If there is one uniting theme in the 2016 presidential campaign season it is the rise of Privilege Panic. Again and again, across parties and at venues all over the country, we see a deep well of anger exploding with the landing of fists and the hurling of chairs (and death threats). From BernieBros to…
It was much easier for me to roll my eyes at Sheldon Adelson’s antics when his use of the dark side relegated him to a kind of ineffectual evil lord, not unlike The Emperor. I felt a kind of insulation from his political machinations when it was reserved mostly for using his billions to back…
When it comes to comedy, it’s rare that survivors of sexual violence aren’t served up as the punch line. Even otherwise smart, feminist comedians get tripped up with how to crucify the ones who deserve it – the rapists – without stumbling into the low-hanging fruit of blaming the victims. (It’s actually not that hard…
Are you ready for this? This is The Sin City Siren’s ninth birthday! That’s right. The Sin City Siren started on May 6, 2007 – a month before the first iPhones went on sale and the same summer that J.K. Rowling released Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It was also the same year that…
It was only a matter of time until things were going to go sideways at the Las Vegas Review Journal* campus. A stranger-than-fiction mystery buyer drama that got headlines from around the nation (and revealed billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson as the new owner) earned intrepid RJ reporters the esteemed Ancil Payne Award for Ethics…
Alright 2016, that’s quite enough. It’s only April and already the In Memoriam rolls that will play at next year’s award shows are going to have us on the floor balling. There will no doubt be countless words written about Prince this week. I hardly think I can say it all, but maybe we can…
The politics of hair starts early. In fact, it starts when you’re born. It’s why there’s a market for teeny tiny hair clips and baseball caps for newborns. With the exception of pink and blue onesies, it’s the first chance society gets to start the complicated process of indoctrinating us in identities involving gender, race,…
Saw this amazing display of powerful, talented black women at the newsstand a few days ago. Representation matters!
Downtown is stupid. There, I said it. Over the course of living in the Las Vegas Valley for 17 years, I have had an occasion to work downtown a handful of times. It has never, in any of those years, been fun or easy to work downtown. I know. I know. I’m a defacto Las…
[Trigger warning: rape, sexual assault, sexual abuse] In this week’s Vegas Seven I wrote about Sexual Assault Awareness Month and the good work happening at the Rape Crisis Center. One program in particular, the Enough Abuse Campaign, resonates with me personally as a survivor of sexual abuse. The program is designed to teach adults how…
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