Episode 77: San Francisco

Moira and Adrian tackle the longstanding conservative fixation on the city of San Francisco, its people and its mores. From demographic anxieties, via Joan Didion's hippie-hate, to disaster movies, doom loops, and progressive prosecutors -- the history of SF-hate is a history of US politics.
Books and media cited in this episode:
Joseph Plaster, Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin (dukeupress.edu/kids-on-the-street) (2023)
Susan Stryker, Victor Silverman (dirs.), Screaming Queens (youtube.com/watch?v=G-WASW9dRBU) (2005)
Thom Andersen, Los Angeles Plays Itself (kanopy.com/en/product/los-angeles-plays-itself)(2003)
David Talbot, Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love (citylights.com/north-america/season-of-the-wit…) (2013)
Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem (us.macmillan.com/books/9780374531386/slouching…) (1968)
Eve Babitz, Eve's Hollywood (nyrb.com/products/eve-s-hollywood) (1974)
Mike Davis, City of Quartz (versobooks.com/products/1320-city-of-quartz) (1990)