Issues for Your Tissues
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Vagina Monologues Held Open Casting Call for February VDay Production
January 10, 2020 05:56Director 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
December 18, 2019 17:12Candace, 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
October 16, 2019 22:08Jinny 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
September 16, 2019 08:27Lizz 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
May 31, 2019 04:30Monica 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.
Author Brooklyn James Shares Her Birth Stories in Book
May 24, 2019 03:00Local author and mother of two, Brooklyn James joined to talk about her book, Born In the Bed You Were Made in which she illustrates the differences between her first birth in hospital and second birth at home. Her midwife, Genevieve Schaefer CPM joined to share as well.
Citizen Documentary Makers Shifting the Paradigm
April 19, 2019 04:00Director 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
June 17, 2018 04:13Jessica 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
June 16, 2018 01:05Kathryn 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
June 08, 2018 06:59Jessica Mason Pieklo of Rewire.News joins to talk us through legal ramifications of Domestic Gag Rule.
BossBabes ATX Are Talking to Everyone We Know
June 08, 2018 06:49BossBabes joined me to talk about their new program, #EveryoneWeKnow which deals with the aftermath of #metoo.
Texas' Special Session Post-Mortem
August 19, 2017 04:36This 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.
Bro, Sexism, and the Workplace
August 12, 2017 23:57Sociologist Dr. Holly Wood PhD and Heather Ross cofounder of Austin Chapter Women in Games and NARAL Pro-Choice Texas board member joined me to talk about the Google bro memo and the reactions to it.
Special Session's Adverse Outcomes
August 11, 2017 17:02Teddy Wilson Staff Reporter at Rewire News joined me to talk about the special session and its impact on Texans.
Rewire's Care in Chaos Illustrates Clinic Harassment
August 06, 2017 02:24Issues 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
August 04, 2017 01:06Stefani 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.
Sexual Health Alliance Stakes New Ground
June 26, 2017 05:41Sexual Health Alliance brings their programs to the Chicago area and builds a sister branch.
VDay 2017
June 26, 2017 03:28The organizers of Austin's 2017 VDay joined me to talk about the event and its importance.
The Modeliest of Model Legislation
February 07, 2017 04:15Aimee 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
February 01, 2017 06:00Teddy 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
February 01, 2017 02:52Jessica 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
January 20, 2017 03:03Tonight'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
January 11, 2017 07:54Isabel 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
January 07, 2017 21:15Terry Salas Merritt, the Board Chair of Abortion Conversations Projects, and Sonia Van Meter joined me to talk stigma and ways to undo it.
Vagina Monologues 2017
December 23, 2016 07:08Heather Ross, Laura, Erin, Ramona, and Brenda joined me to perform and promote the 2017 production of the Vagina Monologues in Austin benefiting SafePlace. Heather is directing this year! The annual production of the Vagina Monologues is part of the VDay & 1 Billion Rising event celebration that goes on through much of February.
State of Texas Can't Explain Lack of Dignity for Women
December 16, 2016 04:21Tonight Nancy Cardenas Pena Associate Director at the National Latina Institutes of Reproductive Health, Jan Soifer Travis County District Court Judge-Elect and Attorney at O'Connell Soifer LLP, the local law firm working with Center for Reproductive Rights on the current lawsuit against the State of Texas' fetal funeral regulation joined me and co-host Sonia Van Meter, political operative at Stanford Caskey, to talk about today's hearing to block the enforcement of fetal funeral regulations ...
Freedom for Placentas for Women, if they Want
December 15, 2016 07:07This summer State Rep. Ana Hernandez (D-143) one of the sponsors of 2015 HB 1670 regarding placentas, Kit Garcia Herbalist, Chemist and Acupuncturist at Dragonfly Wellness, and Sarah Fusco mother who was denied access to her placenta after delivering her second child in Austin in 2009 joined me to talk about the improved access to placentas after delivery since the passage of 2015's HB 1670.