By kvargas, Tuesday, September 07, 2010, 4 comments
Has anyone else seen the article today about the Florida pastor advocating for a rally to burn copies of the Quaran this September 11? Now, I'm not a super religious person, and I'm not as current as I should be on news events, but, this one really got me going. Here's the link if anyone wants to read it: news.yahoo.com/s/ap/quran_burning Is it just me, or does this seem like a borderline hate crime to anyone else? From a pastor, no less! Granted, burning books isn't necessarily a cr
By Skirt.com, Wednesday, September 01, 2010, 0 comments
"In fashion...One day you're in, the next day you are out!" -Heidi Klum
Artist Magnetic Necklaces understand that fashion changes daily, which is why they come with five artist-illustrated and alterable centers. Handmade with recycled car parts, they’re eco friendly and fashionable.
By skirtySteph, Tuesday, August 31, 2010, 0 comments
Birmingham Ballroom Dance Association, a local chapter of USA Dance, and Concordia Beneficial Society will present an evening of General Dancing and Spotlight Dancing at the Concordia Beneficial Society (3400 First Avenue North, Birmingham).
The Tradewinds band will provide the dance music. Local professional dancers will be performing with their students as well as local amateur couples. Hors d’oeuvres will be served. After Five attire.
By skirtySteph, Thursday, August 26, 2010, 4 comments
Today is the 90th Anniversary of the 19th amendment and without all my historic skirt! sisters who stood up so we could have the right to vote, I may never have been able to go to the polls for the first time on November 5, 1996.
By Skirt.com, Thursday, August 26, 2010, 0 comments
Thirty-nine years ago today Representative Bella Abzug (D-NY), persuaded the U.S. Congress to designate August 26th as “Women’s Equality Day.”
Today is designated to salute the culmination of a massive, peaceful civil rights movement by women that had its formal beginnings in 1848. The actions of these women eventually led to the passage of the 19th amendment, which allowed females to cast a ballot.
By skirtySteph, Wednesday, August 25, 2010, 0 comments
My grandmother was five years old when the 19th Amendment was ratified. Growing up on a small Ohio farm, she might have seemed flung far from the epicenter of the suffrage movement. She was a headstrong, bookish kid who had already taught herself to read by studying road signs.
Before Obama, there was Shirley Chisholm. As the first black woman elected to Congress and the first major-party black candidate for President of the United States, Chisholm was a pioneer who blazed the trail for women in politics with her sheer determination, honest practices and an unabashed fearlessness.
When you push for that raise at work, knowing you deserve to make as much as your male coworker, think of Esther Peterson. A disgruntled (and grossly underpaid) factory worker, Peterson successfully helped raise minimum wage and implement workplace standards and regulations.
