As anxious shoppers trekked from the warmth of their homes for Black Friday deals, at Walmarts across the country workers seized the day to strike for fair wages and fair treatment. Many of the workers who picketed instead of worked, faced retaliation from a company known to intimidate those who threaten to organize. Strike and protest events happened in 100 [...]
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Emmily Bristol
Emmily is an award-winning journalist, having received the Nevada Press Association’s Outstanding Journalist of the Year award in 2005, as well as recognition for news and feature stories. She has been praised for her work as a community organizer and was nominated for a Margaret Sanger award in 2012. A survivor of sexual abuse, Emmily has worked to be a voice for other survivors through her blogs, The Sin City Siren and The Tired Feminist, as well as through lobbying and activist work. She is a fierce advocate for women’s rights, including serving as the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against a personhood initiative in Nevada in 2009/10. Her activism began when she was a student at the University of Oregon, where she graduated with a degree in English and minors in journalism and women’s studies. Her blog The Sin City Siren was nationally syndicated in 2011. Emmily lives in Las Vegas with her husband and daughter. She tweets from @TheSinCitySiren.
Recent blog posts written by Emmily Bristol
Obama Wins! Ding-Dong The Election (Season) Is Dead!
Praise the Flying Spaghetti Monster or whatever deity you do or don’t believe in… this presidential campaign season is all over but the shouting! And there is good news to report! Of course, people wasted no time celebrating (or complaining) via social media of the president’s victory. I personally loved Think Progress’ tweet, “Obama Wins. It’s better on Fox [...]
Scouts Honor: Breaking The Code Of Silence
*TRIGGER WARNING* Late last week news broke of some 14,500 pages of files kept by The Boy Scouts of America filled with allegations of sexual abuse. The files, released on a website by an Oregon attorney, include graphic accounts of abuse with more than 1200 names of victims — spanning the entire country — in [...]
Debate Night: You Sank My Battleship
In the third and final presidential debate, the round goes to the quip heard ’round the world (from President Barack Obama): I think Gov. Romney maybe hasn’t spent enough time looking at how our military works. You mentioned our Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we had in 1916. Well, governor, we also [...]
Debate Night: A Binder Full Of Women
So, Mitt Romney has a binder full of women. I wonder if that’s anything like the locker full of women many pubescent teens have. At any rate, this got me thinking about the good old days when I had binders for school. Or, better yet, when I had a Trapper Keeper. I can almost smell the [...]
Feminist Files: Get Out The Voter Suppression
In the final weeks of voter registration, let’s look at a round-up about voter suppression laws and why it sucks: What is voter suppression? As the ACLU explains, changes to voting laws including requiring ID (three states now require proof of citizenship), shortening early voting times, and putting up road blocks to register to vote (removing same-day voter registration, [...]
The Finale: Obama Asks Us To Keep The Faith
In a convention packed with amazing stories and amazing speeches — I highly recommend viewing Rep. John Lewis‘ moving speech — President Obama delivered a stirring, concise argument for his re-election on Thursday night. In his trademark style, he acknowledged the hard times while motivating Americans to look with optimism to the future.
Paul Ryan: Leading the Charge to Nullify Rape, Deepen Abortion Stigma
When news broke Sunday about Paul Ryan’s new comments about rape, I was just finishing a new post for the Independent Voter Network about the Todd Akin news cycle and what it showed us about media bias (and our own biases). Indeed, I was naive enough to think we had all learned something: One wonders [...]
Ryan And Rand: You’re Doing It Wrong
This post is originally published on The Sin City Siren and is cross-posted with permission. While I’ve been recuperating my bad back, the Romney campaign has gone all flibbidy-woo over Paul Ryan. I thought it might be my pain meds, but then I remembered I’m not taking any pain medication, so… this is reality. Paul [...]
Olympic Sexism! Why Does Mama Got The Magic?
The 2012 Olympics in London have been heralded as a win for feminism in many ways — some calling it the Title IX games even. And there’s a lot to celebrate for women in these games. But as the old poem says, we have miles to go before we sleep. If you’ve watched any part [...]