Day 3: Female Condom Upgrade...

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Moving right along…We are now in Day 3 of our 7-Days of Healthier Eating. Hopefully you have settled into the spring cleaning of your body.

Yesterday was cool for me, minus the mucous. Mucous was coming out of all ends...lol lol. As a part of my cleaning I take fenugreek pills and a bentonite/psyllium/water mixture to help to pull out toxins and mucous. I also do shots of wheatgrass to help with the mucous as well.

It’s all-good. I embrace all the yucky details of cleansing...lol lol lol

Aqua and I went to a Female Condom and HIV/AIDS workshop with the Chicago Women's AIDS Project yesterday. We did an opening performance at their conference last year and was so inspired by the womyn the Project supports and offers resources to. These womyn are reflections of our mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts and grandmothers. It was good to see so many sistas out, especially the teen girl groups that were present. These young ladies were empowered, and vocal about sex, myths and the abstinence only education that they’ve been taught in school.

What trips me out about abstinence only education is not only is it "abstinence only," it’s abstinence only "til marriage." The til marriage part places a religious connotation on there that assumes that everyone is a christian or even religious.

What about those girls that will not marry, what about being a healthy sexual being, what about being responsible and mature, what about other options?

Abstinence only has not worked. Illinois statistics are crippling. In addition, MOST of this abstinence only rhetoric is geared towards girls. Are we the sole keepers of this thang called procreation? No we are not, tho we carry babies, it takes two (for the most part). As much attention should be placed on boys.

I am a proponent of comprehensive sex education as a human right. It was a sista from the Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health at the workshop with the statistics/info that places the reality of the ineffectiveness of abstinence-only sex ed into perspective...it has NOT worked.

Concerning the female condom. The FDA has approved the FC2 (female condom 2). This one is
more affordable.

Sistas be empowered by having your own protection and brothas support us as we empower ourselves. We can make love and be safe at the same time. Oh and sistas the ring, which is flexible, can be used for clitoral stimulation, what a nice perk!

For a female condom demonstration, go here:

Ladies be patient with this. Before using the female condom (FC) with your partner, make a date with yourself and practice putting it on. Candles, incense, a glass of wine, jazz and get comfortable with putting on the condom.

After the Female Condom workshop, we headed to Logan Square for the planning meeting for Chicago’s Hip-Hop Heritage Month events. This year’s calendar of events is going to be engaging, fun, innovative and and and just downright awesome. Yes, I said awesome, I'm bringing the A-word to hip-hop....lol lol lol. Visit the Chicago Hip-Hop Iniative website to stay abreast.

A few years ago, with the Chicago Hip-Hop Initiative, we started the Bgirl Power component of the Chicago Hip-Hop Heritage Month. We are so glad that the Initiative has been holding it down every year to make sure girls and womyn are included in Hip-Hop Heritage Month. Girl Power!

This year's theme: And it don't stop...the movement continues!

As you can see, we had a full day and we maintained our No Meat. No Dairy. No Soda. No Junk Food.

What did I eat yesterday?
Breakfast: Green Smoothie (green meal, lecithin, flax oil, coconut water, a coupla chunks of frozen mangos and frozen blueberries) I freeze FRESH fruit for the smoothies.
Snacks: Apple, a strawberry and a handful of grapes
Lunch/Dinner: Foot-long veggie-patty sub from Subway (still be healthy while you’re on the go) and steamed okra/string beans. Oil and vinegar on the sub and even mustard is better than the dairy-based mayonnaise etc.

And I had plenty of water throughout the day...

Empowered,
Moon