Today, Dec. 1, is World AIDS Day. An estimated 1.1 million Americans are living with HIV and don’t even know it. Today is a great time to raise awareness, get tested and do what you can to help the millions of people all over the world living with and/or affected by this epidemic disease. You…
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…
It’s time to pick the next SCS Book Club book! Let me hear your suggestions. I’ll round them up and add in a few of my own and we’ll vote on them, like last time. I’m thinking we can meet in early January, to give us time to get through the holidays. So, give me…
If you don’t have twitter you might not have seen the viral thread last week with the hashtag #Ihadanabortion. It was launched by @IAmDrTiller with the tweet: Time for us to come out. Who’s had an abortion? Show antis we’re not intimidated by scare tactics. Use: #ihadanabortion. Controversial? Perhaps. Confrontational? Maybe. Consciousness-raising? Absolutely. And it…
Okay, okay. I know I’m late for Fat Talk Free Week, which was last week, but isn’t this a message that needs discussion ALL the time? I’ve always had a problem with the “I feel so fat today” or, “You’re not fat. I’m so fat!” talk. We should all have a problem with fat talk!…
Folks, if you haven’t heard, early voting has started in Nevada (and lasts through Oct. 29 — look up a convenient polling place here!). People, the whole nation is watching Nevada on this one. Let’s not pull a Florida 2000, okay? No matter what you’re political persuasion, let’s get out there and vote! No embarrassing…
Up next in the back-to-school series (miss part 1?): So you’re a feminist. How do you work that in the real world? The folks over at abortiongang have a very nice little primer for how to make your feminism more palatable to others. They have some good tips but, with respect, I think it can…
It’s fall — or at least that’s what my non-desert-dwelling friends tell me — and that means it’s back-to-school season. And with a fresh new school year comes shiny new school supplies, class schedules…and an opportunity to pack your feminism along with you. For some of you, this might be your first opportunity to be…
Today is Equal Pay Day. It represents how far into 2010 women have to work to make the same salary as men in 2009. This year it’s 100 days into the year. It’s more than a third of the way through the year and women are just now catching up to men in the last…
Yes, you read that headline correctly. The editor-in-chief, the Big Boss, at the Las Vegas Review Journal (the largest daily newspaper in Nevada) thinks women should no longer have the right to vote. And no, this is not hyperbole or exaggeration on my part, read it for yourself on his very own newspaper-owned blog! I…
The Sin City Siren 