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Singles Strike Back: #UnmarriedEquality April 16, 2013

As described in our previous post, the Communications League for Unmarried Equality (CLUE) is creating Media Saturation Mania around the topical issue of Marital Status Discrimination. Single people, have you encountered laws or practices that discriminate you based on your marital status? Then join us in writing your own stories on your own blogs, or wherever you write!  (Married people are welcome to share their own stories of discrimination too!)

All these bloggers hit the cyberstreets protesting Marital Status Discrimination in their own words. Join us and them! #UnmarriedEquality and #SinglesBlogfest. The following bloggers did:

• Dating Senior Men: “Being single will cost you”
• Diva of Dating, Walker AKA The Diva: “Who knew there was a penalty for being single!”
• Funky Brown Chick, Tawana Hines: “Marriage equality is (somewhat) the wrong equation”
• Hollywood Spinster: “Sex & the single room supplement”
• Huffington Post, Eleanore Wells: “Singles: Paying more taxes and other annoyances”
• Living Single, Bella DePaulo: “If you are single, every day is tax day: 19 examples” (also published at the Huffington Post)
• MirletaLiz Living Out Loud, Liz Hiles: “Today…I blog for a cause”
• My Pixie Blog, Charlotte Klein: “Is there such a thing as marital status discrimination?”
• Onely, Christina Campbell and Lisa A.: “Single? Blogfest explains how to get screwed 1,000 times!”
• Open Salon, Eleanore Wells: “When your government discriminates”
• Rachel’s Musings: “Taxing singles”
• Say Waugh, Simone Waugh : “Happy you get shafted on taxes because you’re single day!”
• Single and Happy Online, Tyjuana Wilson: “Blog talk radio, This needs to be said”
• Single at Heart, Bella DePaulo: “Why we need consciousness-raising about singles: New York Times edition” (Also: “Nearing retirement and nearly broke? Economic discrimination against singles adds up”)
• Single. Sassy. Smart. Sophisticated? “Single supplements = unmarried inequality”
• Single Minded Women: “Calling all single woman bloggers” [Note from Bella: We welcome men, too, to this Blogfest and all future CLUE events!]
• Singular Magazine, Kim Calvert: “How single people get screwed”
• Spinsterlicious Life, Eleanore Wells: “Single: Paying more taxes and other annoyances”
• Spinster Jane, “Will you be my next of kin?”
• Spinster’s Compass: “Spinster”
• SWaNK Evolution, Carolyn Quan: “It’s tax day and singles are getting ripped off across the good ole U S of A”
• Unmarried Equality, Cindy Butler: “Living single comes at a HIGH price”
• Urban Dater, “Tax Day aka ranch me up and call me spanky day”
• With or Without a Man, Dr. Karen Gail Lewis: “April 15, tax day, single women!”
• Yahoo! Shine, Beth Greenfield: “Single in America? That’ll cost you”
• Your Tango, Eleanore Wells: “It’s #SinglesBlogfest on tax day!”

• I Have A Degree In This, Kimberlee Van Der Wall: On tax day, don’t forget the singles

• Notes From The Dating Trenches, Kelly Seal: “On April 15, are you paying more for being single? Yep.”

• SWANN (Single Working Women’s Affiliate Network), Barbara Payne: Tax day is a good day to holler about fairness to singles

–Christina and Lisa