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  • Robot Office: Hump Day
    Alli Katz

    Robot Office: Hump Day

  • Basura
    Emily Withnall

    Basura

    [T]erms like “white trash” and basura most accurately reveal those who are doing the defining. Consider what we throw away, and why. Look at what we throw away. Think about the reasons why.

  • The Saturday Rumpus Essay: The Diggins
    Michelle L. LaPena

    The Saturday Rumpus Essay: The Diggins

    I was told that I was “a good digger” if I was behaving as a young child, working hard, and not talking back. Like nursery rhymes, the rhythm of racism cannot be forgotten.

  • Roxie Pell

    Whose Word?

    In the midst of debate surrounding the Washington Redskins’s trademark cancellation, linguist Geoffrey Nunberg reminds us that a word is never completely free of its etymology. Rooted in a tradition of spectacle and minstrelsy, the use of a racial slur…