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Consider the Rooster
Aren’t we complicit if we eat the chicken stew? I can’t help but ask myself this. I want the answer to be no, but the collection points to maybe, even towards yes. We are also complicit as we dig in…
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Wake of Weight
People think losing weight feels natural and glorious, like a snake finally shedding its skin. That’s what I’d imagined: the victorious satisfaction of squishing out the last toothpaste from my tube.
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Three Poems
All Night I Dreamed Growing up my motherhad an abortion rights stickeron the front door of our suburbanraised ranch. Red shingles and blackshutters. Inside me my rightswere a tight fist. I would not openmy fingers no matter how hardboys and…
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The Rumpus Initiatives Cycle 1 Winners
When Debbie and I took the helm of The Rumpus, supporting writers and editors was one of our most fervent ambitions. To that end, we have launched a series of initiatives that allow us to do so in the ways…
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What Is Freedom: Lydia Davis
I am thinking of my cat, who is free to wander the house and make her own choices of when to eat, where and when to lie down and go to sleep. Her freedom exists within constraints imposed by me—for…
