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.
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
Have you been tested? Has your partner been tested? This Friday at 2:30 PM on Pushing Limits aired on 94.1 Kpfa Fm in Berkeley, Ca and streamed live on kpfa.org, Leah Gardner is attending disabled lesbian health class and taking you with her. Learning about the risks of sexual intimacy is essential for protecting yourself … Continued
The Promise and Repercussions of the Olmstead Decision The 1999 Supreme Court Olmstead decision required states to configure aid so that people with disabilities could live as close to their own homes and community as possible. Twelve years later, huge numbers of us still remain unwilling inmates of nursing homes. Now, even more of us … Continued
The Oakland Occupy movement is popular, international media covers it and so will Pushing Limits…..but with a disability slant, a heavy disability slant. Organizer Marg Hall will talk with co hosts Eddie Ytuarte and Leah Gardner as they present their questions and perspectives on these current events happening almost literally on our back yards. And, … Continued
NOTE: DIFFERENT TIME Hour-Long Special, 2-3 pm Friday, October 7 “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So” Mark Vonnegut’s new book takes up where his first memoir, “Eden Express” left off. He gives us more adventures in living with a mental disability while working as a pediatrician and serving on Harvard Medical School’s … Continued
The Next Generation The Next Gerneration of disability advocates and academics are coming to Pushing Limits this week. Join us for frank talk about the dangers & benefits of technology, stories of prejudice and victory, a discussion of the generation gap within the disability movement, and more. Guests: Hong Leong, Ann Kwong, Lauren Steinberg, Shira … Continued
