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Tanyalee Davis

What are you staring at? Pushing Limits hosts Leah Gardner and Amber Dipietra interview comedian Tanyalee Davis. Ms. Davis is a three foot, six inch comedian who has appeared at clubs and universities worldwide. Ms. Davis shares her no holds barred, irreverent thoughts and views. Pushing Limits airs CD clips of her performances as well. This show is a re broadcast that originally aired on April 20th, 2007.

Archives of this program and other previously-aired shows can be accessed at:
www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?show=12

The web page for Pushing Limits is:
www.kpfa.org/pushinglimits/

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Paula Gunn Allen

Pushing Llimits host Adrienne Lauby interviews Native American iconoclastic academic Paula Gunn Allen, a feminist Wikipedia calls  "hugely influential." Paula Gunn Allen died this spring.  One of her last interviews was with Adrienne Lauby. Gunn Allen speaks about her life long disability, modern social movements, assisted suicide and other pressing, controversial topics. 

Archives of this program and other previously-aired shows can be accessed at:
www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?show=12

The web page for Pushing Limits is:
www.kpfa.org/pushinglimits/

Podcast and Live Streaming available at
www.kpfa.org

Contact us at:
(510) 848-6767 ext. 636 or
[email protected]

Pushing Limits is produced collectively and open to new members.  Contact us for the time and date of our next meeting.

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"Limits and Barriers."

What happens when you face an unwelcome surprise?  When a physical or mental barrior has no easy solution?  For those of us who live with disability, barriers seem to show up on a daily basis.  Join hosts Leah Gardner and Ruthanne Shpiner as pushing limits takes your calls with tales of obstructions, solutions and the attitudes that get us to the end of the day.
Trade stories with us. Whether you literally slammed into a brick wall or were slightly limited by someone’s bad attitude, your experience and hard-earned wisdom is welcome. 

previously-aired shows can be accessed at:
www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?show=12

The web page for Pushing Limits is:
www.kpfa.org/pushinglimits/

Podcast and Live Streaming available at
www.kpfa.org

Contact us at:
(510) 848-6767 ext. 636 or
[email protected]

Pushing Limits is produced collectively
and open to new members. Call
(510) 848-6767 ext 636 or
e-mail [email protected]
for time and date of the next meeting.

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Autism rights/ Aspies for Freedom
Pushing Limits delves into the Autism rights movement. Pushing Limits producer Doyle Saylor, Hosts Eddie Y’tuarte and John Healy interview Earth Monkey (Melody Kohut), a vocal member of the Aspies for Freedom or AFF, a grassroots autism rights movement. www.aspiesforfreedom.com

Autism has been in the forefront of local news lately stemming from charges of discrimination when employees with Autism and other developmental disabilities were fired from a Berkeley McDonalds allegedly for no cause. John Healy and Eddie Y’tuarte talk about what AFF means by neuro – diversity. They also explore other new disability rights concepts in the context of social prejudice against people with Autism.

Archives of this program and other previously-aired shows can be accessed at:
www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?show=12

The web page for Pushing Limits is:
www.kpfa.org/pushinglimits/

Podcast and Live Streaming available at
www.kpfa.org

Contact us at:
(510) 848-6767 ext. 636 or
[email protected]

Pushing Limits is produced collectively
and open to new members. Call
(510) 848-6767 ext 636 or
e-mail [email protected]
for time and date of the next meeting.

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Mutliple Chemical Sensitvity

Host Jackie Barshak addresses Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) with guests Dr. Grace Zinn and Cindy Norwitz.

In this difficult time of forest fires and increased air pollution,Pushing Limits presents a rebroadcast of our program on the pathology and politics of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). MCS causes chronic abnormalities in multiple organs within the body, usually leaving them highly sensitive to the common chemicals we eat, inhale and touch every day Pushing Limits producers John Healy and Doyle Saylor introduce host Jackie Barshak. Jackie Barshak speaks with guests Dr. Grace Ziem, who treats people with MCS – www.chemicalinjury.net, Albert Donnay, cofounder of MCS Resource and Referral www.mcsrr.org, Cindi Norwitz  who lives with MCS and is the founder of an online support group for people living with MCS and Dr. Ann McCampbell, founder of the New Mexico MCS Task Force Jackie Barshak is an art historian living with MCS.  This show originally aired on August 17, 2007.

Archives of this program and other previously-aired shows can be accessed at:
www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?show=12

The web page for Pushing Limits is:
www.kpfa.org/pushinglimits/

Podcast and Live Streaming available at www.kpfa.org

Contact us at:
(510) 848-6767 ext. 636 or [email protected]

Pushing Limits is produced collectively and open to new members.
Call (510) 848-6767 ext 636 or e-mail [email protected] for time and and date of the next meeting.

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Superfest, the world’s longest running disability film festival, runs this month in Berkeley, California. We interview Alice Elliot, director of the Best of Festival winner, “Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy” director, and discuss disability issues in film. With information from Liane Yasumoto, the executive producer of Culture!Disability!Talent! the organization which produces Superfest.

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