At the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department “Choose Purity” event on Saturday, girls (and only girls) were treated to such a feast of fear-mongering and baseless scare tactics that it’s hard to believe that the event happened in real life and not as the plot point of a dark comedy in the vein of Election…
[Trigger Warning] Now is the time for self-care. The world may not understand, or even call it selfish but what do I have left if I crumble and fall away? I give everything to you, dear readers. I turn myself inside out and lay my beating heart in your hands — again and again. I…
[Trigger Warning: Body policing, fat shaming, eating disorders] It’s the middle of January and we’re coming up on the day most New Year’s resolutions fail, which is either “ditch” day on Jan. 17 or “Fail Friday,” depending on who you ask. Losing weight, getting fit, and eating better rank in the top 10 New Year’s…
The alternate headline for this post was, “Environmentalism: The long-view on dismantling oppression.” When I first launched The Sin City Siren seven years ago, one of the issues I wrote about often was environmentalism. After a while I got tired of defending the importance of talking about environmental concerns on a feminist site: Why do…
Happy New Year, Sirens! Now that the confetti and champagne have been cleared away, it’s time to roll up our sleeves and get down to business. We’ve got work to do Sirens! It’s an election year, baby: Get ready for another year of political ad-overload. All of Nevada’s four House seats are on the docket…
[Trigger Warning: fat-shaming, eating disorders, body image] On Christmas Day it was right there in my social media feed, like invasive annual weeds: Diet ads. To be fair, as an American woman in my 30s, the diet industry targets my social media feeds with some regularity. I hit several of their demographic markers: female, 30s,…
The Clark County School District may be updating their sex education curriculum. Maybe. If they ever get around to voting on it. At a meeting last week, the school district — which serves the Las Vegas metropolitan area and is the fifth largest school district in the country — voted to do nothing regarding a…
Trigger warning: body issues, eating disorders A few days ago a conversation about fat-shaming blew up all over twitter through the hashtag #fatmicroaggressions. And while a lot of times my twitter feed gets fractured along race lines — especially when it comes to feminist discussion — this particular conversation transcended, nay included, a broad spectrum…
Abandon hope all ye who enter here: Michigan has created a new ring of hell and it is called “rape insurance.” Call this the nexus of reproductive rights and rape culture. The Abortion Insurance Opt-Out Act passed yesterday by the Michigan Legislature bans all insurance plans from covering abortion unless the woman’s life is in…
I’m cross-posting this from my other blog, The Tired Feminist. I’d encourage you to check it out if you want to keep up with me after The Sin City Siren ends after the New Year. Trigger Warning. You see those words a lot these days on posts and status updates and tweets and such. Trigger.…
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