Summer Fun

The H2Hos take their renegade feminism to Austin's pools and beyond

"...distinctly to "make people feel good," these self-declared "renegade feminists" each work from a specific political perspective. Glickman sees..."

May 14, 2004 Features Feature by Nora Ankrum

In Person

"Cvetkovich opened by blasting Le Tigre's punk jam 'Keep on Livin'' from the overhead speakers, then led the audience in yogic chanting," writes Abe Louise Young of the UT professor and literary / social critic's April 25 Book Woman appearance. "'Partly this is about survival, and breath is critical to survival,' she said, bringing the audience to a deep, vibratory tonal convergence that reminded me of Annie Sprinkle's 'group energy orgasm' with a literary tilt."

"...surrounding trauma and shines a light on punk music; feminist performance art; the writings of such no-bullshit icons as..."

May 2, 2003 Books Feature by Abe Louise Young

Women's Work Is Never Done

Started in 1978 as a grassroots feminist arts collaborative, Women & Their Work has evolved into an Austin institution, which has survived collapsing economies and shifts in location and mission to become one of the city's premier visual arts spaces.

"...is, indeed, neither. Started in 1978 as a grassroots feminist arts collaborative, Women & Their Work has evolved into..."

March 7, 2003 Arts Feature by Sarah Hepola

Using the F Word: A Commentary On Feminism

In the nine choreographed dance-theatre pieces that make up Using the F-Word, REALMdanceproject fashions a collaborative yet tenaciously personal portrait of feminism.

"...pops into your head when you hear the word "feminist?" Someone with an uncanny resemblance to Britney Spears? Someone..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Arts Review by Skipper Chong Warson

Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World

"...not belong to any theoretical school. She is a feminist by virtue of believing in the value of the..."

May 5, 2000 Books Review by Stacy Bush

You Are What You Art

"...reconstruct Lippard -- author of some two dozen books, feminist, political activist, and art critic -- from the available..."

July 11, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

Writer/Folklorist Kay TurnerBetween Us

"...that I come from. I've been doing lesbian and feminist activism for 25 years almost. That's at the root..."

Jan. 17, 1997 Books Feature by Robin Bradford

Anime, Activism, and Aerodynamics in This Weekend’s Recommended Events

Arts and culture abound!

"...prince, a corrupted boar, a godly Forest Spirit, a feminist captain of industry, a human girl raised by wolves,..."

April 4, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

SXSW Film Review: Assembly

Doc suggests AI & art work together as agents of resistance

"...it means when an AI is trained on radical feminist thought that is atypical in the field. The bot..."

March 10, 2025 SXSW Post by Alejandra Martinez

Movie Duos, Rude Little Pigs, and More Events for the Week Ahead

Time to reflect and project

"...in 1983, it tells the story of a murdered feminist activist, 10 years after an American revolution has done..."

Jan. 17, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Volleyball, Dalí, and Feminists Rule This Week’s Recommended Events

Arts and culture for the work-week socializer

"...the city that never sleeps.   – James Scott Feminists Do Memoirs: Glynnis MacNicol's I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy..."

Jan. 10, 2025 Arts Feature by James Scott

Babygirl

Baby did a bad bad thing

"...on); a younger generation nipping at her heels; her feminist teenage daughters, sneering at Mom for getting Botox; and..."

Dec. 27, 2024 Movie Review

Youth Theatre, Late Movies, Brat Dances, and More Recommended Events

It's not scorching! Get out while you can!

"...character Jeanne changes actors throughout the performance in this feminist take on taxonomy, botany, and one’s place in the..."

July 26, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Babes

Female friendship, pregnant bodies go under the microscope in hilarious Babes

"...of Broad City – the 2010s’ other joyfully horny, feminist comedy about twentysomething women in New York – co-creators..."

May 17, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Austin Film Society Announces 2023 AFS Grant for Short Films Recipients

Career-changing grants go to 16 projects from Texas filmmakers

"...short in distribution Why does the Mexican government consider feminist groups a greater threat than the country’s most lethal..."

Jan. 5, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Belle

Icelandic reimagining of Beauty and the Beast can't balance camp and carnage

"...from adoring parent to codependent captor, and the shallowly feminist justification that she’s becoming a prisoner by her own,..."

Aug. 18, 2023 Movie Review by Amelia Nonemacher

Barbie

The doll that changed the world faces the world she changed in this fizzy meta-comedy

"...serving “theatre kid who went to Barnard and studied feminist theory” energy. In this film’s imagining, and manifest in..."

July 21, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Scare Package

Horror-comedy anthology pays tribute to the golden age of VHS

"...Night Out of Body" (a sly homage to Nineties feminist horror like The Coven) is well-executed but feels a..."

June 16, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Mafia Mamma

Even Toni Collette can't earn this mafia spoof rispetto

"...A feminist action-comedy punctuated by the occasional severed human appendage, Mafia..."

April 14, 2023 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Emily

Speculative biopic of the middle Brontë sister, author of Wuthering Heights

"...mischief to the part in Patricia Rozema’s underrated, defiantly feminist and progressive interpretation of Mansfield Park. O’Connor has mischief..."

Feb. 24, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Most Memorable Moments of Saturday’s ACL Fest Weekend Two

Lido Pimienta, Habibi, and Princess Nokia’s Kirby squirt gun

"...It’s Square” cemented the band’s statement on the ongoing feminist revolution in Iran. “That’s dedicated to women, life, and..."

Oct. 16, 2022 Music Post by Kriss Conklin

Sharp Stick

Lena Dunham's latest exploration of messy people is pretty messy itself

"...observations – about social media, California Goopiness, reproductive trauma, feminist porn – that don’t always feel fully formed –..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Take Me to the River New Orleans

Rhythms of the generations resonate in a portrait of the Big Easy

"...quite movingly) starstruck. A more left-of-field session teams up feminist singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco with blues-funk guitarist Walter “Wolfman” Washington..."

May 20, 2022 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, April 15-21

"...hope you'll seek in the coming weeks. The Black feminist activist writes, "We danced too wild, and we sang..."

April 15, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

Last Night in Soho

Edgar Wright travels through time into London's sleazy history

"...about the romanticization of the past, identity, and a feminist bent rallying against men who use women and their..."

Oct. 29, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Violation

Brutal drama turns takes the lurid appeal out of the rape-revenge horror

"...violence. In her contribution to the ever-swelling canon of feminist revenge dramas, Sims-Fewer goes back to the Jacobean taste..."

April 2, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Want to Strike? Ask a Sex Worker for Advice.

Artist and activist Lena Chen explains how the sex workers' rights movement is lifting up all workers

"...awareness as well as action on crucial labor and feminist issues...."

March 12, 2021 Features Feature by James Scott

The World to Come

Frontier romance speaks of a love that cannot speak the name it does not yet have

"...pioneer women who unexpectedly become lovers in the swoony proto-feminist The World to Come, the bewildering and yet enthralling..."

Feb. 12, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Fatale

Not everything that happens in Vegas ...

"...plainly demonstrates she’s nobody's chump. It’s not exactly a feminist reading, but one that gives Fatale a little backbone...."

Dec. 25, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Brea Grant, Modern Scream Queen

The Stylist star, 12 Hour Shift director and UT grad becomes a powerhouse of horror at Fantastic Fest

"...In order to create feminist media, we're going to have to acknowledge that women..."

Sept. 25, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

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