Ending Violence Against Sex Workers
This past Saturday, December 17th marked the 9th year of the annual International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. SF Bay Guardian looks back at the history of the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
New York City cops in the 1970s. “How Much More Do Books Cost Today?” Old dude dancing to contemporary music.
Cinema’s Occupy Zeitgeist
Rumpus columnist Nicholas Rombes explores the “Occupy zeitgeist” in 2011 cinema over at Filmmaker. Rombes reveals how films such as Drive, Meek’s Cutoff, Martha Marcy May Marlene, and Tree of…
“La Femme Rouge: Redux,” a Rumpus Original Poem by Veronica Golos
La Femme Rouge: Redux (Red Riding Hood, Aged) What I know is more than thorn and thistle, whistling through an oak forest, trees large as barns.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hooray for bio-luminescence! (part 2) Atlas Obscura has some hand info on the deaths of the last week. Here is your Christmas spirit for the day. Oh my gosh you…
The Unblinking Eye
At The Awl, Blake Butler reflects on attachment to the Internet world (and the machines with which we enter) as well as the meaning of obsession. “It seems too late…
Empowerment, Sugar Style
Rumpus contributor Anna March gives Sugar some love over at StyleSubstanceSoul. In the third of her regular column focusing on “sexist products and media portrayals of women, counterbalanced by those…
Nasty Ancient Graffiti
“Good luck on your resurrection.” I09 has compiled ten pieces of ancient graffiti translated into modern terms. (Via Bookslut)
On the “Elf Slaves of Online Shipping”
“It’s worth considering how the hell those goods get to you, so fast, and for free, when the company you bought them from is posting profits in the millions, or…
FUNNY WOMEN #70: Top Vaginal Scents for the Holiday Season
Okay, ladies, you’ve read our tips on pleasing your man in the bedroom, but over the years many of our faithful readers have written in with the same concern:
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hooray for bio-luminescence! Way to go Dalton Trumbo. Hey look, the awesome Paleofuture now in tumblr form! Catalan edible jewelry. Important: fish hatcheries are speeding up fish evolution.
Aimee Bender on The Situation in American Writing
Aimee Bender responds to Full Stop’s Situation in American Writing survey. Bender discusses literary criticism’s transition to the Internet, the political tendencies of American writing, and whether she imagines a…