At 5 p.m. on the last day of SXSWi, one wouldn’t expect to find a lively panel full of people, all ready to talk, discuss, and share stories, but that was exactly what happened in Can Stories Turn Texas Blue? Digital Media And HB2. Jessica Luther and Julie Gillis were two of the hundreds of […]
On June 25 at midnight, nearly 200,000 people worldwide were watching the Wendy Davis filibuster. Zero of those viewers were watching on CNN or Fox News or MSNBC. Instead, anyone that wanted to watch the most interesting political story of the summer, and quite possibly the year, tuned in to the Texas Tribune livestream. Rodney […]
The day after Wendy Davis secured the Democratic nomination for Governor of Texas, she spoke to a packed house at SXSWEdu. Although Davis became an international political star this past summer when she filibustered anti-abortion legislation, she first took to the political spotlight during a different filibuster. In 2011, there were $5 billion worth of […]
The summer of 2013 saw a meteoric rise to the political future of State Senator Wendy Davis. After a nearly 13 hour filibuster, she was catapulted into a national spotlight. Jessica Luther was one of the main activists involved during the filibuster and the subsequent protests at the Capitol. Along with Julie Gillis, a writer […]
As Interactive, Music, Film, and Comedy all expand yearly at SXSW, a new branch of the SXSW family is starting to take off. SXSWedu is in its fourth year as a standalone conference and this year boasts some serious heavy-hitters in the world of education. The conference runs from March 3-6, and just like SXSWi […]