2:30 PM Pacific Time: Fridays
A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing insight into the grassroots disability movement to the general public.
A program of disabled Latino musicians and musicians from the Americans. Is that really a blind Puerto Rican blues artist performing a song using the Tuva throat singing technique? And what well know artist–progressive activist began his eventual path as a performer because he joined the military because of the difficulties his disability while in high school? Also … Continued
IAyumi Hamasake, Donna Williams, Evelyn Glennie, Liyana with Prudence Mabhena, Mandy Harvey and The Great Britain Paraorchestra. Donna Williams is autistic and darn proud of it. Artistic ability exudes from her pores. We play her song, “All Be Happy; A Gothic Autism Story.” Donna’s ground-breaking books, Nobody, Nowhere and Somebody Somewhere were among the first … Continued
Brooke was doing well, living with her multiple personality disorder. It had been a long road, but she was comfortable and able to spend more hours at work than ever before. Then she had a stroke. Theodore “Teddy” Berman was in middle school when his life-long aversion to cookies and cake became excruciating stomach aches … Continued
Pushing Limits present a discussion on relationship of the bible and Cristianity. How does the bibleportray disability. Are we cursed, evil, or perhaps something special about us attributedour disability. Scholar Amos Yong and Lillibeth Navarro, director of an independent living centerin Los Angeles give us their views on how disability fits in to the Christian … Continued
Pushing Limits presents the first ever Disability Prom Day celebration. Listen to who got nominated for disability royalty.
A two-hour special on the theme of disability history in the United States. Included are an interview with historian Kim Nielsen, the voice of Helen Keller. the history of blind activism in the U.S. and a feature on a group of students with disabilities who go to the schools and teach history from their own … Continued
Pushing Limits welcomes opponants of the proposed tree cutting in the East Bay Hills in Northern California, Jean Stewart and Marg Hall. Their principle concern is the effect of the planned use of herbicides on people with disabilities and able-bodied people alike.
Four hundred thousand people with disabilities in the USA work for substandard wages, some of them for as little as 3¢ an hour. We discuss these “sheltered workshops,” segregated workplaces for workers with various disabilities. In the back rooms of Goodwill people with disabilities sort the hangers, hang the clothes and generally change your bags … Continued
Pushing Limits welcomes Alex Lubet for a second time to talk about musicians with disabilities and how these artists shape music as they adapt to their impairments. Lubet is a professor at the University of Minnesota and is the author of “Music, Disability, and Society.” Lubet will talk about his idea about “adaptive music” and … Continued
