By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis Although we met Edie Windsor only once, we’ll never forget the moment. It was on the steps of the United States Supreme Court back…
By Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Councilmember At-Large As the Trump administration prepares to wind down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, I am proud to announce that my…
By Assemblymember Phil Ting The protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, last month revealed a sad fact—not all Americans believe in equality and justice for all. We subsequently saw the President defend…
By Andrea Shorter This has been a time of cutting through a lot of “noise.” There’s the noise about a White House press secretary alarmingly deeming it a “fireable offense”…
By Dr. Tim Seelig Fall is in the air in San Francisco. Can’t you just feel it? The mornings have a chill in the air. Everyone grabs their mittens and…
By Dr. Bill Lipsky The movies’ first action hero. The personification of modern American youth, vigor, and attitude. The most prolific woman director in Hollywood history. The greatest star of…
By Tom Moon, MFT “In our language, there is a word with enormous power to create shame and guilt. This violent word, which we commonly use to evaluate ourselves, is…
Anne Montgomery (1752?–1819) was the second of three beautiful daughters of an Irish peer. Celebrated as the “Irish Graces,” the sisters were immortalized in 1773 by Sir Joshua Reynolds in…
By Lyndsey Schlax (Editor’s Note: Teacher Lyndsey Schlax of the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts launched the nation’s first on-site high school LGBT course in 2015. She…
By Kaushik Roy– Forty-three years ago, Shanti was founded on the principle that every person deserves compassion, connection, and human dignity. From our earliest days, Shanti called on the community…
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