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Don't Call It Cute: Thoughts on feminism
News, in-depth features, & essays
Save the Women, Not the Boobies, Jezebel, Oct. 23, 2012
War on Women, Waged in Postcards: Memes From the Suffragist Era, Collectors Weekly, Nov. 1, 2012
Decoding Secret Societies: What Are All Those Old Boys’ Clubs Hiding?, Collectors Weekly, Oct. 3, 2012
"How Collecting Opium Antiques Turned Me Into an Opium Addict", Collectors Weekly, Sept. 24, 2012
Girlie Pens, Again? Why Ordinary Things Go Pink, Collectors Weekly, Sept. 7, 2012
When the Wild Imagination of Dr. Seuss Fueled Big Oil, Collectors Weekly, Aug. 17, 2012
Why the ‘Native’ Fashion Trend Is Pissing Off Real Native Americans, Collectors Weekly, Dec. 1, 2011
Year in Review 2011: Futurecasting, Yahoo! News, Dec. 13, 2011
Solar Storms Forecast for 2012, Yahoo! News, Dec. 13, 2011
9 Ways Dating Will Be Reinvented in 2012, Yahoo! News, Dec. 22, 2011
Interview with Leroy Moore, Founder of Krip Hop Nation, KQED Arts, Feb. 17, 2011
Artists With Disabilities Portray How 'Aliens' Would Like To Be Loved, KQED Arts, Jan. 27, 2011
Transgender Artist Explains How Lyon-Martin Loss Could Devastate The Community, SFist, Feb. 10, 2011
Egyptian Students at Cal Organize Protest to Help Their Families, Friends, SFist, Feb. 3, 2011
Mistah F.A.B. gets real: Less hyphy hijinks, more straight talk, KQED Arts, Oct. 3, 2010
Cyberspace: Bullying's New Turf, Yahoo! News, Dec. 21, 2010
Femme Fatales: A Year in Lady Spies, Yahoo! News, Dec. 17, 2010
Yahoo! Year in Review 2010: Natural Disasters, Yahoo! News, Dec. 3, 2010
Lean on me: Abortion doulas provide support for women who exercise their right to choose, Bust, February/March 2010
Pop culture, fashion, & the arts
Is Our Retro Obsession Ruining Everything?, Collectors Weekly, Nov. 19, 2012
Could Your Stuff Be Haunted? Ghostbusting The Creepiest Antiques, Collectors Weekly, Oct. 25, 2012
Trying on a Piece of Rock History: Inside Kim Gordon’s Clothing Sale, Collectors Weekly, Sept. 1, 2012
Baby’s First Butcher Shop, Circa 1900, Collectors Weekly, Aug. 2, 2012
Bizarro Beauty Products, from 1889 to Now, Collectors Weekly, July 20, 2012
Va-Va-Voom Vintage: Dita Von Teese on Burlesque, Fast Cars, and Old Lingerie, Collectors Weekly, July 16, 2012
My Little Pony Smackdown: Girls vs. Bronies, Collectors Weekly, June 28, 2012
Leading the Charge Against Casual Style, Armed With Antique Clothes and a Bike, Collectors Weekly, May 7, 2012
Sea-Monkeys and X-Ray Spex: Collecting the Bizarre Stuff Sold in the Back of Comic Books, Collectors Weekly, April 18, 2012
Everything You Know About Corsets Is False, Collectors Weekly, Jan. 17, 2012
Taxidermy Comes Alive! On the Web, the Silver Screen, and in Your Living Room, Collectors Weekly, Sept. 27, 2011
Occupy Boardwalk: How Games Got Greedy, Collectors Weekly, Oct. 11, 2011
The Inside Scoop on the Fake Barf Industry, Collectors Weekly, Aug. 23, 2011
Cyanide, Uranium, and Ammonium Nitrate: When Kids Really Had Fun With Science, Collectors Weekly, July 20, 2011
The Beautiful Chaos of African American Improvisational Quilts, Collectors Weekly, July 13, 2011
Too Lazy To Work Out? Machines That Exercise for You, From Victorian Times to the Present, Collectors Weekly, May 26, 2011
How Snake Oil Got a Bad Rap (Hint: It Wasn’t The Snakes’ Fault), Collectors Weekly, May 20, 2011
Pitchfork culture: Muddy men, crafty girls, and $2 haircuts, VenusZine.com, July 22, 2008
San Francisco Bay Area arts & culture
Help Her Help You Drink Your Way Through the Tenderloin, SFist, Feb. 3, 2011
Oakland Art Gallery, Experimental Music Space, 21 Grand Set to Close, KQED Arts, Nov. 23, 2010
Murder Ballad Bash lets inner monsters out to play, KQED Arts, Oct. 27, 2010
Canine carousel carver has eye, ear for detail, San Francisco Chronicle, March 1, 2010
- The layout as it appeared in the SFiS magazine can be viewed
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S.F. writer gives female superheroes their due, San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 7, 2010
Eating in with Debaser: DJs from San Francisco's hottest '90s party take the cake, Venus Zine, August 1, 2009
This Branch is Now a Home: Girl Seeks Vacant Tree, SFist, March 11, 2009
What Happened to the SNIFF Paintings?, SFist, April 16, 2009
Keak da Sneak: Hyper king of hyphy, San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 8, 2006
Clubland: Hyphy dancing at Youth Uprising, San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 16, 2005
Punk style at home in Oakland's Purple House and more on "Punk House" book, San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 13, 2008
Gatsby picnic at Dunsmuir estate in Oakland, San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 16, 2007
Swap SF: Clothing swaps aren't for the weak of spirit, San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 24, 2008
Singles invent Christmas celebrations with personal meaning, San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 19, 2007
Essentials pick of the week: Deep Dickollective and other recommendations, San Francisco Chronicle, June 22, 2006
Clubland: Bay Area Derby Girls San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 30, 2005
Celebrity interviews & other profiles
LYNDA BARRY / Cartoonist Lynda Barry makes a case for phone-book doodling, KQED Arts, Oct. 11, 2010
JOAN JETT / Style Idols: Joan Jett and Girl in a Coma, Venus Zine, March 1, 2008
PAUL WESTERBERG / Like at Virgin: Paul Westerberg, San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 5, 2004
NAOMI WOLF / Did Father Know Best? Naomi Wolf reconsiders her Bohemian upbringing, San Francisco Chronicle, June 19, 2005
MARY TIMONY / The former Helium front woman talks being ahead of the freak-folk curve, and dealing with the "angry girl" label, VenusZine.com, May 3, 2007
Fly Cars: Flights of fancy or the inevitable transport of the future, Intersection, Winter 2007
Plotting a World Record, One Marker at a Time, Collectors Weekly, April 20, 2011
Personal Effects: Ditties talk back to PMS blues, San Francisco Chronicle, May 15, 2005
Vintage 1970s Lunch Boxes Revisited: When Pop Culture Ruled the Playground, Collectors Weekly, Dec. 17, 2010
Attack of the Vintage Toy Robots! Justin Pinchot on Japan's coolest postwar export, Collectors Weekly, Nov. 18, 2010
Class of 2008: Heather Hammel, Elle Girl, every issue from December 2004/January 2005 to June 2006
Web sites: Managed and edited
Flavorpill SF, Issues 179-285
Highlights:
SF 280: bff flavor, September 11-17, 2007
SF 270: esperanto flavor, July 3-9, 2007
SF 265: alchemy flavor, May 29-June 4, 2007
SF 264: solidarity flavor, May 22-28, 2007
SF 263: tinkering flavor, May 15-21, 2007
SF 262: wonderment flavor, May 8-14, 2007
SF 261: disintegration flavor, May 1-7, 2007
SF 255: hotpants flavor, March 20-26, 2007
SF 253: howling flavor, March 6-12, 2007
SF 252: spazz flavor, Feb. 27-March 5, 2007
SF 251: yaddamean flavor, Feb. 20-26, 2007
SF 250: luscious flavor, Feb. 13-19, 2007
SF 245: techgasm flavor, Jan. 9-15, 2007
SF 242-3: elfin flavor, Dec. 19-25, 2006
SF 234: reanimated flavor, Oct. 24-30, 2006
SF 224: illusionary flavor, Aug. 15-21, 2006
SF 222: cube flavor, Aug. 1-7, 2006
SF 218: leisure flavor, July 5-10, 2006
SF 204: big-game flavor, March 28-April 3, 2006
SF 200: hullabaloo flavor, Feb. 28-March 6, 2006
SF 197: heroic flavor, Feb. 7-13, 2006
SF 188: cloudburst flavor, Dec. 6-12, 2005
SF 182: spine-tingling flavor, Oct. 25-31, 2005