Category Archives: Disability Justice

Mental Disability Surveillance

Posted on February 17, 2023 by Adrienne

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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Reproductive Rights & Disability, Part 2

Posted on November 18, 2022 by Adrienne

Pushing Limits – November 18, 2022, PST 2:30 pm  at KPFA Emily DiMatteo Are there things about the connection between reproductive rights and the disability community that the reproductive rights movement has not yet latched on to? We interview Emily … Continue reading →

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Reproductive Justice and Disability

Posted on September 8, 2022 by Adrienne

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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Taking a Stand: Helga Spizman & Anita Cameron

Posted on September 21, 2017 by Adrienne

Friday, September 22, 2-3 pm PST, KPFA radio Police march down the boulevard chanting “Whose Street? Our Street,” and Oklahoma City police gun down Magdiel Sanchez, a developmentally disabled deaf man, despite neighbors who yell, “He can’t hear you.”   All … Continue reading →

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Posted on August 17, 2017 by Adrienne

Listen (29 min) Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (she/they) is a queer disabled non-binary femme writer and cultural worker of Burger/ Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/ Roma ascent is the guest. Her work has been widely published, most recently in The Deaf … Continue reading →

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Cripping Capitalism – Cheryl Green

Posted on May 5, 2017 by Adrienne

Listen (29 min) (For a transcript of the first 15 minutes of this interview, click here) Capitalism is about money.  Capitalism is about the 80% of disabled people who don’t have full time employment.  Capitalism is also about how we … Continue reading →

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Eli Clare – Grappling with Cure

Posted on March 3, 2017 by Adrienne

Listen (58 min) White, disabled, and genderqueer, Eli Clare’s new book, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure, questions the typical hostility of the disability movement toward the mythology of The Cure. He explores his rage at the many ways the ‘search … Continue reading →

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Movement for Black Lives, Platform and Critique

Posted on September 2, 2016 by Adrienne

Listen (29 min) Guest: Vilissa Thompson of Ramp Your Voice The Movement For Black Lives posted their incredible Vision 4 Black Lives Platform in late July.  As one could expect, it is most thorough in issues related to police violence … Continue reading →

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#DisabilityTooWhite – Call In

Posted on June 3, 2016 by Adrienne

Listen (29 min) Vilissa Thompson of Ramp Your Voice joins us to talk about the twitter storm she raised with her hashtag #DisabilityTooWhite.  Many people of color with disabilities tweeted about the barriers they find in the movement.  White people … Continue reading →

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Black Kripple Delivers Poems and Lyrics

Posted on May 19, 2016 by Adrienne

Listen 59 min We’re high on poetry this week… stories of disabled people told to the beat of the heart. And, we’re focusing on black and brown people with disabilities because we’re hosting Leroy F. Moore Jr., and his new … Continue reading →

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