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Lauren Wissot

Lauren Wissot is a film critic and journalist, filmmaker and festival programmer, and a contributing editor at Filmmaker Magazine. Her writing can also be regularly read at Documentary Magazine, Salon, Bitch Media and Hammer to Nail. Her book Under My Master’s Wings, a memoir about her time spent as the personal slave to a gay-for-pay stripper, is available from Random House sub-imprint Nexus Books.
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    World Press Photo Exhibit

    Cholitas in traditional garb are now taking each other to the mat, the women flying through the air in bowler hats and ruffled skirts.

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    The Rumpus Review of The Battle of Chile

    A meticulous and gripping eyewitness account of the events that culminated in the 1973 CIA-backed military coup and assassination of Salvador Allende.