From NOW: ACTION NEEDED: Contact your Senate and House members to urge them to pass the International Violence Against Women Act (IVAWA) (S. 2982/H.R. 4594). The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is set to consider this bipartisan bill, but very few days remain in the lame duck session. Adoption in this Congress of IVAWA would be…
At a time of year when most of us are thinking about spending time with family and being home for the holidays, there are many in our community who will be homeless or living in shelters. In the spirit of Mindful Giving, I would like to humbly suggest that those of us who live with…
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…
Passing this along: For Immediate Release Contact Jamie Lee Sprague Event Coordinator LVJamie_Sprague@msn.com 702/420.1294 Jane Heenan, MS MFT Director, Equality Nevada, Southern Region VegasCounselor@aol.com 702/810.4159 Monday 15 November 2010 – The Transgender Day of Remembrance will be held Friday 19 November at 7pm at Metropolitan Community Church (MCC). The event provides space for persons to…
When I caught a whiff of uproar over the self-published The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover’s Code of Conduct, I admit I had to take a few digital steps back and collect my thoughts. As a survivor of sexual abuse, I didn’t even want to open the links flashing through on twitter.…
On the heels of the strange re-opening of the Anita Hill v Clarence Thomas sexual harassment memory, last night’s episode of The Good Wife was a capsule lesson on how America treats the victims of sexual assault (or any form of violence, really). From the female attorneys who doubted her story more than the male…
There is a grassroots campaign to wear purple on Wednesday, Oct. 20, to take a stand against bullying. (I’m slightly bothered that purple is the color of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, which is October, but I’ll get over it.) This will be a good opportunity to not only visibly show youth that we stand with…
What I would like to title this post is, “So it will never happen again.” But the horrible, evil truth is that what happened to 18-year-old Tyler Clementi, a freshman at Rutgers University, will happen again. And again. It’s up to all of us to be the difference. To create change. According to news reports,…
April is national Sexual Assault Awareness Month, or SAAM. I know there are a lot of “awareness” months and events, but here’s why I think you should care: Every two minutes, someone in America is sexually assaulted, according to RAINN (the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network). And according to the US Dept. of Justice…
Have you taken your photo for The Sin City Siren Vagina Monologues photo contest, yet? The winner will receive two free tickets to one of the local productions this Friday or Saturday. Need some inspiration? How about this pic from my childhood friend Monika Thomas, who hosts Sexploration with Monika Thomas out of San Francisco…
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