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Women's Issues

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2012

    New Film Miss Representation Explains Why The Women's Movement Has Stagnated. See a Free Screening.

    You've probably seen the photo (above) pinging around the Internet recently of the panel of old men making some pretty important decisions about women's health in the ongoing fracas about contraception. Here are five men sitting at the power table, while the women watch, waiting for a decision that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2012

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    December 8, 2011

    From the Ladies, For the Ladies

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    September 15, 2011

    The Big Change

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2011

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    March 17, 2011

    Ladies Night, All Month Long

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2011

    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 >>

  • Culture

    November 25, 2010

    Kitchen Dog's Tina Parker puts the shine on Charm; gods are not great at Theatre Too's Tales From Mount Olympus.

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    June 3, 2010

    Lady Blues

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    March 18, 2010

    The Gloria's Agenda

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    January 28, 2010

    It's All Right to Stare

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    November 5, 2009

    Play Dead

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    August 27, 2009

    Hot Stage Flash

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    January 1, 2009

    Tryst And Shout

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    November 27, 2008

    Gender On A Bun

    Let your eyes bite into a Manwich

  • Calendar

    August 14, 2008

    Drawing On The Past

    The Women's Museum displays Allender

  • Calendar

    July 31, 2008

    Hot Flash, Stage Left

    The Women's Museum displays Allender

  • Calendar

    February 28, 2008

    Stage Flashes

    See Menopause The Musical

  • Music

    February 7, 2008
  • Blogs

    October 23, 2007

    Children of Dallas, Keep Your Bra Straps To Yourselves

    Thursday, February 7, at Rubber Gloves, Denton

  • Music

    March 22, 2007

    Northern State, Polyphonic Spree

    Saturday, March 24, at Riprocks, Denton

  • Culture

    March 22, 2007

    Girls Gone Mild

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

  • Calendar

    February 1, 2007

    Magpies Wanted

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

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2006

    Lisa Bevere Fights Like a Girl

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

  • Calendar

    February 23, 2006

    Because She's Worth It

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

  • News

    December 22, 2005

    Title Nein!

    Equal rights shouldn't constitute unequal results

  • Calendar

    November 10, 2005

    Ladies of the Page

    Chick Lit and its creators come to local readers

  • Calendar

    August 4, 2005

    Equal Rights Stuff

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

  • Culture

    April 21, 2005

    Madame Ovary

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

  • Calendar

    September 30, 2004

    Good Girls

    Ladyfest Biblebelt is smarty and arty

  • Music

    May 6, 2004
  • News

    April 3, 2003

    Just Kidding

    Plus: Checkup; Ch-ch-changes

  • News

    March 7, 2002

    Where the Boys Are

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

  • Music

    February 28, 2002

    Tiger Trap

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

  • Culture

    September 27, 2001

    Women's Work

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

  • Culture

    December 14, 2000

    How the Grinch Stole Feminism

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

  • Culture

    January 28, 1999

    The lesbian brain

    Great acting saves Echo Theatre's Body from becoming a short course on feminist studies

  • News

    October 8, 1998

    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

  • Calendar

    October 1, 1998

    Alive and kicking

    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

  • News

    April 2, 1998

    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

  • News

    March 5, 1998

    Choosing sides

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

  • Calendar

    October 31, 1996

    Events for the week

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

  • Film

    May 2, 1996

    Women, on the verge

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

  • Calendar

    April 25, 1996

    Events for the week

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

  • News

    January 18, 1996

    Buzz

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

  • Calendar

    October 19, 1995

    Events for the week

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

  • Film

    October 19, 1995

    Joe Bob Briggs

    Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

  • News

    September 7, 1995

    It's a woman's world

    Reflecting on the anniversary of woman suffrage in America

  • News

    May 18, 1995

    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

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