Jordan Karnes
ReporterJordan Karnes (they/them) is a 2025-2026 Audio Academy Fellow. They are the author of It Hasn’t Stopped Being California Here (Carville Annex Press) and More Silver Than Gold (Finishing Line Press). Their work has appeared in the Believer Magazine, New Life Quarterly, and at the Prelinger Library’s Place Talks lecture series. They are the Chair of the Literary Arts Department at Oakland School for the Arts where they teach poetry, journalism, and creative nonfiction to middle and high school students.
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CrosscurrentsLate last year, the beloved Oakland queer bar Friends and Family announced the news that it was closing. Their community was so upset, devoted customers even threw the bar a funeral. Their closure left many wondering why it seems so hard for the few bars that serve lesbian and queer people in the Bay Area to survive. It turns out, according to one queer sociologist, that there's actually a magic formula that queer bars need to succeed. -
Oakland’s first professional women’s tackle football team, the Golden State Storm, played their inaugural game against the San Diego Rebellion at Laney College on Saturday night. -
A crowd gathered outside SFPD’s headquarters today to protest the department’s presence during ICE’s arrest of a woman and her daughter at SFO on Sunday. -
Thousands of people came out for Olympic figure skater Alysa Liu’s star-studded celebratory return to Oakland on Thursday. -
Because of a new federal rule, 13,000 truck drivers in California lost their licenses last week. -
San Francisco Superior Court clerks started striking today. -
On Tuesday, the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a plan to create 200 new jobs. -
An LA-based health care tech company that’s using AI to treat unhoused patients is coming to the Bay Area. KALW’s Jordan Karnes has more. -
San Francisco’s Historic Preservation Committee voted on Wednesday to initiate landmark designation for Compton’s Cafeteria. -
CrosscurrentsA group of die-hard fans are out to save Cal football with the power of memes.
