Last week I had the pleasure of spending Independence Day with my family back home. It’s a different kind of place, Alaska. The Land of the Midnight Sun. And one thing going home is good for is to get some perspective. We all get mired in the daily grind — work, errands, bills, dishes —…
Today it was announced that diabetes drug-maker Novo Nordisk is dropping Paula Deen. It’s understandable that a diabetes drug-maker might not want to be linked to a spokesperson who has admitted to using the n-word. After all, blacks are twice as likely as whites to get diabetes. Keeping Deen on is like hiring Mel Gibson…
In what may be the first of many big decisions announced this week, the Supreme Court rejected Arizona’s (racist) voter ID law. Hopefully, this will set a precedent for all the voter ID laws that have been passed around the country. More than half of all states have some form of voter identification requirement. So,…
You’d think that Sherman Frederick, disgraced Review Journal publisher extraordinaire, would have learned his lesson last week, after writing that Silver State girls are easy. You know, the op-ed in which he posits that if the Hispanic community has such a problem with teen pregnancy, then it’s just their own damn fault? Those slutty sluts.…
If I were the Grinch, I have no doubt that my heart would have grown three sizes tonight. What I experienced at the NOH8 in Las Vegas hate crimes event tonight was nothing short of the heartbeat of Las Vegas. And it is alive and well! We did what we do so well! We came…
Are you ready for the NOH8 in Las Vegas hate crimes event TOMORROW? I can’t believe it’s almost here! You can still RSVP here. And all this planning has me thinking about the first time I organized an event for Erin Davies and her “fag bug.” I spent most of the summer of 2007 organizing…
We are just days away from NOH8 in Las Vegas on Friday, April 19! Come join us at Northwest Community Church, 101 S. Rancho Drive, and see what is possible when we come together to talk about hate crimes. It will be healing. It will be a radical, safe space to declare our intention for…
Have you RSVP‘d for the hate crimes event on April 19? You really should! It is shaping up to be a dynamic and inspirational event! For those of you who have missed the first half-dozen times I’ve talked about it, Erin Davies and her world-famous “Fag Bug” are returning to Las Vegas on Friday, April…
March 8 is International Women’s Day. A lot of times the discussion for International Women’s Day, with its focus to look globally at the status and issues of women, causes American women to turn our gaze outside our borders. The dominant thinking is that life for women in other parts of the world is so…
Hallelujah! News broke yesterday that a Mississippi baby born HIV-positive was cured following aggressive treatment. It is only the second time in the world that this has been documented. Promising for children infected, although there may be no correlation to treatment for adults. Still. That’s pretty awesome! Throwing like a girl: Check out this Desert…
The Sin City Siren 