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.

Wren Eliot – Living in Santa Cruz

by Mathilde Rand and Laurie Corn | Mar 23, 2020 | First Person Singular, Local, Wellness

Wren Eliot tells a story about Santa Cruz.

Community Weighs in on Coronavirus

by Rachel Goodman | Mar 21, 2020 | Advice / Call-in, All Talk, COVID-19, Talk of the Bay

Cabrillo students and callers express their ideas about weathering the quarantine.

Santa Cruz Epidemiologist Will Forest on Coronavirus danger

by Rachel Goodman | Mar 21, 2020 | Advice / Call-in, All Talk, COVID-19, Talk of the Bay, Wellness

Here is an interview with Will Forest, an epidemiologist who has worked for the County of Santa Cruz for the past 17 years. He retired in 2018, only to be asked to come back to work for this pandemic response, which he did. On March 14th, Santa Cruz County...

Pandemic Call-In Dream Show

by Katherine Bell | Mar 21, 2020 | Advice / Call-in, All Talk, Local, The Dream Journal, Wellness

You'll hear calls from Claudia, Chris and Phoebe. They shared their dreams about tigers, bears and derelict buildings relating to fierceness and standing up for ourselves, financial worries and about how difficult times add soulfulness to our lives. Claudia read a...

Australian Fires

by goodnewssantacruz | Mar 20, 2020 | All Talk, Arts & Culture, Good News Santa Cruz, Program

Pauline Seales interviewed Antoinette Parakh, a local Zen Buddist preist and family therapist. Antoinette is from Australia and was back there visiting during the terrible fires late 2019. The discussion included ecological destruction, wrought by the fires and some...

The Film Gang Review: Portrait of a Lady on Fire

by Paul Kanieski | Mar 19, 2020 | Arts & Culture, The Film Gang

A simple story of love and love lost becomes a feminist polemic and a meditation on the sensuality of seeing, and being seen, in the new French film by writer/director Céline Sciamma, Portrait of a Lady on Fire. It’s the late 1800’s, and Marianne, an art...

Jeri Bodemar – I Don’t Know

by Mathilde Rand and Laurie Corn | Mar 19, 2020 | Arts & Culture, First Person Singular, Wellness

Jeri Bodemar keeps discovering the gifts of listening and of not knowing.

Becky Steinbruner – A Response

by Mathilde Rand and Laurie Corn | Mar 18, 2020 | First Person Singular, Local, Politics

Becky Syteinbrunner wants to clear her personal integrity and responds to a March 2 comment on KSQD Talk of the Bay.

Is it time to buy an electric car? Learn the pros and cons with Ecology Action’s Piet Canin

by Suki Wessling | Mar 16, 2020 | Advice / Call-in, Local, Outdoors, Talk of the Bay

The electric car market is bursting with possibilities, and Ecology Action's Piet Canin is excited to tell you all about it. How far can you drive in an electric car? Can you have one if you live in an apartment? Is it really more efficient than a gas car? Canin gives...