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.

UCSC’s Dr. Karen Holl on the Cutting Edge

by Nada Miljkovic | Aug 5, 2021 | All Talk, Education, Program, Science, The Cutting Edge

On August 2, 2021, UCSC Professor Karen Holl was the guest on the Cutting Edge to talk about her research that focuses on understanding how local and landscape scale processes affect ecosystem recovery from human disturbance and using this information to...

The Film Gang Review: Kajillionaire

by Paul Kanieski | Aug 5, 2021 | All Talk, Arts & Culture, The Film Gang

Writer, director, and former UCSC Slug, Miranda July, burst onto the indie film scene in 2005 with Me and You and Everyone We Know. It won prizes at prestigious film festivals such as Sundance and Cannes, and July would be declared by Filmmaker magazine as one...

Team Rubicon in Service to Boulder Creek and the World

by Christine Barrington | Aug 5, 2021 | All Talk, Program, Talk of the Bay

On Talk of the Bay, Tuesday, August 4, 2021 Christine Barrington interviewed leadership members of Team Rubicon, a nonprofit that serves communities by mobilizing veterans to continue their service and leverage their skills and experience to help people prepare,...

Behind the Mic: Michael Bryant

by Christine Barrington | Aug 5, 2021 | All Talk, Program, Talk of the Bay

On Talk of the Bay, Monday, July 26, 20201 Christine Barrington delves Behind the Mic with Michael Bryant, Co-Host of Wednesday's Relics and Psychadelics. KSQD is community radio---whether it’s music or talk, much of the programming streaming your way on 90.7 FM is...

A Sustainability Now! Revisit, Sunday, August 8, 5-6 pm: Can Solar Energy provide a basic income for everyone on earth? A conversation with Robert Stayton

by Ronnie Lipschutz | Aug 5, 2021 | All Talk, Education, Politics, Science, Sustainability Now!

Host Ronnie Lipschutz welcomes Robert Stayton, physicist and author of Solar Dividends: How Solar Energy Can Generate a Basic Income for Everyone on Earth. We’ll discuss the math, physics, economics and politics of his idea and proposal, and whether his utopian...

Alan Ritch – Fox Hunt

by Mathilde Rand and Laurie Corn | Aug 5, 2021 | Arts & Culture, First Person Singular, Program

Alan Ritch explains why the fox hunt is no more.

Jason Scorse – Generosity

by Mathilde Rand and Laurie Corn | Aug 4, 2021 | All Talk, First Person Singular, Politics

Jason Scorse reminds us that change requires generosity.

Independent Study Rule Changes Affect Local Families

by Suki Wessling | Aug 2, 2021 | Advice / Call-in, All Talk, Education, Local, Politics, Suki Wessling, Talk of the Bay

When legislators make what seem like helpful changes to education law, there are often downstream effects. This summer, the state has been debating AB130, which would make alterations to the part of the education code called Independent Study (IS) as a reaction to...

Dreamsense Definitions with Olivia Shiller

by Katherine Bell | Aug 2, 2021 | Advice / Call-in, All Talk, Education, Science, The Dream Journal, Wellness

Olivia Shiller found that certain commonly experienced dream phenomena have no words to describe them so she decided to create words with the help of her close friends to help us talk about these situations. For example, the word Amoria is defined "An intimate...