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Disability and Sports

Posted on July 12, 2016 by Adrienne

Listen (29 min) How  do sports effect you as a disabled person? Are you a player/doer? Spectator? Do sports and things about them encourage/discourage you? Do you feel that you can’t participate? Do you wish you  could? How do the … Continue reading →

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Will Rent Control Come To Your City?

Posted on June 16, 2015 by Adrienne

Listen 29 min As renters across Central and Northern California continue to receive rent increases of $200-500. a month, low-income people who often have disabilities are the hardest hit.   Raising the rent, as they skirt or ignore laws meant to … Continue reading →

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Visual Artists with Disabilities and Voice Augmentation Tools

Posted on November 30, 2014 by Adrienne

Listen (37 min) Vanessa Castro and Tamar Mag Raine, visual artists with disabilities, talk about their paintings, assemblages, mosaics and other work.   They are two of the five artists with disabilities who are participating in the KPFA Crafts Fair, … Continue reading →

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Renters, Warm Pools and Human Attraction

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Adrienne

 Listen First, Gloria Alee, a renter with disabilities, remains in her apartment two and a half years after the building was abandoned for foreclosure and she was told to leave. How did she do it? She brings us the details, … Continue reading →

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Part Two “Blind Man’s Bluff” & Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome Community

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Adrienne

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 →

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Blind Man’s Bluff

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Adrienne

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 →

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