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May.09.2009
Introduction: Scenes from an Independent America, 2007
After a hot and stuffy Fourth of July, hung-over and weary revelers woke on the fifth to find the Bay Area covered in a more typical summer blanket of fog. As Friday the sixth rolled around, the organizers of Oakland’s Art Murmur, a monthly gallery walk that had recently grown into a full-blown hipster street...
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About Kaya
Kaya Oakes’ memoir, Radical Reinvention, is forthcoming from Counterpoint Press in April of 2012. Her first nonfiction book, Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture, was published by Henry Holt, and selected as a San Francisco Chronicle notable...
Causes Kaya Oakes Supports
The ACLU
Southern Poverty Law Center
Call to Action
Human Rights Campaign
Berkeley Food and Housing Project
Kaya’s Favorite Books
The White Album: Joan Didion, City of Quartz: Mike Davis, Can't Stop Won't Stop: Jeff Chang, Ghost World: Daniel Clowes, Love and Rockets: Gilbert and Jaime...