KQED's Perspectives

Vanessa Dueck: Swimming Episode 20.06.2022 3:25 ↓

Vanessa Dueck struggles to keep up with shifting notions of good parenting brought on by a shifting pandemic.

Deidre Green: Remembering My Father 17.06.2022 4:01 ↓

In observance of Father's Day, Deidre Green remembers her father.

Craig Isom: Asleep At The Wheel 15.06.2022 3:59 ↓

Craig Isom is paying dearly for his decision to replace one gas guzzler with another. 

Bryan Gillette: Putting a Bad Day in Perspective 14.06.2022 3:46 ↓

When things aren't going as planned and the hassles mount, Bryan Gillette looks for a little perspective. 

Peggy Hansen: Twilight Zone 10.06.2022 4:00 ↓

While human lives are upended, life is normal for the plants and creatures of Peggy Hansen's farm.

Paul Staley: The Marketplace of Ideas 09.06.2022 3:56 ↓

Paul Staley says the marketplace of ideas isn't the emporium of free thought it's cracked up to be.

Valerie Kirk: Protection 07.06.2022 3:54 ↓

Valerie Kirk doubts a gun would have protected her from the intruder that dark night.

Richard Swerdlow: Pride and Prejudice 06.06.2022 3:59 ↓

June is Pride month, and Richard Swerdlow celebrates unquestioned progress amid a wave of anti-LGBTQ laws and sentiment.

Michael Ellis: Butterflies of the Sea 03.06.2022 4:02 ↓

Michael Ellis wades into tidepools and finds one of his favorite creatures.

Marilyn Englander: A Perfect Vacation 02.06.2022 3:57 ↓

Marilyn Englander finds that travel to a wet environment is a perfect get-away for drought-stricken Californians.

Nirmy Kang: It Has Happened Again 01.06.2022 3:57 ↓

Another schoolhouse shooting, and Nirmy Kang says a familiar and predictable debate follows. 

Al Gilbert: A Job Interview Is An Audition 31.05.2022 4:02 ↓

Al Gilbert says the secret to a successful job interview is to realize it's not an interview.

Winston Tharp: To Doug 30.05.2022 3:50 ↓

It's Memorial Day and Winston Tharp has this tribute to a veteran whose promise was lost.

Christine Schoefer: Between the Pages 27.05.2022 4:02 ↓

Christine Schoefer discovers that the secrets held in books are not always the work of authors.

Hiwa Greig: SPAM 26.05.2022 3:54 ↓

For Maui-born Hiwa Greig spam has been a staple of their food and culture. But once they moved to Oakland, they realized folks hold a lot of preconceptions towards spam and those who eat it. This perspective was produced by YR Media.

Simone Green: The Value of Queer Art 25.05.2022 4:01 ↓

A poem in a volume pulled from a bookstore shelf, helps Simone Green navigate her journey of discovery.

Conor Hagen: Tasteless 24.05.2022 4:00 ↓

Taste and smell may be our senses most taken for granted, unless, that is, you’ve had COVID. Conor Hagen has this Perspective.

Vicki Larson: Women's 'Useful Life' 23.05.2022 3:58 ↓

Vicki Larson wonders why old notions that women are little more than child bearers persist.

Margaret Stawowy: A Huge Hole in the Safety Net 20.05.2022 3:59 ↓

Margaret Stawowy, like most, wanted to keep her mother in familiar surroundings when she began to decline. It was easier said than done.

Carol Arnold: Forest Bathing 19.05.2022 4:00 ↓

Feeling stressed out? A nice warm bath might help. But if that’s not practical, Carol Arnold can suggest a different kind of bath to soothe the anxious mind.

Craig Isom: On The Shoulders of a Giant 18.05.2022 3:58 ↓

Craig Isom says the recent black hole images developed by the Event Horizon Telescope are evidence of the profound genius of Albert Einstein.

Lane Parker: ASAP is a Four-Letter Word 13.05.2022 3:51 ↓

The world is full of doers, all busy and buzzing about just doing things, while the rest—people like Lane Parker—take a more measured approach, calmly weighing just when to do most anything.

Andrew Lewis: The New Mandate 12.05.2022 4:02 ↓

Andrew Lewis finds himself and many friends in the pandemic of the vaccinated. 

Jasmine Jaksic: More Than An Amenity 11.05.2022 3:59 ↓

Open space is essential to our well-being, whether it’s a high country wilderness or a patch of urban green. Jasmine Jaksic learns that a park is more than an amenity.

Paul Staley: Mutations 10.05.2022 3:51 ↓

Paul Staley says there's a whole lot of mutating going on.