The other day a friend of mine posted the following on his Facebook page: Okay, so the basic conceit of “Easy A” is that a high school girl gets tagged as a slut for having sex. In 2010. Nobody, outside of the goddamn Amish, would give a shit about a high school girl giving it…
I was feeling really proud of our Las Vegas community this weekend. There was not one, not two, but at least three Trayvon Martin events. ProgressNow Nevada held a rally on Saturday at the Courthouse. There was an event by some “Granny’s” in North Las Vegas early on Sunday and then a large gathering in…
Skittles will never look the same: In the most recent Living While Black moment to make national news, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin (an A and B student with no record) was shot dead by an over-zealous neighborhood watch captain, George Zimmerman (who was arrested in 2005 for battery of an officer), while walking home from 7-11…
There’s nothing scarier than a racist, sexist, homophobic piece of legislation! A proposed Wisconsin law would label single parenthood as a factor of child abuse. But something tells me this law is more about vilifying single mothers than any altruistic intention to help kids. After all, a third of all parents in Wisconsin are single.…
If you ever needed a good reason to buy Girl Scout cookies, here it is: Following an incident in which a transgender child was rebuked and turned away from a Denver troop last fall, Girl Scouts released a statement saying they were inclusive to any youth who present themselves as girls. Now, anti-LGBT forces are…
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity,” Martin Luther King, Jr., from Strength to Love. Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and I am thinking about race, white privilege, and this quote. A lot. I blame The Help for putting a seed in my mind that I…
The (Laurel Thatcher Ulrich) quote goes, “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” And I suppose I do a fair amount of misbehaving here at The Sin City Siren when it comes to prochoice, feminist conversations. So, today I’m going to stretch myself a bit. I doubt very much I will make history for this (or any)…
With The Legislature ending a week ago, it is tempting to think we can all go on a little mini-break from politics. (I know I could use one!) But it turns out, Nevada may be in its biggest fight, yet. I’m talking about redistricting. Because Democrats and Republicans were deadlocked on an agreement on new…
Is it time to put an end to the death penalty in Nevada? A bill proposed in the Assembly, AB501, proposes to study the costs of the death penalty in Nevada placing a moratorium in effect until the study’s completion by July 2013. According to the ACLU of Nevada, which supports AB501 and AB460, which…
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…
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