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This Week’s Events | San Francisco + New York
Rad Upcoming SF Events Shop Jams: Happy Hour / Session 001 THUR. 1/21 | 5:00PM @ FLEET WOOD Fleetwood’s 1st Happy Hour session of 2016 will feature live music with Jim Morose (of Night Shapes) and Rebecca Redman (of Watercolor Paintings / Drawing Water). 20% off storewide. Tarot reading. Donation

The Challenges for Women of Color in Tech
If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, or anywhere on earth for that matter, you’re no doubt privy to the ongoing and all too urgent conversations surrounding diversity in tech — or more specifically, the egregious lack thereof.

The Greatest Communal Meals Around the World
Food really matters. It’s the only thing that brings us all together and keeps us both sustained and happy (and no, love doesn’t do that). In fact, food and meals are so important, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a culture that doesn’t have at least one example of a communal

We’ve got a free book to giveaway by Genea Barnes: Ghost Bikes!
A white-painted bicycle leans, locked to a post a few feet away from the spot where a car struck and killed a bicyclist. Flowers decorate the abandoned bike, a visible reminder that life is fragile. Don’t forget me: Ghost Bikes, A Photographic Memorial by Genea Barnes This is a

How to Do Tax Returns if You’re Self Employed and Broke
Guest post by John Gillingham, a San Francisco CPA specializing in small business taxes at Gillingham CPA and makes apps to teach accounting and taxes. Taxes suck. So you are driving around a pink mustached Lyft in order to follow your creative, but less profitable pursuits. Maybe you illegally rent

My First Real Date as a Transwoman
In my last BrokeAssStuart blog I wrote about the lack of mediatized representations of transgender people as complex, loving, sexual, and emotional beings. I also wrote that all the guys I had met online were interested in sex but not interested in taking me on an actual date. In what follows, I’m

This Weeks Events | San Francisco + New York
Rad Upcoming SF Events MALAA, JUSTIN MILLA, SENTA, LIL SUS, MORK THU. 1/14 | 10:00PM @ 1015 FOLSOM DJ Dials, Euphonic Conceptions, Gem + Jam, Legion of Bloom and 1015 FOLSOM Present this kickass night of music. No regular club access. Enter on 103 Harriet St. Free entry with print

New York’s Best Lesser Known Bookstores
While the era of big bookstore chains dominating the business of reading is slowly coming to a close, the scrappy, independent booksellers who stood in defiance for so long seem to be hitting their stride.