October 2015 - The Texas Observer

Most Recent in Politics:

1Four Takeaways from the Texas Democratic Convention

2‘There’s More of Us’: Texas Democrats Once Again Counting on Hispanic Turnout

3Growing Secular Movement Could Indicate Change in Political Tide — Even in Texas

4In a Blow to Local Government, Texas Supreme Court Strikes Down Plastic Bag Ordinances

5Texas Democrats Want to Turn Out Rural Voters, but What’s Their Plan?

6Agentes de E.U. Impidieron Asilo a esta Familia. Después, Fueron Detenidos en México.

Most Recent in Environment:

1Sinking Land and Climate Change Are Worsening Tidal Floods on the Texas Coast

2How Disaster Recovery Overlooks the Poor

3Industrial Wood Processor Accused of Making East Texans Sick May Get to Pollute Even More

4Despite Public Health Risks, Trump’s EPA to Roll Back Regulation to Prevent Methane Leaks

5No Resolution in Sight For Ranchers and Farmers Fighting Over San Saba River

6Austin’s on the Wrong Side of the 100th Meridian

Most Recent in Border:

1As a Pediatrician, I Know There’s No Way to Jail Migrant Families Without Hurting Kids

2Despite Trump’s Executive Order, This Mom Still Doesn’t Know if She’ll See Her 3 Kids Again

3Agentes de E.U. Impidieron Asilo a esta Familia. Después, Fueron Detenidos en México.

4U.S. Agents Blocked This Family from Seeking Asylum. Then Mexico Detained Them.

5It’s Time to Decriminalize Immigration

6Texas Officials Allow 15 Immigrant Shelters to Hold More Kids than Licenses Permit

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1Texas Officials Allow 15 Immigrant Shelters to Hold More Kids than Licenses Permit

2Waco Immigrant Mom Locked Up for 2 ½ Years, Alleges Sexual Assault by Guard

3In Austin, ‘Discretionary’ Arrests for Petty Crimes Skew Blacker, Browner Than City Population

5Something Has Changed in the Gun Debate in Texas

6Ahead of Mother’s Day, Activists Bail Out Young Black Moms Across Texas

Most Recent in Education:

1What’s in a Name? Texas SBOE Tentatively Approves ‘Ethnic Studies: Mexican American Studies’

2SMU Just Lost Its Independent Student Newspaper. Is Your College Next?

3Lawsuit: Texas Art Teacher Suspended Because She Told Students About Her Wife

4Texas Teachers ‘Blow the Whistle’ After Conservatives Accuse Them of (Gasp!) Getting out the Vote

5Nazis Go To School

6‘I Would Have to Drop Out’: 200 Texas Grad Students Walk Out to Protest GOP Tax Bill

Most Recent in Health Care:

1As a Pediatrician, I Know There’s No Way to Jail Migrant Families Without Hurting Kids

2New Lawsuit Challenges Dozens of Texas Anti-Abortion Restrictions

3Trump Sides with Ken Paxton to Argue Pre-Existing Conditions Protections are Unconstitutional

4‘We Love Our Neighbors, but It’s a Sin’: A Dispatch from a ‘Sex Ed Sitout’

5What Could Happen if Trump Cuts Family Planning Funds from Planned Parenthood? Look at Texas.

6Texas Has the Most Cities More than 100 Miles from an Abortion Clinic, Study Finds

Most Recent in The Interview:

1Redistricting Guru Michael Li on Texas’ Gerrymandered Maps

2Senfronia Thompson Says #MeToo: Texas Lawmaker on 45 Years of Sexism, Racism at the Capitol

3Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo on Sanctuary Cities, Police Unions and Tommy Guns

4Meet Nueces County’s New DA, a Self-Professed ‘Mexican Biker Lawyer Covered in Tattoos’

5The Interview: Joaquin Castro Says Texas Democrats are Poised for a Comeback

6The Interview: Beto O’Rourke on Trump, the Border and How to Revive the Democratic Party

Most Recent in Books:

1A Strange and Wonderful New Book Celebrates the Often-Ignored Work of Outsider Artists

2‘Driven’ is an Edgy Memoir of Cars, Crises and Coming of Age

3A Feminist Literary Classic Gets a Timely Reissue, and it’s Still Maddeningly Relevant

4‘The Last Cowboys’ is a Wild Ride All the Way Home

5‘A Shout in the Ruins’ Contends with the South’s Violent History

6Chasing Tornadoes and Drama in ‘The Man Who Caught the Storm’

Most Recent in Postcards:

1The Time-Traveler’s Guide to the Lower Pecos

4Field Notes from Santa Ana

5The King of Pulp

6Ride Like a Girl

Most Recent in Essay:

1Women’s Work

2I Grew Up on the Texas-Mexico Border, but Now I Barely Recognize It

3Somewhere It Hides a Well

4Drinking the Kool-Aid at the Garden of Eden

5The Road to Huntsville

6The Impossible City

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: Gentrification in East Austin

2Eye on Texas: Transgender Youth in Texas

3Eye On Texas: Hurricane Harvey

4Eye on Texas: Fantastical Taxidermy

5Eye on Texas: Runners Take on 170-Mile Race in Big Bend

6Eye on Texas: Liberty Hill Hosts Texas Firearms Festival

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

2Parallel Planes

4Poem: ‘Resistance’

5Poem: ‘Screenplay for a Homemade Movie’

6Poem: ‘To Be One with the All’

The Magazine: October 2015

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March 2015, Texas Observer cover

COVER STORY

Up Against Homophobia

by Ashley Hope Perez

Fri, Sep 25, 2015 |

Queer Brown Voices documents the Latina/o queer community’s encounters with homophobia and intolerance from fellow Latinas/os as well as racial and ethnic marginalization in mainstream LGBT circles.Read More

In this Issue

Political Intelligence

Nueces County Sheriff Wants Internet-Enabled Tablets in Jail

by Patrick Michels

Over 900 Texas School Districts Quietly Ban Anti-LGBT Bullying

Dan Patrick: Cops’ Lives Matter Most of All

by Christopher Hooks

News

Strangest State: Peacocks Run Amok, a Dancing Granny and a Rattlesnake Resurrection

by Patrick Michels

CULTURE

Private Eyes are Watching Beaumont in ‘The Do-Right’

by Nico Vreeland

In ‘My Unsentimental Education,’ a Professor Finds a New Path

Anatomy of a Dylan Fan: ‘In Dylan Town,’ Reviewed

by Michelle Nijhuis

‘The Hundred Year Flood,’ A Search for Self in Prague

The End is Nigh: What Now?

Returning Southern Cuisine to the Women Who Created It

by Nancy Nusser

Go Wild in Suburbia with ‘Texas Lizards: A Field Guide’

by Asher Elbein

Renaissance Tejana: ‘Rant. Chant. Chisme.’

Texas’ Strangest Son: The Exile and Creativity of William Goyen

Poem: ‘Nouns at the Border Are Not to Be Trusted’

by Linda Marie Cossa

Columns

The Grimes Scene: White and Wrong on Racism in Texas

by Andrea Grimes

State of Texas

Are Texas’ ‘Miracle’ High School Grad Rates Just a Magic Trick?

by Patrick Michels

Loon Star State

Ben Sargent’s Loon Star State: Donald Trump’s Wing-Man