Vagina Monologues Held Open Casting Call for February VDay Production

Director Heather Ross, Producer Jeana Rich, and Stage manager Kim Bond join me to talk about the Vagina Monologues, VDay, One Billion Rising, vaginas, the open casting call for the production, gender-based violence, and being survivors.

Reveal Beauty Serves Local Survivors

Candace, local organizer for Reveal Beauty, joined me and apprentice Heather Ross to talk about breaking ground in Austin, hosting survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking, their programs, volunteerism, and more.

Immunize Texas Takes You Back to School

Jinny Suh and Lacy Walker of Immunize Texas join me to talk flu shots, conspiracy theorists, school vaccination rates, lackluster state policies, and public health.

Abortion Access Front and Lizz Winstead Bring Do Re #MeToo to Austin

Lizz Winstead, co-creator of The Daily Show, author of Lizz Free or Die and founder of Abortion Access Front (Abortion AF), joined me to talk about Abortion Access Front, its Do Re #MeToo tour, Tuesday, September 17th Austin stop, and clinic support.

May Is for Moms, Maternal Health, and Monica

Monica McLemore RN, MPH, PhD joined me to talk about her work at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California San Francisco, her research, her teaching, her patients, and her recent piece in May's issue of Scientific American.

Citizen Documentary Makers Shifting the Paradigm

Director Leah Carlisle and some of the all woman crew of the documentary film, Citizen, joined me to talk about the movie, filmmaking, and women in media.

MasterPOS

Jessica Mason Pieklo of Rewire.News joined me to talk about the SCOTUS decision on Masterpiece Cake Shop and other federal cases she's been watching for us.

OutYouth Brings Awareness and Compassion to LGBT Community

Kathryn Gonzales joined me to talk about end of year celebrations for OutYouth, their programs, and the Gavin Grimm case.

Trump Tries to Tie Providers' Hands with Domestic Gag Rule

Jessica Mason Pieklo of Rewire.News joins to talk us through legal ramifications of Domestic Gag Rule.

BossBabes ATX Are Talking to Everyone We Know

BossBabes joined me to talk about their new program, #EveryoneWeKnow which deals with the aftermath of #metoo.

Texas' Special Session Post-Mortem

This week family physician and regular Houston Chronicle public health op-ed author Dr. Bich-May Nguyen MD and Mary Tuma Women's Health Reporter at the Austin Chronicle joined me to talk about the effects of the special session on women's health.

Rewire's Care in Chaos Illustrates Clinic Harassment

Issues for Your Tissues episode from July 27, 2017 featuring Calla Hales lead Administrator of Charlotte, NC's A Preferred Women's Health Center and Lindsay Beyerstein, Investigative Journalist and Director of the documentary Care in Chaos which featured Calla and the clinic prominently.

Care in Chaos is Rewire News' first documentary production.

Sexual Health Alliance Going Texaswide in addition to Nationwide

Stefani Threadgill and Heather McPherson of Southwest Sexual Health Alliance joined me to talk about their new Dallas location. Stefani is the Director of the Dallas location. Houston location starts up soon too.

VDay 2017

The organizers of Austin's 2017 VDay joined me to talk about the event and its importance.

The Modeliest of Model Legislation

Aimee Arrambide of Fund Texas Choice and Public Leadership Institute with co-host Sonia Van Meter of Stanford Campaigns. We talked about Aimee's work crafting and editing model reproductive justice legislation.

Legislative Update with Teddy Wilson

Teddy Wilson of Rewire News joined me and Sonia Van Meter of Stanford Campaigns for a Texas 85th Legislative Session update. There's never enough time to talk about all of the bills that will affect reproductive justice.

Jessica Mason Pieklo and Robin Marty Lay It Out in Crow After Roe

Jessica Mason Pieklo co-author of Crow After Roe, written with co-author Robin Marty, joined me to talk about reproductive rights and intersectionality, particularly how individual states' legislatures are serving as testing grounds for laws eroding women's right to bodily autonomy. You can find Jessica and Robin's work all over the internet; both are at Rewire News.

Women's March in Austin Saturday

Tonight's show featured Women's March on Austin organizers Sylvia Holmes, Melissa Fiero, Beth Andre and Simone Laurent.

The Big Pink Bus Brings Mammograms to the People

Isabel Stevens of the Big Pink Bus, Seton's mobile mammography clinic joined me to talk about the services they provide 6 days a week. They perform free mammography all over town for low-income, uninsured women over 40 who qualify. Call 512-324-3375 to make an appointment.

Abortion Conversation Projects Work to Combat Stigma

Terry Salas Merritt, the Board Chair of Abortion Conversations Projects, and Sonia Van Meter joined me to talk stigma and ways to undo it.