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Category Archives: Blind
Bed Bugs, Other Pests and Disability
Listen 28 min Everyone hates it when the bedbugs come. By law, the landlord should arrange and pay for eradication. There’s two government agencies who could show up to inspect and advise you, the Public Health Department and Code Enforcement. … Continue reading
Posted in Blind, Caretakers/Attendents, Sheela Gunn Cushman, Story Telling - Disability
Tagged Bedbugs, Leah Simon-Weisberg, Sheela Gunn Cushman, Shelley Berman, Tenants Together
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Sheltered Workshops or Sweatshops for the Disabled?
Listen (28 minutes) Sign a petition demanding fair wages for people with disabilities! 170,000 signatures on petitions delivered to Goodwill Headquarters around the country. Four hundred thousand people with disabilities in the USA work for substandard wages, some of them … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Adrienne Lauby, Blind, Cognitive Disabilities, Eddie Ytuarte, Protest
Tagged Anil Lewis, Goodwill Industries, National Federation of the Blind
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Pushing Limits Goes to the Dogs
Listen Who only wishes for you to succeed? Who only wants to fulfill your every need? Who will be there through thick or thin? Your mother? Think again. It’s those guide dogs and service dogs, People. When you’re down they … Continue reading
Posted in Blind, Call In Program, Leah Gardner, Mental Disability, relationships, Shelley Berman, Story Telling - Disability
Tagged guide dogs, Johanna Ruesli, Service dog Lily, service dogs
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Helen Keller In Love
Listen 28 min Eddie Ytuarte will talk to Rosie Sultan about her recently released book, Helen Keller in Love.  This relationship has been written about in biographies and in Keller’s autobiography, but the novel delves … Continue reading
Posted in Blind, Caretakers/Attendents, Deaf, Poetry & Prose, relationships, Sexuality
Tagged deaf-blind, Helen Keller, love, Peter Fagan, Rosie Sultan
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“Going for Gold” and Other Athletics
Listen (28 min) Going For Gold: This is Kamilla Ryding’s quest. In 2008, she and her Danish goalball team fell just shy of this goal at the Paralympics in Beijing. Ryding and Team Denmark are back on the court … Continue reading
Posted in Blind, Community, Recreation, resources, Sports
Tagged Bay Area Outreach and Recreation Program, BORP, goalball, Kamilla Ryding, Team Denmark
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Can’t Access Our “Listen” Links?
We’re sorry. Try this. Screen Readers: KPFA, our parent archive, has the audio in several other formats. Look for the date of the program you want to hear under our list of archived programs there. Deaf Community: We have very … Continue reading
Posted in Blind, Deaf, resources
Tagged Access, apology, screen reader, transcript
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Biking While Blind
Listen After countless broken bones, a double organ transplant and sight loss, Bobby McMullen doesn’t just ride his bike; this daredevil is a human cliffhanger. He joins Pushing Limits hosts, Raphaella Bennin and Leah Gardner to talk about his life … Continue reading
Posted in Blind, Film, Leah Gardner, Raphaella Bennin, Sports
Tagged Bobby McMullen, Mountain Bikes, The Way Bobby Sees It
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Part Two “Blind Man’s Bluff” & Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome Community
LISTEN 29 min What do people with disabilities talk about when no able-bodied person is in the room? Starring Kris Yates & Mary Ann (Tidwell) Boussard A scene from the original play, Blind Man’s Bluff: Our heroine Geri interviews for … Continue reading
Posted in Adrienne Lauby, Blind, Shelley Berman
Tagged ACOR, Blind, Blind Man's Bluff, Doyle Saylor, genetic, Geri Taekens, Kris Yates, Mary Ann (Tidwell) Boussard, Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome, Stephanie Sugars, support group
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Blind Man’s Bluff
LISTEN Air date: April 16, KPFA. 94.1 fm, www.kpfa.org Original drama, Blind Man’s Bluff, Starring Kris Yates & Mary Ann (Tidwell) Boussard Adapted from Geri Taecken’s memoir of progressive blindness and coming of age in the disability movement. A poignant, … Continue reading
Vision Loss Resource Center
listen to this program Pushing Limits sheds light on the Vision Loss Resource Center with guests, Jessie Lorenz and Amber Dipietra. What issues are affecting people in the blind and low vision community? Jessie Lorenz & Amber DiPrieta of the … Continue reading
Posted in Adrienne Lauby, Blind, Eddie Ytuarte, Politics
Tagged Amber DiPeitra, California budget cuts, Jessie Lorenz, low vision, Vision Loss Resource Center
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