RIP Francesca Rosa, writer, activist, actress, artist and publisher. She grew up in a small town outside Buffalo, NY and as a teenager would run off the big city where she friended Patrick Cowley. She moved to San Francisco in 1972 after high school and crashed with Patrick and friends in the Haight focusing on drawing and painting. Her acting debut was the lead role of Kitty Boyle in Warped Floor’s production “Mama” in 1976. She went on to play the lead role of unpopular teenager Susan Jane in Marc Huestis’ “Whatever Happened to Susan Jane” in 1980. She joined Bob Gluck’s Small Press Traffic workshop in the mid-80s and called herself “a long time rank and file labor activist, sort of a garden-variety anarcho-syndicalist” She authored and published “Post War and Other Stories” and “The Divine Comedy of Carlo Tresca.” I first met Francesca in 2009 for the Megatron ... READ MORE
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