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Category Archives: Arts
Cripping “The Glass Menagerie” – Phoebe Fico
Listen (29 min) Phoebe Fico, a disabled woman, is currently playing one of the classic disability theatrical roles, that of Laura in Tennessee Williams, “The Glass Menagerie.” The production by Cal Shakes utilizes a multi-racial cast to portray the conflicts … Continue reading
Posted in Adrienne Lauby, Mental Disability, Poetry & Prose
Tagged Cal Shakes, lobotomy, Phoebe Fico, The Glass Menagerie
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Dennis Billups – “Patient No More”
Friday, June 2, 2017, 2:30 pm PST Dennis Billups joins Eddie Ytuarte with a first person account of the historic disability occupation of the federal HEW building in 1977. This protest of the delay of 504 regulations became a precursor … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibilty, Activism, Community, Eddie Ytuarte, Historical Exhibit, History, Politics, Protest, Story Telling - Disability
Tagged 504 Sit In, Dennis Billups, Department of Health Education and Welfare (HEW), Patient No More: People with Disabilities Securing Civil Rights, San Francisco Public Library
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“Red Diaper Daughter” with Laura Bock
Friday, May 19, 2-3 pm PST on KPFA Laura Bock is an extraordinary blind white woman whose new memoir, Red Diaper Daughter tells an extraordinary story of three generations of rebels and revolutionaries. She talks about her communist and anarchist … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Adrienne Lauby, Blind, Community, Deaf, Fat Liberation, Individual disease and identity groups, Josh Elwood, Mark Romoser, Poetry & Prose, Protest
Tagged Al Bock, Berta Karasick, Fat Lip Readers Theater, Laura Bock, Meyer Karasick, Mini Carson, Peggy Dennis, Red Diaper Daughter
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Disabled Artists in South Africa, Trump on Disability
Friday, March 31, 2017, 2:30 pm PDT, KPFA Josh Elwood talks with Mitch Jeserich about President Trump’s attitude toward disability. Then, we seek out disabled and deaf artists in South Africa with Leroy F. Moore Jr. and Simon Manda. Leroy … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Adrienne Lauby, Arts, Education, Josh Elwood, Music, Poetry & Prose, Politics, Visual
Tagged "Krip Hop Nation", "Letters and Politics", Leroy F. Moore Jr, Mitch Jeserich, Simon Manda, ThisAbility
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Remembering Marta Russell (1951-2013) Part 1
Listen (29 min) A discussion in memory of the late activist author Marta Russell with interviews with Steve Weiss and Ravi Malhotra. Russell is especially noted for her book Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract, which … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Disability Studies, Eddie Ytuarte, Poetry & Prose
Tagged Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract, Disability Politics in a Global Economy: Essays in honor of Marta Russell., Ravi Malhotra, Steve Weiss
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SuperFest – Amputees, Audio Description
Listen (28 min) Today we talk movies with Ross Turnbull the creator and director of Terminal Device, a feature film inquiring into the way “hooks” are represented in movies. As a life-long amputee who uses a prosthetic hook, Ross Turnbull … Continue reading
Posted in Accessibilty, Adaptive Aids, Adrienne Lauby, Blind, Movie, Sheela Gunn Cushman
Tagged Alex Locust, American Council of of the Blind, Ross Turnbull, Terminal Device
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Marcel “Fable the Poet” Price
Listen (29 min) Transcript here. At age 14 Fable was diagnosed with anxiety, stage two bipolar, and depression. His home life was abusive and, as he says, “everything else was very, very, very hard to deal with.” Today he works … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Mental Disability, Poetry & Prose, Police Violence, Politics, Race
Tagged Adrift in a Sea of M&Ms, Autonomous Press, Fable the Poet, Marcel Price
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Interview with Marcel ‘Fable the Poet’ Price (Transcript)
On Mental Health, Police Brutality…Fable shares His Political M & Ms Through His Book, Adrift in a Sea of M & Ms: Mixed-Race Issues and Mental Disorders. by Leroy F. Moore Jr. Leroy Moore Interview Transcript by Cheryl Green, Additions … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Adrienne Lauby, Community, Mental Disability, Music, Poetry & Prose, Police Violence, Race
Tagged Adrift in a Sea of M&Ms, Autonomous Press, Colin Kaepernick, Fable the Poet, Marcel Price, Mental Health America, mixed-race, Partners for a Racism-free Community
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