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The Whole World, Opened Up

I don’t really want to know what a man looks like when his face has been cannibalized. I don’t really want to know about this dog-breastfeeding woman. I don’t want to be in the position of being able to judge or ridicule the ugliness and the strangeness of this world.

HERE’S WHAT WE THINK OF YOUR “CLASSIC”…

Every decade or so a new style of popular music, played by a new generation of musicians, comes along. These styles are often truly original—genuine breaks with the pop music…

Jane Fondas I Have Known

However I came to possess the magazine, I looked at it often, if with a smoldering shame. Unlike what I could find on television, the pictures were clear and shiny, and seeing women in bikinis showed me parts of the female body I had never seen before—the dimpled lower back, the tendon in the crook between inner thigh and crotch.

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Sense of Place #4: Tao Lin, NYU Library

This photograph shows me standing outside my house, which looks weirdly much bigger here than it actually is when you see it in person.

The Rumpus Interview with Michelle Tea

Michelle Tea is an author, performer, public speaker, event producer, educator, activist, and now, with her new Sister Spit imprint at City Lights Publishers, the editor of her own press.

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Fat

According to your average weight-height chart, I’m “obese”: six feet tall and 250 pounds. I should be, according to these charts, somewhere between 140 and 180 pounds. I tell my…

The Rumpus Interview with Marina Warner

Marina Warner's work often focuses on mythology and the deconstruction of “myths of the feminine,” from Mother Goose, to the Virgin Mary, to Joan of Arc, and more. Here, the cultural historian talks about her latest work, Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights, and her passion for the art of myth.

FUNNY WOMEN #88: Retrospective Open Letters to the Ones Who Got Away

To the men who got away: Hey, let's talk about it now that I have a fresh perspective.

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To The Skin

“It” is the overlap between homeless and trans. Oh, did you have a body? When you're trans and homeless, this is really what the “for customers only” restrooms sign say, below their cheerily simplified depictions of “men” and “women”. Did you have a body? Did you think you could eat, shit, live?

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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #156

EMERGENCY SOCKS ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world.

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The Week in Greed #16: How to Take a Salesman to the Woodshed

Voters at home, the ones still open to voting for him, need Obama to take the fight to Romney, to speak with urgency and moral force. He needs to have lines of attack prepared for particular topics, and those attacks need to tell a larger story.

The Rumpus Interview with Lorin Stein

When Lorin Stein took the helm at the Paris Review in April 2010, he was just the third editor in the magazine’s storied history. Founded by the legendary George Plimpton in 1953, the Review has been responsible…

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