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KPFA - Pushing Limits

A half-hour radio show providing critical coverage of disability issues and bringing insight into the grassroots disability movement to the general public.

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Pushing Limits – September 24, 2021

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2021/09/24

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.

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Depression – Pushing Limits – September 10, 2021

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2021/09/10

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

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Emergencies and Disabilities – Pushing Limits –...

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2021/08/27

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 of

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Pushing Limits – August 13, 2021

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2021/08/13

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.

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Fighting Normalcy: Interview w/Jonathan Mooney –...

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2021/07/30

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

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High Support Needs? An Interview with Cal Montgomery...

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2021/07/16

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

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Disrupting Ableism with Artful Activism – Pushing...

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2021/07/02

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

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War, Wheelchairs & Housing – Pushing Limits – June...

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2021/06/18

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

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Disrupting Ableism with Artful Activism – Pushing...

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2021/06/04

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

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Pushing Limits – May 21, 2021

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2021/05/21

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.

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Mental Disabilities, Mary Lambert’s Music & More. ...

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2021/05/07

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,

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Beyond Disability Etiquette w/ Laura Millar & Bobbi...

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2021/04/23

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

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Pushing Limits – April 9, 2021

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2021/04/09

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.

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Pushing Limits – March 26, 2021

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2021/03/26

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.

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Pushing Limits – March 12, 2021

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2021/03/12

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.

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Pushing Limits – February 26, 2021

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2021/02/26

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.

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Jan. 6 Insurrection Through a Disability Lens...

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2021/01/29

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

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“Call In ~ Call Out” Pushing Limits – January 15, 2021

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2021/01/15

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

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Karayzy Past, Hopeful Future – Pushing Limits –...

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2021/01/01

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

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Pushing Limits – December 25, 2020

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2020/12/25

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.

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