Tina Bartolome

Tina Bartolome is a writer and movement educator. Her work pays homage to working class San Francisco amidst the bulldozing force of gentrification. The daughter of immigrants from the Philippines and Switzerland, her influences include eviction, public school playgrounds, invisible labor, writing on walls, chosen family and red diaper babies who connected her to the Bay Area’s movement legacies — Ethnic Studies, Poetry for the People, the I-Hotel struggle, Queer Liberation and the Black Panther Party. Her writing can be found in Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party and Still Here: An Anthology of Queer and Trans People Raised in San Francisco. 

She is currently the lead teaching artist for Kaleidoscope Writing Workshop, a collaboration between Queer Ancestor Project and Still Here SF. Over the past 25 years, she has trained hundreds of community organizers, locally and nationally.