The Violet End

Thoughts and More by a Proud Lesbian Witch

  • This Made It All Real: Fear in the Immigrant Community

    I did some grocery shopping in the predominantly Latino community of Arvin, California recently. I learned about La Raza Market from a local news story about previous sieges by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Arvin and surrounding areas. Their business was hurt by the climate of fear, and I wanted to help them in…

  • My Yin and Yang (Or, Can People Have Two Souls?)

    In my previous piece, I mused about whether one soul, or a more fluid equivalent that I called a “spiritual essence,” could experience the temporal world through more than one window, i.e. biological body, at the same time. At times I wonder if the inverse is true: can two souls experience the temporal realm through…

  • Identical Twin, Different Generation

    I had already primed myself for uncontrollable gushes of happy tears when I learned about the 1970s lesbian hippie commune magazine Country Women. Reading its stories, which often doubled as its members’ daily diaries, sent me into the kind of wistful whirlwind that lingers for days after I see pictures of Woodstock — leaving me…

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