Events

This talk draws on Savannah Shange's recently published book, Progressive Dystopia, in which she argues that San Francisco is a site of social apocalypse for Black communities. Given the momentum […]

Using photography, video, and sound installation, Hong-An Truong engages questions about history and how knowledge is produced through media forms. Often drawing on her lived experience as the daughter of Vietnamese […]

In We The Enemy, Carlos Motta will present a series of recent and past works, including those exhibited at the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery. Motta’s work documents the social conditions and political struggles of sexual, gender, and ethnic minority communities in order to challenge dominant and normative discourses through visibility and self-representation. As a historian […]

Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes the bestselling team of New Yorker illustrator Roz Chast and New Yorker contributor Patricia Marx for a presentation of their hilarious illustrated guide to love and relationships, You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples. Everyone knows the tired, clichéd advice for a healthy relationship: […]

Humans power transport. This is obviously true for the early twentieth century. It's easy to find images of rickshaws on city streets in Tokyo and other major cities in Asia. But it's equally true for the twenty-first century. Look no further than the parcel delivery workers sprinting up and down apartment-building staircases. Despite the continuity […]