Dear Readers, I *heart* you. I really appreciate that you come to my humble little blog day after day (or weekly, or monthly) and find something here that makes your heart go pitter-pat. I love that you are a feminist! I love that you love the environment! I love how we agree that love is…
So a friend e-mailed me last week to get my take on the Obama/Clinton in regards to marginalized groups. If I remember right, you always preferred Obama to Clinton. Now that the race is over, what’s your opinion on complaints from female Dems that they were marginalized and mistreated (welcome to my world, lady) and…
Get GORGEOUS Wednesday, April 30. The Women’s Empowerment Network and Chocolate Mommi Mafia are collaborating to put on an evening of hip-hop and spoken word performances by local women at the Icehouse Lounge. Includes performances by The Conscious Daughters, Lady LUST and more. Starts at 7 p.m. And on May 1 you can combine two…
Sometimes opportunities to observe the different socialization of men and women come when you least expect. I was out at Lake Mead at 6:30 a.m. today to support my husband as he did the Rage in the Sage triathlon. I happily cheered, snapped photos and served as equipment manager when necessary. But there’s a lot of…
Do you like doing things for a good cause? Have you ever done a 5K? If you’re like me you answered yes to the first question and no to the second. Well, I’m in the process of changing both my answers to yes. I’m training for my first 5K. I decided to share, in order…
The Women Empowerment Network’s SWAN Day line-up has been released and it includes Lady LUST and Love Pentagon. As you probably already know, this free event on March 29 at the Freakin’ Frog is an all-day arts festival designed to promote female artists. Full line-up is after the jump …
My kind of fun! The Sin Sity Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are hosting Bingo at Free Zone on April 6 from 5-7 p.m. The theme is pixies and fairies so don’t forget the glitter! There are prizes. And all proceeds go to charity. — E
My how the world loves a sex scandal. Eliot Spitzer. David Paterson. James McGreevey. All three current/former governors came out with new or on-going sex scandals this month. Predictably, the mainstream media (in particular the 24-hour news channels) have had a field day drumming up real, live prostitutes/madams/pimps to explore the world of sex work.…
I’m reading Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier, science writer for the NY Times. In short, it’s fabulous. This passage from the chapter “One Perfect Solar Cell,” about eggs, struck me. She’s discussing the millions of eggs that don’t make it to even menstruation, that perish in apoptosis for whatever reason: “For our purposes……
Watch it before it gets taken down: I’m not going to go into the possible election/advertisement rules Fey might be breaking here. I just thought it was funny. Also, as a writer, I was pretty amused by Fey’s opening monologue on SNL: http://showhype.com/video/saturday_night_live_tina_fey_w_steve_martin_snl_intro/ –Natalie
The Sin City Siren 