6 Random facts tag

I was tagged by my twitter buddy, LovelyLadyBG so here goes.

1. I am totally addicted to twitter.

2. I must get butt naked when I walk thru my door.

3. I hate to go number 2 in fact most times when I poo I usuallly puke too.

4. I think Oprah is the best thing since slided bread

5. I have to do everything to music like I am in a movie with a soundtrack

6. I am obsessed with hair and make up.

Obama's President so now what?

YOU VOTED FOR OBAMA SO NOW WHAT?

Two slogans resonated throughout Obama's campaign. That was, Yes We Can and Time for Change. With the successful election of Obama now we have to figure out where we play in all this. Voting for Obama was only the first step. Let's not be disillisioned into thinking that this one man will be our Messiah. As American's far too many times we put our people on pedestals only to kick that same pedestal from under them. Obama is a man, a human prone to all the things that plague us all. There is an overwhelming gravity placed on the shoulders of this man and its up to us all to continue in our support.

The change of office is never immediate or drastic. Change is a process other wise it would be called a miracle. Obama is coming into a system that has been patched for far too long instead of being fixed. We have put a band aid on many of the cancers that plague our nation instead of finding a cure. In my humble opinion its going to take two terms for the dream to be truely realized. Let's not sit on our backsides and wait to reap the benifits of our one vote. Any time in our history when ground breaking things took place it took the work of the entire nation it starts from the head and trickles down to every man. We must roll up our sleeves and work with our new government and trust that our choice was the best choice.

Lets not sit back 3 months, 6 months a year into this mans term and start to loose faith and start picking apart him and the administration he chooses to help him and us in the process of progress. Some things will be immediate but for the most part you will see subtle strides forward. All that matters is that we are moving forward. The Presidency is like anything else there are steps to reach a plateau and if those steps dont exist they must be built.

To the second part Yes We Can the most operative word of this was WE. We is used a lot in our government and what our political history. We the people, We hold these truths and so forth. Our President -elect is not in this alone the success of his term will depend of us. We the people and how we back him.

Let's stop treating our politicians as celebrities or Demi God's. These are men born of women completely human and the only thing special about any of them, including Obama, is how they think and what they intend to do.

THE ART OF HUMANITY

Humans behave Humanely

In this piece I will give a little background into the meaning of hate and the history of hate. First Webster's definition of HATE

Main Entry: 1hate
Pronunciation: \'hat\
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hete; akin to Old High German haz hate, Greek kedos care
Date: before 12th century
1 a: intense hostility and aversion usually deriving from fear, anger, or sense of injury b: extreme dislike or antipathy : loathing
2: an object of hatred

Second their definition of HATE CRIME

Main Entry: hate crime
Function: noun
Date: 1984
: any of various crimes (as assault or defacement of property) when motivated by hostility to the victim as a member of a group (as one based on color, creed, gender, or sexual orientation)


What struck me most about the definition of hate is hostility usually deriving from fear, anger or sense of injury, thus in essence saying hate is and emotion or feeling.

Therefore making a hate crime the action upon that emotion. I titled this piece Humans Behave Humanely for this specific reason. As enlightened thinking beings not given to animalistic behavior or primal urges we as people should be able to control they actions that our emotions may cause.

I will touch on a few bases today first to the LBGT that have experienced hate crimes. Take back the power that your abuser has stolen. You don't have to retaliate violently. Hate Crimes in most states are on the records. Report all incidents of violence. If you go to the links section here you will find some very helpful information. No one has to physically hit you to be investigated this goes up to and includes phone calls, name calling, destruction of property and physical or sexual abuse. Document with the local police and also with the HRC or any other local LBGT agency. Links can be found here on the site.

Next are the LBGT that live an open life and have no discrimination concerns why does it matter to you. It matters to you because when one suffers we all suffer. You will never experience true freedom until all like you share in the same peace that you do. It's your moral obligation and duty to care. You are only living the life you live cause of those before you that have paved the way and/or a good support system around you.

Next to the heterosexual people that think that this issue means nothing to you. Again I say humans behave humanely. You don't have to be a member of a community to find compassion for the afflicted. It was the same its them not me attitude that allowed the Spanish Inquisition, the Salem Witch Trials, Slavery in America, the Holocaust, the Killing Fields in Cambodia and many other atrocoties that are currently going on around the world. As a responsible member of the human race its your duty to stand up against injustice.

And finally the Religious Sect I have a history with Christianity and its the only one I can speak to with complete knowledge. I am in no way picking on Christians of any denomination but we as Christians all no matter what use the same Bible which I have studied intensively. I was going to go to Seminar and actually did have a few classes in theology here in Chicago at Moody Bible institute so I will not just be talking to make myself right I will give you fact.

Here are the points of why this should be your concern:

1. We as Christians can not decide what parts of the Bible we are to live by. You either accept it as a whole or you are a hypocrit point blank.

2. We got the title Christian which means Christ like being followers of Jesus. We are to be an example of Christ on earth. Those that decide who God loves and doesn't love are preaching a lie.

3. The Bible teaches us that God is all knowing and all powerful and can change any one. If you truely feel in your heart that homosexuality is a sin you are to pray for and help not condem and damn.

4. God's love covers a multitude of sins. Does this mean that its ok to continue in any sin and just use up God's grace. No but what it does mean it God deals with everyone one differently and you should not be so caught up in your personal feelings about what one is doing and just love them as God does in spite of.

5. Does my supporting an anti LBGT violence program conflict with my spiritual beliefs? To that I would tell you know because the Bible was not given to us to judge its a blue print for living and there is one main theme from Genesis to Revelations and that theme is Love. You don't have to agree with everything a person says or does to support them True Christians see all humans even those you feel are not living up to your standards as valid beings that have a right to exist peacefully just because God created them.

6. You can not claim a love, faith or belief in God and boldly march at the funerals of slain gays and gay supporters and not be a hypocrit. God will judge you by your actions as well and if homosexuality is a sin punishable by damnation so to you will be judged for all you did in the name of God against any of his people. The Bible tells us Jesus said what you have done to the least of them you have done also unto me. So if you dont see the God in all people you are religious and not spiritual there is a big difference. Religion has more to do with Church and Doctrine and Spirituality has more to do with what church should be about God.

7. The point of Christianity is to do a work for God. God does not save us to just save us he saves us to be witnesses and draw more to Him. If you feel so passionately about the sin of homosexuality how can you alienate the people you need to help the most. Show them that you really care about their soul and salvation. Do you really think hate and saying good for you is going to make people think that God cares when you spit at them from behind your Bibles or stand in your pulpits and tell them that AIDS was sent from God to punish the wicked. You are preaching a Biblical untruth all judgement will be in the final days that scriptual good promised Noah after the last flood there would be no plagues and He went so far as to send his own Son in flesh to be the redeemer of all men.

So in essence to sum it all up to everyone addressed as a Human you have the duty to do the Humane thing and whether it personally affects you or not rights of all people are just that the rights of all people.

A spirit of apathy will ruin a society. If you call yourself remotely educated or a human being you can not live a life of apathy.

That definition being:

Apathy (also called impassivity or perfunctoriness) is a state of indifference, where an individual has an absence of interest or concern to certain aspects of emotional, social, or physical life.

The loss of apathy makes you a animalistic, you are as guilty as the one that throws the punch and you too will be judged by this.

I would like to state that all opinions and articles by me are of my sole discretion and in no way reflect the attitudes or feelings of the site as a whole or any other people associated with it. When quoting other resources that information will be in a footnote other than that you can assume that all the words you read are solely mine and how I see and percieve the world around me.

I leave you in love

Chanel

LOVE STARTS AT HOME

LOVE STARTS AT HOME

In our fight to be accepted and respected in the world we need to start doing our parts as well. Far too many of the LBGT community takes serious offense when we are discrimated against in the world, when many of us do this to our own kind.

It is time to end the LBGT hate and discrimination first only with unity will we even be accepted as a valid people. This is a struggle that can not be won by a handful of people but as a community.

How can we possibly enact any change when many of our attitudes toward each other are so nasty. Gay hating gays, trannies hating trannie, trannies hating lesbians and trannies hating gays. This is a bad case of pots calling kettles black.

When so many people are being killed and beaten for who they are is it really so important who is prettier, who has the most designer labels, who slept with whom, who has the biggest body parts? The same people who will find issue with someone discriminating against them for their sexuality will in turn go to a club or so other place and bash another member of thier same community. Who are you to decide who is fit to be. We were are created in love by a greater being and the very fact of our births makes us valid humans. No one can sit here on this planet and decide who deserves to be.

So in our fight to get our acceptance and respect in the world remember that fight starts at home. First with you changing your attitude, then change your community and finally change your world. It's quite hypocritical to fight for the rights of LBGT communities if you spend the majority of your day tearing down your brothers and sisters.

There are many people in the world that I care not to be around but I can't decide that they don't have a right to exist. One scholar said those who constantly find fault in others suffer greatly from low self esteem. It's easy to point out the fault in others then you won't have to deal with the shit in your own life.

Everthing you want to change in the world you need to do a self assessment first and make sure you are living up to those very same standards. Love self first and it will be easier to love others. If we wish to be seen as more than a bunch of crazed fanatics forcing our lifestyle upon people we need to start acting like people.

Stop feeding fear with hate. Hate begets hate. Educate let them see that you too are a person. Most people's education of our community is from television, movies, talk shows and other forms of media that don't portray us in the best light. You fight ignorance with intellegence.

This week I just want to encourage you to not be a Pot calling a Kettle black. How can you want change when you yourself haven't changed.

Acceptance and Tolerance begins at home until you can love those like you, you will never get the world to accept and tolerate you.

I leave you in love,

Chanel Winn

The Art of Loving Self

THE ART OF LOVING SELF(DO YOU BABY)

I am a firm believer that we are all created in beauty and in love and that something greater than us designed us all to be just as we are. We are constant works in progress and your life should change from one moment to moment, day to day, year to year. As your body matures and you age its not just a physical process but the true person you are grows as well, or it should.

In my mentoring of different individuals and talking with different friends I have found many people struggle with the identification of self. As people we are taught and told who and what we should be to be accepted and loved. This teaching is flawed in the fact that we are all created as individual beings and even the most similiar people have their own identies. Not even identical twins share the exact same details of who they are as people.

I believe its lifes goal and mission to find out your own reason for being. That is who you truely are as a person. Not how you look, what you have or who loves and accepts you. Any successes you have in life will only be icing on the cake once you find life's purpose for you.

Oh what a joy to wake up every day knowing why the heavens decided to allow you to see one more day. The things and people that we think will make our lives better and enrich us more are only temporary fixes for the deep longing with in to know self and why am I here.

Things will rot, can be stolen or unattainable. People will fail you, turn on you and hurt you. To know one's self is something that you can own and truely have forever. The constant search for happiness and acceptance and things to make us feel good about ourselves are giving to us at birth. Each person is designed in love and perfection by a creator that loves us unconditionally.

No matter how far off track your life is to you or what you are doing you can stop, access and make corrections as long as you are breathing. Mistakes and failures are lifes lessons and the only thing that you need be bound up about is if you don't get what the creator is trying to teach you.

You can not know success with out failure, you can not know love with out heartbreak. We are our own worst enemies. When trying to live up to standards you have to ask yourself is this something that I feel I should be doing or something I feel I should be doing to be pleasing in the eyes of others.

This week I encourage all to access yourself where you are at the moment do a real self evaluation strip down butt naked honest with yourself and that which made you. Celebrate what you have come from and make goals to where you really want to be. Don't be worried about the prying eyes of others or their judgement, for we all should be too busy working on ourselves to be concerned with what you need be doing.

Remember this its easier for me as an individual to point out all that is flawed in you and your life and what you should be doing than to sit down and do the necessary work it takes to get my life in order.

NO ONE IN THE WORLD HAS IT ALL ON THE BALL, THEY ARE JUST BETTER AT HIDING IT THAN YOU.

I leave you in love

Chanel

The Power of Speech

Ladies and gents we need to understand the power of speech. Its not what you say but how you say it. I still learn this in my personal life on a daily basis. Your views of others also reflect on you. Ladies we can not want the men that are attracted to us to respect and treat us as ladies if we think that men that sleep with trannies are Bi or Gay. If we constantly vocalize to them they are faggots then what does that say about us. I think Bi or Gay men will sleep with males or females. Whether a man is sucking that trannies dick or getting fucked if he only does those activities he is still str8 to me. The behavior is gay the man is not unless he is participating in those activities with other men that look like himself.

Men that sit up and call ladies whores for adult work or half women for still finding pleasure in using thier dicks what are are you saying about yourself. If you constantly seek out those that you have these attitudes about its saying that you too are a trick or a closeted homosexual.

My video I define me speaks to the fact that you must know yourself first before you can began to know another. A good knowledge of who you are as a person can help you understand and relate to others and also make you more tolerant of those that are not like you.

I am so vocal about how people treat each other for many reasons. Your thoughts become words, your words become actions and those actions become discrimination.

Many attrocities have occured in human history by thought. Many were killed in the name of God because of a thought. Blacks were enslaved because of someones thinking and perception. Hitler charismatically killed millions of Jews because of the power of speech. Many women were hung as witches in Salem because of thinking.

This week I encourage you to get a knowledge of self and then others and think about how you treat yourself and others. Let's not as the victims become the abusers. Don't let the trauma of the past affect your behavior of today. You don't even have to have a faith in God to know scientifically we are all created by the same microbial matter and none is greater than the other.

I leave you in love,

Chanel

AS THE SNOW BEGINS TO FALL AGAIN IN CHICAGO

A girl has to find fashionalble ways to keep her feet warm and dry. While surfing the net what did I come across but the next new cute boot. That is durable enough for a Chicago winter all while getting my shine on.

Are Sorels the new Uggs? No, they're far too cool to be that. Sure, the classic outdoor shoemaker's punnily named Joan of Arctic boots are practical (they're apparently rated for temperatures as low as -40° C). But thanks to a suede upper and faux-fur trim, they're also just stylish enough.

Lengendary Sex Kitten Eartha Kitt Dies

Eartha Kitt, a sultry singer, dancer and actress who rose from South Carolina cotton fields to become an international symbol of elegance and sensuality, has died, a family spokesman said. She was 81.

Andrew Freedman said Kitt, who was recently treated at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, died Thursday in Connecticut of colon cancer.

Kitt, a self-proclaimed "sex kitten" famous for her catlike purr, was one of America's most versatile performers, winning two Emmys and nabbing a third nomination. She also was nominated for several Tonys and two Grammys.

Her career spanned six decades, from her start as a dancer with the famed Katherine Dunham troupe to cabarets and acting and singing on stage, in movies and on television. She persevered through an unhappy childhood as a mixed-race daughter of the South and made headlines in the 1960s for denouncing the Vietnam War during a visit to the White House.

Your attitude is important.

Failure is an attitude. Having an attitude of failure can't help us. It can only hurt us. If we're not careful, it can grow into a way of life. So, when we feel like failures, we'd better look at our attitudes.
An attitude of failure often comes from making mistakes. But we can learn to see our mistakes as lessons. This turns mistakes into gains, not failures. Sometimes, we try to do things that just can't be done. When we act like we can control others, we're going to fail. When we act like we know everything, we're going to fail. If we try to act like God, we're going to fail. We can't control others. We can't know everything. We're not God. We're human. If we act human, we've already won.

Prayer for the Day
Higher Power, help me to learn from my attitudes. Whatever the outcome, help
Me learn.

Action for the Day
Facing our past "failures" is the first step to learning from them. I'll talk to my sponsor about a past failure and the good that came from it.

Paris Highlight Runway Shows

Personal favorites this collection were Givenchey and Alexander Mc Queen. Great use of color and very fashion forward looks.

Chanel Spring 2009

With winter having dumped almost a foot of snow on us. I decided to look forward to the spring haute couture shows. I truely loved the Chanel show. Karl Largerfeld has keep the spirit of Chanel alive and revalant. My personal favs of this show were the shoes they must be in my collections. and soon.

Manolo Blanik

One of my favorite shoe designers talks shoes

GAY BLACK APPRECIATION WEEK ON YOUTUBE

Ne Ne The Villian?

I don't know call me crazy but I think Ne Ne was the most real, down to earth and genuine of all the "ladies" on this Real Housewives of Atlanta. She was so far from fake and I think she was demonized for not being one of the Joneses. I admired her for speaking her mind and for doing what was right for her. She was labeled a bitch but most strong self assured women are. She was, is and will be my favorite and we love her. I think she showed the most growth on the show and I am hoping for big things from her.

ILLINOIS FEATURED TODAY ON PURPLE STATES TV

Purple States is a dynamic new media company that transforms the best features of digital and established media into an original and valuable synthesis. Purple States taps into the raw energy, the unfiltered authenticity, and the dynamic interactivity of user-generated content on the web, and distills this diffuse material into the story of a group of ordinary people covering the news Ð a story with the coherence, high production values and watchability associated with traditional media. Purple States has pioneered people-powered broadcast-quality news coverage on television, the internet, and mobile platforms. During its first two seasons, Purple States has aired weekly documentary series on NYTimes.com, washingtonpost.com, Verizon V-Cast, and local television.

In January 2009, a new team will go to Washington with the new President and the new Congress, to cover the first hundred days of the new administration for major news platforms, both domestic and international.

As Purple States moves into 2009 and beyond, we are developing programming on various news stories that lend themselves to people-powered coverage. The website currently features a series called 50/50: fifty bloggers from fifty states in fifty days, in edited video-blogs that tell a cross country story about the economy. Purple States is also in discussion with cable networks about longer-form documentaries, including topic-specific series (immigration; housing; water), and a lifestyle series based on a purple premise.

The members of each Purple States team are carefully selected to reflect the range of demographic and other characteristics appropriate to the season's programming, whether that is election coverage or how the economic crisis looks from Main Street. They bring the depth of their own life experience to their interpretation of the news and their relationships with each other. The viewer gets to know and comes to care about them.

The members of the Purple States team are citizen journalists, but not in the usual sense. They are not isolated man-on-the-street videographers, but members of a systematically deployed team who travel together to report on news from the frontlines. Their journey is professionally filmed and edited, and aired on a variety of major media platforms. Purple States is reality news: The Real World meets The Huffington Post.

During the first two seasons, the Purple States cast included a 24-year-old florist - now college student - from Iowa, a laid-off manufacturing professional and libertarian from New England, a 33-year-old Baptist mother of three and teacher from South Carolina, a gun-carrying Cuban-American art gallery director from Florida, and a grandfather from Southern California who works for AT&T and lives with his Mexican-American son-in-law.

YOU DONT WANT NONE BOO BOO

Good girl snaps. The soft demure Lisa has had about all she can take and goes the hell off on the reunion show. Can't wait to tune in for this one. Thru out the whole episode NeNe was being made out to be the evil black bitch. She is the one that I feel the most for at this point.

AM I THE PERFECT LIE?

I am totally addicted to Sex Change Hospital and I have to force myself as I watch it not to sit in judgement of the girls that go in to get vaginia to feel complete. I have yet to see one get a vagina and not look like an old man with a vagina. I bring this up because there is always the sexual debate and the qualifying factors of what makes us transexual.

Personally even though I am in the sex industry 95% of my life is spent not having sex. I don't know I don't let what I do 5% of the time dictate what I am as a person. I identify as female but I am really uncomfortable being considered a woman. Now let me say I dont want to walk down the street with everyone knowing whats in my panties but I am at a point in my life where I am content being transexual.

There were stages when I hated myself and my body and I thought that God was cruel for sending me into this world with that offending member dangling between my legs. I have made peace with myself and my body and I love every inch of me, no pun intended.

Let me give you a little back ground. For those of you that think that I am ugly you should have been here when the party started. This face has been surgically feminized beyond recognition. I guess I am a little jaded when I am loved for my feminity because I want to be loved for the person that I am. I am the same person that I have always been but the more beautiful, desirable and passable I get now people start to see me as valid.

I know many may not see where I am coming from but I want to be adored for who I am not for the image I give. In defense of men that bottom, and I am not talking bout you nasty mother fuckers running round giving up that happy hole to any thing in a dress and wig, I am talking about the men that have that come what may attitude when they fall in love with a girl and just deal with the reality of the situation. But in my personal experience bottom men have shown me the most respect and treated me as a lady should be treated, hell the majority of top men don't even know how to come correct with genetic females always on that bullshit and playing games thinking they dick is gold what the hell can they do with girls like me.

Now I have been in monogamous relationships and each was different and this may shock yall but some of them never gave up the ass. In a relationship I have a come what may attitude if my needs are being met outside the bed room if I am feeling loved cherished respected adored intellectually stimulated I will be orgasmning in my brain before we even get naked so when we get it bed I will be cool with what ever is going on.

I stick to my guns and I wont waver on it what so ever if I feel that our relationship is sexual and I am only a conquest to you we will both be putting a notch in the bed post. Everything must be mutual and you must be a gentleman and ladies come first.

I don't know Imma lady but I am no woman. To me at times the drive to pass and be a woman seems to speak to my spirit as if there is something wrong with me. I have to proudly wear the title of transexual in order to stay self loving. I don't think people understood when they defined man and woman in the beginning. Every culture since the beginning of time has had the two spirit people and today I walk that delicate line of feminity and masculinity and hold my head high. I am not less than cause I wasn't born with a vagina. I actually feel blessed to be born able to relate to both genders having my feet firmly planted in the world of both legs spread wide a woman with an enlongated clit.

I AM JUST OVER BEING THE PERFECT LIE. ITS OK TO BE CHANEL THE TRANSEXUAL.

ELECTION DAY GO AND CAST YOUR VOTE.

ENOUGH SAID CHECK OUT THE VIDEO IF YOU WANNA KNOW WHY I FEEL SO STRONGLY ABOUT IT.

VOTE

ALPHA CAT FOR PRESIDENT

HERE IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE PERSONS TO WATCH ON YOUTUBE. ALPHACAT WILL KEEP YOU IN STICTCHES AND IF YOU DONT KNOW WHO HE IS YOU SHOULD DEFINATELY CHECK HIM OUT. HIS BARACK OBAMA IMPRESSIONS ARE CLASSIC AND DEAD ON.

ADULTS HALLOWEEN PARTY

Adults like to have as much fun during Halloween as the kids do! Adult Halloween parties tend to be much wilder than children's parties with dancing, alcohol use and catered food.

Using common sense can make a party a great one and avoid anything that may ruin it.

Keep an eye on the drinking, don't let it get out of hand. Take the keys away from anyone that may be driving. Have one person stay sober and offer to drive those people home who may be too intoxicated to drive.

When deciding on a menu, check and see if anyone attending the party has food allergies that might be a problem. Common food allergies to dairy products, peanuts and shell fish can really put a damper on the festivities.

Planning ahead for problems can make all the difference for your Halloween party!!!

BE SAFE ALL AND ENJOY