Dec 13, 2024
Season of Sharing Fund gave some peace of mind to aspiring boxing champ Keoni Washington, who became parent and breadwinner to his brothers after their mother passed away early in the pandemic. We meet him at the East Bay apartment he shares with three of his brothers. Keoni received rental assistance from Season of...
Dec 13, 2024
It's been awhile since I've dropped an episode, but I hope to revisit THE INTERSECTION in the New Year. In the meantime, I wanted to share a project I've been working on called SHARING STORIES. It's a series of portraits of people in the Bay Area who have received one-time emergency rental assistance from SF Chronicle...
Sep 5, 2023
As the media portrays 2023's Burning Man as a
hellscape, THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man revists the work
of a group of Burners at the 2019 event. They felt that the
overwhelmingly white community wasn't living up to its
self-proclaimed principle of Radical Inclusion. Find out what has
changed and what hasn't.
And, as...
Sep 4, 2020
One of the principles guiding Burning Man is "Radical Inclusion." Basically, all are welcome. But, the temporary city that Burners build in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert has never been racially diverse. Just 1% of Black Rock City self-identifies as Black. In this episode of THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man, we explore why...
Sep 1, 2020
Burning Man is known for a lot of things: The
art. The parties. The wooden man that’s set on ablaze every year.
But most Burners don’t know much about the history of the land or
its original inhabitants: the Pyramid Lake Paiutes
In this episode of THE INTERSECTION,
reporter Lucy Kang explores the
Piautes and their...