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. By and About People with Disabilities!
An Activist Life with Terminal Cancer Dubbed the radio goddess, Donna Dibianco travels the county helping small radio stations become powerful. She offers Adrienne Lauby and our listeners advice on how to live with deep purpose while setting health limits. Ms Dibianco lives with metastasized stage 3 cervical cancer and 2/3rds of her lung capacity. … Continued
We want to cure cancer, end war, and clean up the environment. But, what do we lose if we end the disabilities caused by these things? Our guest is Dr. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, a professor in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Emory University who works in the field of Critical Disability Studies. Let’s end war … Continued
Fund Drive Special the performance group Sins Invalid, make “an unshamed claim to beauty in the face of invisibility.” Co-founder and filmmaker, Patty Berne, brings their new movie, “Sins Invalid.”
Black and brown people have always been present in the disability movement and some have played pivotal roles. Yet our conversation about race is often pretty unsophisticated. We’re a long way from truly supporting all our community members and, like in the rest of the U.S., people of color with disabilities are frequently the last … Continued
Curious about the Ed Roberts Campus? Ever stepped inside and felt a bit intimidated? We know how you feel. . . This week, Pushing Limit’s Shelley Berman, reveals the secrets of this edifice that touts itself as a national and international model building, one which is dedicated to disability rights and universal access. Listen in … Continued
Whether you ride the rails or roll on the wheels, getting where you need to go takes constant effort. Today we focus on transportation problems for people with disabilities. The issues are universal but the devilish details reside in the bay area of California. If you gotta go, you gotta go, but where’s the restroom? … Continued
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
