Coming together to fight AIDS

This weekend: And on April 15 (right before The Sin City Sirens bowl for abortion access) the AFAN AIDs Walk (you can click here to join PPSN’s team):

Back up your BC Day!

Tomorrow is national Back Up Your Birth Control Day. It’s a good time to really consider what you would do if your birth control failed (or, if you have no birth control). Here’s a handy fact sheet (PDF) about EC (emergency contraceptives) and how they can be a part of your birth control plan. It’s…

How about some social justice for lunch?

**RALLY CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS** Which would you rather have for lunch — another boring salad or some kick-ass social justice? Social justice, of course! So let’s make a date to meet for an early lunch — say 11 am — on Tuesday, April 3 to do a little rallying against hate speech and rape…

Suspicious minds

I was feeling really proud of our Las Vegas community this weekend. There was not one, not two, but at least three Trayvon Martin events. ProgressNow Nevada held a rally on Saturday at the Courthouse. There was an event by some “Granny’s” in North Las Vegas early on Sunday and then a large gathering in…

Trayvon Martin event DT going on NOW

Get your ass down to Colorado Avenue now! (Photos: Gloria and Dustin.)

UFC Petition: Only 8 more days!

Have you signed the UFC petition, yet? You only have 8 more days until it closes! Then I will be delivering it to the UFC headquarters in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness month in April. This is a chance to have your voice be heard that rape jokes and hate speech are NOT funny. Ever!…

Live through this

*TRIGGER WARNING FOR SEXUAL VIOLENCE* Earlier today I participated in a tweet chat about sexual violence and the #IDidNotReport campaign with my Fem2.0 colleagues. It was a great and lively discussion that dealt with a spectrum of issues related to sexual violence — from workplace harassment to sexual abuse to rape. When you get down…

Tweet chats! So many tweet chats!

Not sure if there is something in the air or everyone just likes a tweet chat on a Thursday, but there are two good tweet chats TODAY! At 11 am (Pacific) there will be a live tweet chat from the White House hosted by the National Women’s Law Center (@nwlc) and MomsRising.org (@momsrising). The topic…

Let’s go bowling!

Great news, everyone! We now have a date and time set for The Sin City Sirens bowling team for the National Network of Abortion Funds bowl-a-thon! Join us on Sunday, April 15 at 1pm at the South Point Bowling alley! Sign up for the team here! Or, just show up with a donation and join…

SCS Poll: It’s back!

We haven’t done a poll in a long time so I thought it would be fun to post one: