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…
There’s nothing scarier than a racist, sexist, homophobic piece of legislation! A proposed Wisconsin law would label single parenthood as a factor of child abuse. But something tells me this law is more about vilifying single mothers than any altruistic intention to help kids. After all, a third of all parents in Wisconsin are single.…
Today the HERVotes Coalition is hosting a blog carnival (follow posts from across the country on twitter via the #HERVotes hashtag) about women and the economy, and in particular unemployment insurance. I know, I know. Unemployment insurance. Glamorous stuff. But that’s just the thing. Unemployment insurance, like so many aspects of the down economy —…
Passing this along from the Nevada Women’s Lobby: DO YOU CARE ABOUT NEVADA’S WOMEN AND CHILDREN? THEN THIS OPPORTUNITY MIGHT JUST BE FOR YOU (or someone you know)! The Nevada Women’s Lobby (NWL) is recruiting for our Northern Region Membership Team Leader. This volunteer position, which also includes membership on NWL’s steering…
Just finished watching tonight’s Women, War & Peace, the five-part series on the toll of war and even the toll of working toward peace that women pay. Tonight’s episode, Peace Unveiled, was about the women of Afghanistan and their plight over this last 10 years of the US-led war there. (Indeed, it’s the 10th anniversary…
Here’s something from the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth: Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth’s 5th Annual Plastic Food Drive October 14th thru November 23rd, 2011 Teenagers should NOT have to eat out of garbage cans or dumpster dive – Especially on Thanksgiving Day! Over 300 teenagers need your help during this holiday season. One Gift…
When news broke on Thursday that the Las Vegas Review Journal was — at that very moment — handing people their final checks and escorting them to the door as part of cost-cutting layoffs, it sent a little chill up my spine. As most regular SCS readers know, I’m a former journalist. But this news…
Is it just me, or is the world going insane? First, the good news: A local couple (and two moms), have started Teazled, a greeting card company that specializes in cards for the LGBT community. (Full disclosure: They go to my church. And yes, I will be shamelessly promoting them at every opportunity.) Moms are…
Now is the time of the crisp first page of a spiral notebook, of feeling your breath across your fingers as you blow the fresh shavings off a stack of new, No. 2 pencils. Now is the moment of anticipation before the first day of school. But it is also the time of want without…
Is it just me or is this whole debt-ceiling/credit-rating crisis just another in a long history of GOP antics during the hot summer months. Is this the GOP’s version of summer camp? Hi Kids! Welcome to Camp GOPWannaFuckUs! And the “talent” at the end-of-summer show is who was the most convincing boogey man? Who got…
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