Women's Issues

Crone Wars

Tita Caldwell, One of S.F.'s Beloved Wild Old Women, Dies

SF Weekly is sad to report that Tita Caldwell, one of the city's most active lesbian senior citizens who took on local banks alongside the Occupy Movement,  died this week from an apparent heart attack. She was 80.Caldwell, born in 1931, was a self-described feminist and "movement activist" who ... More >>

"Body Awareness": Annie Baker Reveals the Heart of Things

SF Weekly is sad to report that Tita Caldwell, one of the city's most active lesbian senior citizens who took on local banks alongside the Occupy Movement,  died this week from an apparent heart attack. She was 80.Caldwell, born in 1931, was a self-described feminist and "movement activist" who ... More >>

Shoe, Meet Other Foot

SF Weekly is sad to report that Tita Caldwell, one of the city's most active lesbian senior citizens who took on local banks alongside the Occupy Movement,  died this week from an apparent heart attack. She was 80.Caldwell, born in 1931, was a self-described feminist and "movement activist" who ... More >>

Women's Work

SF Weekly is sad to report that Tita Caldwell, one of the city's most active lesbian senior citizens who took on local banks alongside the Occupy Movement,  died this week from an apparent heart attack. She was 80.Caldwell, born in 1931, was a self-described feminist and "movement activist" who ... More >>

What Women Want: Mayor Ed Lee

Women love that mustache ​So far nobody has been able to convince Mayor Ed Lee to give up his higher paying gig as the City Administrator and run for mayor in November. And with the Aug. 12 filing deadline just around the corner, the Run, Ed, Run campaign is unleashing a group that they hope will ... More >>

Not Only in San Francisco

Women love that mustache ​So far nobody has been able to convince Mayor Ed Lee to give up his higher paying gig as the City Administrator and run for mayor in November. And with the Aug. 12 filing deadline just around the corner, the Run, Ed, Run campaign is unleashing a group that they hope will ... More >>

This Art Is Sexiest!

Women love that mustache ​So far nobody has been able to convince Mayor Ed Lee to give up his higher paying gig as the City Administrator and run for mayor in November. And with the Aug. 12 filing deadline just around the corner, the Run, Ed, Run campaign is unleashing a group that they hope will ... More >>

The Pursuit

Women love that mustache ​So far nobody has been able to convince Mayor Ed Lee to give up his higher paying gig as the City Administrator and run for mayor in November. And with the Aug. 12 filing deadline just around the corner, the Run, Ed, Run campaign is unleashing a group that they hope will ... More >>

All Day

Women love that mustache ​So far nobody has been able to convince Mayor Ed Lee to give up his higher paying gig as the City Administrator and run for mayor in November. And with the Aug. 12 filing deadline just around the corner, the Run, Ed, Run campaign is unleashing a group that they hope will ... More >>

Reel Color

Women love that mustache ​So far nobody has been able to convince Mayor Ed Lee to give up his higher paying gig as the City Administrator and run for mayor in November. And with the Aug. 12 filing deadline just around the corner, the Run, Ed, Run campaign is unleashing a group that they hope will ... More >>

Let’s Talk About Sex(ual Empowerment)

Women love that mustache ​So far nobody has been able to convince Mayor Ed Lee to give up his higher paying gig as the City Administrator and run for mayor in November. And with the Aug. 12 filing deadline just around the corner, the Run, Ed, Run campaign is unleashing a group that they hope will ... More >>

Frameline at The Center: Free Film Screenings for the Community

Women love that mustache ​So far nobody has been able to convince Mayor Ed Lee to give up his higher paying gig as the City Administrator and run for mayor in November. And with the Aug. 12 filing deadline just around the corner, the Run, Ed, Run campaign is unleashing a group that they hope will ... More >>

News You Can Use: No, Virginia, There Is No Increase in Domestic Violence on Super Bowl Sunday

Put on a shirt and keep your hands to yourself!Every year around this time, you hear two sickening things about the Super Bowl: A nationwide halftime stampede to the toilet overwhelms local sewage plants;A nationwide orgy of beer-drinking and high-stakes football induces a cavalcade of domestic viol ... More >>

What Drives Women

Put on a shirt and keep your hands to yourself!Every year around this time, you hear two sickening things about the Super Bowl: A nationwide halftime stampede to the toilet overwhelms local sewage plants;A nationwide orgy of beer-drinking and high-stakes football induces a cavalcade of domestic viol ... More >>

Jury Acquits Man Who Bit Partner's Forehead

On November 11, the San Francisco Police Department responded to a call from a gay man who said his partner had abused him. When police arrived and found Bejamin Schalit, 50, with crescent-shaped bite marks on his forehead, they arrested the partner, Jeremy Womack, 33, and the district att ... More >>

Spider Woman

On November 11, the San Francisco Police Department responded to a call from a gay man who said his partner had abused him. When police arrived and found Bejamin Schalit, 50, with crescent-shaped bite marks on his forehead, they arrested the partner, Jeremy Womack, 33, and the district att ... More >>

Feminists Unite at the Radical Women Conference

On November 11, the San Francisco Police Department responded to a call from a gay man who said his partner had abused him. When police arrived and found Bejamin Schalit, 50, with crescent-shaped bite marks on his forehead, they arrested the partner, Jeremy Womack, 33, and the district att ... More >>

Saturday: Frida Casting Call at Galeria de la Raza/Studio 24

On November 11, the San Francisco Police Department responded to a call from a gay man who said his partner had abused him. When police arrived and found Bejamin Schalit, 50, with crescent-shaped bite marks on his forehead, they arrested the partner, Jeremy Womack, 33, and the district att ... More >>

For the Ladies

On November 11, the San Francisco Police Department responded to a call from a gay man who said his partner had abused him. When police arrived and found Bejamin Schalit, 50, with crescent-shaped bite marks on his forehead, they arrested the partner, Jeremy Womack, 33, and the district att ... More >>

Chron on Homeless Women: Not a Pretty Picture.

On November 11, the San Francisco Police Department responded to a call from a gay man who said his partner had abused him. When police arrived and found Bejamin Schalit, 50, with crescent-shaped bite marks on his forehead, they arrested the partner, Jeremy Womack, 33, and the district att ... More >>

Street Fighting Woman

On November 11, the San Francisco Police Department responded to a call from a gay man who said his partner had abused him. When police arrived and found Bejamin Schalit, 50, with crescent-shaped bite marks on his forehead, they arrested the partner, Jeremy Womack, 33, and the district att ... More >>

YBCA women's show revives the F word

On November 11, the San Francisco Police Department responded to a call from a gay man who said his partner had abused him. When police arrived and found Bejamin Schalit, 50, with crescent-shaped bite marks on his forehead, they arrested the partner, Jeremy Womack, 33, and the district att ... More >>

SF Librarians Bust Johns Hopkins for Removing ‘Abortion’ from Health Database

On November 11, the San Francisco Police Department responded to a call from a gay man who said his partner had abused him. When police arrived and found Bejamin Schalit, 50, with crescent-shaped bite marks on his forehead, they arrested the partner, Jeremy Womack, 33, and the district att ... More >>

Hot Topic

On November 11, the San Francisco Police Department responded to a call from a gay man who said his partner had abused him. When police arrived and found Bejamin Schalit, 50, with crescent-shaped bite marks on his forehead, they arrested the partner, Jeremy Womack, 33, and the district att ... More >>

Butch Is As Butch Does

On November 11, the San Francisco Police Department responded to a call from a gay man who said his partner had abused him. When police arrived and found Bejamin Schalit, 50, with crescent-shaped bite marks on his forehead, they arrested the partner, Jeremy Womack, 33, and the district att ... More >>

Woman On Top

On November 11, the San Francisco Police Department responded to a call from a gay man who said his partner had abused him. When police arrived and found Bejamin Schalit, 50, with crescent-shaped bite marks on his forehead, they arrested the partner, Jeremy Womack, 33, and the district att ... More >>

Slacker Guys and Striver Girls

When lazy men become projects for career women

Girl Party

When lazy men become projects for career women

Dropping the F-Bomb

Women make and take the noise

Mother’s Work

Some working moms face job discrimination, while others encounter barriers to success. They're all potential activists for the new grass-roots group, MomsRising.

Just Desserts

Cake offers straight women a comfortable woman-friendly place to be sexy. So why does it feel so retro?

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Cake offers straight women a comfortable woman-friendly place to be sexy. So why does it feel so retro?

Don't Go Changin'

Entertaining, yes, but Menopause doesn't go far enough in erasing taboos

You're Such A ...

Bitch Magazine celebrates its "Truth & Consequences" issue

Best Batterer Betterer

Hamish Sinclair

Founder, Manalive

Pic Tease

Do Ghada Amer's threaded paintings condemn porn or celebrate it?

Words of Wisdom

Performance artist Sarah Jones transforms into eight women to examine human rights in her solo show

The Last Hope

A new law gives one more chance at freedom to abused women sent to prison for killing their batterers

Wise Bird

Men may want to take cover when Krissy Keefer, feminist survivor, dances

General Excellence

Groundbreaking programs at San Francisco General Hospital may well change the way the entire U.S. health care system deals with domestic violence. To understand why, you have to understand Dr. Beth Kaplan.

Shelter from the Storm

Should the U.S. give asylum to victims of domestic violence? A Mission District woman's case may help decide that question.

Letters to the Editor

Got It; Got It; Didn't Get It; Female Cracker Morons Who Maim; Ounce of Prevention; Our Apologies, John; The Oddest Clarification We've Published This Year

The Land of Blood & Money

Foreign workers coming into the country for high-paying tech jobs often bring wives with them. When these women are beaten and abused, they have nowhere to run.

South to the Future

Feminists Protest Gay Marriages

Letters

Feminists Protest Gay Marriages

Not Closing Time -- Yet

Movers, shakers, and drinkers seek a reprieve for the Dovre Club

The War Womb (Part II)

For every direct action against an abortion clinic staged by Operation Rescue, expect an equal and opposite reaction by the Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights.

The War Womb

For every direct action against an abortion clinic staged by Operation Rescue, expect an equal and opposite reaction by the Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights

Night+Day

For every direct action against an abortion clinic staged by Operation Rescue, expect an equal and opposite reaction by the Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights