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Title: Adam and Eve Roots Other names: Putty Root Latin Name:  Aplectrum hyemale Planet(s): Venus Element(s): Water Gender: Feminine

Primary Associations: love, happiness

Description: Adam and Eve Roots is a species of orchid that is native to the eastern United States and Canada.   This orchid has a solitary leaf that persists all winter and can be up to 10" long.  It grows best in the shade of rich moist woods.  Adam and Eve Roots arise from a globular tuber (Eve) which grows froth from the previous year’s tuber (Adam) every year.  The plant itself can grow up to half a meter tall and usually flowers in late spring.  The flowers themselves are 6-parted and can appear yellowish, greenish, or whitish.  They can grow up to 2 cm long and are born in loose clusters.

Magical Uses: Carrying both roots in a bag at all times will attract love or can free you from romantic competitors.  Another way to disperse the competition for someone’s affection is to split a walnut, removing the meat. Place the roots and a spider’s web inside, and seal it with wax. Wrap it in new handkerchief, and place this charm in your lover’s pocket. So long as he or she does not find it, no rival will bother you.  If given as a gift to a couple, they ensure continued happiness.  To encourage fidelity, the husband receives the female root, while the wife accepts the male root.  This root is often as an ingredient in mojo bags by women, usually wives, to cement their marriage relationship.

Medicinal Uses:  A tea made from Adam and Eve Roots has been used in the treatment of bronchial troubles.  The roots of Adam and Eve Roots can be made into a poultice with analgesic properties.  The roots can also be macerated into a paste and applied to boils or used to treat head pains.

Culinary Uses: The roots are potato-like and can be boiled and served with butter. 

Suggestions: Native Americans used the glutinous matter from crushed bulbs to mend broken pottery and fasten objects together.  Place the two roots on an altar on the new moon and move them closer to each other day until they finally “meet” on the full moon.

Hazards and Precautions: Adam and Eve Root is endangered and should be admired but left alone, you can substitute another Orchid species in most spells.

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BadAss Blue… He need a girl like P Diddy… #americanbully #dogsofinstagram #doglover #studbully #bigblue (at Bronx, NY) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVONNwMhd6_/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Water Scryer... #indiadebajodelagua #laciguapa #bronxbruja #badassbruja (at Edenwald) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPOV0EFBjvF/?utm_medium=tumblr

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✨😉💫🕯😏 Let’s see if anyone can figure it out.... #instabruja #the21divisions #losmisterios #instawitch #voodoo #voodooqueen #aguadulce #anacaona #anaisapye💛💛💛💛🌻🌻🌻🌼🌼🌼 #ochun #alchemy #vibratehigher #alchemy #notyouagaingothatway #igotminionsbitch #spiritist #spiritista #instavoodoo #vudu #laciguapa (at Edenwald) https://www.instagram.com/p/CO0Typ-F9ah/?igshid=856b07pxplnr

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Got my coffee... Can you tell the difference? 🙃😌 #coffeelover #imgood https://www.instagram.com/p/CM2Cndyn-VY/?igshid=rurlddqgccun

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Whole Attitude Right Now.... I’ll be ok in a few.... https://www.instagram.com/p/CM124oGFSZi/?igshid=tix9qif2zcsc

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The knots of responsibility weigh on me. Anxiousness creeps for cuddles, when all I want is peace. You said you understood and I was tied, convinced.

I know that people grow. You never grew out of selfishness. Telling me you want something serious but Opening myself you changed your mind. Words:promising but gestures:confusing. Slight hints over time of your misled company , double standards , nonetheless we continued.

Always a joy to have people at their best. Journeyed into the caves of each other. But with the grounding features of life, you hesitated, “I want you but not the full extent of you” Family crisis and my body becomes income Unfamiliar territory of what it’s like to love me in chaos

My blood, declared poison. My mind, the vacuum of debt. My body, a territorial battle. But you can’t share what was never yours. Underlying contradiction: You tried sharing what was never yours

Back and forth, we share our care for each other. Why we strayed so far from monogamy: “I don’t want to hold you down” But fingers never working the knots, Phone lines pulling tightly. I exposed my body in exchange for carceral freedom. You exposed yours in carnal pursuit. Angry that I’d be so reckless. Angry now that I’m not reckless enough.

Time apart and my heart still craved for you.

Global strife, surfacing parts you kept secret just to play nice. Coughing up truth when alcohol gave you courage. You took the mask off with terrible timing. Brave enough now, to stab a wound. And still ask to stay a bleeding friend

I wasn’t enough then and I’m still not enough now. But I missed my early window to flag it down. I’m unshackled yet still tied. It’s a painful mid-flight. Revisiting remains with the clarity from rainclouds. There were so many windows, Shards of glass open to cracked gardens. I tried propagating the roses you gave me Those attempts to hide your drunk truth You tried and i tried, hoping to bury the echoes Calling me boring, removed, unloved The stems had no chance, when they were empty to begin with

You often forget. My blood connection to sacrifice. An era predates me. We were held responsible then and we try to be responsible now. But respectability didn’t save us. Actions driven by love did. Keeping you far was my move, to protect

Did you respect me then your unloved friend? I want to cherish the people I breathe into in distance Can you trail our breath and follow your asymptomatic footsteps? Trace the calls when you made it evident, You care for yourself. Made the weight on my shoulders tense, expecting me to carry you, When I’m burdened to carry public health by the rope stretcher. We’ve always been connected yet I’m steering in the dark. I’m breathing through the rope burns now.

Your heart with poor prognosis, Pumping blood that’s toxic. I wish you well. Continue getting tested, maybe then you’ll think of me Continue getting PrEPped, maybe then you’ll forget me Continue on, so I’ll be a quiet distant memory.

Aces Lira is a graduate student locked up in a social distancing tower, Aces (he/him) is a self-taught digital artist and queer advocate. Aces based in Chicago, Illinois and is a Gran Varones Fellow.

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I was 24 and lost a lot in the detention center. I went without medication throughout the whole time. To this day I think I lost my ability to concentrate and just do very simple things…I didn’t even feel comfortable making new friendships after the detention center.

My best friend, she helped me out a lot because I wasn’t even driving, and my family didn’t know about any of this, so she drove me places, she allowed me to meet with social workers at her house. She was also undocumented.

With my dad who passed away already, we had several experiences where his immigration status was an issue when he was in need of a transplant and he was told that he could not be put on a waiting list because of his undocumented status and I just thought that every single time my parents went to the doctor there was always an issue, I always felt like they weren’t treated the way they were supposed to because of language, the way they look, like they didn’t deserve the care, and that’s something that I try to address when I’m at work. I try to give the best care that I can.

Tenía 24 años y perdí mucho en el centro de detención. Estuve sin medicación durante todo el tiempo. Hasta el día de hoy creo que perdí la capacidad de concentrarme y hacer cosas muy simples … Ni siquiera me sentía cómodo haciendo nuevas amistades después del centro de detención.

Mi mejor amiga, me ayudó mucho porque ni siquiera estaba conduciendo y mi familia no sabía nada de esto, así que me llevó a lugares, me permitió reunirme con trabajadores sociales en su casa. Ella también era indocumentada.

Con mi papá, que ya falleció, tuvimos varias experiencias en las que su estatus migratorio era un problema cuando necesitaba un trasplante y le dijeron que no podían ponerlo en una lista de espera debido a su estatus de indocumentado y solo pensé que cada vez que mis padres iban al médico siempre había un problema, siempre sentí que no los trataban de la manera que se suponía que debían debido al lenguaje, la forma en que se veían, o que no merecían la atención, y eso es algo que trato de abordar cuando estoy en el trabajo. Trato de brindar la mejor atención médica que puedo

Mani (They/Elle), Burlington, NC

Interviewed & photographed by: José A. Romero (He/El/They/Elle) Gran Varones Fellow

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#musicforthesoul #lgbtq #elgranvaron

Dominique Morgan (she/her) is a visionary. As executive director of Black & Pink, the largest prison abolitionist organization serving LGBTQ+ people and people living with HIV/AIDS who are currently and formerly incarcerated, Dominique has spent the last three years ensuring that these communities have access to mutual aid, housing, treatment and the healing power of community. Born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, Dominique’s journey to becoming one of the country’s most renowned social justice activists required more than resiliency. It required the kind of audacity to exist unapologetically, this is how she has inspired so many to do the same. When she walked out of the Nebraska Department of Corrections, where she spent 18 dehumanizing months in solitary confinement, she had nothing but a bag of cassettes of songs that she wrote–as a survival tactic–to save her mind and spirit. 11 years later, she is on the verge of a musical breakthrough with her album “Pisces in E Flat Major.” 

Scheduled to drop on December 22, 2020, “Pisces in E Flat Major” is a collection of pulsating r&b/pop songs that harken back to a time when even the harmonies of a song told a story. A Piscean herself, Dominique’s music takes you on a singular journey to healing while traveling in two directions simultaneously. Ya know, Pisces are complex and what not. The album’s lead single “Soulmates” hits streaming platforms today December 8th, 2020. When asked what she hoped listeners feel and take from her music, Dominique says. “I want folks to know they aren’t alone. You’re not the only person who loved someone who didn’t love you back. You’re not the first person to look a fool for someone. You aren’t the first.”

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Today is a Little Kings Birthday. I love you baby! Happy Birthday to El Rey De Reyes. The ultimate Tigre Del Norte! Tia Adores you @vc_jayson 😘😘😘😘😘😘😘 https://www.instagram.com/p/CJtEa3YlKOu/?igshid=1kp6swyd7x6x1

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I ❤️ going for walks at dawn.... Hi IG!!! (at Eastchester) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJs7PsylZ3T/?igshid=wq8uk0zzi88i

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It’s been awhile..:::: https://www.instagram.com/p/CGOSVUFF4Hv/?igshid=1cauytwvabbg

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No... not the dog food...!!!!

JAYNE COUNTY 1947–

American punk rock trailblazer and underground theater performer, known for her wild stage shows and songs such as “Man Enough to Be a Woman” and “Fuck Off.” Born to a strictly religious family in Georgia, County was an eager rebel from a young age. In 1968, being shot at on the streets of Atlanta prompted her to board a bus to New York City. The following year, she attended both the Stonewall Riots and Woodstock. She quickly found herself among the queer scene that surrounded Andy Warhol, and at one time lived in a small apartment with Leee Black Childers, Holly Woodlawn, and Jackie Curtis. Curtis’s trashy glam aesthetic would be an especially big influence, and in 1970 County made her stage debut in Curtis’s play Femme Fatale (alongside a young Patti Smith). County became a frequent performer and playwright in the New York underground Theatre of the Ridiculous. Her role in Andy Warhol’s play Pork took her to London in 1971, where she made a huge impression on a young David Bowie. But County’s true love was rock music, and inspired by proto-punks like Iggy Pop, she formed her first band Queen Elizabeth in 1972. Her next group, Wayne County and the Backstreet Boys, played regularly at CBGB and Max’s Kansas City, where she also DJ’ed. Although an influential staple of the exploding New York rock scene, County didn’t find success until she moved to London and formed Wayne County & the Electric Chairs in 1977, just in time for the birth of British punk. County’s performances were shocking even by punk standards, and included anything from masturbating with a Virgin Mary statue to eating dog food scooped out of a toilet, in drag that pushed well past the boundaries of acceptable glam rock androgyny. In 1979, she changed her name to Jayne and publicly identified as a woman, making her the first openly trans singer in rock. Drugs and other tensions caused the band to fall apart by 1980, but County returned to music in the mid-80s, and in 1995 released her autobiography Man Enough to Be a Woman. Today she identifies as gender-fluid, and once again lives in Atlanta where she continues to create spirited and confrontational music and art.

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SAL MINEO 1939–1976

American actor and teen heartthrob, best known for portraying Plato in Rebel Without a Cause. Growing up in the Bronx, Mineo began performing at a young age. At 12, he made his debut in a Tennessee Williams play, and also played the young prince in the stage musical of The King and I, alongside Yul Brynner who became an early mentor. He found various roles on the stage, on television, and in films, but his career-defining moment came in 1955 when he was cast in Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Without a Cause. His character, Plato, was a young, sensitive outcast infatuated with James Dean, and is often considered film’s first gay teenager. His performance earned him his first Oscar nomination, but also led to a career of being typecast. He was frequently offered the role of the tough street delinquent, earning himself the nickname the “Switchblade Kid.” An olive complexion in Hollywood also meant that he was given “ethnic” roles, including a Native American boy in Tonka, a Mexican boy in Giant, and a young Jewish man in Exodus, which earned him his second Oscar nomination. Mineo himself was Italian and proud of his heritage, refusing to change his last name like so many other actors of the time did. He was also openly bisexual, although he came into his sexuality well after Rebel Without a Cause was filmed. As Mineo grew older and no longer fit the teen heartthrob mold, he film opportunities began to dry up, not helped by rumors of his sexuality. In the late 60s, Mineo turned his attention back to the stage, directing and performing in plays with explicitly queer content, unafraid to make those rumors explicit. In 1976, he began playing a bisexual burglar in the comedy P.S. Your Cat Is Dead, and with the positive publicity it garnered, it seemed that his career was back on the upswing. Tragically, one night as he was walking home from rehearsal, he was stabbed in front of his apartment building and killed. The police’s response was at first overtly homophobic. They assumed that the culprit was Mineo’s six-year boyfriend at the time, or an ex-lover, or a sex worker, or a drug dealer, even though there was no indication that Mineo had any enemies, paid for sex, or did hard drugs. Three years later, pizza deliveryman Lionel Ray Williams was arrested and convicted of the crime, based on little evidence considering that witnesses had seen a white man fleeing the scene and Williams was black. The murder was such a scandal that, for some time, it overshadowed Mineo’s many accomplishments. But today, it is Mineo’s work, and especially his iconic portrayal of Plato, that has endured in the public consciousness.

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STORMÉ DELARVERIE 1920–2014

American singer, drag king, bodyguard, bouncer, and possible instigator of the Stonewall Riots. She was born to a white father and black mother, and since interracial marriage was illegal in Louisiana, was never issued a birth certificate and didn’t know her exact birthday. As a mixed race child, DeLarverie was frequently bullied, and sometimes brutally beaten, to the point where she was sent away to a private school for her safety. As a teenager, she rode jumping horses sidesaddle with the Ringling Bros. Circus. At 18, she realized that she was gay and moved to Chicago. There she worked as a bodyguard for the mob, and began singing with bands, finding success with her smooth baritone voice. In the 1950s, DeLarvarie began performing in drag as M.C. in the legendary Jewel Box Revue, a traveling drag show that was the first in the country to be integrated. The show boasted “25 Men and a Girl,” with DeLarverie being the only woman, a fact revealed at the end of the show. Comfortable in her stage clothes, she took to wearing masculine clothing on the street as well, and claimed to have started the trend among lesbians. She stayed with the Jewel Box for 15 years. In the course of her career, she performed throughout the U.S. and in Europe, at the Apollo Theater, the Copacabana, and Radio City Music Hall. She was also at the Stonewall Inn in 1969 when the rebellion started. Some oral history accounts credit the start of the riots to a butch lesbian who fought with the police to escape custody, was hit hard on the head with a baton, then shouted to onlookers, “Why don’t you guys do something?” Some have identified DeLarverie as that woman, and she later in life confirmed it. But whether or not one individual sparked Stonewall, DeLarvarie was certainly there fighting, and would continue to fight for the queer community for decades. Shortly after the uprising, her partner of 25 years died, a dancer named Diane, whose photo DeLarverie would keep with her. She ended her performing career, and became a bouncer for the lesbian bars Cubby Hole and Henrietta Hudson, while living in the famed Chelsea Hotel. When she wasn’t working, she was patrolling the streets with a licensed gun, on the lookout for any “ugliness,” ready to protect her LGBT “children” from harassment. She would continue to work as a bouncer and protector of the neighborhood well into her 80s. She suffered dementia toward the end of her life, and spent her final years in a nursing home, visited by the few left in the queer community who remembered her vital impact.

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CHAVELA VARGAS 1919–2012

Costa Rican-born Mexican singer, celebrated for her contributions to Latin American music, and canción ranchera in particular. Vargas suffered a lonely childhood, spurned by parents who couldn’t accept a tomboyish daughter. She left for Mexico at 17 to pursue a music career, and started off by performing in the streets. Instead of conforming to the dress and style of other female singers, she took on a masculine persona, smoking cigars, drinking tequila, carrying guns, and performing in a poncho with her hair pulled back in a tight braid. She soon built a reputation for her powerful, soulful singing style. She sang rancheras written for men expressing love toward women, accompanied only by an acoustic guitar instead of a full mariachi band, with the tempo slowed to dwell on each heartbreak. While performing in nightclubs throughout the 1940s, she caught the attention of acclaimed singer-songwriter José Alfredo Jiménez. The two formed a close working relationship and friendship. She also had a passionate affair with Frida Kahlo around this time. In the 1950s, she began singing at the restaurant La Perla in Acapulco, a popular international vacation spot. There, Vargas went to bed with politicians’ wives and Hollywood celebrities. She claimed to have slept with Ava Gardner at Elizabeth Taylor’s wedding, though she usually protected her partners’ identities. Eventually, 15 years of alcoholism caught up with her, clubs stopped hiring her, and she fell into obscurity. During this period she met her longtime partner, Dr. Alicia Pérez Duarte, and managed to stop drinking for good. Unfortunately, Vargas could be violent even when sober, and they eventually separated. In 1991, a new nightclub in Mexico City, El Hábito, invited Vargas to perform. At the age of 72, It was her first time on a stage in over a decade, and the first time she ever went on stage sober. The concert was such a success, it launched a second wave of Vargas’s career, this time with international acclaim. She was invited to perform in Spain in 1992, and there became the friend and muse of filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, who helped her make her Carnegie Hall debut in 2003. At the age of 81, she publicly came out as a lesbian, though her fans had known it for decades. She continued to sing for audiences until her death at the age of 93.

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Lmao just when you wanna interact with Catholic tumblr they INSTANTLY remind you of how homophobic they are. Good night lmao.