Happy Holidays from SCS
Because Santa hat. I hope you are having a lovely holiday season. And if not, I’ll be back here with fresh outrage any minute now.
Is This Rape Culture?
Originally posted on The Belle Jar:
I’d seen this image pop up a few times on my Facebook feed, but it wasn’t until the super-popular website PostSecret shared it on their page that I really sat up and took notice. Or rather, it wasn’t until someone commented saying that this shirt promoted rape culture, and…
Nevada GOP Reps Support Assault On 40 Hour Work Week
The Desert Beacon has a great take on the GOP plan to fleece America’s workers (see link below). Don’t be fooled by the GOP’s so-called Working Families Flexibility Act, which uses the ruse of “comp time” and flexibility of hours to essentially strip workers of certain rights and hand them over to employers to erode…
Keep your flowers, I want change for Mother’s Day
This year for Mother’s Day you can keep your flowers, candy, and spa gift certificates. What I want is some change — some real progressive change for women and their families. That’s a gift that will keep on giving all year long and help a lot more people than just moms! Here’s the Sin City…
AB230 testimony: I speak for the unwanted and abused
For those of you who did not attend and/or watch the marathon Nevada State Senate committee hearing on the comprehensive sex education bill (AB230) yesterday… I don’t even know where to begin. A lot of it was pretty much like the April 1 Assembly hearing, but the fierce factor was definitely dialed up a notch…
An open letter to the Anti Sex Ed crowd
Dear Anti Sex Ed Crowd: Greetings and salutations! I bet you’re surprised to hear from me. After all, you’ve spent some time lately calling me a terrible mother (on television no less) because I advocate for a much-needed update to Nevada’s sex education standards — originally passed at the height of the AIDS-panic-1980s — that…
What the fag bug has meant to me, or, why this is my line in the sand
Are you ready for the NOH8 in Las Vegas hate crimes event TOMORROW? I can’t believe it’s almost here! You can still RSVP here. And all this planning has me thinking about the first time I organized an event for Erin Davies and her “fag bug.” I spent most of the summer of 2007 organizing…
Watch the ‘fag bug’ documentary FREE before NOH8LV
Did you know you can watch Erin Davies’ documentary “fag bug” for FREE before the NOH8 in Las Vegas hate crimes event on Friday? It’s available online for free on Hulu. You can also rent it on Netflix. We’ll be showing a clip of the movie at the hate crimes event on Friday (have you…
Have you RSVPd for NOH8 in Las Vegas yet?
We are just days away from NOH8 in Las Vegas on Friday, April 19! Come join us at Northwest Community Church, 101 S. Rancho Drive, and see what is possible when we come together to talk about hate crimes. It will be healing. It will be a radical, safe space to declare our intention for…
Thoughts and prayers for Boston
I will not be unleashing my usual brand of feminist outrage today. Rather than promote any events or agenda, I want to take a moment for the victims of the bombing at the Boston Marathon today. Right now, reports are that two are dead, nearly two dozen are injured — some in critical condition —…
The Sin City Siren 