NV women lose again
Here’s some news we should be getting used to — unfortunately — as Nevadans: We suck. Yet again we find ourselves at or near the bottom of an important life-index list. This time it comes from the Health Care Report Card by the National Women’s Law Center, which analyzed the health care conditions for women…
The SCS Mindful Giving List: 2010
With Thanksgiving in just a couple of days, it’s time for my annual Mindful Giving List. As we gather to give thanks for the wealth or love and friendship in our lives, it’s also good to consider what we can do to help those in need. These are just some of the ways you can…
Pure Fun
From Planned Parenthood of Southern Nevada: Join PPSN for A NOT SO PURE EVENING at Pure Nightclub inside Caesars Palace featuring a unique showing of art and history from the Erotic Heritage Museum! This event will feature exquisite hors d’oeuvres and a signature complimentary cocktail: The Lusty Lady! Pure Nightclub at Caesars Palace (must be 21…
Abortion tweets go viral
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…
But what does it all mean?
The election is over. Now what? Well, for one thing, we’ll all be getting less annoying junk mail and be seeing less annoying campaign ads. Actually, that’s pretty damn nice. So, hurray! At least we have that. There’s been a lot of good news/bad news round-ups out there. Mostly, it seems the take-away from the…
Abstaining from reality
A new Guttmacher Institute report on teen pregnancy is out. Guess who’s No. 2? New Mexico had the highest teenage pregnancy rate (93 per 1,000), followed by Nevada, Arizona, Texas and Mississippi. The lowest rates were in New Hampshire (33), Vermont, Maine, Minnesota and North Dakota. And we top another side of this list, too:…
Get Out the Vote!
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…
Skewed sister act
Have you seen the new Sharron Angle ad? It’s the one where a line-up of white women tell the camera that Angle represents their anti-choice agenda. Well isn’t that special. I guess the idea behind the ad is to tap into the cliched sisterhood of women. After all, the white women in the ad are…
Pack your backpack with fresh pencils and feminism
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…
The Sin City Siren 