Category Archives: Adrienne Lauby

Disability and Media

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 … Continue reading

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Proud Stutter – Interview with Bailey Levis

Listen:  Friday, June 30, 2023, 2:30-3pm PDT KPFA.org 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, … Continue reading

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CA Budget – Advocacy and Results

LISTEN Friday, June 23, 2:30 pm PDT KPFA Radio 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 … Continue reading

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Opening the Heart – Surgery

Friday, June 9, 2023. 2:30-3 pm, PDT KPFA. radio Alex Rush, 81 years old, recently went under the knife and had his chest pried open. Doctors call this open heart surgery. Hearts are complicated and, when hearts are exposed to … Continue reading

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Disability Summertime

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 … Continue reading

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Mental Disability Surveillance

Listen (29 min) Friday, February 17, 2:30 pm PST 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 … Continue reading

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Some Seniors In The Storm

Friday, January 13, 2023, 2:30 pm,  KPFA Bliss Cameron This week we spend time in a community of low-income seniors, many who live with a disability.  We ask how they are handling the days of this major storm.  Are they … Continue reading

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The End of One Year; The Beginning of Another

Listen We bid farewell (we‘ll let you decide if it’s fond or not) to 2022, by talking about the past year with activists from throughout North America. In Los Angeles, Cynde Soto successfully advocated with others to get an accessible … Continue reading

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Robert Bouvard

Listen, Friday, November 11, 2:30 pm, KPFA Radio Is that old neighborhood guy a wheelchair-using amputee? Robert Bouvard, aka Robbie Ross   Or a man in an impeccably tailored formal gown with Oscar-caliber make-up and hair? Robert Bouvard is both. … Continue reading

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Reproductive Justice and Disability

Listen,  Friday, September 9, 2:30 pm PDT, KPFA, 94.1 fm in Northern California Patty Berne The clamor about the Supreme Court’s decision to revoke Roe v. Wade and allow the states to make their own rules about a woman’s reproductive … Continue reading

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