While the Dallas Art Fair has always been a preeminent place for Texans to experience the imagination and creativity of artists in all kinds of spaces, this year there’s a particular focus on amplifying and showcasing the work of LGBTQ+ artists.
A growing number of voices in the reproductive health community are urging lawmakers to consider the real threats posed by House Bill 44.
Hellcats follows a small group of queer women living and working near the High Street in 1920s London. It’s loosely based on the long-running gang known as the Forty Elephants, a group of women who were expert shoplifters thanks to their custom-made clothes.
The Texas star power of Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson helped advance a bill meant to increase film and television incentives in the state
While the news of the first criminal charges against the Texas abortion ban sent shockwaves around the state and country, many global reproductive rights experts recognized a pattern.
The Mega Marcha, billed as the largest rally for immigration reform thus far into the year, ended at City Hall Plaza, where a diverse lineup of speakers from activists to elected officials addressed an engaged crowd, many holding flags or signs demanding immigration relief.
A clerk in New York refused to file a judgment against a doctor for violating Texas abortion laws, however the threat to shield laws still looms
On March 26, 1975, the Medallion Theatre in Dallas hosted the first public test screening of the movie that would become Jaws. The event marked a turning point not just for the career of director Steven Spielberg, but the entire concept of the summer movie.
The federal judge, who was appointed by George H.W. Bush, noted in her ruling that A&M’s campus drag ban was a blatant violation of the First Amendment.
Though Gov. Greg Abbott has yet to call an election, the race for an open congressional seat in Houston is well underway
These arrests represent the first criminal charges against individuals who have allegedly performed abortions in not just Texas, but the country since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022.
Originally shot over four performances at the Vortex in Austin in 2024, Tyagaraja Welch's "Bridging With Mother" is surprisingly powerful even on a laptop screen
Nearly a full day passed after the Public Education Committee started the first public hearing on the massive voucher bill
A photojournalist and photographer who chronicled the Chicano movement is the subject of several career retrospectives making their way through Texas, including an exhibition at Houston’s Multicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts (MECA)
Ahead of the first public hearing on an expansive voucher bill comes new polling showing how most Texans oppose school choice legislation
Last week a senate committee heard testimony on a bill that bars state funds from public libraries that hold events with drag queens, a new cause célèbre among conservatives
A powerful State Senate committee heard testimony on a bill seeking to protect teachers and staff who do not identify students according to their preferred pronouns yesterday. It’s one of many bills expected to be heard in the legislature regarding the erasure of transgender people, and the second to
With the new tariffs, Texas could lose more than any other state. And the worries go beyond rising costs to even the reliability of our power grid.
This article was updated Thursday, February 27 to note Robert F. Kennedy's comments about the measles death in a cabinet meeting In a news release, The Texas Department of State Health Services confirmed the first death from a measles outbreak in West Texas. According to the agency the
To explain the Texas short film, “The Word,” (now available on YouTube), I have to spoil the ending. Don’t worry. You’ll have guessed it by the time you finish reading the next paragraph anyway. The short opens in an opulent boardroom. At one end are two very distinguished
"This offers us space, activities, and laughs. My God, don't we need a laugh right now?”
Really cruel. That’s how Emmett Schelling describes state leadership. “The leadership of the state largely is not here to be public servants and leaders for us and instead waged really cruel attacks on our entire community, from our youth to our elders,” the executive director of the Transgender Education
Yesterday a judge in Collin County ruled that a New York doctor must cease prescribing and sending abortion medication to patients in Texas. He also fined the New York-based physician over $100,000. The judgment stemmed from a civil lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in December after
Texas Signal recently spoke with Tara Mancini, the Director of Public Policy for Power to Decide, about how the organization is navigating 2025 and beyond.
The work of uplifting Black women living with HIV has also never been more important at a time when national and international programs combating HIV are being devastated.
"Art goes hand in hand with action. Art inspires action, and I think that’s where the role of art becomes effective."
Outside of school choice, other priorities for Patrick include several rightwing culture war goals like “placing the ten commandments in school” and “stopping drag time story hour.”
Several Democratic lawmakers in Texas have been sounding the alarm over a devastating directive from the White House Office of Management of Budget that was ordered Monday evening. They are warning that a federal funding freeze ordered by Trump’s OMB could wreak havoc on many programs Texans depend on
On Monday, the family of Cecile Richards, the former president of Planned Parenthood, announced that she had died. Richards is now being remembered by many as an advocate for women’s and worker’s rights. Richards was born in Waco to David and Ann Richards, the former governor of Texas.
Simple economics may complicate Trump’s plans to expand fracking and other oil and gas production.
Pro wrestling is starting to see much greater LGBTQ+ representation, especially in Texas.
Jessica Witzel’s autopsy report raises an important question: How many other heat-related deaths among unhoused residents are being erased by the failure to collect and report accurate data on climate-related mortality?