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.
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
Hosts John Healy and Leah Gardner interview Anthony Tussler of aboutdisability.com. We hear surprising stories and songs of artists who are not generally recognized as disabled performers. The show features cloaked and hidden disability Identities in Rock & Roll. Tussler shares his knowledge and some of his music library.
New pushing limits member, John Healy interviews David Roche about his new book The Church of 80% Sincerity. David Roche is a facially disfigured writer and entertainer. Pushing Limits plays excerpts from Roche’s reading from his book at a live appearance in Berkeley in February. John Healy also interviews a mystery guest with a disability.
Hosts Adrienne Lauby and Shelley Berman interview Berkeley Singer-songwriter Irina Rifkin who lives with myofascial thoracic outlet syndrome. This is a re broadcast from July 21, 2006.
"Environmental Pollutants and Disability"Pushing limits host Adrienne Lauby discusses the environmental causes of disability. A proposed coal power plant in the four corners area and an aerial spray program in the bay area threaten to increase disability over large populations.Eddie Ytuarte interviews Diné CARE activist Lori Goodman and Nan Wishner of Albany’s Integrated Pest Management … Continued
Relationships and Disability.Pushing Limits explores relationships and people with disabilities with host Eddie Ytuarte and guests Bill and Vickie Bruckner. They talk on many levels about the issues of sexuality and the understanding of one’s own disability and the disability of her or his partner. The Bruckners offer clarity about the many facets of relationships … Continued
Some homeless people with disabilities are finding homes, even in today’s crowded, high-rent housing market. On Friday, Jan. 18 at 2:30 pm on KPFA, host Adrienne Lauby interviews Butch Cooley and Paul Hamilton of the Leg Up Project in Grand Junction, Colorado.These two formerly homeless men housed twenty-eight people in three months. Cooley and Hamilton … Continued
Part two in a series on people with disabilities and homelessness. Featured will be interview with Jennifer Friedenbach from the Coalition on Harmlessness in San Francisco.
After a disabling motorcycle accident, Dan McMullan lived on the streets for eight years and founded the "Disabled People Outside Project." Now, with a house, wife and two kids, he’s still an aggressive advocate for East Bay’s homeless people. Eddie Ytuarte and Adrienne Lauby talk with him about the need, the myths and the solutions. … Continued
Eddie Ytuarte and Leah Gardner will present a program of music by artists with disabilities ranging from Itzhak Perlman to Django Reinhardt and Paul Robeson. Contemporary music and culture would not be the same without the contributions of disabled artists and the varied musical expressions they present because of the nature of their disability. Pushing … Continued
