S3E22, Part 2: Nico Schwieterman on Fleet Wood and SF Creativity
In this podcast, Nico picks up where she left off in Part 1, with some office jobs she had when she first moved here before switching to screenprinting full-time. She met the folks who run Workshop SF...
2 Jul 202032min
S3E22, Part 1: Nico Schwieterman on Her Small-Town Ohio Upbringing
Coldwater, OH, has seven stoplights, by Nico Schwieterman's last count. In this podcast, Nico, who opened and owns Fleet Wood in the Tenderloin, shares stories of growing up in the small town of Coldw...
30 Jun 202031min
Special: Uncle Damien on Racism, San Francisco, and the Uprising
One of Uncle Damien Posey's favorite things to tell people is that he's "not a role model, he's a real model." We checked in with our Season 2, Episode 38 storyteller last week to see how he's doing a...
21 Jun 202031min
Special: Chloe Jackman on a Mixed-Race Life and the Current Uprising
In this special episode, S2E49 storyteller Chloe Jackman shares her perspectives on race and the current uprising for racial justice. The daughter of a Black man and a white woman, she was often made ...
18 Jun 202034min
S3E21, Part 2: Thea Matthews on Her Poetry and the Uprising
Thea Matthews is a powerful poet. In this podcast, Thea picks up where she left off in Part 1, talking about the early days of her writing and performing poetry. She helped established the Black Stud...
17 Jun 202031min
S3E21, Part 1: Thea Matthews on The City, Her Art, and Her Blackness
Poet, activist, and scholar Thea Matthews grew up in the Excelsior, which to this day is still a largely ungentrified, working-class neighborhood in San Francisco. In this podcast, Thea talks about gr...
16 Jun 202024min
Special: William Rhodes on Being a Black Artist in San Francisco
In this special episode, we listen to artist William Rhodes talk about his arrival in San Francisco back in 2008. It wasn't exactly the city he had imagined. Together with other Black artists here, he...
9 Jun 202019min
S3E20, Part 2: Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez on Writing About The City
Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez dove head-first into a career in journalism in his hometown of San Francisco. In this podcast, the young veteran reporter takes us through the later days of his time in City C...
28 Mai 202035min
