For some time now there’s been an unwritten ironic joke about growing up in Nevada. Legalized prostitution? You bet. A resort industry predicated on selling itself through the objectification of women? Yup. But try to get the kids some comprehensive sex education and the opposition will make it rain! And by “rain,” I mean scream…
From my friends at Gender Justice Nevada, if you are a Nevada resident, please consider taking the survey: i want to strongly suggest that EACH ONE OF US who self-identifies as trans* or gender non conforming and is over 18 years of age take 20 minutes or so ASAP to complete the trans* health needs…
Passing this on from my friends at the Women’s Research Institute of Nevada: MARK YOUR CALENDARS… On March 7, 2013, from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m., please join the UNLV Office of Diversity Initiatives as it marks Women’s History Month with a forum discussion moderated by Dr. Marya Shegog, Director of Health Programs, The Lincy Institute.…
Reeling from the tsunami of sadness that came with the release of photos and stories of the victims of the tragic Newtown shooting, I want to swear-off the internet, print media, and television for a week. But, alas… this is my job, people. So let’s try and pick ourselves up and get through today, stepping…
With December 1 comes World AIDS Day. The timing of this commemoration of those gone, those still fighting, and our hopes at prevention (and dare-we-hope an end?) to this epidemic always strikes me as curious. For Americans, World AIDS Day comes on the heels of Thanksgiving (and Black Friday) and nearly smack in the middle…
This looks to be a quite powerful event: World AIDS Day at UNLV Join UNLV’s Students United for Reproductive Justice in commemorating World AIDS Day on Thursday, November 29th. This powerful event will include several speakers from the Las Vegas community discussing various aspects of HIV/AIDS. Local artists have donated pieces to the event which…
Thank God: Gabby Giffords shooter sentenced to seven life terms. In the best fuck-you ever, Giffords’ husband Mark Kelly said this: You tried to create for all of us a world as dark and evil as your own. But remember it always: You failed. WTF?: This newscast showing Henderson’s Malcolm Library director crying because her…
Are you the one your friends turn to when they have questions about sex? Do you feel like you are a walking wiki on human sexuality? If this sounds familiar — or perhaps you have always wanted to be this person — maybe it’s time to think about taking it to the next level (courtesy…
Thanks to a long-overdue overhaul by the USDA, school lunches are likely to look a lot different starting July 1. Here in Las Vegas, the Clark County School District — the nation’s fifth largest — is readying to implement new school lunch guidelines this fall. And it’s one tall order. As this well-written and insightful…
For a lot of people who have met me in the past decade or so, it might seem like I don’t know anything about poverty first-hand. After all, I’m a white, stay-at-home mom in the suburbs. It doesn’t get more stereotypically middle-class and conventional than that. But anyone who reads The Sin City Siren with…
The Sin City Siren 