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.
After hundreds of years of stigma and exclusion, people with cognitive disabilities are out and about in our communities. Many work at jobs with able-bodied co-workers and live independently, or in small group homes, in many neighborhoods. We visit a class where people with limited speech are learning to choreograph and dance to Taiko drumming … Continued
Mary Lou Breslin and Marilyn Golden, policy analysts for Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund discuss the merits and brought on by the Americans with Disability Act. People in this country are celebrating the 20th year of the ADA so lets check out if the law has significantly moved the disability rights movement–and also are … Continued
To celebrate 2010, The Year of Honoring Lesbians With Disabilities, Morningstar Vancil speaks candidly about her life as a lesbian stage-3 cancer survivor. Vancil is a butch activist dyke of mixed race who lives with multiple disabilities. She’s traveled with a burlesque show and carried the banner of gay rights into the national American Cancer … Continued
Pushing Limits presents a report on the Arnieville Tent City where people with disabilities and seniors are engaged in a living protest against the continued cuts in state human services. Yup, they are camped out at the median at Russell and Adeline streets in Berkeley; and have been there since June, all day and all … Continued
Emergency services for people with disabilities in Berkely.It's tax-payer supported, innovative, and it gets people out of trouble perhaps saves lives. It's also a nice chunk of money in a community where money is as scarce as a trouble-free wheelchair. We talk to the players. Yomi Wronge, Executive Director of the Center for Independent Living … Continued
We've all heard the adage about home sweet home. It's that place we long for when we've been away where we seek rest, recreation and a break from the outside world. On Friday, June 4th, Pushing Limits discusses the concept of home and what that means to many in the disabled community. First, we discuss … Continued
“AB 2072 and the Battle for American Sign Language (ASL)” Passion, strategy, big money opponents, race issues,counter narrative discourse, and children. The DeafhoodForum was nothing if not stimulating. Tune in tomorrowto challenge your ear-to-mind connection.Friday, May 7 at 2:30 pm on KPFA 94.1 fm With:–Butch Zein, Executive Director of the Deafhood Foundation,–Jim Brune … Continued
First, we join our heroine Geri at her job interview at the local Independent Living Center as we play another scene from our original play, “Blind Man’s Bluff”. Starring Kris Yates, Mary Ann (Tidwell) Boussard, Doyle Saylor, Leah Gardner, Jan Santos & Patty Nash. From the memoir of the same name by Geri Taekens. Then … Continued
A dramatic production — a radio adaptation of scenes from Blind Man’s Bluff, a self-published memoir by visually-impaired writer and advocate Geri Taeckens. Played by members of the Pushing Limits Collective. Travel with Geri as she collides with the reality of visual impairment and disability in her life. Pull up a chair, and listen as … Continued
“Intersexuality” Hida Viloria, human rights spokesperson for Organisation Intersex International (OII), joins us to talk about what the intersex and disability movement have in common—and what they don’t. OII is dedicated to resisting the medical model and non-consensual medical treatment of intersex people. They promote a holistic human rights and person-centered model.They regularly reach across … Continued
