Women's Issues

Feministing's Jessica Valenti on Accessible Medical Care And Not Resting On Your Laurels

Feministing founder Jessica Valenti will have a lot to talk about Monday when she speaks at the annual Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Roe v. Wade Luncheon. There's the fortieth anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court case, plus the news this week that the Pentagon has removed the ban on women servi ... More >>

Roe v. Wade, 40 Years On: Rick Perry Still Carries The Battle Flag

The 40th anniversary of Roe v Wade is not so much a time of celebration, Rep. Donna Howard told a small crowd on the south steps of the Capitol this morning, as it was a look at the progress towards healthy women and healthy communities. Some of that, liberal lawmakers predict, is likely to erode t ... More >>

Political Animals: Abortion Politics

Rick Perry and the Source for Women: Trust Us With Your Uter-us!

Rick Perry and the Source for Women: Trust Us With Your Uter-us!

Governor Rick Perry couldn't have made it any clearer during a press conference at a Christian-based health clinic Tuesday: "My goal, and the goal of many of those joining me here today is to make abortion at any stage a thing of the past." Perry was pushing the so-called "Pre-Born Pain Bill," a bi ... More >>

Double Dare Ya: Author Sara Marcus Looks Beyond Riot Grrrl

To many, the term "Riot Grrrl" evokes images of impassioned, barrette-clad girls shrieking into microphones, the word "SLUT" scrawled across their bare bellies in magic marker. Those images are mostly accurate -- but more notably, the Riot Grrrl movement of the early '90s carries a passionate story ... More >>

Power Players

The feminist artwork on view at the CAMH isn't as dated as it should be.

Thelma & Louise

CVS: No Birth Control

Won't sell morning-after pill

CVS: No Birth Control

Won't sell morning-after pill to man.

CVS Refused To Sell Man A Morning-After Pregnancy Pill

No Plan B for you, dude​If you keep a Plan B morning-after pill around for emergencies, sometimes it's going to get used, which means you're going to have to go get a new one, right? And if you're a chivalrous dude, you'll offer to do the chore yourself. That's what Isaac Kurtz set out to do ... More >>

Celebrating Women in Baseball While Forgetting Anita Martini

The Hall's Women in Baseball Exhibit ignores a very important woman.​While on the Houston Aeros beat a couple of weeks ago, I had the chance to travel to Binghamton, New York, for the Calder Cup Finals. There's not much to Binghamton, but about an hour and a half away, nestled amongst a beauti ... More >>

Calling All Sluts

Time to fight back

Voters to Representatives: Get Out Of My Uterus And Do Your Job

CFS? Yes. Reproductive rights? No.​On the day after the Texas Senate passed a bill requiring women to undergo mandatory transvaginal sonograms before getting an abortion, and on the same day the Lege passed a resolution celebrating Chicken Fried Steak Day (not kidding), the resounding call fro ... More >>

Planned Parenthood: Punched in the Uterus by Misguided Texas Senate

More bad news for women who rely on Planned Parenthood.​A Texas Senate subcommittee wrangled the vulvas of Texas women into a chokehold yesterday with its latest assault on Planned Parenthood. Republican Senator Robert Deuell, who is a physician, introduced a bill to a three-member subcommitte ... More >>

"Judy Chicago: Setting the Table"

Women Would Rather Spend Money on Shoes than Food, and Other Things I Learned Today

Well...problem solved.​"Well, I learned something new today!" exclaimed my friend Jessica Walters as I met up with her after a panel at today's Houston Summit for the Creative Economy. "Women cause diabetes!" She laughed, but we both agreed that the moral of the story from the panel had been r ... More >>

Pee Your Pants at the Hobby Center

Change of life, change of roles​In an odd, yet somehow appropriate exhortation given the context, actress Megan Cavanagh, who stars as Earth Mother in Menopause the Musical coming to the Hobby Center next week, says audiences should see the show because: "It'll make you laugh so hard you'll pee yo ... More >>

"Flickerlounge: Short Works by Dara Greenwald"

Video artist exposes her left wing with found and staged works

Gossip Girls

The Veronicas aren't exactly what Gloria Steinem had in mind.

Remembering Bettie Page

Yesterday in Los Angeles, pin-up icon Bettie Page succumbed to complications from a heart attack suffered almost three weeks ago. She was 85. Few women in modern history have incited such lust and reverence in men and women alike. To the rockabilly culture, she embodied the ideal woman - voluptuo ... More >>

Alleged KBR Rape Victim Sues the U.S.

Nellie McKay

Songstress sweetens bitter issues with peppy pop

Lifting the Veil

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy shows us the lives of women in Afghanistan

American Psycho

Before he was Batman, Bale was Bateman

Gloria Steinem

America’s leading feminist looks at the future of women’s rights

Miss Pop Rocks: Lucy Noland…meow

Bikini Revolution

UH student Mariyah Moten put on a two-piece and became (in)famous in Pakistan

Behind the Scenes of a Conference Call

Pampered Philanthropy

Simian Satire

Artsy feminists go ape

Chromosome Challenge

Cha Cha Sisterhood

Sassy Latinas and big hair are at the center of Maria Elena Fernandez's one-woman coming-of-age show

Time Warp

Four bands bring the '70s back to town

A Side of Grits

Know how to mix the perfect mint julep? Let Deborah Ford give you a lesson in Southern ways

Wiley Has Issues

Bet you can't look away from "Bongo Jane" Wiley

Ave Maria

Four years formed strong bonds here for a lesbian activist

The Feminine Mystique

Theater LaB's two-woman cast wrings all the humor and pathos from the feminist hit The Kathy & Mo Show

Tea and Strumpets

If feminism is dead, we don't care for its legacy: A choice between lunching or lapdancing

Coming Out

Gay domestic violence is a dirty little secret that traps victims with nowhere to turn

The Insider

Where Have All the Women Gone? Discrimination charges spotlight UH's lack of female leadership

Circle Those Wagons!

When the UH leader fired back atsex-bias accusers, did he shoot himself in the foot?

Too Much for Words

Return of the One-Man Mob

The Insider

An Up-the-Hill Battle

Jack and Jill asks whether a woman can find love without losing herself

Helter Shelter

At the Women Helping Women shelter, battered women got the runaround. They got treated like second-class citizens. They got evicted. What they didn't get was help.

Female Troubles

A dumb cartoon illustrates women lawyers' problems with the State Bar

Comedy with Character

Mamet Goes to College

At the Alley, Oleanna probes the anatomy of harassment