Sexual and Reproductive Health

Worth the Wait, DISD's Potential New Sex Ed Curriculum, Teaches Some Really Weird Stuff

This year, a group of parents and administrators at the Dallas Independent School District embarked on pretty much the most thankless task there is: finding a new sex ed curriculum for the district's students. The job is thankless in large part because no matter what they do, someone's going to get ... More >>

After Family Planning Cuts, More Than 17,000 Dallas County Women Lost Access to Care

In 2011, as we just cannot seem to stop mentioning, your state legislators cut $73 million from the state's family planning budget, instituted a tiered funding system designed to give family planning clinics any federal dollars dead last, and launched a weird war on the Medicaid Women's Health Progr ... More >>

In Never-Ending Battle Between Texas and Planned Parenthood, Judge Says PP Can Be Blocked From New Women's Health Program

For those of you who have been following the ongoing, never-ending, multi-court battle of Texas vs. Planned Parenthood, we'll make this quick: Planned Parenthood is out of the Texas Women's Health Program. Again. For now. Now, let's all heave a huge collective sigh and revisit the longer version ... More >>

Texas Finally Realizes Where Babies Come From, May Restore Family Planning Money

Last legislative session, your lawmakers in the Texas Legislature cut $73.6 million from the state's family planning budget, a move which, impressively, has somehow resulted in far fewer patients being served, for more money per patient. Don't ask us how they managed that one. As Emily Ramshaw writ ... More >>

How to Survive a Plague Recounts a Stirring History of ACT UP

Ex-Komen VP Karen Handel is Writing a Memoir Called "Planned Bullyhood"

Karen Handel is back, and she's bringing 304 pages with her. Susan G. Komen For The Cure's ex-vice president of public policy, who resigned in February after an enormous flap over Komen's attempt to pull its funding from Planned Parenthood, is writing a tell-all, to be published in September by Howa ... More >>

Texas Can't Kick Planned Parenthood Out of the WHP After All, Appeals Court Says

Earlier this week, Judge Jerry Smith of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked a preliminary injunction that kept Texas from kicking Planned Parenthood out of the Women's Health Program. It looked as though that was the first step toward a decision allowing Texas to keep Planned Parenthood out ... More >>

Judge: Texas Can Kick Planned Parenthood Out of the Women's Health Program

When we said yesterday Planned Parenthood could remain part of the Texas's Medicaid Women's Health Program "for now," we didn't know "now" would last less than 24 hours. A Fifth Circuit appeals judge has overturned yesterday's preliminary injunction blocking Texas from kicking Planned Parenthood o ... More >>

Texas Alliance For Life Executive Director Not Sure Why No One Is "Cheering For Rick Perry"

Pro-life groups in Texas are in an awkward position these days, as the Medicaid Women's Health Program fights for its life. On one hand, they celebrate anything that they perceive as a blow to Planned Parenthood (which Catholic Pro-Life Committee of North Texas Executive Director Karen Garnett once ... More >>

As Brinker Tries to Explain Komen's Split From Planned Parenthood, an Inside Account

As you know by now, locally based Susan G. Komen for the Cure has cut off its funding to Planned Parenthood, meaning it'll no longer help pay for mammograms for women who can't afford them; why, there's Nancy Brinker herself above, attempting to explain Komen's "new granting strategies" concerning i ... More >>

How One Man's Witch Hunt Made Komen Decide to Cut Off Grants to Planned Parenthood

Perhaps you've heard by now: The Dallas-based Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation (don't bother clicking the link; the site's not loading) will no longer be giving grant money to Planned Parenthood, a move Planned Parenthood of North Texas says comes after "anti-women's health groups have repeate ... More >>

World AIDS Day to Wrap Up With Speeches Downtown and a Service at Cathedral of Hope

​The World AIDS Day broadcast from D.C., featuring the likes of Presidents Clinton, Dubya and Obama alongside Bono and Alicia Keyes, is livestreaming here. Tune in for "the beginning of the end," a reference to breaking news that researchers are now a little bit closer to an AIDS vaccine. Tonight ... More >>

Great Use for a Festivus Pole

The (2015) Quilt is Warming Hearts on World AIDS Day

Today is World AIDS Day and just one of the ways we're observing the 30th anniversary of AIDS -- an issue important to many of us here at the Mixmaster, in the Dallas arts community, and, of course, everywhere -- is creating our own little panel on the digital (2015) Quilt, sponsored by One and (Red ... More >>

My, How This Crisis is Growing

The End of Family Planning in Texas

They say they defunded Planned Parenthood. But lawmakers' attack on family planning will cost Texas money, reduce access to healthcare and result in even more abortions.

Rick Perry's Manufactured Miracle

Rick Perry's Texas is a job-making, low-taxing oasis of prosperity. It's also pure fantasy.

Deuell Language: Planned Parenthood Says Politics Messing With Women's Health Care

Bob Deuell​The state Senate Committee on Health and Human Services voted yesterday in favor of a bill that would renew the Women's Health Program, a Medicaid-funded program that provides basic women's health care. It was set to expire this year unless the Lege took action, but now that it has the ... More >>

Running Scared

No Tie, No Problem

Don't Blow It|Cookie Monsters|Our Bad|Risky Business

The Rap Up: Nothing To Lose (But Ignorance) At Hip Hop for HIV

Tony Romo and His Pops Are Out to Tackle Prostate Cancer

Puscifer

"V" Is for Vagina (Puscifer Entertainment)

Part of the Heard

Ringing Up Baby

Cashing in on the adoption biz is easy in Texas, where lax rules let almost anyone play. Take Jennalee Ryan, for instance...

Cha(Red)able

Be entertained for a good cause

No Dallas, But, Maybe, Dallas Buyer's Club

Magic Man

Closet Case

With The Normal Heart, Uptown Players find gentle new beats in angry drama

Stage Epidemic

Aim right

The effective liberal

Blue, New and Borrowed

Mighty and Young No More

Plus: Time To Talk; Only Rock and Roll

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Gay Caballeros

Inside the secret world of Dallas' mayates

Dear Santa

A certain state representative needs some coal in his stocking

Jean Genie

Join the "Evolution"

Wine 'n' Dine

Toast the Resource Center

Vanity Plates

The perfect gift for the pet that has--ahem--almost everything

Viva V-Day

SMU and UNT present The Vagina Monologues

Naughty Bits

It's just a word, right?

Death on tap

Cryptosporidium kills AIDS victims in Dallas. Who will the pathogen claim next?

Just don't call them nelly guys

In a town that knows cheerleading, folks are flipping for a relentlessly upbeat gay squad

Boy meets boy...

Playwright Paul Rudnick discusses the long journey to Jeffrey

A touch of class

Safe-sex activist promotes "designer" condom vending machines

Charlotte's Web

At the Routh Street Women's Clinic, Charlotte Taft created a controversial feminist enclave and waged war with anti-abortion zealots. Then she questioned her movement's gospeland it all fell apart

Events for the week

Bad lawyer joke

'Tort reform' is a misleading euphemism--an excusefor insurance companies to gouge more

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX