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Women's Issues

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2012

    Rick Perry's War with Planned Parenthood Goes Too Far, Texans Say In Poll

    Rick Perry's plan to bar Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers from the state's Women's Health Program may be red meat to the religious right stirred up over the current contraception wars, but it's not too popular with Texans, a new poll shows. Public Policy Polling's new survey shows 55 ... More >>

  • Culture

    February 23, 2012

    Power Players

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

  • Calendar

    February 9, 2012

    Thelma & Louise

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

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2012

    Texas's Sonogram Law Gets New Lease on Life

    The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the temporary injunction on Texas's so-called sonogram law, clearing the way for abortion providers to enforce the new mandate. The law, championed by Senator Dan Patrick, requires a sonogram whenever a woman seeks an abortion. The law requires the wom ... More >>

  • News

    January 5, 2012

    CVS: No Birth Control

    Won't sell morning-after pill

  • News

    December 29, 2011

    CVS: No Birth Control

    Won't sell morning-after pill to man.

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    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 >>

  • News

    June 2, 2011

    Calling All Sluts

    Time to fight back

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    March 3, 2011

    "Judy Chicago: Setting the Table"

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    April 29, 2010

    "Flickerlounge: Short Works by Dara Greenwald"

    Video artist exposes her left wing with found and staged works

  • Music

    June 18, 2009

    Gossip Girls

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

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2008

    Alleged KBR Rape Victim Sues the U.S.

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    July 31, 2008

    Nellie McKay

    Songstress sweetens bitter issues with peppy pop

  • Calendar

    April 10, 2008

    Lifting the Veil

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

  • Calendar

    April 3, 2008

    American Psycho

    Before he was Batman, Bale was Bateman

  • Calendar

    September 13, 2007

    Gloria Steinem

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

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2007

    Miss Pop Rocks: Lucy Noland…meow

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

  • News

    January 11, 2007

    Bikini Revolution

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

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2006

    Behind the Scenes of a Conference Call

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

  • Calendar

    June 15, 2006

    Pampered Philanthropy

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

  • Calendar

    February 9, 2006

    Simian Satire

    Artsy feminists go ape

  • Calendar

    February 9, 2006

    Chromosome Challenge

    Artsy feminists go ape

  • Calendar

    September 15, 2005

    Cha Cha Sisterhood

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

  • Calendar

    October 2, 2003

    Time Warp

    Four bands bring the '70s back to town

  • Calendar

    May 1, 2003

    A Side of Grits

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

  • Calendar

    July 25, 2002

    Wiley Has Issues

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

  • News

    November 1, 2001

    Down at the Boardwalk

    A couple's claim against Landry's -- was it bawdy behavior or veiled blackmail?

  • News

    May 31, 2001

    Ave Maria

    Four years formed strong bonds here for a lesbian activist

  • Culture

    November 16, 2000

    The Feminine Mystique

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

  • News

    June 22, 2000

    Tea and Strumpets

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

  • News

    October 21, 1999

    Coming Out

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

  • News

    July 15, 1999

    The Insider

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

  • News

    July 1, 1999

    Circle Those Wagons!

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

  • Culture

    June 10, 1999

    Too Much for Words

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

  • News

    May 14, 1998

    Return of the One-Man Mob

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

  • News

    November 27, 1997

    The Insider

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

  • Culture

    September 25, 1997

    An Up-the-Hill Battle

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

  • News

    July 31, 1997

    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.

  • News

    November 28, 1996

    The Insider

    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.

  • News

    February 2, 1995

    Female Troubles

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

  • Culture

    June 9, 1994

    Comedy with Character

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

  • Culture

    April 28, 1994

    Mamet Goes to College

    At the Alley, Oleanna probes the anatomy of harassment

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