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Rae Alexandra

San Francisco

KQED Arts & Culture Staff Writer/ NPR One voice/ 'Rebel Girls From Bay Area History' creator/ Welsh Woman in SF/ Rat lady

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  • 1 week ago | kqed.org | Rae Alexandra

    Jun 19Failed to save articlePlease try againAaron Taylor-Johnson (L) and Alfie Williams star in ‘28 Years Later.’ (Columbia Pictures)Our story is rooted in a community of North-East Englanders living on an island that connects to the mainland via a narrow path that only appears in low tide. Vibes on the island are like a way cooler version of The Kingdom in The Walking Dead, which always just felt like an enclave of nerds cosplaying at a Ren Faire and kind of ruined Season 8.

  • 1 week ago | kqed.org | Rae Alexandra

    On the amount of equipment she was required to lug up and down steep, uneven terrain all day:I tried not to do the math: pack, forty-five pounds; tool, five or ten pounds; banjo, ten pounds; hose, ten pounds each, times four: total … one-hundred pounds? I wasn’t sure of my own weight, maybe 140 or 150, so what I carried was 70 percent of another me…? Don’t think about it. On fighting her own body’s instincts, day after day:The hill looks vertical. The leg is tired: it claims to be broken.

  • 2 weeks ago | kqed.org | Rae Alexandra

    Jun 13Failed to save articlePlease try againFor Elaine Black Yoneda, it wasn’t a choice. When authorities informed her that her three-year-old son Tommy would be imprisoned in a concentration camp for the crime of being half-Japanese, Yoneda — a white Jewish woman — insisted on going with him. Her Japanese American husband Karl was already being detained at Manzanar, a camp in the desert beneath the Sierra Nevada mountains.

  • 2 weeks ago | kqed.org | Rae Alexandra

    Jun 11Failed to save articlePlease try again(L) Jack Bee Garland as depicted in Stockton newspaper ‘The Evening Mail’ in 1897. (R) One of Garland’s own articles, written when he was using the moniker Beebe Beam.

  • 2 weeks ago | kqed.org | Rae Alexandra

    Jun 9Failed to save articlePlease try againThe roving black and white tegu, out and about in Joseph D. Grant County Park. (Courtesy of Santa Clara County Parks)When someone told me over the weekend that a black and white tegu was loose in Joseph D. Grant County Park, I initially thought one of those boxy little driverless robotaxis had gone rogue.

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Rae Alexandra @Raemondjjjj
13 Feb 25

For years, Twitter was useful for news, trends & connecting to other journalists. Since becoming X, it has ceased to be helpful on any level. More importantly, the motivations of its owner make it impossible to stay without feeling complicit. I'm out.👋 Sorry it took me so long.

Rae Alexandra
Rae Alexandra @Raemondjjjj
7 Feb 25

It's almost Valentine's Day, everyone! Because this holiday is designed to make single people feed bad about their lives, I'm trying to restore the balance with this: the stories of some San Francisco couples who caused each other's deaths. Yay! 💘 https://t.co/t5bmPiP7qf

Rae Alexandra
Rae Alexandra @Raemondjjjj
5 Feb 25

I am finally watching 'The Substance' and, holy shit, it's TERRIBLE. The woman that made this movie hates women and she wants you to hate women too. Fuck off with your awards.