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Pong Was Not For Boys
How did video games go from being completely gender-neutral to being the centerpiece of a male-dominated, often misogynistic subculture? Polygon’s Tracy Lien investigates in a fascinating history of the industry’s relationship to gender. It’s interesting whether you’re into video games…
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The Rumpus Interview with Sarah McCarry
Writer Sarah McCarry chats about girl friendships, holding down multiple jobs at once, and setting her novel, a retelling of the Orpheus myth, against the backdrop of 1990s grunge-fueled Seattle.
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This Woman Does Practice Santeria
If all you know about Santería is that it’s a line in that one Sublime song, you should check out this interview with Caridad, a Santería priestess, over at the Hairpin. Caridad explains the basics of her religion (more accurately…
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Writing Even Though You Can’t Make A Living Off It
The best things on my CV—the ones I almost want to use comic sans for, just so they’ll stand out—haven’t paid me. In an essay for The Toast, Jilly Gagnon lays bare the realities of the writing life: handling 3,128…
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Michelle Obama: Not Feminist Enough?
I was not heretofore aware feminists were disappointed in [Michelle] Obama and how she chooses to live her life. I was not aware that Obama was not an activist. Now I know. For Salon, our essays editor Roxane Gay takes on a…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Mandela’s Struggle in Posters. Photographing Norwegian reindeer herders and the American frontier. Sad fact: 75 percent of all American silent films are lost forever. Bug mimicry is pretty fascinating.
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A Journalist Reports on Herself
Last November, journalist Leonora LaPeter Anton profiled a woman named Gretchen Molannen, who had been living for years with an almost unbearable chronic illness: persistent genital arousal disorder. The day after the piece was published, Anton was notified that Molannen…
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DADT Activist Now Struggling
When she saw him in the morning, Dan was still on the couch in front of the TV, speaking in fragments, muttering to himself, screaming obscenities, bursting into sobs. Now and then, he was mute, retreating to his bedroom with…
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The Rumpus Interview with David Schickler
Writer David Schickler talks about his memoir The Dark Path, the equal pulls of religion and sex, and why having a sense of humor matters.
