The Sin City Siren Book Club met on Saturday to discuss Opting In: Having a Child Without Losing Yourself by Amy Richards. Although we had a light but enthusiastic turnout (it was hard to compete with the state budget hearing), it was really great to discuss the book and the tangents it led to —…
Check out my Tired Feminist post today for the MamaBlogger 365 project! The project, is a daily collection of testimonials, stories and literary pieces by mothers. Each piece looks at modern-day motherhood under the theme: Reframing Motherhood: What does it mean to be a mother? The goal of the project is to raise awareness for…
After more than a decade of controversy, the 1998 study that launched the autism controversy about vaccines has been completely discredited and called fraudulent by the British Medical Journal. Andrew Wakefield, who ran the study on 12 children, has been stripped of his medical license and 10 of the 13 authors of the study have…
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,…
Christmas has never been my favorite time of year. In fact, my favorite holiday is Halloween. Perhaps it’s because I grew up near the poverty line and we struggled so much to just have food on the table that Christmas was too out of reach. The luxury of gift-giving is shoved in your face everywhere…
If you haven’t already, please check out my other blog, The Tired Feminist, which has unique content from The Sin City Siren. It’s about life as a stay-at-home feminist and navigating the world of feminist parenthood. This week The Tired Feminist got a shout-out on Joy Rose‘s weekly online TV show! Here’s what was happening…
This is probably insane but I’ve started a new blog called The Tired Feminist. Don’t worry! There will still be plenty of action here at SCS but I have realized that I want to diversify a little. I want to write about my experience as a stay-at-home feminist. Sometimes that fits here at SCS and…
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