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Lauren O’Neal
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Parallel Streets of San Francisco: Postcard Edition
Remember our delightful “Parallel Streets of San Francisco” illustrations? They’re now available as postcard-sized screen prints, both on Etsy and at Rag SF. Now you can send a little part of San Francisco anywhere in the world…like, for example, the part…
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“Male Rapper” List Spoofs Industry Sexism
From his boy-next-door looks, you sure wouldn’t peg Eminem as superstar material. But put a beat behind him, and he turns from a feisty-cute Detroit blonde into a raging microphone demon. His autobiographical film 8 Mile is a riveting account…
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A Book That Spans Decades In More Ways Than One
Rumpus contributor Nicholas Rombes is writing a twenty-year novel. What precisely does that mean? It means that the first pieces of the novel were published in 2009 as A Cultural Dictionary of Punk, and other published pieces will be collected into a…
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An Invitation to RADAR’s 10th Birthday Party
RADAR Productions, the queer-centric literary-event non-profit founded by Rumpus pal Michelle Tea, is turning ten! Come celebrate those double digits at RADAR Superstar, a free event featuring Jibz Cameron, Brian Freeman, Maryam Rostani, and our very own Thomas Page McBee.…
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More On Turkey
Here are a couple more resources for anyone looking to get a better handle on the situation in Turkey right now. Gawker has a simple, accessible FAQ-style explanation for those of us who don’t know much about Turkish politics. Boing…
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“I Was Very Afraid of Failing, Because I Knew I Would Be Shot”
In a downright insane profile piece for GQ, Rumpus interviewee Adam Johnson talks to Kenji Fujimoto, the sushi chef and longtime friend of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il. The article is just as wild and disturbing as Johnson’s The Orphan Master’s Son…
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A Former Nazi Tells Her Story
“She may have been the first German, and certainly the first German woman, who tried to face her past with honesty.” In a blog post for the New Yorker, Helen Epstein describes a remarkable memoir she has just reprinted at Plunkett…
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Go Ahead, Feed the Trolls
“If talking back to some random idiot makes me feel better—if it’s fortifying for my mental health—then I don’t care if I give some dumbass with 13 followers the flash-in-the-pan attention he’s been craving.” At the Nation, Feministing’s Jessica Valenti says,…
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The ICC Witness Project
As Kenya’s president-elect, Uhuru Kenyatta, stands trial for crimes against humanity, Kenyan poets have come together to write poems from the perspective of some of the mysteriously missing witnesses. The results are as captivating as they are heartrending. You can…
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Happy Birthday, Allen Ginsberg!
Happy birthday to groundbreaking Beat poet Allen Ginsberg. He would have been 87 today. Celebrate by re-reading “Howl,” or, if you’re in the Bay Area, by visiting an exhibit of his photography at the Contemporary Jewish Museum.
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Turkish Protest News
Though American media coverage has been minimal, anti-government protests in Turkey have been raging for three days now. The BBC has a summary of the protesters’ grievances against Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the country’s increasingly autocratic and religious prime minister. The Guardian is maintaining…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
The weekend is over, but the Rumpus features remain. Another installation of Yumi and Everyone We Know about fire tigers (they only burn you alive if you forget to offer them candy). And a Sunday Rumpus essay called “On Color, Brain…