It’s time to pick the next selection for The Sin City Siren Book Club! I’ve taken your feedback and I hope this next batch grabs your interest. While I didn’t receive very many book title suggestions, the main feedback seemed to be “more fiction, please!” As it turns out, I’m really into non-fiction. So, I’ve…
This just breaks my heart…let’s help these kids at Shade Tree have a better Christmas… The Shade Tree will host a Holiday shopping Event for the children so they may give back to their Moms for the holiday. Donations kindly requested of the following gift items: Bath/body products Jewelry Perfume Purses/Wallets Gloves, winter hats, sweaters…
Passing this along: For Immediate Release Contact Jamie Lee Sprague Event Coordinator LVJamie_Sprague@msn.com 702/420.1294 Jane Heenan, MS MFT Director, Equality Nevada, Southern Region VegasCounselor@aol.com 702/810.4159 Monday 15 November 2010 – The Transgender Day of Remembrance will be held Friday 19 November at 7pm at Metropolitan Community Church (MCC). The event provides space for persons to…
Here’s a memo to The Senate: Equal pay means a stronger economy. Unfortunately, The Paycheck Fairness Act died by a 58-41 (1 abstaining) cloture vote today in the Senate. For Nevadans, we can thank recently re-elected Sen. Harry Reid for voting for this bill, which would have helped “provide more effective remedies to victims” of…
As we head in to the holiday season, it might be nice to have a little mental getaway as handy as a book. (You can read it in line at the post office or while hiding in the closet from your nosy sister.) So how ’bout it? Let’s pick the next selection for The Sin…
Every year around this time I start collecting ideas for my annual charitable giving guide. You see, I believe that the only balance to the excess of the holiday season is to give back. Indeed, I believe in giving back all year long, but the holidays provide a special opportunity to open your heart to…
We barely caught our breath after Halloween when the sights and sounds of the consumer orgy Christmas started breathing down our necks. Hell, we barely got rid of the campaign season tumors all over our TV, mailbox and internet — now it’s Christmas? I’m so not ready! Can’t we take five? Grab a coffee? Take…
Originally posted on The Tired Feminist: This is going to really upset the homophobes out there: A 24-year-long study by The Williams Institute has found that the incidence of abuse in lesbian-headed families is…none, nada, zilch.This compares to 26% of American teens reporting child abuse and a sexual abuse rate of 8.3%. The study found…
When I caught a whiff of uproar over the self-published The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover’s Code of Conduct, I admit I had to take a few digital steps back and collect my thoughts. As a survivor of sexual abuse, I didn’t even want to open the links flashing through on twitter.…
Are you really a feminist? And who gets to decide that? These are the questions circulating in the feminist blogosphere after famous feminist blogger and author Jessica Valenti opted out of a feminist panel this week. The panel, presented by More magazine, was based on an article in the current issue, which profiled several young…
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