The Thread: Actual Bodily Harm
They say justice is blind, and a lady, but it is neither. Justice is a wheel.
Politics
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This Week in Trumplandia
Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent content on our country.
ENOUGH: #MeToo and the Cult of Desirability
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
Finding Freedom
We never want something more than when it has been taken away from us. The opposite of freedom is confinement.
We Have to Trust Our Punch: A Conversation with Kevin Young
Kevin Young discusses Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News, America's relationship to hoaxes, and what we can learn from that relationship.
ENOUGH: As Though Nothing Had Happened at All
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
The Causality Runs Both Ways: A Conversation with Joshua Clover
Joshua Clover discusses his book Riot.Strike.Riot, mediating between individual agency and structural determination, and finding hope in student action.
This Week in Trumplandia
Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent content on our country.
ENOUGH: On Sharing
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
This Week in Trumplandia
Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent content on our country.
ENOUGH: This Here Is Girl Country
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
Dispatches from the Swamp: The Babble in the Bubble
To the extent that America—that great big word that makes us all so anxious—exists at all, it exists as a vast and noisy sheet of bubble wrap.