Media Coverage

Check out this amazing route curated by Atlas Obscura with 12 stops (The Women’s Building of San Francisco included!) and more than 3,000 miles which will give you a front-row seat to women’s history in the U.S. Enjoy the reading!

A history of The Women’s Building, which was at the center of the second-wave feminist movement in San Francisco, and a look at its recent repainting.

Worldwide, only 65% of women have a bank account, compared with 72% for men, so as we celebrate National Businesswoman’s Week later this month, community development financial institutions are working to even the playing field. Many of those institutions specialize in making loans to under-banked groups. Ebony Perkins, director of investor relations for Self-Help Credit Union, said her organization has loaned $3.25 billion dollars to women over the past 40 years.

The video was produced, directed and edited by Micropixie with an all-female crew, who were mostly women of color, and shot in the rapidly-gentrifying Mission district of San Francisco with some famous neighborhood locations: The Women’s Building, Lovejoy’s Tea Room, and Radio Habana Social Club.

From the Martin-Lyon House and Harvey Milk’s Castro Camera to SF Eagle and Transgender District, SF’s LGBTQ history is easy to find.

Lily Macia opened the door of the Women’s Building to say goodbye to a mother and father who had finished their fingerprinting appointment, a process required for sponsors to reunite with minors who have crossed the border. Many of the sponsors Macia works with have been successfully reunited with the minors, but one particularly challenging story was of a Guatemalan mother who was never able to reunite with her daughter.

As thousands of San Franciscans became hungry during the course of the year, Mission individuals and organizations took on the need.

Carmen Vázquez, a Force on L.G.B.T.Q. Issues, Dies at 72. Often outspoken, she was a fixture in advocacy groups in San Francisco and New York. She died of Covid-19. By the New York Times.

Carmen Vázquez altered political organizing in both California and New York during her lifetime. She died on Jan. 27, 2021, from Covid-19. By Mission Local.