2011
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Santa Cruz understands the best way to stop crime is math. Let’s all discuss living bridges! Sharks used to be adorable. Sometimes it is important to look into pop-cultures past for some first class snark. Perhaps to help you through…
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The Rumpus Interview with Oakland Artist Ise Lyfe
The recent controversy between Ise Lyfe and the white Oakland rapper V-Nasty using the N-word in her songs has sparked much debate
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No Moms in Prison in California
California state prisons are releasing their female inmates that are mothers so they can serve the rest of their sentencing under house arrest. This is bold change for incarceration in California and a result of the overcrowded prisons. Read more…
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Migrations Map
Here is a map to help you visualize human migration over the course of our 200,000 year existence. Using data based on mitochondrial DNA difference, the map models migratory patterns as humans “moved outward from Africa into Asia, and later…
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Endangered Alphabets
According to the Endangered Alphabets Project, the 6,000-7,000 languages spoken on this planet are written in fewer than 100 alphabets. And, at least a third of those remaining alphabets are considered endangered. The project exhibits fourteen of those scripts: Inuktitut,…
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TV’s Backwards Progress
One would hope that there has been steady progress in terms of the presence of women writers in television, but a recent San Diego State study suggests quite the opposite. Their Center for the Study of Women in Television and…
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Letters from James Dean
A little bit of James Dean has been preserved in the recently-uncovered love letters he wrote to his girlfriend Barbara Glenn. They’re dated from 1954, the year before he was killed in an auto accident and also during the period…
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YA Characters “Straightened”
Two co-authors of a post-apocalyptic young adult novel discuss how they were offered representation on the condition that they remove or straighten a gay character. “The conversation made it clear that the agent thought our book would be an easy…
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Aracelis Girmay
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Aracelis Girmay about her poetry collection, Kingdom Animalia.
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Computers Replacing Writers
There are those companies that don’t pay their writers to produce content in order to save money, and then there is this. Narrative Science software produces content. It’s being used by twenty companies in order to avoid taking on more…