Alternative SF: Underground Histories Panel + Q&A Night (SF)
Museum of San Francisco | 608 Commercial Street, San Francisco
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About the Event:
Join us for an intimate evening with Chris Carlsson (author of Hidden San Francisco: A Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes, and Radical Histories) and Rachel Brahinsky (co-author of A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area). As your local insiders, these two esteemed scholars will highlight sites of oppression, resistance, and transformation featured in their groundbreaking alternative guidebooks. This will be an “in conversation” event moderated by local author and Bay Area Current columnist Wendy Liu.
About the Panelists
Chris Carlsson is the co-director of the “history from below” project Shaping San Francisco, chief curator of its unique digital archive at Foundsf.org, and is a longtime writer, publisher, editor, photographer, public speaker, and occasional professor. He has had a notorious life of subversive activity, including co-founding the infamous underground San Francisco magazine Processed World that published from 1981-1994, and in 1992 helping to launch Critical Mass in San Francisco, which both led to a local bicycling boom and helped to incubate transformative urban movements in hundreds of cities, large and small, worldwide.
Dr. Rachel Brahinsky is a geographer and writer based at the University of San Francisco, where she is affiliated with programs in Urban Studies, Politics, and Urban & Public Affairs. Her scholarship focuses on race and justice in cities, particularly in California. A former journalist with a focus on urban policy and social change, Brahinsky holds a Ph.D from UC Berkeley and a BA from Hampshire College.
About the Moderator
Wendy Liu is the author of Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism (Repeater Books, 2020). She has written for Logic Magazine, Tribune, and New Internationalist, and has been featured on air with KQED and KALW. Wendy currently writes a column about bizarre tech billboards for Bay Area Current. She lives in San Francisco.
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Cost: FREE*
