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.
Corbett O’Toole interview Friday May 4, 2007, in celebration of the 30 year anniversary of the section 504 demonstrations Pushing Limits hosts Adrienne Lauby and Leah Gardner interview local legend, Corbett Joan O’Toole. O’Toole is a writer and filmmaker with 30 years of stories from a life of disability activism. She talks about international issues, … Continued
Tanyalee Davis What are you staring at? Pushing Limits hosts Leah Gardner and Amber Dipietra interview comedian Tanyalee Davis. Ms. Davis is a three foot, six inch comedian who has appeared at clubs and universities worldwide. Ms. Davis shares her no holds barred, irreverent thoughts and views. Pushing Limits will air CD clips of her … Continued
Housing Friday April 6, 2007 at 2:30 PM Pushing Limits discusses housing issues for people with disabilities. Hosts Eddie Ytuarte and Leah Gardner interview attorney Laura Lane. Laura Lane is director of Housing Practice at the East Bay Community Law Center. People with disabilities who are tenants encounter multiple problems with their housing. Ms. Lane … Continued
Epilepsy Pushing Limits addresses the invisible disability of epilepsy. Host Doyle Saylor interviews Michelle Frank. Ms. Frank has lived with epilepsy since birth. She speaks about the realities of living with epilepsy and the challenges it poses to her as a person living with the disease but also how epilepsy impacts her life as a … Continued
Pushing Limits examines the developmental disability of Autism. Hosted by Doyle Saylor, the show explores Autism from both the perspectives of a person with Autism and the perspective of his family. Doyle Saylor presents a story written and read by Meg Tuttle about life with her autistic child, Chas. Doyle Saylor also interviews Jim Divine … Continued
Mental Health System Part 2 Pushing Limits completes a two-part series on emotional health and mental illness. Pushing Limits presents testimonials from the community, and we want to speak with you. What are your experiences with the mental health system. Positive, negative or somewhere in between? Also, join us for an update on the Ziprexa … Continued
Pushing Limits airs the first of a two part series on the mental health care system. Co hosts Leah Gardner and Eddie Ytuarte interview David Oaks, director of Mind Freedom, a national organization dedicated to ending psychiatric abuse and to promoting humane alternatives in mental health care. Mr. Oaks talks about Mind Freedom’s legal battle … Continued
Face Disabilities A Rebroadcast of a show from Jan 4, 2004. Pushing limits host Doyle Saylor speaks with David Roche and Bill Choisser about their lives with two very different face disabilities. Doyle Saylor explores the commonalities and differences between "face blindness" and facial disfigurement.
Eddie Ytuarte and Adrienne Lauby interview East Bay writer, Anne Finger about her newly released book titled Elegy for a Disease, a Personal and Cultural History of Polio published by St. Martin Press, Oct. 31, 2006. Finger shares her memories of growing up as a polio survivor in the 1980’s. Mixed with these memories is … Continued
A Winter Smorgasbord: Pushing Limits closes out 2006 with a potpourri of items about the disability world. The show includes "The Lighter Side of Depression," a skit by the Pushing Limits Players, an essay on colitis by Shelley Berman, the reading of a poem by Leah Gardner, Doyle Saylor gives an update on Iraq war … Continued
