*TRIGGER WARNING* Canada’s Edmonton Police Services, working with rape-prevention non-profit groups, has decided that the only way to go in a campaign about sexual assault awareness is: Go big or go home. The new ads, released as part of a two-year-long campaign, give some graphic representation to so-called “date rape” scenarios with the tag line:…
With December 1 comes World AIDS Day. The timing of this commemoration of those gone, those still fighting, and our hopes at prevention (and dare-we-hope an end?) to this epidemic always strikes me as curious. For Americans, World AIDS Day comes on the heels of Thanksgiving (and Black Friday) and nearly smack in the middle…
You want a Pepsi Blue with that? It was inevitable, I guess. Now that the First Lady’s socialist plot to get America’s kids to eat healthier foods and exercise more is taking off, it’s time to blame America’s moms for subbing out Hostess in the lunchbox. (Don’t even get me started on the sexism of…
I have a longer post on World AIDS Day in the works (been delayed by a sick toddler)… But until then, let’s celebrate all the good things with a Salt-n-Peppa music break:
Violence of silence: The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is in jeopardy of not being passed before the end of this session of Congress. Let’s do something about that! Merry-fucking-Xmas: Uganda is not for lovers. Or, at least not homosexual lovers. Recently, a member of Uganda parliament promised to get a bill to “kill the…
This looks to be a quite powerful event: World AIDS Day at UNLV Join UNLV’s Students United for Reproductive Justice in commemorating World AIDS Day on Thursday, November 29th. This powerful event will include several speakers from the Las Vegas community discussing various aspects of HIV/AIDS. Local artists have donated pieces to the event which…
For Giving Tuesday, The National Network of Abortion Funds is asking folks to complete the following statement: I support Abortion Funds because… And while you’re at it, why not snap a pic and share it on their Facebook page? (Tag The Sin City Siren so I can see ’em, too!) This is what I came…
As anxious shoppers trekked from the warmth of their homes for Black Friday deals, at Walmarts across the country workers seized the day to strike for fair wages and fair treatment. Many of the workers who picketed instead of working, faced retaliation from a company known to intimidate those who threaten to organize. Strike and…
Today is Thanksgiving and I hope it is a lovely one for you, filled with laughter and love as well as something yummy in your tummy. Eat some turkey and pie for me — the reluctant, accidental vegan with so many food allergies I can hardly keep track. But at least I have me some…
With all the ranting this way and that about stores opening for Black Friday sales on Thanksgiving day, I got to wondering how you feel about all this. Is Black Friday a cultural institution, like pumpkin pie, or to put it the way one blog did, “where Satan goes for a time out”? Vote now!…
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