[UPDATED: MAY 23, 2012] Do you have what it takes to be a Siren? There’s never been a better time to find out! If you want to learn about journalism, online media and communication, with a dash of grassroots organizing and media relations, The Sin City Siren internship is for you! About SCS: The five-year-old…
As regular readers know, The Sin City Siren is a one-woman show. I do my best to deliver witty, topical, feminist posts and you validate me by coming back again and again to read them. It’s a match made in an anti-choice conservative’s worst nightmares! But did you know there are other ways you can…
HuffPost Women has a new campaign called “The Moment I Knew I Was a Woman, Not a Girl” in which users submit videos chronicling their exile from Girlville. It’s an interesting question, especially considering how dangerous it feels to be Living While Female these days. And it strikes to the core of gender, really. Because…
As if we weren’t already looking down the barrel of a barn-burner of a presidential campaign season, President Barrack Obama just raised the stakes today by becoming the first sitting US president to come out in favor of same-sex marriage rights. (Kinda makes Vice President Joe Biden’s pro-equality comments last week — however hackneyed by…
Food for thought: An interesting discussion happened last week about the phrase “War on Women.” Even in the movement we’re not all comfortable with the war-themed rhetoric. But how do we “rally the troops” without a call to arms? Waiting list: In Utah you have to wait 72 hours before having an abortion, the longest…
For a lot of people who have met me in the past decade or so, it might seem like I don’t know anything about poverty first-hand. After all, I’m a white, stay-at-home mom in the suburbs. It doesn’t get more stereotypically middle-class and conventional than that. But anyone who reads The Sin City Siren with…
Today I celebrate five years of The Sin City Siren, my little blog that (as it turns out) could. As I write this, I feel nostalgic and curious at the same time. I’m humbled by the support I get from so many loyal readers. I am grateful for everything we’ve accomplished together. But at the…
My dear Sirens, thank you so much for supporting team Sin City Sirens as we bowled — virtually and literally — for abortion access in the National Network of Abortion Funds bowl-a-thon! For the third year in a row, you have made access a little more within reach for women all over the country. AND…
Sharing this from the Women’s Research Institute of Nevada (WRIN): If you only make one event that WRIN does this year, you will want to come to this one! Thursday May 17 on the UNLV campus Student Union. Mixer 5-6; dinner 6-8 with keynote. 10 years of our NEW Leadership program has produced alums who…
Holy food pantry voters, Batman! God’s Groceries has jumped way out ahead in The Sin City Siren anniversary poll! But if that’s not your top pick for who should get a week’s worth of free advertising and fundraising from your truly — I like to pay it forward for my anniversary — there is still…
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