Pride Perspectives

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.

Heliopsychology with Annani Kelley

by Katherine Bell | Sep 8, 2025 | Advice / Call-in, All Talk, Education, Health & Wellness, Katherine Bell, Science, Science & Nature, Spirituality & Religion, The Dream Journal, Topics: Evergreen, Wellness

Do sunspots, solar flares, and geomagnetic activity affect our dreams? Our guest, Annani Kelly, is finishing her PhD research on a study involving 92 participants and over 4700 dream reports. Annani talks about some of the effects of solar activity on health which has...

The Ultimate Devil’s Bargain: Arrigo Boïto’s Mefistofele

by Joe Truskot | Sep 8, 2025 | All Music, Americana, Monday Night at the Opera, Program

A worldly scholar reaches old age realizing he has never experienced true love and beauty. Faust makes a deal with a halo-less angel. Monday Night at the Opera, 7 to 10 p.m., September 8, 2025.

FirstPersonSingular: Gilda Zelin – Birth

by Mathilde Rand and Laurie Corn | Sep 8, 2025 | All Talk, Arts & Culture, First Person Singular, Health & Wellness

Gilda Zelin contemplates birth. Photo courtesy of Alexandro David.

Karen with a K: A Musical Temper Tantrum featuring Strange Bedfellows

by Christine Barrington | Sep 7, 2025 | All Talk, Arts & Culture, Christine Barrington, Local, Program, Talk of the Bay

Monday on Talk of the Bay we meet Laura February Strange and members of the cast of “Karen with a K: A musical temper tantrum." If you haven’t had the chance to experience this local garage-rock musical it’s coming around once more at the Kummbwa Jazz Center in...

Watsonville’s Whiskey Hill Farm Explored

by Joe Truskot | Sep 5, 2025 | Advice / Call-in, All Talk, Climate Change, Education, Health & Wellness, In the Garden, Outdoors, Program, Science, Science & Nature, Technology, Wellness

In The Garden, KSQD's weekly garden show, airs a conversation from February 8, 2025, with Dave Blume of Whiskey Hill Experimental and Educational Farm. Dave's energy is infectious, and his nontraditional agricultural methods are jaw-dropping and inspirational; 9 to 10...

French composers … Charles Gounod et bien d’autres encore

by Joe Truskot | Sep 5, 2025 | All Music, Classical, Program

Saturday, September 6, 2025 - 6 to 9 a.m.; Gounod's Second Symphony (Markeivitch/Berlin Phil), Ravel's Piano Trio (Kantorow/Rouvier/Muller), Adam's Giselle selections (Karajan/Berlin Phil), Ibert's Escales (Dutoit/Montreal Sym), Rameau's Dardanus selections (Nic...

A Hunger Strike to End Pesticides Near Watsonville Schools

by Ami Chen Mills | Sep 5, 2025 | Advice / Call-in, All Talk, Ami Chen Mills, Health & Wellness, Labor, Local, Moment of Truth, Outdoors, Politics, Politics & Activism, Topics: Evergreen, Wellness

This show broadcasted live on Labor Day of 2025, the first day of Omar Dieguez's 30-day hunger strike to end the spraying of pesticides near Watsonville area schools. MOT host Ami Chen Mills and Dieguez are joined by Providencia Martinez Alaniz, who also...

Assemblymember Pellerin Advocates for Suicide Awareness

by Rachel Goodman | Sep 4, 2025 | All Talk, Health & Wellness, Local, Program, Rachel Anne Goodman, Wellness

When Gail Pellerin lost her husband to suicide, she knew she needed to learn more about the causes and prevention as part of her healing process. Now, she is advocating for awareness through a resolution declaring September Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. In...

UC Researchers and Public Service Workers Unionize

by Rachel Goodman | Sep 4, 2025 | All Talk, Education, Labor, Local

7,200 UC Research and Public Service Professionals Vote Yes to Form a Union They are the latest group of professional staff to join the UAW organizing movement Berkeley/Los Angeles, CA - Today, votes were tallied in a union election for 7,200 Research and Public...