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.
Pushing Limits will address post polio syndrome. Host Eddie Ytuarte will address living with post polio syndrome, about memories, cautions, and realities of the disease which has largely been eliminated in the U.S. Eddie will speak with Phyllis Hartke, polio survivor and past president of the Bay Area Post-Polio Network and Grace Lin, polio survivor … Continued
Pushing Limits will cover the California Special Election. The show will discuss the various ballot propositions and the impact the outcome will have on the disability community. Ruthanne Shpiner and Tom Ross will interview Paul Johnson, systems change advocate and client assistance program coordinator for Berkeley’s Center for Independent Living and Marilla Arguelles, president of … Continued
Pushing Limits presents the third show of a series on disability and visual arts. Hosts Doyle Saylor, Safi wa Nairobi and Nora Ryerson speak with nationally recognized artists, Casper Banjo, Bill Bruckner, Kathleen Flannigan and Chuck Close. These artists discuss how their art is shaped by the disability experience.
Pushing Limits will present the second of a four part series on disability and visual arts. Host Nora Ryerson will narrate a collage of interviews with artists, staff and administrators from Creativity Explored, Creative Growth and the National Institute for Art and Disability, art centers which serve primarily the developmentally disabled. Produced by Safi wa … Continued
Pushing Limits will kick off a series of four programs about disability visual arts. On Sept. 16, 2005, hosts Eddie Ytuarte and Doyle Saylor will speak with two directors of bay area art centers which primarily serve people with developmental disabilities. Listeners will hear from visual artist, Chuck Close who has a facial disability. Later … Continued
Pushing Limit’s producer Leroy F. Moore, Jr. will explore the question of whether there is a network of African American Disabled artists with two accomplished East Coast Musicians, Rob Da Noize Temple and Robin "Bird" Williams. The guests’ work span hip-hop, rhythm and blues, jazz, reggae, soul and hard rock. Tune in to hear about … Continued
Pushing Limits will air "Portraits of Johannah", stories of a lesbian with a mental disability, who has survived child abuse, gay bashing and anti-disabled discrimination, had many interesting adventures, and does all this with humor, wit and grace. Pushing Limits Shelley Berman with correspondent Thyme Siegel interview Johannah Lee to air these stories on Pushing … Continued
Hosts Adrienne Lauby and Leroy Moore will address psychiatric disabilities. "Mad Pride Is Human Pride" . In honor of Mad Pride Month, celebrated this year in four nations, Pushing Limits will feature the extraordinary story of Catherine Penny, who recovered from severe psychosis without the use of psychiatric drugs. The hosts will interview Dr. Daniel … Continued
Pushing Limits will discuss and play the music of selected jazz musicians with disabilities. Hosts, Eddie Ytuarte, Nora Ryerson, Doyle Saylor and Leah Gardner will present the music of singer Jimmy Scott who had Kallmann’s Syndrome, a hereditary hormonal deficiency that stunted his growth and kept his voice from developing a deeper sound, blind musician … Continued
Hosts Adrienne Lauby and Leroy Moore will address psychiatric disabilities. "Mad Pride Is Human Pride" . In honor of Mad Pride Month, celebrated this year in four nations, Pushing Limits will feature the extraordinary story of Catherine Penny, who recovered from severe psychosis without the use of psychiatric drugs. The hosts will interview Dr. Daniel … Continued
