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Tony Bravo May 7, 2021Updated: May 7, 2021, 11:06 am
A fnnch honey bear mural on a wall on Mission Street in San Francisco. Photo: Scott Strazzante
For years, you’ve seen them featured in murals, pasted on boarded storefronts, and in the windows of homes and businesses: images of bear-shaped bottles of honey in an array of guises like ballerina tutus, Bay Area sports teams gear, sunglasses and a gold chain honoring hip-hop group Run-DMC.
Now this legion of honey bears has become among the most polarizing figures in San Francisco. As has fnnch, the alias of the artist who created and marketed the bears to mass proliferation across the city.
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A history exhibit on the almost forgotten story of Chinese people in coastal Marin has long been a goal of the Bolinas Museum, but the current national conversations about anti-Asian racism led us to consider our coastal Marin story now. The San Francisco Bay Area has a dark history of anti-Chinese racism dating back to the Gold Rush, including the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 that was not revoked until 1943, after China became our ally during World War II. Today, fueled by rhetoric linked to the pandemic, elderly Chinese, vilified, have been the victims of physical attacks that echo an attack on an elderly Chinese man on Bolinas Beach in 1878. Despite such history, the talents and accomplishments of Asian people have profoundly enriched the Bay Area’s culture and economy.
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Melanie Gillman, an American cartoonist, shared their secrets to success within the comic book industry in an event presented by Stonewall Hall and the LGBT Resource Center. Gilllman is the creator of âAs the Crow Flies,â winner of the 2018 Stonewall Honor Award, and âStage Dreams.â Theyâve also worked on comics for popular brands, such as âCare Bearsâ and âSteven Universe,â and they are a senior lecturer in the Comics Master of Fine Arts Program at the California College of the Arts.
At the start of the event, it was announced that the LGBT Resource Center would be mailing everyone who attended free copies of âNonbinary,â a minicomic created by Gillman that discusses the process of coming out and living as a nonbinary person. Gillman started the meeting by interacting with viewers and asking them what comics they are currently interested in. Many people called at