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Spring Fever
Advice
Don’t Know How to Flirt? S By Angelina Roman
Eye contact and body language are essential to a good flirt, but the smile is the universal! Flirting is the first step in communication. It is the best way to get to know another person. To flirt means to do something, take a risk but to most, flirting means being playful, friendly, charming, having a good sense of humor, and of course taking chances in meeting new people like at a book store, Starbucks, or even on the subway. I am not suggesting that you take an unsafe risk and smile at strangers but try and smile in safe places where there are lots of people and positive energy. Smile at the stranger sipping cappuccino or give directions to a person holding a map. If we don’t smile, or communicate, we limit our chances to transform our lives. Besides, even if the person isn’t interested, you’ve made them feel good about themselves by smiling. So makes someone’s day!
Smile! Rules for Smiling • Pick a safe place • Test-drive some different smiles on your friends to see which is most becoming to you. • Practice your smile in the mirror. • Check your attitude. Is your smile sincere?
Now you try! Homework: Smile at five people a day and share your results with us at womynsgroup@gmail.com
Music
May Music! By Kali
Are you ready for Spring? This time of year, everything and everyone starts changing… Some for the good and some for the bad. Yup, it’s the time of year when your mother is going to drive you crazy with the springtime cleaning. The time of year when flowers start to blossom and love starts to bloom. Who knew from the concrete that a flower would grow? Mother’s day is this month, which is exciting, and it doesn’t hurt to remind your mom how much you love and appreciate her. Mother’s day isn’t about the gifts (that’s just the extra goodies) nor is it for mothers either; I say it’s for every female role model in your life who loves you unconditionally. That can be your Grandma, Aunt, Godmother, etc. It’s good to be loved, so spread the love! What’s the best way to spread love? MUSIC! Yes OMG seasons change and so does music. I’ve come up with a list of new dope songs and artists who are on my springtime playlist. Those are just a few artists I’m listening to at the moment. I’m more into the underground scene. So from now on, for POP magazine, I will be introducing you all to the dope upcoming UNDERGROUND artists, from Interviews to showcases! Kali is on it and I will keep you updated. Thanks for reading. Go out and enjoy the day with some chill music.
May Playlist Kid Cudi –“IndiCud” J. Cole –“Truly yours 2” Justin Timberlake –“The 20/20 Experience” Miguel –“Kaleidoscope Dream” Calvin Harris ft Florence Welch –“Sweet Nothing” Daft punk ft Pharrell Williams –“Get Lucky” Kat Dahlia –“Gangsta” Joe Budden ft Wiz Khalifa & French Montana –“NBA” Demi Lovato –“Heartattack” Drake –“Girls Love Beyonce”
Have some new music for Kali to check out? share your song picks with us at
womynsgroup@gmail.com
Poetry
Nonsense “My No Short Skirt” Practical He by Eve Ensler, from the Vagina Monologues.
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y short skirt is not an invitation a provocation an indication that I want it or give it or that I hook.
My short skirt is not begging for it it does not want you to rip it off me or pull it down. My short skirt is not a legal reason for raping me although it has been before it will not hold up in the new court. My short skirt, believe it or not has nothing to do with you. My short skirt is about discovering the power of my lower calves about cool autumn air
traveling up my inner thighs about allowing everything I see or pass or feel to live inside. My short skirt is not proof that I am stupid or undecided or a malleable little girl. My short skirt is my defiance I will not let you make me afraid My short skirt is not showing off this is who I am before you made me cover it or tone it down. Get used to it. My short skirt is happiness I can feel myself on the ground. I am here. I am hot. My short skirt is a liberation flag in the women’s army I declare these streets, any
alth: Look Like A Queen streets my vagina’s country. My short skirt is turquoise water with swimming colored fish a summer festival in the starry dark a bird calling a train arriving in a foreign town my short skirt is a wild spin a full breath a tango dip my short skirt is initiation appreciation excitation. But mainly my short skirt
and everything under it is Mine. Mine. Mine.
“Waiting” Anonymous
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ou can,t love me And I can’t do this My Legs Part My heart drops I’m not ready for this I wasn’t raised like this Friends with benefits Cuddle buddies it’s all the same shit I’m not ready, Not because I don’t want it But because I can’t have it I cant live with knowing that you entered my sanctuary and the only thing, you could leave, was your seed, and not your heart So part my legs and I scream Not because I fear the pain
but because I know once we are through. There will no longer be a me and you This was never about us It was about it It Sex Fucking Making love It’s all the same thing to you But baby, I know there’s a difference There has to be So I am going to close my legs Put on my Bra Hope the emotional marks you left me don’t scar And I am going to wait Wait for the man that can love me unconditionally
The one who figures me out, before he even thinks about fingering me The man who knows that sex and love are two different things entirely I will wait for the man that brings me offerings not just of seeds but blossoming flowers The one who will stay up late to talk on the phone with me for hours I will wait for the man who can love me How he will love me Because I deserve to be loved
Health
No Nonsense Practical H By Stephanie Messer
Want to instantly look regal? It is all about posture so let’s get to it. It is not your muscles that take on weight but your bones. For every action there must be an equal and opposite reaction. What? Gravity is the action, and it is pushing down forcing us to carry weight. Our body must be able to accept this force while also opposing it. How does it do this? The bones are designed to go along with this downward pull, they are compression members. Inside bones is an insane meshwork of fibers going every which way so they can receive weight from any direction. The muscles on the other hand are not with this whole gravity thing. They are the opposite reaction, the tensile members. By resisting gravity muscles allow our bones to not just
receive weight but carry it. Bones carry weight, muscles move bones. I’m not about to hit up the gym. What does this have to do with me?? Everything because gravity is not going away anytime soon. Most aches and pains especially in the lower back are caused by how we carry ourselves. Take a second to observe how your body is designed; you have this nice long spine closer to the back and a softer, boneless abdomen in front. Our weight is transferred through the spine while the muscles in front resist this. Put simply down the back and up the front but this must always ALWAYS start from your pelvis, not your upper body. While sitting try this: keeping your upper body still lengthen the base of your spine down. Immediately you sit up straighter. Now imagine gravity traveling down your
Health: Look Like A Queen spine, lengthening it all the way to the ground. As you start to waver backwards with this beautiful long spine counter that with the powerful pelvis and abdominal muscles. Imagine the muscles at the front of the pelvis lengthening up. Continue this pull up your abdominals but make sure your chest and shoulders remain stationary. Now you have these two balanced forces, gravity lengthening your spine down to the earth, and the energy created by your muscles lengthening to the galaxy above. It is difficult to maintain this posture all the time but be mindful of it. Throughout the day take a second to lengthen down the back and up the front. It is an abdominal workout without breaking a sweat and you look incredibly regal.
In any exercise or motion imagine that your bones are the structure taking the weight and let your muscles be free to move the body. Strut around with your newfound length and know that there is balance in your body.
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W.O.M.E.N.’S GROUP Would like to wish you a very Happy Mothers Day
Don’t Know How to Flirt? UPCOMING THE POINT CDC’s WOMEN’s Empowerment Group will be hosting the “3rd Annual Female Flava Women’s Health Conference - A Holistic Approach to Women’s Health” honoring the activists in the Bronx. Both male and females in the community are invited to attend.
EVENTS
Smile!
WOMEN’S GROUP member Teresa Lynn is a keynote speaker for the 5th annual Emoti-Con! NYC Youth Digital Media and Technology Challenge. This year it’s in The New York Public Library Celeste Bartos Forum June 1st, 2013 at 11:30am
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