This Week in Trumplandia
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Buffy Flores
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Buffy Flores is an Aries/Taurus cusp, Latinx, vegan, femme, and founder and editor of the Billions Unheard. Now writing for LIVEKINDLY and editing for The Rumpus. Follow them on Twitter @livekindlybuffy.
This Week in Trumplandia
Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent and relevant content on our country, which is currently spiraling…
This Week in Trumplandia
Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia, a new Rumpus column in which I, your passionate, sometimes angry, mostly emotional, Aries/Taurus cusp host, will highlight PEOTUS-related news that you need to know.…
Electric Literature to Offer Scholarships for Catapult Classes
Electric Literature, in partnership with the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, is offering full scholarships to workshops and classes that they’ll be co-presenting with Catapult. The scholarships are open…
Storytellers Just Want Connection
I’d stand in my doorway and watch lightning break in the thunderheads at the base of the mountain: threads of electricity flashing through the sky in the distance—instantaneous and then…
Happy Butch Halloween
When you are a queer kid, there are so many things people tell you are bad. In an autobiographical comic at Catapult, liz rosema tackles the topic of Halloween as it…
On Gardening for a Dead President
At Catapult, J.D. Ho takes readers for a walk in her shoes, gardening where slaves were once forced to grow poison ivy for a president whom the world now praises…
“I Knew at Once I’d Never Last”
At Catapult, Nicholas Ward writes about loving and leaving football, and the violence we push against and get back, in a piece aptly titled, “There Is No Violence Here”: But in high school,…
Living in the New York Public Library
For Atlas Obscura, Sarah Laskow delves into the secret apartments of the New York Public Library system. Most people only dream of living in a library, but for some people, this was…
All the Angst and Bully Possession You’ll Ever Need
At Bustle, Charlotte Ahlin gives comic fans a look at a new DC imprint, Young Animal, created by Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance. The imprint’s newest title, Shade the Changing Girl, is brought…
Religion Is Hard and Scary
If there’s something out there other than us, it’s God. If there’s something out there other than God, what is that thing called if you’re not ever supposed to talk…
Taking on Your Shelf of Blank Notebooks
At Catapult, Rachel Vorona Cote takes readers down a path of struggle that far too many writers walk, but aren’t always able to talk about or understand. In “Black Books and…