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.
Encouraged or discouraged? How do two disabled international postsecondary students feel about their experiences navigating the tricky terrain of life inside and out of the university? The ADA applies to all individuals with disabilities in America, but some fine lines exist that make it more difficult for international students to attain the tools and financial … Continued
Shanti Soule and Stephanie Sugars continue last week’s conversation about their choices during the terminal stage of their illnesses. Robert McRuer talks about how Adrienne Rich and other lesbian feminists gave is a more free, more accessible world. Although she did not find a political identity in her disability, Rich’s essay “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian … Continued
Living on the Edge of Death: A Conversation Between Shanti Soule and Stephanie Sugars. Part One. Two women with only a short time to live talk about the threshold of death, their interaction with the medical industry, the choices they’ve made in the past, their choices today, and much more. We listen in on the … Continued
Brendan Darrow talks about legal rights for people with disabilities who are renting homes that are being foreclosed. We will also discuss different local and state laws, along with the Americans With Disabilities Act, and how they affect tenants in rental situations. Brendan Darrow is an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the East Bay Community … Continued
Going for gold. This is Kamilla Ryding’s quest. As a member of 2008’s Danish goal ball team at the Paralympics in Beijing, her goalball team feel just shy of this goal. She and Team Denmark are back on the court at the Paralympic Games in London this August. We’ll talk to Kamilla about what goalball … Continued
We’ve officially entered California’s budget season, the season when shredding safety nets for people with disabilities and seniors is en vogue. Every year the California legislature creatively cuts the budget on the backs of the poor. And, this year is no different. Or is it? A 60 minute special on this year’s budgetary landscape. We’ll … Continued
Howie Mandel, Roseanne Barr, Justine Timberlake and our guest, Naomi, have something in common; they live with obsessive-compulsive disorder. This mental disability is becoming better known, offering less stigma and more hope to those learning to negotiate the anxiety and compulsions of O.C.D. Naomi trains a humorous eye on overcoming the fear of raccoons in … Continued
The stereotyping of people living with mental disabilities and homeless people during the Occupy encampments could have set our mutual liberation back for decades. If it doesn’t, it will be due to a radically different story from those who came to the Occupy camps to protest and meet each other face to face. The Occupy … Continued
