Women's Issues

The State Senate Approved a Massive Anti-Abortion Bill

And there it is: late last night, the Senate approved SB 5, a massive set of abortion restrictions that combine all the worst parts of most every anti-abortion bill filed in the regular session of the legislature. Well, all the worst parts, with one notable exception: the bill's author, Republican S ... More >>

See ’Leezza Kegstand

Texas Freedom Network Poll: Most Texans Support Birth Control and Family Planning

Texas Freedom Network has a lot to be irritated about lately. TFN is a left-leaning advocacy group focusing on things like civil liberties, church-state separation and not wasting classroom hours teaching Texas schoolchildren that the Rapture is a rock-solid scientific inevitability. As you might ... More >>

At the Opening of a Houston Pregnancy Center, Rick Perry Pledges To Help "Make Abortion A Thing of the Past"

Governor Rick Perry, it may shock you to learn, is not such a big fan of abortion. Perry vowed some time ago to create a new, Texas-run version of the Women's Health Program, one that would ban doctors from discussing or "promoting" abortion with their patients. It would also explicitly bar Planned ... More >>

Fluke Ain't No Floozy

Appeals Court Says Planned Parenthood Can Be Banned From the Women's Health Program, Rick Perry Rejoices

Texas' game of women's health pingpong continues. A panel of judges from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a preliminary injunction yesterday that had allowed Planned Parenthood to remain in the Medicaid Women's Health Program. In other words, PP is out. Again. The nonprofit was boote ... More >>

Beautiful Pores Trump Feminism

Americans United For Life: Texas Is Pleasingly Abortion-Unfriendly, But It Could Do Better

Americans United For Life, one of the nation's largest anti-abortion advocacy groups, has released its annual report, Defending Life 2012, complete with an enthusiastic blurb from Governor Rick Perry. On the whole, they seem very pleased with Texas and its "aggressive legislative action" to restrict ... More >>

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison Leads Republicans In Calling For An "Alternative" Violence Against Women Act

On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate began debating the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act, which is largely backed by Senate Democrats, and discussing its Republican alternative, authored by Chuck Grassley of Iowa and our own Kay Bailey Hutchison. In preparation for that debate, Hutchison took to t ... More >>

One Man's (Somewhat Frantic and Almost Failed) Hunt for Emergency Contraceptive

One night late last year, Jason Melbourne walked into a CVS pharmacy in Mesquite, hoping against hope to walk out with an emergency contraceptive, or "the morning-after pill." It wasn't the morning after. He and his wife had their "accident" a few days before, and the 72-hour window in which EC is m ... More >>

From the Ladies, For the Ladies

The Big Change

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 >>

Ladies Night, All Month Long

Choose Your Choice, Choose Your Sno-Cone Tomorrow Night At La Grange Tweet-Up

facebook.com/lagrangedallasSee you and your free-wheeling ladyparts here, tomorrow night.​Do you like delicious cocktails? Do you like reproductive freedom? Do you want to drink delicious cocktails while celebrating reproductive freedom? If the answer to these questions is yes, you'll want to be a ... More >>

Lady Blues

The Gloria's Agenda

It's All Right to Stare

Hot Stage Flash

Tryst And Shout

Gender On A Bun

Let your eyes bite into a Manwich

Drawing On The Past

The Women's Museum displays Allender

Hot Flash, Stage Left

Stage Flashes

See Menopause The Musical

UNT FMLA presents V-Day Benefit Show with The Demigs, The Cut*Off and others

Thursday, February 7, at Rubber Gloves, Denton

Children of Dallas, Keep Your Bra Straps To Yourselves

Girls Gone Mild

Wasserstein's American Daughter soft-pedals feminism; interruptions cut short visit to A Small Planet

Magpies Wanted

Lisa Bevere Fights Like a Girl

Title Nein!

Equal rights shouldn't constitute unequal results

Ladies of the Page

Chick Lit and its creators come to local readers

Equal Rights Stuff

See the women who fought for your rights at the Women's Museum

Madame Ovary

No Kathy, no Mo no mo', but Parallel Lives still proves feminist humor's not an oxymoron

Good Girls

Ladyfest Biblebelt is smarty and arty

Where the Boys Are

It's a man's world at Plano-based Rent-A-Center, a lawsuit alleges

Tiger Trap

With so many other things to ask Le Tigre about, who's got time for music?

Women's Work

Christine Bisetto and Helen Altman overcome the trappings of gender to tackle bigger issues

How the Grinch Stole Feminism

A collection of Texas artists hits the trifecta of bad feminist art

Black like him

Despite the Starr report's dirty details, Paula Jones' case against the nation's "first black president" hinges as much on race as on sex

Alive and kicking

The Jones Boys

How a troupe of button-down Dallas lawyers breathed life into Jones vs. Clinton and found themselves the nation's most unlikely feminist heroes

Choosing sides

The race for judge in Dallas' domestic-violence court raises questions of bias

Events for the week

Women, on the verge

Studios and audiences are embracing an overdue trend: female-empowerment films

Events for the week

Buzz

Events for the week

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

It's a woman's world

Reflecting on the anniversary of woman suffrage in America

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