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  • The Lulu Fund: Burning Down the House

    The Lulu Fund is a new organization founded by Anna March, Ashley Ford, Jen Fitzgerald, and Ashley Perez dedicated to breaking down barriers within the writing community. The Lulu Fund mission statement says: We support individual writers and organizations who demonstrate their…

  • The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Jen Pastiloff

    The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Jen Pastiloff

    I am good at making people feel safe.

  • Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

    (Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) Coffee and grief. Coffee and compassion. The future of the future! When you are not strong. The complexities of Cecil the lion.

  • Five Things About Ashley Ford

    Blogger and writer Ashley Ford is profiled at the Indianapolis Star. She talks about her childhood in Indiana, writing a memoir, and more: We’re never going to see eye-to-eye on what’s OK to write about. I’m not trying to embarrass or hurt…

  • “Little Black Girls Are Taught How to Be Silent”

    The defenders always ask the same questions: How old is 14, really? Why didn’t they tell anyone sooner if they were so innocent? Why didn’t they say anything at all? Using the recent publicity about decades of allegations against R.…

  • “A Tragedy of Choice”

    But for those of us who didn’t have a choice, those of us who survived the choices of men who violated our bodies, those of us who defend ourselves everyday, those of us who are still trying to figure out…