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Send us Fan Mail Shaping Legacy is a multi-year commitment to critically examine the monuments and memorials in San Francisco’s Civic Art collection. ​It is a chance to rectify current power imbalances, engage communities that have historically been excluded from discussions, and create opportunities for artist-led activations in public spaces that reimagine future monuments and memorials in our c...

Send us Fan Mail Another Pride month is in the books and it brought us so much joy. Erin and Ange share the magic of being in San Francisco for Pride, including the Frameline Film festival (the world's longest running and largest LGBTQIA film festival), the Valkyries kicking ass "For the gays!" , and then Ange shares the details of her first ever triathlon.  HERE is a trailer for Te...

Send us Fan Mail We're celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Frameline Film Festival (the world's longest running and largest LGBTQIA film fest!) with two films that shine a light on hypocrisy in religion in very different ways. Hunky Jesus is a wildly entertaining documentary about the annual Hunky Jesus competition that takes place in Dolores Park in San Francisco on Easter Sunday (a...

Send us Fan Mail It's virtually impossible to encapsulate a conversation wth Boots Riley . From becoming an activist as a teenager, to getting a record deal while in school for filmmaking, his life is as fascinating as his body of work. And his newest film, I Love Boosters , is unlike anything you've seen before, and deepens his impact as a voice for the worker revolution. Let's jus...

Send us Fan Mail It's time to celebrate Frameline 's 50th anniversary (June 17th-27th), the longest running and largest LGBTQIA film festival in the world! We are proud to bring you two very different films that celebrate representation from international independent voices. At the Place of Ghosts is a trauma-centric horror film that follows two estranged brothers as they venture into th...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Pride Month!  This is a very special episode recorded live at KALW ,  a Bay Area public radio station where Erin is a freelance audio journalist. Jeff Hiller was in San Francisco for an event to promote his memoir Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success , and he joins Erin in front of a live audience to dish some behind the scenes stories on his e...

Send us Fan Mail We're back with another Basic Bitch and we've got a lot to get off our chest! From the upcoming election on June 2nd , our new obsession for memory games, the return of the WNBA (GO VALKS !), and the reason for our newly dubbed " Jeff Hiller Day", this one is all about things that are bringing us joy...and a couple of things that are pissing us off (because, du...

Send us Fan Mail We are celebrating the 69th San Francisco International Film Festival with a film that celebrates love, friendship, and living a life outside of the box. Yo (Love is a Rebellious Bird) is a documentary that honors the life of co-director Anna Fitch 's friend, Yo. Through interviews captured in the final years of Yo's life, and a mini recreation of Yo's home, Anna is...

Send us Fan Mail Kate Schatz is a feminist author, activist, public speaker, and radical history lover.  Her newest book, Where the Girls Were , is a historical novel about a pregnant teenager being sent to a home for unwed mothers in late 1960s San Francisco. We sit down to discuss this book being inspired by her mother's story, how she is doing the work to fight racism, watching The Pitt as...

Send us Fan Mail *Warning, this episode contains a conversation about suicide.* In honor of Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Month, we're sharing some interviews from a really special event that we participated in back in November, the fifth annual Pinayista Summit hosted by Make it Mariko . Pinayista is a vibrant community of Filipino women entrepreneurs and creative solop...

Send us Fan Mail We're (finally) back with a Basic Bitch and we have a lot to catch up on! We wax poetic about being middle aged AF, how a Peaches concert is giving us life, Pedro Pascal's sticky fingers , comedians we love (and which ones can fuck off), and then we cap the episode off with a hyphy "This Bitch". Don't forget to vote in the California Primary on June 2nd! F...

Send us Fan Mail The Tech We Want is building an alternative tech ecosystem that balances people, purpose and profit. Attending their events during SXSW has always been a highlight of our experience, and this year we were honored to include them as a sponsor. We sit down with Julia Solano , Aniyia Williams , and Tara Reed to discuss humanity in technology, staying rooted in community, being a blac...

Send us Fan Mail Seekers of Infinite Love follows siblings who embark on a roadtrip to save their  sister who joined a cult in Kentucky. Writer/director Victoria Strouse discusses life with siblings, actor Justin Theroux debates whether he is a better dresser than Walton Goggins, actor John Reynolds shares how he finds connection outside of work, actor Griffin Gluck shares the joys of playing a we...

Send us Fan Mail Are We Still Married ? is a narrative pilot/short film about what happens to a couple after the husband becomes a vampire. Director/writer Kit Steinkellner joins us to discuss how this script is based on her husband getting bit by a bat in real life, how the cliffhanger ending is cause for debate, and why her husband is her biggest muse. Eructation is a documentary short film that...

Send us Fan Mail The Dads is a documentary that follows a group of dads forming a movement to support their trans and gender expansive children amid the rising anti-trans legislation and hostility in the US. We are joined by director Luchina Fisher and subject/producer Stephen Chukumba to discuss why they felt compelled to turn their short film into a feature, how Stephen became a producer on the...

Send us Fan Mail Black Zombie unearths the buried origins of the zombie, from Hollywood horror to the haunted cane fields of colonized Haiti. Director Maya Annik Bedward joins us to share why this cultural reckoning is so important for Haiti, her difficulties in figuring out what to include in the film, and how a special scene with Erol Josué , General Director of Haiti's National Bureau of E...

Send us Fan Mail Warning: This episode talks about suicide. If you or someone you know is thinking about harming themselves please call 988 . Thanks for Nothing is a dark comedy about four friends who live in a self made group home and must work together to save their friend from her continued suicide attempts. We are joined by director Stella Marie Markert and actor Lea Drinda to discuss the crea...

Send us Fan Mail Your Attention Please is a doc that follows the change makers fighting back against Big Tech's agenda to define the future of human connection. We are joined by director Sara Robin , cinematographer Yahna Harris , and inventor Trisha Prabhu , to discuss healthy ways in which they counter screen time, and setting intentions for our use of technology. Dreamquil is set in the no...

Send us Fan Mail Rock Springs is a horror film that follows a young girl and her mother as they move to a remote house after the death of her father, only to discover a monster hidden in the town's history and the woods behind their house. Director Vera Miao and star Kelly Marie Tran join us to discuss the Chinese American diaspora, being Asian American women in the entertainment industry, an...

Send us Fan Mail My Brother's Killer chronicles the unsolved murder of Billy London , a gay adult film performer who was brutally killed in West Hollywood more than 30 years ago. Director Rachel Mason and producer/editor Dion Labriola join us to discuss the importance of memorializing Billy's life, the one and only Penelope Spheeris coming on board as executive producer, and collecting g...

Send us Fan Mail Edie Arnold is a Loser is a coming-of-age film about a group of high school outcasts who stir up trouble at their all-girls Catholic High School when they form a punk band. This interview was a full on party, as we are joined by co-director/writer Megan Rico , co-director Kade Atwood , and the film's stars Adi Madden Cabrera and McKenna Tuckett . We discuss our shared Catholi...

Send us Fan Mail Fresh off the whirlwind of SXSW 2026 , Erin and Ange reflect on all the action behind the scenes (while on location at an all you can eat/open bar brunch party). We've got red carpet hypes and gripes, learning to rethink our futures at The Tech We Want , a Lesbian Simulator VR experience, unpacking our secret crushes on Jack Johnson, and so much more ...  Thank you to our fes...

Send us Fan Mail We're on location at one of our favorite events of the year, the Standard Deviant Brewing Pre-Superbowl Chili Cook-off! This is their 8th annual celebration of all things chili, and we have exclusive interviews with the chili makers and the final results!  San Franciscans truly shine with creativity and talent, and this year was no different. We have everything from nuns to T...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to 2 of our most fun red carpets ever! In Chasing Summer , Jamie returns to her small hometown, where friends and flings from a high school summer turn her life upside down. We chat with talent Lauren Aboulafia , Kristin Slaysman , Garrett Wareing , Cassidy "Uterus" Freeman , and Aimee Garcia , costumer Amela Baksic , dir Josephine Decker , and writer/star Iliza...

Send us Fan Mail These two Sundance Film Festival documentaries discuss human life, both in how we deal with aging, and the lengths that we go to live longer. The Oldest Person in the World chronicles the ever-changing Guinness World Record holders of the title of oldest person alive. Director Sam Green discusses his curiosity with our obsession with death, why the record holders are mostly women,...