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Friday, October 14, 2011

Poll Results: What Makes You Feel Like A Woman?

MySavvySisters.Com posted a poll that asked its readers to answer the question: What makes you feel like a woman?

Of the women who responded:

44% answered Nurturing Others
22% answered Being Cared For
22% answered Playing Dominant/Submissive Roles
11% answered Romantic Relationships

Analysis- What does this indicate about the mental state of women who read our online magazine?

The women who read our online magazine are women who take pride in caring for others. Biologically, we are designed to be nurturers and that role fulfills us physically and psychologically.

As nurturing women, we give our time and energy to planting seeds in those around us and the things we love most. We not only nurture our children but we also nurture our mates, our friends and our parents. We sow into them emotionally and through our loving actions. We thrive on watching our nurturing groom the people we love and we truly want the best for those around us.

Being cared for by the people we love also makes us appreciate our feminine nature and the role we play in our relationships, both romantic and platonic also give us our share of WOMAN POWER.

To My Savvy Sisters- Keep giving. Keep loving. Keep believing that through your love, wisdom and generosity this world can be uplifted. You are so very right. It is through your breasts and breath that life is given meaning. Don't ever hold back. Love as much as you want to. Share as much as you can. Give as much as you have to offer.

Our survival depends on you.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

VIDEO: Everything's Okay


Life can teach you so many things that will help you to be more at peace with yourself and life's inconsistencies. Here is a video that I made of original inspirational words of wisdom set to the tune of Lenka's Everything's Okay VIDEO BELOW:


Wednesday, October 12, 2011

A Common Misconception About Common Law Marriages


We've all heard the term common law marriage which we believe to be defined by living together with our partner for more than 7 years. This is a myth. In fact, you could live with your partner for 20 years and still not reap the benefits of marriage because not every state chooses to acknowledge common law marriages. The following states recognize Common Law Marriages although certain restrictions may apply in each state:

Alabama
Colorado
Georgia
Idaho
Iowa
Kansas
Montana
New Hampshire
Ohio Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Texas
Utah
Washington, D.C.


If you do live in one of the states that recognize Common Law marriage, in order to solidify your common law marriage you should:


1. Tell people that you are married.

2. Use the same last name.

3. File joint income taxes.


A common law marriage offers you all the legal benefits of a legal marriage but if you do live in a state that recognizes a common law marriage and you are living with a partner that you do not want to become legally married to, you must do the following:


1) Draft out a letter that states that you and your partner do not intend to be married or legally bound in any way. Include that you are both independent adults co habitating freely.

2) Have this letter signed by a notary and scan it as a picture and email it to yourself for safe keeping.


By agreeing NOT to be married by documenting it in writing in a state that recognizes common law marriages you can save yourself the heartache of having to file for divorce later. Yes, even if you never had a wedding you will have to file for a legal divorce if you and your partner lived as though you were married.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

From The Publisher: We're Learning To Accept Ourselves

I'm wondering if it's just the way our technology is evolving that has affected the way we see ourselves or maybe it's the fact that we no longer feel we are so isolated because there are now a multitude of ways to connect with other like minded individuals through cyberspace.

Through my personal interactions with others I have found that although we can celebrate our individuality, we find true peace of mind in loving ourselves as a result of making heartfelt connection with others. Although we pretend we don't need to be accepted, we really do appreciate it when we can be our true selves and are appreciated for it.

I read a quote somewhere that said the phrase 'Really? Me too.' is the first sign of friendship.

If you are a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered or questioning individual and you are afraid that no one will understand or accept you, allow me to be the first to say: Really? Me too.

I am bisexual.




My Coming Out Story

About two years ago, I was innocently serving as a waitress when the restaurant doors opened and in walked the most beautiful woman in the world. I didn't know what to do besides stare with my mouth open and when I went home that evening I sat in confusion wondering what was going on with me.

"That's a girl," I said to myself. "That was a GIRL."

But why did I want to talk to her, to get to know her, to hold hands with her? Why did I want to match with her and be bestfriends with her? Eventually I realized that I wanted to kiss her too. It was a rough 3 months for me as I sought out people to talk to about what was happening in my mind. The people around me that I knew were openly gay didn't believe me and laughed at me when I tried to ask questions. They told me I was playing around but I wasn't.

I decided to fight through the confusion and I joined a website called Downelink to see if I could meet someone to talk to. There I met so many beautiful, smart women who loved other women and I even met my first internet girlfriend. Through her I learned that I could love a woman's heart and mind. Then I began to notice other women noticing me and on an impulse I went out to perform some of my spoken word art and I met the woman who would be my first.

Although she turned out to be someone who wasn't very nice to me, I appreciate that experience because I completely faced my fears of my questioning sexuality. I transformed from the 'Q' in LGBTQ to the 'B' as I embraced loving and being loved by both sexes.

I shared some of my thoughts during this process on my youtube channel. Here's a sample video.



I am proud of who I am today, tomorrow and everyday that will come. It doesn't really matter who is comfortable with who I decide to love as long as I decide that I can love who I want and not be ashamed of it.

I'm beautiful. I'm smart. I'm sexy. Why wouldn't both sexes want me? ~grins~

It's okay. Take your time. Explore. Love. Live. Be Proud.

Love,

Te-Erika

Monday, October 10, 2011

EDITORIAL: Occupy Fort Lauderdale


By Christina Fermin

Politics & Society Columnist

This past Saturday, October 8, 2011 our very own Fort Lauderdale, Florida held its first General Assembly meeting for Occupy Fort Lauderdale and I was there. When I first found out about the meeting, I did not know what to expect, who to expect or what to do, but I was determined to go in solidarity with Occupy Wall street and their movement against corruption, greed and the injustice that has touched every one of us. I must say upon arriving I felt nervous, tense, excited, happy, overwhelmed and fearful all at the same time. In the end, I was glad I went and I look forward to what we as a collective will do.

Because of the rain and the nasty weather, I was not expecting much of a turnout even though the advertised event on the Facebook page: Occupy Fort Lauderdale, said over 300 people would be coming. I was expecting less but the turnout was between 250-300 people of all races, ethnicities, backgrounds, beliefs, ideologies and faiths. We first began with Rules, a speech and the Declaration of the Occupation of New York City. Afterward we moved to another space where the acoustics were better and it gave a bit more room than from where we began. After a few speeches and claps from the crowd, people began telling their stories. Just as in NY, we used the "people's mic" so all could hear; this is when speech is broken up into pieces so that those who around the person talking repeat what is being said in unison for all to hear, and may I just say, how wonderfully awesome this technique is.

The stories were different, but similar in many ways. Many of us in the crowd could relate. A women who had recently finished her graduate degree and was a doctor with over $1000 per month in interests fees alone for her student loan debt, with no hope of ever paying down her principle. Another woman who had worked on Wallstreet and never fully understood what was going on, but knew it was shady. A man who had read an email from his best friend whose wife worked for a CEO who was part of the 2%, this CEO had sacrificed dozens of workers just to receive a paycheck for a week’s worth of work, when he could have easily gone without pay and never have missed it. She said he was so disconnected from reality and the 98% of the people, she had been disgusted by her boss and his friends behavior. A women with two degrees who could not find work. A man who had to travel over 1000 miles just to find work.

Aside from the stories of injustice and helplessness, a gentleman spoke about free energy and the suppression of such technology. He told me about how his father had created a device in the 1950s that allowed his car to run off water and 9 cents of gas to travel around the country. The oil companies sued him when he began installing these devices in other peoples cars. Not wanting to lose his home, he gave up in the 1960s and walked away from all the litigation. We also spoke of Nikola Tesla and his electromagnetic machine as well as his wireless energy he created and how J.P. Morgan, J.D. Rockefeller and H. Ford shut him down and hid away his technology in the turn of the century because they could not make money off his inventions.

The following day, October 8, the General Assembly held another meeting at a different location down the street. This time we had broken into groups: Media, Facilitation, Outreach, Legal, Mission Statement and Direct Action. Naturally I joined the media group and we introduced ourselves and what we could contribute. Afterward we reconvened and all the groups declared their goals and purpose. We also decided to have another meeting Wednesday, October 12 at 7 pm at Huizenga Plaza at Bubier Park. I encourage all of you to come out, support the movement and get involved in a wonderful process. If you cannot make it, please clear your calendars for Saturday October 15 at 11 am for a demonstration in solidarity with the World for global change, location to be determined. Already there are Occupy movements in over 1,100 cities and by this weekend it will spread to hundreds if not thousands of international cities. We are the 99%, join us.

Peace & Harmony,

Christina

About the Columnist

With a bachelors degree in political science from Florida Atlantic University, Christina Fermin has always cultivated her love for history, politics, sociology, ancient knowledge and teachings, the outdoors, the ocean and the environment. Christina strives to make our world better by helping us all create a new reality and understanding of all taking place here and now.

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