Dogs Comfort People in Crisis Jennifer Barbettini We talk to Jennifer Barbettini, who runs the Courthouse Facility Dog Program in Ventura CA. The program connects victims of crime to doggy comfort when they testify in court and when interviewed by detectives. Mark Ruefenacht We also talk with Mary Hooker and Mark Ruefenacht with the National Institute of Canine Service and Training. Among its other programs, the organization provides emotional support dogs to first responders around the USA, in ...
Aug 25, 2023•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 even weeks Friday 2:30pm. The post Pushing Limits – August 18, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Aug 18, 2023•30 min
Sean Kelson, Program Manager of Interlink, Santa Rosa, with Chonchita. Peers and Mental Health Recovery with Sean Kelson Our guest, Sean Kelson, has faced mental health challenges since he was a child. He’s also spent over a decade at the Interlink Self-Help center in Santa Rosa, California, helping other people make peace with the mental and emotional disabilities. Now, he’s talking to the movers and shakers in Sonoma County’s wine county about the need to invite sobriety into our community cul...
Aug 11, 2023•30 min
Disability and the media – the good bad, and the cringe. Danielle Hollobaugh We air excerpts from a conversation about how Hollywood presents people with disabilities hosted by Santa Barbara’s Independent Living Resource Center Rapid Response Committee. Then we talk to New York-based comic, Mike Cotayo and Florida-based actress singer-songwriter Danielle Hollobaugh about their experiences as disabled people in the industry. Mike Cotayo The horrors of inspiration porn. Programs that do a decent j...
Aug 04, 2023•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 even weeks Friday 2:30pm. The post Special Fund Drive Programming – Pushing Limits – July 28, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Jul 28, 2023•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 even weeks Friday 2:30pm. The post Pushing Limits – July 21, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Jul 21, 2023•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 even weeks Friday 2:30pm. The post Pushing Limits – July 14, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Jul 14, 2023•30 min
COVID- 19. What is it like for people living with disabilities – past and present? Is Long Covid part of your daily life? Is mass transit safe for disabled people? Who feels safe on an airplane with all mask mandates lifted? Discussion of these issues and more. We invite people with disabilities to call with your experiences, thoughts and concerns: 510-848-4425 And check out this great resource and power-building group organizing around Long Covid, Long Covid Justice. Hosted by Shelley Berman an...
Jul 07, 2023•30 min
Stuttering with Confidence: A Conversation with a Speech Therapist Who Stutters We air an episode of the podcast, Proud Stutter, with Maya Chupkov and Cynthia Chin. Their guest is the wonderful, thoughtful, interesting Bailey Levis. Read more about it on their website here. The post Proud Stutter – Pushing Limits – June 30, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Jun 30, 2023•30 min
Ligia Andrade Zúñiga A week from today, Governor Newsom is expected to sign the 2023-2024 California state budget. In this program, we look at the deals that were struck and their impact on people with disabilities. Then we widen our camera to talk about our yearly budget advocacy and how our community can become more powerful in this and other policy arenas. Eric Harris, the director of Public Policy at Disability Rights California, breaks down how the state has chosen to invest its money for t...
Jun 23, 2023•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 even weeks Friday 2:30pm. The post Pushing Limits – June 16, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Jun 16, 2023•30 min
Alex and Ellen Rush Alex Rush, 81 years old, recently went under the knife and had his chest pried over. Doctors call this open heart surgery. Hearts are complicated and, when hearts are exposed to the Goddess and everybody, much can happen. One might be shaken to the core. One’s life partner might be turned upside down. Yes, when everything is given over to fate, and mortality stares us in the face – what was buried may surface and what is on the surface may not be all there is to see. Join us ...
Jun 09, 2023•30 min
Early disability activism did not only arise in the United States or in the countries of the United Kingdom. The Soviet Union, shortly after the 1918 revolution, also witnessed a nascent disability movement. That movement differs significantly from disability advancements in other countries and in later decades. In this edition of Pushing Limits, Maria Galamarini surveys the development of blind activism in the Soviet Union. Unlike the United States, did the Soviet apparatus use disability activ...
Jun 02, 2023•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 even weeks Friday 2:30pm. The post Pushing Limits – May 26, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
May 26, 2023•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 even weeks Friday 2:30pm. The post Pushing Limits – May 19, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
May 19, 2023•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 even weeks Friday 2:30pm. The post Pushing Limits – May 12, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
May 12, 2023•30 min
Interviews with two authors with disabilities who have written books from their lived expertise. Stephanie Heit is the author of Psych Murders, a poetic memoir of her encounters with the psychiatric medical system. Dr. Sami Schalk, professor of gender studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discusses her book, Bodyminds Imagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction, which relates disability, Blackness and speculative (science) fiction, and Black Disability...
May 05, 2023•30 min
We jump into summer by talking with people who are making seasonal activities accessible to those with disabilities. Rachael A Zubal-Ruggieri has a passion for comic books and helped start the “Cripping the Comic Con” at Syracuse University. This bi-annual symposium featured topics relating to disability and pop culture. Then we hear about the California Youth Leadership Forum for students with disabilities. Now in its 31st year, the forum teaches high school students about disability history, a...
Apr 28, 2023•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 even weeks Friday 2:30pm. The post Pushing Limits – April 21, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Apr 21, 2023•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 even weeks Friday 2:30pm. The post Pushing Limits – April 14, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Apr 14, 2023•30 min
Judy Huemann On the 46th anniversary of the Section 504 sit-ins in San Francisco, we take a look back at the longest occupation of a federal building in U.S. history, the role the late Judy Heumann played in it, and the subsequent disability rights movement. Ed Roberts, Judy Huemann, Joan Leon at the beginning of WID Producer and Host, Mark Romoser, is joined by Joan Leon, who has worked with the Berkeley Center for Independent Living (CIL) and its offshoot the World Institute on Disability. Ms ...
Apr 07, 2023•30 min
Katie Sellergren We talk to Katie Sellergren, a fellow at Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability. Named for the late author, professor, and disability rights advocate, Paul Longmore, the Institute hosts lectures and events, including Superfast, the largest disability film festival in the world. Tara Ayres. Photo by Corbett O’Toole We also talk with Tara Ayres. an activist with a disability who helps to organize the Oakland women’s march. She talks about her experiences working with left–wing a...
Mar 31, 2023•30 min
Building Solidarity Between the Disabled and the Left: The Good, The Bad, and The Inaccessible We talk with two advocates about their experience working in progressive movements where disability is not the primary focus. Maya Chupkov has worked as an organizer on issues such as affordable housing and promoting democracy. In the past, she has experienced challenges in getting other organizers to understand her stuttering disability. Maya Chupkov is the producer and host of the podcast “Proud Stut...
Mar 24, 2023•30 min
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Mar 17, 2023•30 min
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Mar 10, 2023•30 min
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Mar 03, 2023•30 min
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Feb 24, 2023•30 min
Sarah Roth This week, a national CDC study found that nearly 3 in 5 (57%) of teen girls felt persistently sad or hopeless in 2021 — double that of boys. This is a nearly 60% increase and the highest level in the past decade. For the young people, their families, and friends, it was just a reminder of something they already knew. We have a national mental health crisis in the U.S. and there is a stunning lack of resources to help. In addition, in the North Bay of California, deaths involving fent...
Feb 17, 2023•30 min
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Feb 10, 2023•30 min
Mark Romoser discusses the life of the late Lois Curtis. Curtis was one of the people with disabilities who were plaintiffs in the landmark civil rights case Olmstead v. L.C. E.W. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the majority opinion that declared that, under the ADA, people like Lois had the right to live in the community rather than in large institutions. And so she did. We speak to four friends and colleagues of Lois Curtis: Linda Pogue, Lee Sanders, Ken Mitchell, and Grover Hogan. Lois Curt...
Feb 03, 2023•30 min
