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Life is Still Beautiful Above the bustling sounds in the restaurant’s kitchen is the contagious laughter of a tall, slender, waitress named Kristi Kissell. She quickly replaces her smile with a serious visage but can’t help but grin again when a familiar face walks...
[ Story by Christine Joy Ferrer ]
Thursday, Apr 24 2008 8:00 AM

My Mother, A Paranoid Schizophrenic That woman was my mama who had been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic when I was in high school. Unlike my two-decade-older siblings, remembering my mother for her charm, intelligence and beauty, I’ve known her only as a woman haunted by hallucinations, insistent about locking every door in the house and paranoid that others were trying to steal the money she didn’t have.
[ Story by Christine Joy Ferrer ]
Friday, Dec 14 2007 5:57 PM

The Poor Man's Struggle I am that poor man often stared at oddly/You spy me slovenly as poverty draws me camouflage…I am that poor man you don’t understand/or ignore this but sometimes you pour porridge that meets these orphaned lips/and others see me as...
[ Story by Christine Joy Ferrer ]
Friday, Dec 14 2007 1:30 PM

[X]press Magazine Staff Experiences with Racism Brittany Price I was in the fifth grade when I started listening to hip-hop, way before it became a norm for white-suburbia. My parents outlawed any cd’s with those black and white stickers and frowned at the hours I spent...
[ Story by Staff ]
Friday, Oct 5 2007 11:56 AM

Judge a Mag by its Cover Jane Doe: “There are not enough people of color represented in mainstream media.” John Doe: “But that’s what ethnic news is for.” I can’t pinpoint exactly what urged me to count the number of white faces vs. minority faces on...
[ Story by Christine Joy Ferrer ]
Monday, Oct 1 2007 8:53 AM

Hate Street The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) police officers that pulled over Cassonova Tiger at around 1:30 a.m. didn’t tell him why they were searching his car. Instead, the routine was hashed out: step out of the car and put your...
[ Story by Christine Joy Ferrer ]
Monday, Sep 17 2007 12:41 PM

Animal lover, journalism major killed traveling back to SF State Nadia Harumi Smit, 26, and her mother, Nenita Smit, joked about having a goodbye party for Nadia, before she headed back to SF State to...
[ Story by Christine Joy Ferrer ]
Tuesday, Sep 4 2007 11:49 AM

Blinded By Subconscious Racism Students argue SF State is colorblind when stereotypical attitudes about people of other cultures haven’t changed and our society fails to confront on-going racism that exists on a subconscious level.
[ Story by Christine Joy Ferrer ]
Tuesday, Apr 24 2007 11:50 AM

Jail Walls Can't Confine Teens' Expressive Voices The Beat Within is a writing and conversation program in Bay Area juvenile halls that allows incarcerated youth to write for the weekly magazine that has grown out of the program.
[ Story by Christine Joy Ferrer ]
Sunday, Apr 22 2007 12:13 PM

SF State Students Unmask The N-word In light of the recent disparaging remarks made by celebrities and others and the recent symbolic banning of the N-word in New York City, the usage of its modern-day reference as 'nigga' continues to develope into an urban culture phenomenon that has sparked much controversy.
[ Story by Christine Joy Ferrer ]
Saturday, Apr 14 2007 6:58 PM

Petite Gators Create Tiny Fashions SF State fashion student, 5-foot-3-inch Pamela Borja, 22, and her older sister, 5-foot-2-inch fashion alumna Sheena Borja, 25, grew tired of the minimal clothing selection offered to them.
[ Story by Christine Joy Ferrer ]
Friday, Mar 16 2007 6:43 PM

Early Time Change Won't Harm Computers SF State Information and Technology experts said daylight-saving time (DST), which will start three weeks earlier on Sunday, Mar. 11, will not prevent school computers from running smoothly.
[ Story by Christine Joy Ferrer ]
Thursday, Mar 8 2007 7:35 PM

Bustin' a move in Bahia, Brazil For the last three years, Paco Gomes, who teaches Afro-Brazilian dance at SF State, has taken his company to Brazil where they perform, collaborate with other Brazilian dancers, teach dance workshops to children, and immerse themselves within African-Brazilian culture.
[ Story by Christine Joy Ferrer ]
Sunday, Mar 4 2007 1:43 PM

Student Mixes Dance and Urban Poetry Temple calls herself a poet, a female MC, a lyricist. She is also a black woman, a dancer, an artist, a rapper, a songwriter and a dance teacher who hopes to inspire, she said.
[ Story by Christine Joy Ferrer ]
Saturday, Feb 17 2007 5:29 PM

Living on the Edge SF State students Jackie Sicard and Tia Kilpatrick are part of a large segment of the Christian population who do not fit the stereotypical, traditionally conservative mold. They are liberal, Christian, lesbian and a couple.
[ Story by Christine Joy Ferrer ]
Tuesday, Feb 13 2007 12:16 PM

What You See is What You Get from Rolling Stone Intern Krishtine de Leon, 24, a former SF State student and section editor for [X]press, has perplexed viewers by calling herself “ghettoized” and has been stereotyped as an “Asian with a Latin accent.” Bloggers have written disparaging remarks about her and she has responded in kind. She's been ridiculed for not knowing Jann Wenner’s name, called out for her grill, and declared a “poser bitch” by one blogger. People can’t seem to figure her out, she said.
[ Story by Christine Joy Ferrer ]
Saturday, Feb 10 2007 12:48 AM

Anti-war Activists Call for Strike Several activists from the "World Can't Wait -- Drive out the Bush Regime" campus tour urged about 25 students and faculty members to organize a student strike and join the fight to "drive out the Bush regime".
[ Story by Christine Ferrer ]
Friday, Feb 9 2007 5:06 PM

Students Shun Valentine's Day At SF State, both singles and those happily taken equally care about Valentine's Day -- they care enough to speak out against what they've deemed a "wasted holiday," and refuse to celebrate it as Valentine enthusiasts do. Many Americans know Valentine’s Day as the one holiday of the year that celebrates love and friendship. It’s the day someone takes his or her special someone on a romantic outing, gives flowers, candy, or a card to express his or her heart-felt, unwavering love.
[ Story by Christine Ferrer ]
Monday, Feb 5 2007 4:13 PM

Professor Crusades for Global Justice The Chilean-born SF State international relations professor has spent the last two decades of her life conducting interviews, researching, and gathering evidence to confirm the facts of her brother's brutal death as well as others who were murdered or disappeared under the Pinochet regime.
[ Story by Christine Ferrer ]
Thursday, Feb 1 2007 7:52 PM