Advice
Stop Looking for Reasons to be Offended
This originally appeared in my Broke-Ass City column for the San Francisco Examiner. I’ve been doing this whole Broke-Ass Stuart thing for 13-and-a-half years. If my brand were a Jewish boy, his bar mitzvah would’ve been last summer. And I’m sure he would’ve done marvelously at his Torah portion. Thirteen
Surviving ADHD as an Adult
By Rachel Fogletto So, you’ve been diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, and you’re probably thinking, “What do I even do with this information?” If you’re anything like me, you’ll write a painfully funny standup bit about it and pray your doctor doesn’t ever look you up on YouTube. If
What it’s Like Being a Black Gentrifier
Guest post by LeRon L. Barton The story of San Francisco today can be summed up in three words: Housing, Displacement, and Gentrification. The removal of people from their homes, the loss of local business, the reimaging of neighborhoods, and the destruction of community is the number one issue with
Andrew Yang is Running for President on a Universal Basic Income Platform
In 2018, the impossible has become reality. Cars are driving themselves, Apple is worth more than a trillion dollars and Donald Trump is president. While these may at first seem unrelated, they tell the story of how our country has veered into a dystopian nightmare, and how, if we act
A Hacker Threatened to Expose My Porn Habits and I’m OK With That
I don’t often go into my Spam folder. It’s usually filled with emails from Nigerian princes and cam girls who apparently are very, very wet but I’m very, very gay and not interested. Recently, in between money offers from his royal highness and girls who ask me to ‘taste their
Your Cellphone Addiction is Making You Rude
This originally appeared in my Broke-Ass City column for the San Francisco Examiner As decades pass, etiquette evolves. Many things that were once thought of as rude or improper are eventually considered casual. Similarly, things that were once considered polite, can become old-fashioned or stuffy. There was a time when
How to Safely Intervene When Someone is Being Harassed
I got these tips from the American Friends Service Committee, a “Quaker organization that promotes lasting peace with justice, as a practical expression of faith in action.” These are tips that can help you safely intervene for any kind of harassment whether the person is a woman, queer, Muslim, a