Riva Lehrer is an artist, writer and curator who focuses on the socially challenged body. She is best known for representations of people whose physical embodiment, sexuality, or gender identity have long been stigmatized. Part of a vibrant Chicago disability activist community, her portraits include Carrie Sandahl, Alice Wong, Lennard Davis, Nadina LaSpina, and many other bright lights of the disability community. Her memoir and audio book, Golem Girl, is a complex story of growing up with a vi...
Jan 28, 2022•30 min
Pushing Limits radio program welcomes disability organizer Dustin Gibson who presents his views about the interrelationship between race and disability. Dustin also works to end the institutionalization and incarceration system that creates and deepens disability in the prison system. He’s worked with all three Centers for Independent Living in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania region with a focus on deinstitutionalization and youth self-advocacy. He’s held positions with both of the National Indepen...
Jan 14, 2022•30 min
Jane Hash Today’s show features Plain Jane: The Shockumentary, a film by Jane Hash, who is anything but plain. Join host Mark Romoser as he interviews Jane Hash. Find out why it’s called the Shockumentary. Spoiler alert: Mermaids are involved. The post “Plain Jane: The Shockumentary” -Pushing Limits – December 31, 2021 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 31, 2021•30 min
A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing the insight of the grassroots disability movement to the general public. The show alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks Friday 2:30pm. The post Pushing Limits – December 17, 2021 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 17, 2021•30 min
A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing the insight of the grassroots disability movement to the general public. The show alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks Friday 2:30pm. The post Pushing Limits – December 3, 2021 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 03, 2021•30 min
A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing the insight of the grassroots disability movement to the general public. The show alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks Friday 2:30pm. The post Pushing Limits – November 19, 2021 appeared first on KPFA.
Nov 19, 2021•30 min
Jim Van Buskirk When an old friend went to the hospital and suddenly found his moderate disability had become both severe and life threatening, Jim Van Buskirk wanted to help. Although he lived over a thousand miles away, Van Buskirk found a useful role in posting daily updates on a Caring Bridge site. It was certainly emotional but becoming somewhat routine until… Jim found himself lying in a hospital bed too. Jim Van Buskirk tells this unfolding story. We also talk about Buskirk’s work with th...
Nov 05, 2021•30 min
Host Mark Romoser worked with Marilyn to stop physician-assisted suicide in both Hawai’i and California. Guest Mary Lou Breslin worked with her at the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) in Berkeley for many years. Marilyn was one of the foremost experts on accessible transportation. Also, our own Eddie Ytuarte will share some of his personal reminiscences of Marilyn. Join us as we look back on Marilyn’s life in disability rights activism and beyond. photo: KPFA The post Remembe...
Oct 22, 2021•30 min
A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing the insight of the grassroots disability movement to the general public. The show alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks Friday 2:30pm. The post Pushing Limits – October 8, 2021 appeared first on KPFA.
Oct 08, 2021•30 min
A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing the insight of the grassroots disability movement to the general public. The show alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks Friday 2:30pm. The post Pushing Limits – September 24, 2021 appeared first on KPFA.
Sep 24, 2021•30 min
Meganwind Eoyang Today, we talk about depression – the feelings – the way it appears during a pandemic – the way people don’t cope – and the way they do cope. Meganwind Eoyang, former street fighter and non-violent communication trainer, joins Shelley Berman to discuss prisons of the mind and prisons of concrete and stone. —————- Today is World Suicide Prevention Day Resources: If you live in the US and are having suicidal thoughts, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255 (...
Sep 10, 2021•30 min
Linda Landers (left), a FEMA Disability Integrations Specialist, talks with John Russo (right) through a sign language interpreter after a meeting with local groups in Bastrop, TX in 2011. FEMA was working to provide wildfire assistance. Photo by Patsy Lynch/FEMA This program is about disasters and power shut offs. And, it’s about NEW OPTIONS to help you — options that came about after an uproar from of the disability community. We talk with Sydney Pickern about who is responsible for the safety...
Aug 27, 2021•30 min
A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing the insight of the grassroots disability movement to the general public. The show alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks Friday 2:30pm. The post Pushing Limits – August 13, 2021 appeared first on KPFA.
Aug 13, 2021•30 min
Jonathan Mooney tried to fit into the box of normalcy. It cost him his education, his sense of self, his friendships and nearly his life. In his opinion, “Normal Sucks.” Jonathan lives with dyslexia and ADHD, and he’s dedicated his life to connections with other people who have been treated as not normal. His latest book, Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive Outside the Lines, explains the shame and waste in the assumption that normalcy is a goal to strive for. “I want you to know, if th...
Jul 30, 2021•30 min
In 2005, Cal Montgomery burst into the disability movement as an intellectual who both made sense and was fun to read. His three-part series on medicalization in the disability magazine, Ragged Edge, took book reviews to a entirely new level. Courtesy: https://pixabay.com/sv/vectors/psykisk-h%c3%a4lsa-flicka-kvinna-arg-3371876/ Now, after years of writing, entertaining and educating us, Cal Montgomery comes to Pushing Limits. He’ll be in conversation with Corbett Joan O’Toole to discuss some of ...
Jul 16, 2021•30 min
Today’s Program: Disrupting Ableism with Artful Activism Featuring Lateef McLeod and D.J. Saravese Lateef McLeod is a poet, blogger, activist, and PhD candidate in the Anthropology and Social Change Doctoral program at California Institute for Integral Studies. His poetry, activism, and scholarship are all informed by his experience living in the Bay Area with cerebral palsy. He published his first book of poetry, A Declaration of a Body af Love, in 2010, and his second poetry book, Whispers of ...
Jul 02, 2021•12 min
Support Disabled People; Prevent War 18-year old Mohammed, who said he lost both legs to a Syrian airstrike in Idib in 2012, is carried by friends on the island of Lesbos in Greece. Both his friends and relatives accompanied him on his journey to safety, carrying him whenever needed. Oct. 8,2015. (c) Zalmai for Human Rights Watch. The stories of people with disabilities are often lost in the midst of armed conflicts, seen as just another tragedy amid the horrors of war. But a new paper by Human ...
Jun 18, 2021•30 min
Today’s Program: Disrupting Ableism with Artful Activism Featuring Lateef McLeod and D.J. Saravese Lateef McLeod is a poet, blogger, activist, and PhD candidate in the Anthropology and Social Change Doctoral program at California Institute for Integral Studies. His poetry, activism, and scholarship are all informed by his experience living in the Bay Area with cerebral palsy. He published his first book of poetry, A Declaration of a Body af Love, in 2010, and his second poetry book, Whispers of ...
Jun 04, 2021•30 min
A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing the insight of the grassroots disability movement to the general public. The show alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks Friday 2:30pm. The post Pushing Limits – May 21, 2021 appeared first on KPFA.
May 21, 2021•30 min
Mary Lambert, cover of her latest album “Grief Creature” In this program we play music from Mary Lambert, talk some about being disabled and finding yourself in a yet another crisis, and give a big shout out to those of us with mental disabilities. We also open the phones for listener calls. You might know Mary Lambert from her work with Macklemore on the song “Same Love” or, as I call it, “My Love She Keeps Me Warm” or from her hit song, “Secrets”. Her latest album, Grief Creature, she says, ce...
May 07, 2021•30 min
Bobbi Pompey Able-bodied people tend to freeze up when someone with an unfamiliar disability shows up in their environment. They suddenly turn away, speak foolishly, or bumble too aggressively in our direction. The result is awkward – and sometime dangerous. Questions arise: Should I help someone by pushing their wheelchair? Can blind people cross the road without assistance? What do I do if I don’t understand someone with a speech limitation? The disability etiquette that answers these question...
Apr 23, 2021•30 min
A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing the insight of the grassroots disability movement to the general public. The show alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks Friday 2:30pm. The post Pushing Limits – April 9, 2021 appeared first on KPFA.
Apr 09, 2021•30 min
A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing the insight of the grassroots disability movement to the general public. The show alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks Friday 2:30pm. The post Pushing Limits – March 26, 2021 appeared first on KPFA.
Mar 26, 2021•30 min
A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing the insight of the grassroots disability movement to the general public. The show alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks Friday 2:30pm. The post Pushing Limits – March 12, 2021 appeared first on KPFA.
Mar 12, 2021•30 min
A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing the insight of the grassroots disability movement to the general public. The show alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks Friday 2:30pm. The post Pushing Limits – February 26, 2021 appeared first on KPFA.
Feb 26, 2021•30 min
Mitch Jeserich from a video by Sandy Sanders Once more around the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol Building – this time through the eyes of disability. The uprising threatened particular individuals in a building with a lot of history. Some of those individuals live with disability and some of that history is intertwined with accessibility struggles and successes. Mitch Jeserich worked in and around the Capitol Building for several years as a wheelchair-using reporter. He joins us for a descri...
Jan 29, 2021•30 min
Today we integrate some of the events of our nation into our disability routines. We’re nine days from an attempted coup at the Capital Building in D.C. as the pandemic rages and vaccine hope arises. Three callers living with disability contribute to the program. Graphic by Gerd Altmann/Pixabay One of our elder listeners with a severe disability, Mylene, speaks of her problem getting vaccinated. Ed, another listener, brings his experience in living with depression and working for candidates in G...
Jan 15, 2021•30 min
Graphic by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay KARAYZY Past Hopeful Future Disability in 2020 DEEP breath Before the PLUNGE Disability in 2021 Pushing Limits Not quite business as usual We are honored and thankful to spend part of New Years Day with YOU! Go ahead and make merry, but be ready to take note of upcoming issues and actions. Adrienne, Mark, Eddie and Sheela (maybe Josh and Shelley, too?) will talk, roundtable fashion about the hard times and delicious nuggets from this year…yes, there HAVE been...
Jan 01, 2021•30 min
A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing the insight of the grassroots disability movement to the general public. The show alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks Friday 2:30pm. The post Pushing Limits – December 25, 2020 appeared first on KPFA.
Dec 25, 2020•30 min
Lydia Nunez Less than 1% of U.S. residents live in nursing homes*, yet between 30-40% percent of all COVID-19 deaths have occurred in these institutions. One hundred thousand people have died due to the coronavirus in various types of nursing homes. These shocking numbers are raising big questions. And the biggest question is, will these deaths galvanize big changes in the care of disabled and older people? For decades, our guest, disability activist Lydia Nunez, has sounded the alarm about ongo...
Dec 11, 2020•1 hr
