To Adopt a Grandparent
“In every interaction there’s someone with power and someone without. If you are the latter, your two most important virtues are patience and persistence.”
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Rumpus Articles
Little by Little: Naomi Cohn’s The Braille Encyclopedia
...disability will likely affect everyone in one way or another as they age—which is why regressive policies, revoked support, and limited accessibility are personal issues for us all.
Rumpus Original Fiction: Twinsies
Whatever happened to that one secretary from your job? The one who likes talking about murders instead of doing any work? I bet she already knows more about Aida than I do.
The Gifts of a Father’s Schizophrenia: A Conversation with Natasha Williams
I wish mental health care practices acknowledged the heroic effort of living between worlds and could be more curious about psychosis as a psychic call for help.
National Poetry Month: Hala Alyan
Patron saint of lost things: / napkin poem and thirty bucks and / I think her name started with M.
National Poetry Month: Ansel Elkins
we wanted the dreams / but didn’t want the dandelions / growing wild with delighted bees,
We Must All Transition: Paul B. Preciado’s Dysphoria Mundi
Here we see dysphoria’s root: not an internal mental imbalance but external injustice and material harm caused by systems of hierarchy and domination.
Rumpus Original Fiction: Two Flash Stories by Hyo Jin Ha
Often, they sit in a neat circle around my mug and take turns spitting in it, rubbing their thin hands.
National Poetry Month: Julian Talamantez Brolaski
you just gotta know / when to toss them the meat / ‘try’ implies there is some latitude / in the outcome
The Kingdom of Happy Land: A Conversation with Dolen Perkins-Valdez
My work is really infused with hope even when I’m writing difficult history—there’s always love there.
National Poetry Month: Bernardo Wade
& Delirium shows me our kids / & the house we would raise them in / & my perfect job / & I think, damn, that was easy
“A Here that is Not This”: An Undocupoets Roundtable Conversation
Writing is not a luxury. It’s the documentation of our decolonial imaginary.