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2017
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Ten Ways to Fight Hate
Here’s a community resource guide from the Southern Poverty Law Center worth checking out. There are many ways to take action in the face of hatred and bigotry. Don’t stay…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Everything is still deeply bad so it’s time to read up on the antisemitism that fuels white nationalism. American Nights. The ethical concerns of immortality (welcome to the future). Quantum…
In a Quicksand of Language: A Conversation with Krys Lee
Krys Lee discusses her debut novel, How I Became a North Korean, having empathy for people and characters, and finding the balance between real-world facts and imagination.
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Iris Dunkle
Iris Jamahl Dunkle on her new collection Interrupted Geographies, writing against the pastoral tradition, the power of persona poems, and the town of Pithole.
Notable Philadelphia: 8/15–8/21
Tuesday 8/15: First Person Arts StorySlam: Hairy. 7 p.m. at FringeArts, $10. Drunk Spelling Bee. Hosted by Mighty Writers. 7 p.m. at Bourbon & Branch. Wednesday 8/16: Roxane Gay’s Hunger:…
This Week in Indie Bookstores
This Los Angeles bookstore is confronting censorship in Iran with a focus on books banned in the nation. Zhongshu Bookstore in China is designed to wow customers with its bold…
Not Your Typical Hero: Hostage by Guy Delisle
Against the muscular inevitability of Hollywood heroism, Hostage introduces the possibility that, in the face of the incomprehensible, we might remain ourselves.
From the Editors: On Charlottesville and White Supremacy
Rumpus editors share their thoughts on Charlottesville and white supremacy. When we have a platform to speak out against hatred and bigotry, we must use it to do so.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Toni Morrison on the origins of prejudice. Whose heritage? (I can’t recommend the SPLC guide debunking many of the pro-confederate monument talking points enough). If you live near DC get…
FUNNY WOMEN #155: Feminine and Masculine Words
A helpful trick can be to picture feminine words (pumpkin latte, duvet cover) as butterflies. Soft, delicate, hard to catch, and useless except near flowers. Masculine words are more like knives.
TORCH: An Alien, Ineligible for Participation
That a bumbling demagogue would be able to take this institutional racism and weaponize it is, then, not really a surprise. The seeds for this hate were planted a long time ago.