Built by Women, for Women

Women's community center provides resources, meeting space

"...gathering space is essential to all communities, but particularly for those historically marginalized. Surprisingly, Austin was missing a one-stop-shop..."

July 24, 2015 News Feature by Jessi Cape

Texas Planned Parenthood Supporters Decry New Rules for Women's Health Program

But state plans to move forward without PP

"...Supporters of the current Women's Health Program expressed concern yesterday that new rules for..."

Sept. 5, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Millions for Propaganda ... Nothing for Women's Health

Texas heavily underwrites anti-abortion centers, while slashing reproductive care

"...right, a basket full of free pocket-size Bibles and Christ-centered booklets; to your left, as you enter Austin LifeCare,..."

April 17, 2015 News Feature by Mary Tuma

New Coalition to Push for Women's Health

A group of heavy-hitters steps up to the plate

"...under way, serious questions persist about the future of women's health care funding – and there's a new player..."

Feb. 1, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

A Tough Year for Women Online

But is Internet culture moving in the right direction?

"...from "real life" to online. What is particularly, notably unfortunate is how easy the Internet makes sexual harassment, stalking,..."

March 13, 2015 Screens Feature by Amy Kamp

The Texas Conference for Women Turns 20 With Expanded Programming

Megan Rapinoe, Tracee Ellis Ross to keynote nonprofit, nonpartisan networking event

"...Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the Texas Conference for Women returns to the Austin Convention Center next week..."

Oct. 18, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Industry Advocates Women in Animation Open Austin Chapter

Rooster Teeth, Powerhouse pledge to support women's careers

"...a local chapter of the industry's biggest advocacy group for women...."

April 24, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

COP25: Women as Agents of Change in the Climate Crisis

VIDEO: Increasing the role of women in climate change mitigation

"...As the world’s eyes turn to Madrid for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, Austin-based Texas Interfaith..."

Dec. 9, 2019 News Post

"Rosie's Law" Takes Bold Stand for Choice, Women's Health

Sheryl Cole's bill would cover abortion care for Medicaid enrollees

"...rep’s bold House Bill 895 would expand abortion care for women enrolled in the state’s Medicaid program...."

Feb. 15, 2019 News Post by Mary Tuma

A New Jail for Travis County?

County moves forward with new women's building despite vote to delay and community outcry

"...and her privacy disappear. She knows what it's like for her pregnant body to ache on a thin jail..."

Sept. 7, 2018 News Feature by Lindsay Stafford Mader

Amplify Austin 2015: Centered Women

How the Women's Community Center keeps it all together

"...Texas women and girls are strong, but we sure have had..."

March 4, 2015 Chronolog Post by Julie Gillis

Jumping the Shark on Women's Health

For the sake of anti-abortion politics, the governor and the Legislature turned their backs on women's health care – with disastrous consequences. Is there any way to fix this mess?

"...In mid-December, before a friendly crowd at the Source for Women, a..."

Jan. 18, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Will Women Have a Voice at the New Women's Hospital?

Issues of choice and midwifery still perplex women using Brack's hospital-within-a-hospital.

"...not inclined to raise a public ruckus, even if their livelihoods are threatened by the loss of hospital privileges...."

Nov. 14, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Consider 'The Source': Crisis Pregnancy Center Transforms Into Women's Health Program Provider

If Planned Parenthood's out, are CPCs in?

"...As the state rolls out its revised Texas Women's Health Program, a central question remains: how to find..."

Sept. 21, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Trapped and the War on Women's Health Care

Doc highlights impact of anti-choice laws in the South

"...“Unfortunately, we have to turn this young girl away …..."

March 11, 2016 SXSW Post by Mary Tuma

"Inside/Outside: Work by Texas Women Photographers"

The Women & Their Work exhibition "Inside / Outside: Work by Texas Women Photographers" finds established Texas artists alongside newcomers, and what this important exhibit reveals are new and older generations in step with one another, the future and the past side by side.

"..."Inside/Outside" is an important exhibit for Women & Their Work -- it is a stamp..."

March 7, 2003 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola

Report: Anti-Abortion Law Forces Women to Wait Longer for Procedure

Some Austin women forced to wait up to 20 days for abortion

"...effects of abortion-restrictive law, House Bill 2, on Texas women continues to pile up. But the willingness of anti-choice..."

Oct. 5, 2015 News Post by Mary Tuma

Women Fight for Abortion Access at Texas Supreme Court

What exactly does “life-threatening” mean?

"...A group of women whose lives were endangered by Texas’ ban on abortion..."

Nov. 29, 2023 News Post by Brant Bingamon

It's a Wage Shortage – Not a Labor Shortage – and It Disproportionately Affects Women and Persons of Color

It's a complicated economic situation, but one easy solution is increasing pay for restaurant workers

"...If you type "restaurant workers" into any search engine, the revved up reckoning of..."

May 28, 2021 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Women Dig In

The contractors' boycott against Planned Parenthood won a battle, but it's a long war.

"...White and South Congress, where all that visibly remains, for the moment, is a chain-link fence giving way to..."

Dec. 5, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Women on Top

The risks and rewards of being a woman in Austin's high tech world

"...Few women would mistake the high tech industry, circa 2000, for..."

Nov. 24, 2000 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Texas Abortion Advocates Sue for Reproductive Rights

Manning new battle lines in the fight for legal abortion

"...Texas are manning new battle lines in the fight for legal abortion. With Roe v. Wade overruled, they're working..."

Dec. 15, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Group Calls for Legislative Action to Address Texas’ High Maternal Mortality Rate for Black Women

Black Mamas Community Collective says, “We must do better.”

"...Roughly 700 women in the United States die each year from pregnancy-related..."

Feb. 26, 2019 News Post by Alex Puente

The Texas Hammer: Women’s Health and Reproductive Rights

It's a war on women's health

"...funds locally and spent years decimating the family planning network, leaving women's health care in crisis...."

March 17, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Is Women's Media Too Girly?

Nail art and the "woman-child": Postfeminism in action at SXSW 2013

"...Sunday morning, Margaret Johnson, editor of HuffPost Women, moderated a panel that posed the question, “Is Women’s..."

March 10, 2013 SXSW Post by Melanie Haupt

The Quest for Aztlan

Roen Salinas Searches for -- and Finds -- Life in Folklórico

"...photograph by Kenny Braun..."

April 24, 1998 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

State Cuts Medicaid for Planned Parenthood

State claims "misconduct" in undercover, dubious sting videos

"...Greg Abbott announced the state will end Medicaid enrollment for Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers...."

Oct. 19, 2015 News Post by Mary Tuma

Fifth Circuit Abortion Ruling Harms Women

Closings, tears, and outrage for women and providers at Texas clinics

"...tears at Planned Parenthood's South Austin clinic this morning – from both patients and providers – as hundreds of..."

Nov. 1, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

Coalition to Advocate for Increased Family Planning Funding

Full funding will increase state savings

"...under way, serious questions persist about the future of women's health care funding – and there's a new player..."

Jan. 25, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

Federal Judge Blocks Fetal Burial Rule … For Now

Anti-choice rule will not go into effect Dec. 19

"...A draconian rule that would force women to bury or cremate their fetus after an..."

Dec. 15, 2016 News Post by Mary Tuma

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