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Admit You’ve Paid For It: The Savage Honesty of David Henry Sterry

  • Antonia Crane
  • May 16, 2013
Writer, performer, educator, and activist David Henry Sterry talks about the deep cultural roots of shame associated with the American sex industry, and how freeing it can be to bleed out the truth about our lives as buyers and sellers of sex.
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Johns, Marks, Tricks and Chickenhawks: The Rumpus Interview with Annie M. Sprinkle

  • David Henry Sterry
  • May 16, 2013
Being a whore was great preparation for being an artist.
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On Loitering

  • Steven Church
  • May 16, 2013
In Charles Moore’s iconic black-and-white photograph, Coretta looks on stoically, lips parted, hands clasped in front as her husband, Martin Luther King, has his right arm bent behind his back…
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Women Are Bitches

  • KMA Sullivan
  • May 15, 2013
“Women are bitches,” says a young man as he sits down. Apparently a woman at the bar wouldn’t give him her number.
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ALBUM #5, AUDIO PORTRAITS OF ARTISTS AND WRITERS AT WORK: Ariel Schrag

  • Allyson McCabe
  • May 15, 2013
Ariel Schrag first achieved recognition in her teens, when she began writing the autobiographical comic books Awkward, Definition, Potential, and Likewise
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Why I Chose Gregory Orr’s River Inside the River for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club

  • Camille T. Dungy
  • May 15, 2013
But grace is what I found in River Inside the River. Grace in abundance.
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A Zealot and a Poet

  • Virginia Pye
  • May 14, 2013
I like to imagine him out there on his beast of burden, vast grey country on all sides and a book of poetry open in his hand. It is a romantic image and, when I think only of it, I can almost forget why he was there.
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The Rumpus Interview with Sandra Bernhard

  • Laura Goode
  • May 14, 2013
In an exclusive interview, The Rumpus sits down with the very funny, very feminist Sandra Bernhard to talk about comedy, mothers, life on the road, and, of course, San Francisco, where she'll be performing this week.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #182

  • Ted Wilson
  • May 13, 2013
MOTHER’S DAY 2013 ★★★★★ (0 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Mother’s Day 2013.
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Hold On to What You’ve Got

  • Lindsay King-Miller
  • May 13, 2013
It feels like we created each other from scratch, scribbling in the details and watching ourselves take shape.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Emily Rapp

  • Amanda Eyre Ward
  • May 12, 2013
A day of celebration for many, Mother's Day is a more complex holiday for people who have lost their mothers--or their children.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #48: Sara Finnerty in Conversation with Her Grandmother, Elena Iocco

  • Sara Finnerty
  • May 11, 2013
My grandparents, Luigi and Elena, were married on February 14th, 1947, in Italy, where there is no such thing as Valentines Day.
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