{"id":6618,"date":"2012-10-03T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.qwoc.org\/?p=6618"},"modified":"2012-10-03T08:00:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T12:00:28","slug":"amplify-jasmine-burems-black-lesbian-entrepreneur-bottles-holistic-self-care-in-honey-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/?p=6618","title":{"rendered":"AMPLIFY: Jasmine Burems, Black Lesbian Entrepreneur Bottles Holistic Self-Care in HONEY &#038; GOLD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cross-posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectraspeaks.com\/\">www.spectraspeaks.com<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Early this morning, I received a message from Jasmine Burems, a Black lesbian organic herbalist, who specializes in women&#8217;s wellness.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She congratulated me on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/africansforafrica\">success of my Africans for Africa campaign<\/a>, and was hoping I&#8217;d lend support to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/honeyandgold\">her own project on IndieGoGo<\/a>. Honestly, I receive so many requests like this, and can&#8217;t always respond to them all. But there was something that intrigued me about Jasmine&#8217;s message.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-913 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"HONEY &amp; GOLD Elixir\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spectraspeaks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/4134235_300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After Jasmine introduced herself as a lesbian entrepreneur (win!), she proceeded to let me know about her mission to bottle and mass produce the first\u00a0EVER organic women\u2019s wellness beverage:<\/p>\n<p><em>HONEY &amp; GOLD Signature Elixir,\u00a0a ready-to-drink, organic, gluten free, GMO-free women\u2019s wellness, pleasure and beauty tonic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Let me repeat: HONEY &amp; GOLD Signature Elixir,\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong>Pleasure and Beauty Tonic<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em>I don&#8217;t know about you all, but \u00a0I want to drink whatever claims to be a Pleasure and Beauty tonic! Lots of it!<\/p>\n<p>Check out the&nbsp;titillating&nbsp;description below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>HONEY &amp; GOLD Signature Elixir<\/em> is made from a unique combination of sustainably grown herbs, rich raw honey and shimmering edible gold. <em>Signature Elixir is a sincere prayer for deep nourishment,<\/em>&nbsp;a nutritious and luxurious women-specific health-drink providing lots of nutrients.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Some of my favorite women-specific benefits of the Elixir include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tones muscles of the pelvic region including the uterus (I imagine this would contribute to ease of childbirth&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>Supports healthy, relaxed, pleasurable flow of energy (As an activist, self-care and relaxation need to be intentional or they simply won&#8217;t happen)<\/li>\n<li>Supports maintenance of balanced vaginal flora (I have no idea what this means but it makes me feel like one of the &#8216;soaring-in-slow-motion&#8217; women in those tampon commercials)<\/li>\n<li>Synergistic formula for womb, heart and third eye. (Mmmm, deeper intuition, community connection. YES please!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectraspeaks.com\/2012\/10\/black-lesbian-honey-gold-organic-herbalist-jasmine-burems-self-care-self-love-elixir\/\">Read Spectra&#8217;s full piece about HONEY &amp; GOLD<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted from www.spectraspeaks.com. Early this morning, I received a message from Jasmine Burems, a Black lesbian organic herbalist, who specializes in women&#8217;s wellness. She congratulated me on the success of my Africans for Africa campaign, and was hoping I&#8217;d lend support to her own project on IndieGoGo. Honestly, I receive so many requests like this,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,3,6,100,17,25,74],"tags":[224,385,506,527,902,903],"class_list":["post-6618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amplify","category-announcements","category-topics","category-entrepreneur-amplify","category-featured-blogs","category-health-and-wellness","category-work-and-career","tag-black-lesbian-entrepreneurs","tag-elixir","tag-honey-and-gold","tag-indiegogo","tag-self-care","tag-self-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.qwoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}