The Way America Treats Teens Is Unacceptable: A Conversation with Emi Nietfeld
Being affected in those ways can give us motivation to make sure that other people aren’t hurt in the same ways that we’ve been hurt.
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Deirdre Sugiuchi
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Deirdre Sugiuchi spent her adolescence in a white evangelical facility for so-called troubled teens and recently finished her reform school memoir, Unreformed. Sugiuchi is a contributing writer at Electric Literature and a Rumpus reader. Her essays and interviews have been featured in Dame, Huffington Post, The Rumpus, Salon, the anthology Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church, and other places. She lives in Athens, Georgia, where she served as a public school librarian for over a decade.
The Rumpus Interview with Garrard Conley
Garrard Conley, author of the new memoir Boy Erased, discusses growing up in the deep South, mothers, writing for change, and political delusions.
The Rumpus Interview with Craig Zobel
Filmmaker Craig Zobel talks about the ramifications of influence, treading moral boundaries, and why we need to have more conversations about exploitation.