KQED's Perspectives

Leticia Monroy: There Is No Perfect Child 06.05.2021 4:14 ↓

Leticia Monroy juggles work, school and her young child's early learning challenges.

Ali Shah: America, The Super League 05.05.2021 4:19 ↓

Ali Shah says the failure of a proposed soccer super league is a rare defeat for American-style elitism.

Alice Chen: Other 04.05.2021 4:12 ↓

Alice Chen says anti-Asian racism is all about excluding Asian Americans as "other."

Kevin Cool: More Than a Poker Game 03.05.2021 4:17 ↓

The resumption of Kevin Cool's poker game is at hand. It's about time.

Olive Savoie: That’s So Gay 30.04.2021 4:17 ↓

Olive Savoie stands up to her peers when they utter a bigoted phrase.

Luke Thomas: Turning Emotions Into Art 29.04.2021 4:09 ↓

YR Media's Luke Thomas experienced the year of the pandemic through the lens of a camera.

Kimberly Higareda: Not Ready For Real Life 28.04.2021 4:06 ↓

Teenager Kimberly Higareda feels pressured to take on responsibilities she may not be ready for.

Karen Chau: You Only Live Once 27.04.2021 4:06 ↓

Teenager Karen Chau says the pandemic has taught her to treasure opportunities from the mundane to the exceptional.

Alina Jafri: Ms Marvel 26.04.2021 4:18 ↓

Alina Jafri finds a role model in a comic book.

Michael Ellis: The Deserts of California 23.04.2021 4:16 ↓

Michael Ellis tours the three types of desert in California.

Laura Weil: How We Die 22.04.2021 4:09 ↓

Laura Weil says the pandemic has made us look at everything differently, including how we die.

Sandhya Acharya: End In Sight 21.04.2021 4:11 ↓

Sandhya Acharya looks at the year of the pandemic and considers what she will miss and what she won't.

Paul Staley: The Un-Birthday 20.04.2021 3:56 ↓

Paul Staley celebrates the day before his birthday as a reminder that he’ll spend far more time not in this world than in it.

Jaime Flores: Keeping Youth Out of Jail 19.04.2021 4:15 ↓

Jaime Flores advocates for supportive programs to keep young people out of jail.

Dorothy O’Donnell: Too Old For the Hiking Group 16.04.2021 4:12 ↓

The email that told Dorothy O'Donnell she was too old for the hiking group surprised her. Then it made her angry.

Charlotte Sivanich: Financial Literacy for Students 15.04.2021 4:16 ↓

Charlotte Sivanich says too few students are taught financial literacy and many never learn.

Lane Parker: Listen To Your Plants 14.04.2021 4:10 ↓

Can plants talk to us? Lane Parker says science fact is meeting science fiction.

Vanessa Dueck: Back to School 13.04.2021 4:11 ↓

As schools cautiously begin to reopen, Vanessa Dueck and her young children are ready for a taste of normal.

Margie O’Driscoll: A Changing San Francisco 12.04.2021 4:17 ↓

Margie O'Driscoll set out to observe how the pandemic has changed San Francisco.

Larry Jin Lee: Return to Angel Island 09.04.2021 4:19 ↓

Angel Island graces San Francisco Bay, but its buildings house one of the darkest times in American immigration history, when Chinese, even Chinese American citizens, were subjected to harsh discrimination. Larry Jin Lee has this Perspective. I have not been on Angel Island since I was a teenager and a visit was long overdue. But I was not fully aware back then of the historical significance of An...

Debbie Duncan: Every Shot Is a Story 08.04.2021 4:13 ↓

More than three million Americans are getting vaccinated each day, and Debbie Duncan says each shot is a story.

Deidre Silverman: An Encounter With Bees 07.04.2021 4:16 ↓

Deidre Silverman encounters a wondrous swarm of bees on a simple walk near her home.

Tracy Coté: Presence 06.04.2021 4:16 ↓

Hiring managers say they’re looking for something called ‘presence’. Tracy Cote says it’s code for ‘just like me’.

Avery Grant: The Strength of Silence 05.04.2021 4:10 ↓

Avery Grant says the quiet voices are often the ones most worth listening to.

Sarah Javier: Erased 01.04.2021 3:59 ↓

Racism thrives on ignorance of the history that isn’t taught is history erased. Sarah Javier has this Perspective. Patriotism was plentiful in my childhood as a Filipino-American U.S. Navy brat. But despite how American I was, I often felt like a foreigner in my conservative Southern hometown. I thought things would change once I moved to the Bay, where I was finally surrounded by people who looke...