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.
Paula Gunn Allen Pushing Llimits host Adrienne Lauby interviews Native American iconoclastic academic Paula Gunn Allen, a feminist Wikipedia calls "hugely influential." Paula Gunn Allen died this spring. One of her last interviews was with Adrienne Lauby. Gunn Allen speaks about her life long disability, modern social movements, assisted suicide and other pressing, controversial topics. … Continued
"Limits and Barriers."What happens when you face an unwelcome surprise? When a physical or mental barrior has no easy solution? For those of us who live with disability, barriers seem to show up on a daily basis. Join hosts Leah Gardner and Ruthanne Shpiner as pushing limits takes your calls with tales of obstructions, solutions … Continued
Autism rights/ Aspies for FreedomPushing Limits delves into the Autism rights movement. Pushing Limits producer Doyle Saylor, Hosts Eddie Y’tuarte and John Healy interview Earth Monkey (Melody Kohut), a vocal member of the Aspies for Freedom or AFF, a grassroots autism rights movement. www.aspiesforfreedom.com Autism has been in the forefront of local news lately stemming … Continued
Mutliple Chemical Sensitvity Host Jackie Barshak addresses Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) with guests Dr. Grace Zinn and Cindy Norwitz. In this difficult time of forest fires and increased air pollution,Pushing Limits presents a rebroadcast of our program on the pathology and politics of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). MCS causes chronic abnormalities in multiple organs within … Continued
Superfest, the world’s longest running disability film festival, runs this month in Berkeley, California. We interview Alice Elliot, director of the Best of Festival winner, “Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy” director, and discuss disability issues in film. With information from Liane Yasumoto, the executive producer of Culture!Disability!Talent! the organization which produces Superfest.
Not Just Another Year: California’s Budget Cuts Overcome by California budget ennui? Many Californians don’t have that option or that emotional fatigue: A kid who thinks the third grade will be the ‘best year ever!’ A accident survivor hanging on to a life outside of a nursing home. And hundreds of thousands of others. On … Continued
Police Killings of People with Disabilities Casper Banjo, Jeremiah Chas, Heather Billings: A few of the many people with disabilities shot by their local police around the bay area. On Friday, May 2 at 2:30 pm on KPFA 94.1 fm, we investigate police violence and the particular vulnerability of people with mental disabilities and men … Continued
Rufus – Then and NowStories of life with a mental disability – then and now. Adrienne Lauby speaks with Nora Ryerson. The program includes excerpts of the story “Rufus” from the book “Sex in the Ancient Word” by Alice Ryerson Hayes with original cello music by Claribel Cone. We speak of the stigma of mental … Continued
