Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Nicole Shaffer's works in #BayAreaNow9 transports viewers to an alternative space where queer, Trans, disabled, and immigrant people committed to Sonoma State Hospital can find solace and healing. Watch our latest video to see how they recreate the hospital’s orchard to provide a place that celebrates the variance Luther Burbank’s eugenics-based work attempted to erase.

Video produced by Corey Marsau