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.
Tim Rudolph – The Greatest Book
Tim Rudolph shares what he thinks is the greatest book in the world.
Nourishing Generations is a task that never ends
Host Suki Wessling explores the world of educational nonprofits with Karen Haralson and Nancy Birang of Nourishing Generations, which runs after school programs in nutrition and cooking in our local schools. We discuss their program and how it works, but then move on...
K-Squid Spring Pledge Drive a Success!
Throw your tentacles in the air and shout "Squidallujah, we did it!". K-Squid listeners raised over $30,000, and then a generous donor stepped forward and donated $6,800 to help pay for our new transmitter. That makes this a smashing success, all thanks to you. A huge...
Silicon Valley Resident Describes Moving Here
California lost residents last year. Some moved out because of the high cost of housing or better jobs elsewhere. Others moved in. In Santa Cruz during the Covid pandemic, people from Silicon Valley got a taste of beach-side living and are moving here permanently....
Wings Homeless Project Offers Hope
Santa Cruz has many organizations working to help the homeless. WINGS is one such program that seeks to help people get the proper documents they need to navigate the red tape involved in getting housing. They also provide beds, cleaning supplies and other appliances...
“Mini-Brains” Give UCSC Researchers Insight
Lucille Tepperman is a student at Cabrillo College. This is a short feature she produced about UCSC's Genomics lab creating small organelles made of stem cells in order to better understand brain development. New Research at the Genomics Institute Host Intro : At the...
Stay or Flee? Who Pays for Sea Level Rise?
As sea levels rise due to climate change, city planners and oceanographers are often called upon to make suggestions as to how to cope with advancing erosion. The big questions are who will pay for it and how long insurance companies will keep insuring these homes in...
Goats Reduce Fire Risk at UCSC
McKenzie Prillaman went to UCSC and has this story: Narrator: California’s wildfire season grows worse every year, forcing landowners and institutions to come up with creative ways to prevent fires. At UC Santa Cruz, they’re trying a new approach… goats. ...
The Film Gang Review: Titane
If you are a horror film aficionado, chances are you’ve heard of Julia Ducournau, whose 2016 breakout movie, Raw, became an instant cult hit. Despite its mutilations and cannibalism, Ducournau used Raw to explore benevolent themes such as family and love. With...
Housing Development and Small Units in Santa Cruz
Lira Filippini, Candace Brown and Gillian Greensite join host Mathilde Rand in a conversation about small unit proposals in Santa Cruz. They make sense of the alphabet soup related to housing: SRO, SOU, FDU and RHNA and discuss the impacts of each of them.
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