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Identical Twin, Different Generation
I had already primed myself for uncontrollable gushes of happy tears when I learned about the 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 seeing pictures of Woodstock — leaving me a hair-triggered…
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A Lesson From 8th Grade Social Studies
When a political movement attaches itself to a man, and erects monuments to him, that movement is always the author of the darkest chapters of human history.
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The Transformative Power of the Counterculture
Perhaps the Most Beautiful Ideal in Human History. I can’t find the video now, but YouTuber Parkrose Permaculture recently mentioned visiting a historic hippie commune and expressed how transformative the experience was. You bet it was. The Counterculture was perhaps the most beautiful ideal, vision, and dream ever conceived by humanity. When John Lennon’s song…
Thoughts and More by a Proud Lesbian Witch
