By: Amanda Hart UPDATE @11:15am - ACLU-TX has set up a legal hotline - 20 cooperating attorneys on standby. 888-653-6498 dial 0 then 101 for the hotline. Tell people to Sharpie it on their arm. If you can stop and pick up some sharpies to share on the way it would be greatly appreciated. UPDATE@12:30pm - Public parking info if you drive to the Capitol (found on the map here). The first two hours are free. Each half hour is $1. All day parking is $8. The visitor parking lot is on 12th and San Jacinto. There is also a lot ... Read More »
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By Amanda Hart Illustration by Blake Jones It appeared nothing short of a miracle when the 83rd Texas Legislature came to an end in May and not one of the 24 anti-choice bills had even made it to the floor for debate. Pro-choice activists and women all over the state slept a little easier that night knowing that women and their families weren’t going to, at least for now, be forced back into the dark ages. We didn’t mess with immigration, abortion laws, voting laws, or school vouchers during the regular session. The anticipated tooth-and-nail moral debates were almost nonexistent ... Read More »
Why Does Texas Hate Vaginas?
By:Amanda Hart It is expensive to be born with a vagina. Tampons alone at times are a commodity (ladies, let me introduce you to your new best friend: The Diva Cup. Your “shit, i guess I’ll just use toilet paper” days are over). And tampons are just one of the many items our vagina’s demand that we sometimes can’t afford. However, i would have to say that above all the other items we need to function in our society the one closer to the top of the list is some form of birth control. I would like to think that ... Read More »