sun Magazine, the San Francisco Examiner, and SFGATE. His reporting and research interests include anti-fascist ideology, Indigenous sovereignty and cultural revitalization, identity politics, and the labor rights movement. Outside of journalism, Cash is also involved with the Student Kouncil of Intertribal Nations (SKINS). He is proud to serve as an organizer and activist within both his Indigenous and transgender communities.

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Alia Ismail, a social media influencer and YouTuber, shared their initial journey of transitioning from female to male with their audience in 2018, eventually documenting the process in a film titled “A Year in Transition.” Photo courtesy of Alia Ismail.

From Female to Male, and Back Again

Cash Martinez, Social Media Editor
November 12, 2021

For five years, Alia Ismail identified as a transgender man — until one day, they didn’t.   At the start of 2021, Ismail, now 26, began “detransitioning” — in simple terms, the process...

Tatiana Mercer plays with her tangle, a stimming toy she uses, on Sept. 6,2021 in Guerneville, CA. Mercer says that this particular tangle is a special custombecause the rainbow colored pieces each came from other tangly toys she had and tookapart. (Amaya Edwards/Xpress)

Neurodivergent in a Neurotypical World

Cash Martinez, Social Media Editor
September 15, 2021

Sitting in the passenger seat of her friend’s car, driving down U.S. 101 through Sonoma County, Tatiana Mercier began to wonder if she, like many of her friends, was autistic.   Mercier had...

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