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Ashley Perez
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Rap Lyrics Invade LA Street Signs
Multimedia art projects are popping up everywhere and can really define a city. In Los Angeles, Jay Shells is posting rap lyrics about the city as street signs in the areas referenced in the lyrics—just as he did earlier in…
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“It Happened To Me” Aftermath
Rumpus cartoonist MariNaomi wrote a powerful essay at XOJane about being sexually harassed during a comic convention panel. “This isn’t the first time this has happened to me. Years ago, at another comic convention, a fellow panelist blatantly looked me…
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Helpful Definitions for the Modern Author
There are a lot of terms writers have to be aware of these days. A lot of them seem like marketing words but they can come in handy when trying to explain to the non writers in your life what…
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Writing on Writing
Let’s face it, writers love to write about writing. Whether it’s for the beginning writer or the seasoned vet looking for a renewed sense of inspiration, check out the ten greatest essays on writing over at Flavorwire.
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The argument for and against “Nice”
Tom Scocca, features editor at Gawker takes on the “newest weapon in the arsenal of privileged” in his recent essay. In response, Malcolm Gladwell writers over at The New Yorker that Being Nice Isn’t Really So Aweful: In being nice…
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Flannery O’Connor: Storyteller, Writer, and…Cartoonist?
Apparently from the age of 5 until entering the Iowa Writers Workshop, Flannery O’Connor was an avid cartoonist! Publishing in her high school and college publications, O’Connor’s drawings poke at the student life in a humorous way. Check out the…
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Tell your children family stories
It will make them smarter! Elaine Reese writes at The Atlantic about the slew of benefits to your children when you share family stories with them, including being able to tell a more complete narrative to others and a better…
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Alone in the woods: A New Memoir
Rumpus contributor Micah Perks has a new eBook out on Shebooks called, Alone In The Woods: Cheryl Strayed, my daughter and me. Micah Perks’ candid short memoir takes an insightful look at women and the wild, the wildness she experienced…
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Next Letter In The Mail: Jillian Lauren
We’re sending our next Letter in the Mail from Jillian Lauren on December __! Jillian is the author of Pretty and Some Girls: My Life in a Harem. She previously did an interview with The Rumpus. Learn more about her at…
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Virginia Woolf and Failure
Peter Orner writes over at Salon about the beautiful summer of being 22, out on a lake and drinking some beers. He writes of languidly gliding along in a boat with some friends and gripping a copy of To The…
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When a man finds his feminist voice
Daniel Jose Older has an essay in the Feminists of Color series over at Salon that is curated by Rumpus editor Roxane Gay. Daniel talks about finding his voice as a feminist: “I was immersed in the gender violence prevention…
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Clarifying Chivalry
“I am of the opinion that a major front of “the gender wars” could be won with a simple lesson in etymology. If we merely understood the actual meanings and histories that certain loaded words contain, we could be living…