Culture
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Girl on Girl (Week Three): Lust Without Equity Is Desperation, Regardless of the Story We Tell Ourselves
When a woman identifies with a man’s needs over her own, she has enabled her own abandonment.
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In Praise of Rewatching
My baseball-loving dad may be long gone, but my Blu-ray of Field of Dreams remains at the ready. And if I play it, he will come.
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The August Rumpus Book Club Selection: “Audition” by Katie Kitamura
Our third installment of the relaunch The Rumpus Book Club* will be on August 25 at 2pm ET. Host Debbie Millman will be speaking with Katie Kitamura about her multi-award winning novel Audition. Audition was a finalist for the Pulitzer…
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Girl on Girl (Week Two): Can a Woman Belong to Herself While Still Loving Men Deeply?
For the first time in my life, I’m not evaluating whether someone would make a good husband or life partner. I’m asking a different question: What pulls me toward another human being?
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What is Freedom: Zoe Mendelson
Dear Yali Lou, The topic of self-seriousness has been on my mind. It’s a double-edged sword. A prison, a necessary tool, a tricky thing to know when to wield and when to avoid. Here I have gathered for you what…
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What is Freedom: Jason Reynolds
To be free, for me, is to no longer consider the consequences of my body and skin and hair and tongue, not because of a refusal to bend, not as an act of defiance and courage, but because it has…
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A Month Without a Map
We plant gardens on the banks of trenches, tending muddy flowerbeds we may never see blossom. We load our babies into the car to drop them off at daycare on our way to work in a beach town, and never…
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What Is Freedom: Joan As Police Woman
I am the dance floor.I am the mirrored face of the lake.I am the ragged end of the abandoned water pipeburied deep under the ocean where bacteria fuck and socialize.Water under water over water inside water outside water —aren’t we…
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What Is Freedom: Imani Perry
Freedom is as freedom does.It was not in 1776, when Benjamin Franklin still bought, sold and owned peopleAnd Madison, and Jefferson and Washington too-And somebody whose name I don’t know in MarylandOwned my mother mother mother mother mother Esther.I come…
