FagBug vandalized on college campus

The following post comes from Erin Davies, owner of the fagbug. Long-time readers may recall that The Sin City Siren’s first community project was bringing Davies to Las Vegas as part of her 41-state, cross-country trip to talk about homophobia and hate crimes. Gay Filmmaker Gets Death Threat on SUNY Campus By Erin Davies In…

Grassroots Lobby Days features Shelby Knox!

Nevada Women’s Lobby’s Grassroots Lobby Days is coming up, March 14-16! During GLD there are a host of great workshops to better understand how bills become law and how to lobby your representatives. Another great part of GLD is the great speakers lined up! One of those speakers is acclaimed, feminist, prochoice, activist Shelby Knox!…

Equality Days scholarship deadline Friday

SCHOLARSHIP DEADLINE EXPIRES THIS FRIDAY, MARCH 4 AT 5PM. REGISTER EARLY. REGISTRATION FEE INCREASES MARCH 14. Stand OUT For Equality Campaign is organizing the 2011 Equality Days in Carson City, Nevada on March 28-29 with our member organizations of the Nevada LGBTQ Leadership Coalition. Equality Days events will include lobby training and issue orientation at…

Call your rep to save Planned Parenthood

If you haven’t already, please take the time to call your representative to lobby to save Planned Parenthood from proposed Title X cuts! Even though Title X funds already cannot be used for abortions, conservatives are aiming to end all services provided by Planned Parenthood. Only 3% of Planned Parenthood’s services are for abortions, according…

From The Tired Feminist: Exploring Feminist Motherhood Series

If you haven’t been reading my other blog, The Tired Feminist, you might have missed the 6-part Exploring Feminist Motherhood series. Trust me, it has a lot less to do with Diaper Genies and a lot more to do with feminist discussions that came up during The Sin City Siren Book Club, where we discussed…

This week: #DearJohn, Big Ben, clean girls and High School Feminists

Here are some stories that I couldn’t let go by without comment: The “forcible rape” component of HR3 was removed, but the bill is still alive and looks to codify dangerous anti-choice legislation. The #DearJohn fight is not over. Conflicted about The Superbowl featuring star quarterback who has two allegations of sexual assault within the…

So long 2010. Bring on 2011!

I’m not doing a year-in-review this year. And it’s not because nothing interesting happened. Indeed, I’d say 2010 was a pretty full year: health care reform, Prop 8 overturned, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, natural disasters (including devastating earthquakes in Haiti and Chile as well as the Icelandic volcano), the BP oil spill, Team Coco,…

DADT Repeal: How they voted

Here’s the Senate voting record, courtesy of HRC: The Senate’s vote to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was a landmark victory and an unforgettable moment in our history. Now we need to let our senators know we were paying attention to how they voted. 1. Find your senators below and see how they voted –…