It’s all over the feminist internets…. So, let’s talk about SlutWalk. SlutWalk, which originated in Toronto, was a march in April in response to the recommendation by police officers that if young women wanted to avoid sexual assault and harassment, they should avoid dressing like a “slut.” Oh boy. Sadly, this kind of misogynistic thinking…
From the Nevada Coalition Against Sexual Violence: Nevada First Lady Encourages all to Participate in Sexual Assault Awareness Month Event Kathleen Sandoval, the first Lady of the State of Nevada, is encouraging all Nevada residents to participate in “Denim Day” on April 27, 2011. “Denim Day” resulted from the mishandling of the 1992 rape of…
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…
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…
As activists, we talk about moving people, moving organizations, moving politicians (toward our goal/desired end result). We talk about push-back when there’s resistance. But what do we do when the resistance we encounter is within ourselves? What do we do when the push-back is from our gut? I ask these questions because, like many activists,…
The shooting in Arizona — which killed six and wounded 12, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head — is a shocking and terrible incident. No matter what your politics are, there is no doubt this tragic. As we learn more about those who were there, we see just how tragic. There’s…
Cunt. Slut. Bitch. Whooore! She was out late at night. She was dressed like a tramp. She drank too much. She drank at all. She smoked pot. She smoked crack. She smoked a cigarette. She waved away your smoke disapprovingly. She ate dinner with you. She went on a date with her boyfriend. She has…
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,…
Maybe we should thank Michael Moore for bailing out Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and essentially being a rape apologist. Maybe we should thank mainstream media feminists like Naomi Wolf for their sarcastic, dismissive remarks that have ignited such a firestorm in the online feminist world. In case you haven’t heard, the Wikileaks founder was accused…
As feminists have been saying all week, this business with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange says a lot more about how we feel about rape than any government conspiracy ever contrived. The spin is mind-numbing! Conservatives want Assange’s head on a platter for leaking sensitive and classified US documents through his Wikileaks site. Meanwhile, many high-profile…
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