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PleasePrEPMe.org seeks to expand access to PrEP within California
HIVE (hiveonline.org) and Project Inform (projectinform.org) are pleased to announce the hiring of three key positions for supporting PrEP services within California and nationally through expanded navigation services at PleasePrEPMe.org (PPM). The launch date of these free new services is being planned for early April. “HIVE launched PleasePrEPMe.org in 2015 to provide consumers a(…)
New Cookbook Has the Recipe on How to Be a Great HIV Advocate
HIV is the second leading cause of death among adolescents globally so it makes sense a group of young people have created a new way to respond to the issue. Youth advocates from around the world worked together with the International AIDS Society (IAS) to create a HIV response ‘cookbook’. The Young HIV Advocates Cookbook contains the ‘essential(…)
Identity Politics Forever
The results of three elections in different parts of the world have been cast by pundits as proof that politicians who embrace “identity politics” risk being punished for it at the polls. In each case, this narrative has pointed to an emphasis on LGBT rights as being politically risky and somehow divisive. Last year, in(…)
Local News
Santa Rosa Junior College Offers Free Classes to County Inmates
The students leaned forward, watching closely as Santa Rosa Junior College professor Barbara Gude slapped another math problem on the board. It had been years since some had seen mixed fractions. Gude turned to her students, all sitting at tables, all dressed in the same demin-blue jail clothing, and asked, “What is the common(…)
“Rise Up” for Sonoma County Pride’s Solidarity Rally June 3
Sonoma County Pride will for the first time host an LGBTQI Solidarity Rally Saturday, June 3 in Guerneville 1 – 4 p.m. The name of the event is “Rise Up,” because this is a call to action for the Community to stand up for: LGBTQI Rights, Women’s Rights, Immigration Rights, Voting Rights, Racial Equality, and(…)
Trump May Be Bad for Sonoma County’s Travel Industry, Speaker Warns
International travel to Sonoma County and other sought-after destinations across the United States could take a hit under President Donald Trump, a top travel industry executive warned in Santa Rosa Monday. Roger Dow, CEO of the U.S. Travel Association, said Trump’s proposed travel restrictions on six predominantly Muslim countries could have a chilling effect on(…)
Sonoma County Eyes its Own Santa Rosa Property in Bid to Ease Housing Shortage
Four publicly owned properties around Santa Rosa could be dramatically reshaped over the next several years by a push to create large numbers of new homes, apartments and condominiums and chip away at the region’s housing crisis. Sonoma County officials could soon move forward on efforts to build housing at the site of the county(…)
Arts & Entertainment
Book Review: “Forward: A Memoir,” by Abby Wambach
Wambach, Abby. Forward: A Memoir. Dey Street Books, 2016. HC. $26.99. ISBN 978-0062466983. Since I generally don’t follow team sports, I confess my awareness of Abby Wambach was pretty slim until recently. Not so arguably, she is the greatest professional female soccer player in history, and this revealing autobiography shows us that she is also(…)
Book Review: ‘Good Night, Beloved Comrade: The Letters of Denton Welch to Eric Oliver’ edited by Daniel J. Murtaugh
“I want people to read about us 500 years from now,” the novelist Denton Welch rhapsodized to his friend and sometime lover, Eric Oliver, in a letter from 1943. We can’t know about 500 years, but the first complete collection of Welch’s letters to Oliver, edited by Daniel J. Murtaugh and published by the University(…)
State News
Over the Top: Math Bass & the Imperial Court SF at the Oakland Museum
Familiar symbols, flipped and “queered” to create new shared meaning, are at the heart of this exhibition that pairs new work by a contemporary California artist with the creative practice of a local organization. In paintings, sculpture, and video, perception-bending Los Angeles-based artist Math Bass emphasizes that symbols change meaning according to context and(…)
California Legislators Push Solutions to Housing Affordability Crisis
Assemblymember David Chiu (D – San Francisco), Chair of the Assembly Committee on Housing and Community Development, was today joined by Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Paramount) and Assembly colleagues to push for solutions to the housing affordability crisis that threatens California’s economy and makes life difficult for so many of the state’s residents. Legislators called(…)
