As El Tecolote’s 25 issues per year are structured around our print offerings found all over San Francisco, in Daly City, and in Oakland’s Fruitvale, our pages have physical limits the internet does not. So while news and arts and culture coverage is what centers El Tecolote, we aim to carve out enough inches of […]
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The international fight to make abortion legal, safe, and free
[Photos by Mara Cavallaro; Lead photo: VerĂłnica Cruz, founder of Las Libres, the Mexican feminist organization guaranteeing free abortion pills for people in the U.S., poses for a portrait during a fundraising event at AcciĂłn Latina on Dec. 10. The group raised $2,220 to fund Las Libres’ abortion kits.] Spike Kahn had been fundraising for […]
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Latinx children are receiving better dental care in San Francisco than the national average
[by Jack Davies; courtesy photo] [Editor’s Note: The following story is part of a collaboration between journalism students at San Francisco State and El Tecolote, and is supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine.] The Magic Tooth Bus drives through San Francisco, providing children with dental services at […]
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Public outrage works: Killer robots are dead, at least temporarily
[Via Tim Redmond/48Hills; photo via SFGovTV] Sometimes, organized public outcry works, particularly in a city with district elections of supervisors, where the public officials making the decision have to be closer to the people who have input. On Dec. 6, after a bit of parliamentary confusion, the supes voted 8-3 to ban the immediate use […]
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Chilean author, El Tecolote contributor Carlos BarĂłn publishes first poetry book
[Lead photo: author Carlos BarĂłn; photos by Alexis Terrazas] The democratically-elected government of Salvador Allende had just fallen. And a 25-year-old Carlos BarĂłn, alongside a group of Chilean theater students, weren’t going to stay silent. They had agreed to defend their country’s first Socialist government. But the September 11, 1973 Coup d’Ă©tat that ousted and […]
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Silent night, shopping night
[Illustration by Bruno Ferreira] Once again, the time has come to shop. I mean, to celebrate “the holidays.” I grew up in a mainly Catholic country, so the seasonal buying frenzy was associated, loosely, with the birth of baby Jesus. Still, it was secondary to a celebration controlled by a jolly good saint: Santa Claus. […]
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Advocates rally to keep Oasis Family Shelter open in San Francisco, protect families from houselessness
[Photos by Jeremy Word] As the only low-barrier shelter for families in San Francisco is set to close on Dec. 15, dozens of city residents, housing advocates and health care workers gathered on Dec. 6 for an emergency rally on the steps of City Hall, protesting the closure of Oasis Family Shelter. In addition to […]
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PODCAST: Inside Mictlan, the making of a Mexican Indigenous video game
On the latest #RadioTeco Cultura episode, we are joined by Guillermo Alarcon, the Founder and Creative Director of the forthcoming video game, Mictlan: An Ancient Mythical Tale. Mictlan, which is scheduled to launch in the winter of 2025, is the first open world meso-american themed video game and takes place in the 16th century during […]
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Despite denial, COVID is still here — and so is our grief
[Mara Cavallaro is El Tecolote’s Report for America Corps Member who reports on mental health and healthcare inequality in the Latinx community; lead photo: Kristin Urquiza, co-founder of the SF-based pandemic justice organization Marked By Covid, poses for a portrait while holding an image of her and her father, Mark. In June of 2020, Mark […]
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The Mexican network guaranteeing free, safe abortions in the U.S: Q & A with Las Libres’ VerĂłnica Cruz
[Mara Cavallaro is El Tecolote’s Report for America Corps Member who reports on mental health and healthcare inequality in the Latinx community; lead photo: VerĂłnica Cruz, founder of Las Libres, a central Mexico-based reproductive justice organization, speaks in Guanajuato, MĂ©xico, 2014. Photo: Niktehabrc/wikimedia commons] This June, when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, there […]