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.
Doyle Saylor and Adrienne Lauby will interview Suzanne Levine on the subject of use of language in reporting on disability. Ms. Levine is an expert in public education surrounding disability and word use. Friday’s show "Words of Respect" illustrates the disability rights movements demand that journalists and other writers give serious consideration to the words … Continued
Pushing Limits features dwarf filmmaker Steven Delano; Vice-President of Public Relations for the Little People of America (LPA), Gary Arnold; educator and filmmaker Jan Krawitz; and dwarf musician Rob Williams. We discuss social, political, cultural and economic conditions and their impact on people of short stature, particularly in entertainment. That’s Dwarfism: The Big Impact, produced … Continued
Pushing Limits hosts Leroy Moore and Safi wa Nairobi interview the mother and close friend of a disabled candidate for Mayor of Washington who was murdered earlier this year. Green Party Candidate Chris Crowder was disabled by street violence in 1991 and was active in many movements around city. Host Leroy Moore speaks with Crowder’s … Continued
Pushing Limits will revisit New Orleans on the one year anniversary of the levy breaking catastrophe, resulting floods and general emergency. Did the impact of poor disaster preparedness fall disproportionately on those with disabilities? Hosts Leroy Moore and Doyle Saylor will interview Lisa Moore whose family was in New Orleans during the hurricane and Craig … Continued
Disaster preparedness for people with disabilities. As the nation nears the one year anniversary of Katrina, hosts Leah Gardner and Amber DiPietra want to know what steps people with disabilities have taken to be safe in the event of a large-scale emergency. Do they feel that local and state officials are doing enough to ensure … Continued
Pushing Limits hosts Doyle Saylor and Gene Sharee return to Mill Valley to speak with Seniors For Peace. Seniors for Peace is a group working out of Mill Valley to promote and advocate their anti war position and activities. Gene interviews long time senior for peace member, Frieda Engle.
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Pushing Limits will address psychiatric disabilities, mental distress and disability rights. Hosts Doyle Saylor and Ruthanne Shpiner will interview prominent disability studies scholar and advocate Dr. Lennard Davis to hear his conclusions from years of study and research in addition to extensive involvement with the disability community.
Pushing Limits ends our three part Crip-Hip-Hop series featuring playwright Eisa Davis, the Deaf Hip-Hop group Helix, and deaf dancer/actor, Fred Beam. They discuss Hip-Hop Anansi, the first Hip-Hop play for children, and Deaf Hip-Hop culture. Music is from "The H," the new CD from Helix, the Hip-Hop Anansi soundtrack by DJ Eurok, and the … Continued
Fathering is as diverse as the world within which we live. And fathering with a disability? Well, tune in as Pushing Limits presents a tribute to fathers with disabilities. Music by Lee Williams and Luther Vandross. Hosted by Gene Sharee; produced by Safi wa Nairobi and Leroy F. Moore.
