Category Archives: Teens

Youth and Disability with Jamie Caron

Friday, May 4, 2:30 pm PDT, KPFA In the wake of the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida., youth activists have taken center stage as never before.   Disability activists made history with last summer’s ADAPT protests of the Medi-Care cuts … Continue reading

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Eli Clare, author of EXILE AND PRIDE

Friday, September 18, 2-3 pm PDT on KPFA First published in 1999, the groundbreaking book, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation is essential to the history and future of disability politics. Eli Clare’s revelatory writing about his experiences as … Continue reading

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Good Kings, Bad Kings

Listen 59 min In this hour-long fund drive special, we talk to celebrated playwright and disability rights activist, Susan Nussbaum about her prize-winning disability novel, Good Kings, Bad Kings.   The novel tells the story of a group of disabled kids … Continue reading

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Integrating New Disability

Listen (29 min) Brook was doing well living with her multiple personality disorder.  It had been a long road, but she was comfortable and able to spend more hours at work then ever before. . . Then, she had a stroke. … Continue reading

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The Empowered FeFes

Starting early for an expanded hour from 2-3 pm PST, 94.1 fm, KPFA. Three award-winning films made by young disabled women in Chicago.  FeFe is a word for female, and these women live up their names by telling folks how … Continue reading

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Does It Get Better for Queer Disabled Teens?

Listen (28 min) Listen (10 min excerpt) Listen: Access Issues We’ve all seen the T-shirts, the articles and the splash on the Internet.  “It Gets Better” is the new buzz.  Spurred after a dramatic upsurge in youth LGBTQI suicides, Dan … Continue reading

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