Pride Perspectives features discussions of various aspects of the rich and vibrant Santa Cruz LGBTQ+ history. Created in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Santa Cruz Pride in 2025, we include conversations with guests about their experiences in being part of this history through stories of local people and events.
Pride Perspectives Show 3: The 1970s, Women’s Music and Health with Kater Pollock and Patti Maxine.
This show focused was on the 1970s and in particular how women contributed to the implementation of the first Santa Cruz Pride in 1975. At UCSC, feminist studies began in 1974 and at the same time,...
Pride Perspectives: Episode 1
Join KSQD every other Sunday evening at 5, and Tuesday morning at 6, for Pride Perspectives, highlighting the LGBTQ+ community across Santa Cruz County and the Central Coast. Hosts Rob Darrow...
Indivisible organizers encouraged by large crowd at Get ICE Out for Good Rally
Your Squid on the Street, Suki Wessling, caught up with Kelly Menehan and Faye Johnson of Indivisible to talk a little bit about the rally and their organization at the January 2026 Get ICE out for Good Rally in Santa Cruz.
Locals speak up at ICE Out For Good rally in Santa Cruz
Your Squid on the Street interviews rally-goers at the corner of Ocean and Water Streets in Santa Cruz about their reasons for attending the rally on January 11, 2026.
FirstPersonSingular: Olga Cossi – Boys Will Be Men
The late Olga Cossi hopes that boys will be men. Photo courtesy of Vika Glitter.
The Tower of Song Presents Its New Year Program
Tune in at 12 AM, January 12th, and hear the Gypsy Scholar present part 1 of his Orphic Essay-with-Soundtrack series entitled, "The New Year & Rebirth in Archaic Myth and Ritual." In this musical essay series, the GS attempts to trace the origin of our secular New...
Film Gang Review: Housemaid
Housemaid Film Review by Molly Sullivan Housemaid, the thriller based on the bestselling novel by Freda McFadden and directed by Paul Feig, is entertaining, slightly cheesy fun—with more plot twists than a pretzel. McFadden is known for mysteries that make you think...
Writing Through Writer’s Block with author, educator Aaron Colton
If you’ve had writer’s block — and for all the listeners out there who have ever put pen to paper, chances are a good that you have — there’s no shortage of pithy quotes or “how to” books from famous authors that can help snap you out of it. “Write what you know,”...
WHAT A WEEK, January 10th, “Greetings From Minneapolis!”
After a week filled with "Shock And Awful," Military historian Jon Parshall joins hosts Erik Nelson, Rachel Anne Goodman and special guest Rich Proctor, as Jon reports from his homeland, the frontlines of Minnesota. It can't happen here, until it does, and Jon is...
Making Sense of the U.S. Invasion of Venezuela
Sara Niedzwieck is a professor of politics at UC Santa Cruz and studies South American politics. She offers her analysis of what is currently happening in Venezuela, a developing story.
Journalist Michael Fox on Venezuela
On January 3rd the U.S. military conducted a strike on the capital of Venezuela, Caracas, killing dozens of people, and capturing President Maduro and his wife and bringing them to New York to stand trial. What does this mean for the region? What is it really about? ...
Watsonville Vigil for Renee Nicole Good
Omar Dieguez reports live from the vigil marking the killing by an ICE agent of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.
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