KQED's Perspectives

Joan Steinau Lester: SCOTUS and Same-Sex Marriage 05.10.2022 4:00 ↓

Joan Steinau Lester worries that the Supreme Court is coming after her same-sex marriage. 

Evan Ho: The Crow and the Pitcher 04.10.2022 3:56 ↓

Evan Ho says an historic drought means Californians have to save a lot of water, a little bit at a time.

Michael Ellis: Vaux's Swifts 30.09.2022 4:03 ↓

Michael Ellis has this perspective on a sociable and long flying bird. 

Johanna Rauhala: A Salute to Richmond 29.09.2022 4:01 ↓

Johanna Rauhala is a proud resident of Richmond, a city with a less-than-deserved reputation.

Gillian Reynolds: Exceptionally Unexceptional 28.09.2022 3:59 ↓

Gillian Reynolds is exceptionally unexceptional at everything she tries. But she’s learned how exceptional that can be.

Anna Yang: I Can't Read 27.09.2022 3:52 ↓

Anna Yang visits Beijing where her lack of language skills make it hard to connect to her family and culture.

Richard Friedlander: The Box of Forgotten Memory 26.09.2022 4:03 ↓

While clearing a loft of junk to toss, Richard Friedlander encounters a box of forgotten memory.

Jeremy Friedlander: Deane and I 23.09.2022 3:54 ↓

Jeremy Friedlander and a good friend disagree about most things, but not their friendship.

Susan Dix Lyons: Age 22.09.2022 4:01 ↓

Susan Dix Lyons knows that age may be a number, but its not just a number.

Natalie Bivas: The Blood of Innocents 21.09.2022 4:02 ↓

The war against Ukraine is personal for Natalie Krauss Bivas, and buried in soil soaked with the blood of innocents. 

Yvonne Baginski: They Paved Paradise 20.09.2022 3:59 ↓

Yvonne Baginski knows just what Joni Mitchell meant when she famously sang, "They paved paradise, put up a parking lot."

Angelina Montgomery: The Hidden Outdoors 19.09.2022 3:51 ↓

Angelina Montgomery's grandmother has lived here for 60 years but she never knew there were redwoods in Oakland.

Richard Swerdlow: School's Out, For Good 16.09.2022 3:54 ↓

Richard Swerdlow reflects on his 34 years as a teacher.

Nina Thompson: Navigating Politics as a Teen 15.09.2022 3:50 ↓

Y-R Media's Nina Thompson struggles to connect to politics dominated by much older officeholders.

Alex Giardino: Circle of Hope 14.09.2022 3:54 ↓

Alex Giardino returns to the neonatal intensive care unit after 18 years and learns that hope is a circle. 

Holly Hubbard Preston: Chain of Good 13.09.2022 3:58 ↓

In the lost and found of life, Holly Hubbard Preston learned that what you find isn’t necessarily what you were looking for.

Pablo Quintanilla: Climate Justice 12.09.2022 4:02 ↓

Pablo Quintanilla asks what do we owe those most affected by climate change and least responsible for it.

Erin Poppler: Oakland's Resilience 09.09.2022 4:02 ↓

Erin Poppler has her answer when asked why she stays in troubled Oakland. Resilience.

Christine Schoefer: Holding On To Too Much 08.09.2022 3:58 ↓

Christine Schoefer watches as her 19-month old grandchild learns that its hard to move forward when hanging on to too much.

Shreya Anand: Underrepresented in STEM 07.09.2022 3:56 ↓

High school senior Shreya Anand finds she's not the only student bearing the weight of being part of a STEM scarcity.

Janel Moses: Caring For Those Who Care For Us 06.09.2022 4:01 ↓

Nannies are sometimes loved, often ill-treated by the families that employ them. Janel Moses has heard their stories.

Michael Ellis: Golden Gate Waterfall 02.09.2022 4:03 ↓

Ever wonder what’s beneath the Golden Gate Bridge and what it might have looked like thousands of years ago? Michael Ellis says it may have been very spectacular.

Marilyn Englander: Earworms 01.09.2022 4:02 ↓

Marilyn Englander suffers from those little snippets of music that get in your brain and won't leave.

Jessica O'Dwyer: I Am A Writer 31.08.2022 4:02 ↓

Jessica O'Dwyer's journey as a writer started with personal journals, a practice she still keeps. This piece originally aired May 3rd, 2022

Sandhya Acharya: It's OK to Scream 30.08.2022 4:03 ↓

Sandhya Acharya says that sometimes it's alright to let out a scream.