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.
Influential personalities like bioethecist Peter Singer have called for the aborting of disabled fetuses and have gone farther in saying it is o.k. to kill infants with serious disabilities like spinal bifida. We want to pursue this topic again but not in the usual way. We “turn the table” and come to this topic from … Continued
Last year, in 2011, a switch happened. People living in San Francisco with HIV/AIDS had birthdays, and the majority of them were over 50. In the years to come, other cities will follow, and the country will have to consider how to best provide services to seniors living with HIV or AIDS. Pushing Limits gives … Continued
“Hey man, are you crazy?” “Sister Friend, I think you need some counseling.” “Are you off your medicine bro?” Many of us hear those phrases everyday. They can be said teasingly by friends, or rudely shouted from a car waiting for you to cross the street. Many people hear these phases from doctors and government … Continued
It’s a show about which of us might have been aborted were we born today and about beautiful insects that can destroy your garden. It’s a show about people with disabilities who become greeters at Wal-Mart and what it’s like to live with (central) auditory processing disorder. In other words, it’s a program as untamed … Continued
Fireworks. Parties. Ceremonies. A day off work for many. These are the various shades of Independence Day. Friday June 29th on Pushing Limits, hosts Leah Gardner and Jacob Lesner-Buxton ask our listeners and other program contributors to share their stories of independence. While we celebrate freedom, we also discuss those things that may threaten our … Continued
Beginning this January, a groundbreaking law requires the teaching of disability history — and the history of lesbians, gays, bi-sexuals and transgendered people — to be integrated into social studies class work. It’s called the FAIR Education Act. We talk to two women who work with school boards and others to make the requirements of … Continued
Rosie Sultan talks about her recently released book, “Helen Keller in Love.” Although this relationship has been written about in biographies and in Keller’s memoirs, this novel focuses entirely on the relationship in 1916, just as the U.S. is ready to enter World War One. Sultan writes in the afterword that all the events in … Continued
Fund Drive Special
Encouraged or discouraged? How do two disabled international postsecondary students feel about their experiences navigating the tricky terrain of life inside and out of the university? The ADA applies to all individuals with disabilities in America, but some fine lines exist that make it more difficult for international students to attain the tools and financial … Continued
Shanti Soule and Stephanie Sugars continue last week’s conversation about their choices during the terminal stage of their illnesses. Robert McRuer talks about how Adrienne Rich and other lesbian feminists gave is a more free, more accessible world. Although she did not find a political identity in her disability, Rich’s essay “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian … Continued
