A group of us went to the True Colors concert on Friday and it was really fun. I wasn’t going to miss it because I love Cyndi Lauper and it was finally a chance to see her without being billed with some band/performer I don’t like. Plus, Margaret Cho performed throughout the concert (there were…
On Friday the Feminist Majority Foundation released results from a poll of Americans about their attitude toward birth control (for? against?). A whopping 86 percent of Americans believe everyone should have access to safe birth control, including emergency contraception. The results of a survey conducted by Celinda Lake and released this week by the Women…
As always, there are more things happening in the world than there is time to blog or talk about it. But I don’t want to let these things completely slide off the map without a mention. Forgotten Voice, the newspaper for the homeless (started by a feminist alum of the Women’s Research Institute of Nevada’s…
I’m totally bragging here but I wanted to share that I interviewed Margaret Cho for the latest CityLife. I’m a fan and she’s certainly the biggest name celebrity I’ve interviewed. (And I get to see her tonight, along with Cyndi Lauper, at the True Colors concert benefiting the HRC!) Sweet!
Sometimes you just can’t un-hear something. And oh how I wish I could. I just learned that there are plans for a new reality show to be filmed in Alaska. This makes me sick to two levels. First, I hate Survivor-style reality shows. Second, get out of my home state! I’m from Alaska and treasure…
I’m conflicted about the latest celeb trend to bring SexyBack to the environment. Case in point, designers hawking “trendy” resuable shopping bags. On the one hand, as I’ve said before I’m elated any time we can do a sort of image rescue of eco-concerns because of that whole “dirty hippie” stigma. (All apologies to my…
My feminist crush, Jessica Valenti, was on the Colbert Report last night. (And Stephen Colbert is definitely my intellectual comedian crush.) When crushes collide, magic happens. Check it:
Just a quick update on the “fag bug” project. I’ve been e-mailing Erin and she is excited to come to Las Vegas next month. Still need to set up an event and think about pre- or day-of fundraising options. Also, does anyone have connections to LGBT groups in the high schools or at local colleges?…
Crooks and Liars has a partial transcript from a recent Scarborough show where he not only drools over Fred Thompson’s hot, younger wife, he suggests she used to be employed in the pole-dancing arts. (You might know Thompson because he is a former U.S. Senator or from his various TV roles such as one on…
Kudos to the Las Vegas Gleaner for reminding me of just how blindly afraid of women the heartland really is. (And that’s saying something, because I’m pretty much always on red alert for these kinds of things.) In one of his posts today the Gleaner hits the mark about our fear of female political candidates…
The Sin City Siren 