Then There's This: Redemption, Texas

Theatre en Bloc Brings one gay rights activist's fight to the stage

"...Austin theatre company is paying homage to the gay rights leader who led the fight to include LGBT protections..."

Sept. 14, 2012 News Column by Amy Smith

Point Austin: Back to the Color Line

Texas turns back the clock on racial justice

"...Latin American Citizens complaint to the Office for Civil Rights of the federal Department of Education, which calls into..."

Dec. 31, 2010 News Column by Michael King

Rules to Watch Out For

Changes to passports have a broader subtext for transgendered

"...the end of the series' run: This generation's civil rights issue has and will continue to be the struggle..."

June 14, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Frank J. Rivera

MassEquailty's Lessons

Melissa Threadgill, former communications director for MassEquality tell us how they did it.

"...voters were potentially going to rescind newly won marriage rights. Melissa and I also happened to go to college..."

Aug. 15, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

New Office, Same Battle

"...Sarah Wheat, long-time reproductive rights advocate, will be starting a new job next week..."

Nov. 15, 2006 News Post by Jordan Smith

Opinion: Enough Is Enough – Preserving Austin’s Vanishing Soul

How property rights legislation is decimating Texas heritage

"...Property rights legislation is decimating Texas heritage. During past sessions, the..."

Dec. 6, 2024 Column by JuanRaymon Rubio

Shefali Luthra on Texas’ Role in the Undue Burden Unleashed by Abortion Restrictions

Texas Book Festival author to discuss the loss of reproductive rights in Sunday panel

"...together.” Land of the Free? The Fight for Reproductive Rights in a Divided Nation..."

Nov. 15, 2024 News Feature by Carys Anderson

SXSW Panelists Talk LGBTQ+ Activism and Power

Struggles and hopes in the fight for queer rights

"...at the Capitol to “defend their humanity and the rights of LGBTQ people,” said Ricardo Martinez, CEO of Equality..."

March 10, 2024 SXSW Post by Naina Srivastava

Rep. Lulu Flores, HD 51

“I’m gonna stand the line on rights for women and children and gay and trans folks.”

"...Caucus, and says, "I'm gonna stand the line on rights for women and children and gay and trans folks...."

Jan. 6, 2023 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Austin Critics Announce the Five Best Austin Films of 2022

Linklater and mountain lions, the pandemic, the legacy of slavery, and the fight for abortion rights all part of this year’s AFCA Austin Film Award short list

"...the selection includes documentaries about the fights for abortion rights and wildlife, an archaeological search for a hidden sin,..."

Jan. 6, 2023 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Election Ticker: They Ban, We Plan

Celia Israel and Kirk Watson answer urbanists, Israel lays out repro rights plan, and more

"...a candidate for mayor, announced a pretty bold reproductive rights and sexual health policy plan last week. "Our rights..."

Sept. 23, 2022 News Feature by the News Staff

Austin at Large: The Front Lines of Democracy

As voting's become a battlefield, Dana DeBeauvoir has stood up for all of our rights

"...woman who, until Harris County's turn in the voting rights spotlight in 2020, bore the brunt of decades of..."

Nov. 19, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

The History and Historiography of MLK/FBI

Sam Pollard on the changing challenges of recording Black history

"...one of the most important documentarians of the civil rights struggle. His latest, MLK/FBI, may be his most challenging..."

Jan. 20, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Tuscaloosa

Why you really didn't want to live in 1970s Alabama

"...at press time. Mental health issues and the civil rights movement converge as a young man (Bostick) balances his..."

March 13, 2020 Movie Review

Seberg

Prosaic bio-drama of the radical starlet never shines like she did

"...concerned with is the actor’s association with the civil rights movement, particularly the Black Panther Party in the late..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Villains

Delicious black comedy finds bad guys in a battle of the generations

"...Fiction knockoffs from the decade’s latter half. By all rights, that should be an exhausting combination – and there..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Fifth Circuit Hears Objections to Texas' Fetal Burial Law

Anti-abortion measure currently on hold pending appeals

"...Woman’s Health v. Phillips, the case brought by reproductive rights advocates challenging the fetal burial law adopted by the..."

Sept. 18, 2019 News Post by Saskia Henn

Sen. Cory Booker Tells Austin to Embrace the “Moral Moment” We’re In

Presidential candidate spoke Wednesday at Cheer Up Charlies

"...presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker talked gun violence, civil rights, and the urgency of love in front of a..."

Aug. 29, 2019 News Post by Roxy Bonafont

Community Organizer Heidi Sloan Announces Candidacy for TX-25

Joins Dem primary race in Austin-to-Fort Worth district

"...for “Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, workers’ rights, and safety & liberation for marginalized people.”..."

Aug. 13, 2019 News Post by Michael King

Stuber

Buddy cop action-comedy isn’t making many friends

"...themselves to be excellent comedic actors in their own rights, but the ossified banter and situations the wildly contrived..."

July 12, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The House's LGBTQ Caucus Makes History

The good, the bad, and the religious exemptions

"...through the Lege, the surviving bill still threatens LGBTQ rights while shielding those who discriminate...."

May 31, 2019 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Capital City Men’s Chorus Celebrates 30 Years

Spring show illuminates untold stories of forgotten LGBTQ icons

"...countless figures and legacies contributed to the present-day LGBTQ rights movement and have long gone unsung. But this spring,..."

May 6, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

Equality Texas Promotes LGBTQ Friendly Legislation

Report finds “stark gap” between acceptance and lack of protections

"...a statewide political advocacy organization for queer and trans rights – urged lawmakers to take action in favor of..."

Feb. 27, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Lilli Hime

On the Basis of Sex

RBG biopic focuses on a single case, but blurs the details

"...decades-long career fighting against gender-based discrimination and for equal rights. The film opens to a sea of men marching..."

Jan. 4, 2019 Movie Review by Danielle White

Studio 54

The rise, fall, and legacy of NYC's most famous nightclub

"...the popular rise of women’s liberation and the gay rights movement in the Sixties and the political backlash and..."

Oct. 19, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Never Goin' Back

Augustine Frizell ingeniously revamps the stoner buddy comedy

"...Goin’ Back and its overworked tropes should, by all rights, be a trifle of a film, but what Frizzell..."

Aug. 10, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Little Pink House

Courtroom drama makes dry property rights personal.

"...Pink House is not one of the great civil rights movies (it's no Loving or To Kill a Mockingbird),..."

May 4, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

"Juntos/Together" Ties Austin's Activist Past and Present

Shedding light on action & initiatives by local minority communities

"...Students marching down the streets for their rights, incidents of police brutality against minority community members, and..."

March 28, 2018 Arts Post by Acacia Coronado

Texas Wants to Bury Your Fetus, Pt. 2

It's déjà vu all over again in the fight for reproductive rights

Dec. 15, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House

Account of the informant who brought down Nixon's administration

"...worst enemy. A roaring snooze that should by all rights be edge-of-your-seat, compelling cinema, Mark Felt lives and dies..."

Oct. 20, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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