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Centering, Appropriation, and Satire: A conversation with Chinelo Okparanta

. . . for me, a true ally makes me feel safe by actually hearing me out, by not dismissing my experiences or immediately jumping to the defense of the other party. Such an ally admits their limitations while also holding themselves accountable.

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What to Read When You Have to Carry on During Contemporary Collapse

griev[ing] a vanishing world—a nation increasingly divided while the natural world is under siege by wildfire, tornados, and unrelenting storms

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ENOUGH: Two Poems

I learned what it means to be / an Asian woman / when I was / fucked.

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From the Archive: The Rumpus Inaugural Poems: Eve L. Ewing

Each day from January 7 to January 20, Rumpus Original Poems will feature poetry written in response to the coming presidential inauguration. Today’s poems are from Eve L. Ewing.

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Not One Thing, But Many: A Review of Cynthia Cruz’s Hotel Oblivion

How would that candy taste in my mouth? How would that blue chiffon offset my dark hair and plain features? How would the world look to me through the eyes of this woman and this one and this one? What else could oblivion mean to me, if not for the living as many?

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But tonight, a little more: A Conversation with J. Hope Stein

What’s the difference between sports bras and regular bras?— What’s the difference between Jesus and God?

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Forest

To hold up a lie, one must dedicate themselves completely.

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Survival and Hope: Akwaeke Emezi’s You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

You Made A Fool organically makes the argument that friendships can be just as important and fulfilling as romantic relationships.

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Rumpus Original Fiction: White Ash

My wife, Ritu, a receptionist at a motel, works four nights a week. In the morning, I pick her up in our used Honda and drive her home. After she…

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Nothing and Everything: An Interview with Dr. Jenny Heijun Wills on the Fragmentation of Adoption

Family relies on the antics of nationalism: who belongs, who doesn’t, to whom are we loyal, to whom are we not . . . I suppose “family” is another F-word that can be something that brings pleasure, or that might be deployed as a weapon if in the mouth of the wrong person.

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Funny Women: Things I Wish I Could Workshop Other Than My Novel

Do I come across as a middle child with first-child energy? Would you recommend treatment for my character, and if so, from a sliding-scale social worker or a psychiatrist? Meditation or medication? Out-patient or in?

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