There’s been quite the storm brewing between the haves and the have-nots in this country. While it would be easy to point to the stock market crash in 2008 and the simultaneous housing market collapse as convenient epicenters of distopic fusion — best encapsulated in the easy “1 percent” propaganda — this storm has been…
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…
News you can use: I am so deeply sickened by this story, which you may have heard by now, about the middle school girl who was forced to write a letter of apology to her (fellow student) rapist. And we can call him a rapist, because he was convicted of the act in a juvenile…
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