What To Read When You’ve Accumulated Too Much
A reading list for spring and spring cleaning!
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...moreRumpus editors share a list of books to celebrate Black History Month!
...moreThree short book lists of three great writers.
...more“Listening is the first and most important step to maintaining a storytelling tradition.”
...moreEmma Copley Eisenberg shares a reading list to celebrate THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRL.
...moreYou are free to love others as if it were a pleasure and a privilege, because that’s exactly what it is.
...moreKendra Allen shares a reading list to celebrate her debut essay collection, WHEN YOU LEARN THE ALPHABET.
...moreRumpus editors share their favorite writing that speaks to women’s history past, present, and future.
...moreA list of books by feminist writers who examine and dismantle rape culture.
...moreAlexandra Tweten shares a list to celebrate her new book, BYE FELIPE.
...moreA list of Melissa Stephenson’s down-and-out favorites for when you have a case of the grays.
...moreLet’s take the women in our lives, and the women who came before us, off the pedestals but also, out of the graves of irrelevancy.
...moreJoseph Osmundson discusses his memoir, Inside/Out, intimacy, trauma, and the sometimes violence of desire.
...moreWithout men around to impress, I discovered my own taste—what desire meant beyond the desire to be desirable.
...moreRumpus editors share for their favorite writing that speaks to black history, past and present.
...moreDevorah Blachor discusses The Feminist’s Guide to Raising a Little Princess, princess culture in America and abroad, and publishing a book on feminism in the current political climate.
...moreA list of picture books to create meaningful conversations with kids about the way America is now and the ways we hope to make it better.
...moreDanzy Senna discusses New People, inhabiting her characters without judging them, playing with the reality and surreality of identity, and pushing against traditional story arcs.
...moreLisa Factora-Borchers talks about being a Catholic feminist, writing across genres, and pushing back against a singular narrative about New York.
...moreMychal Denzel Smith discusses his debut nonfiction book Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, how the activist space has changed in recent years, and who he is writing for.
...moreDawn Lundy Martin discusses her most recent collection, Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life.
...moreColson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad won the National Book Award on Wednesday night. In his acceptance speech he told us, “We’re happy in here; outside is the blasted hellhole wasteland of Trumpland. Be kind to everybody. Make art and fight the power.” Not only was this apt for the evening, but it also describes the […]
...moreInstagram: an app powerful enough to blow a million Think Pieces to smithereens in everything it says about female relations.
...moreThe power of names is intricately woven into the fabric of our identities. At The Establishment, Jené Gutierrez recounts an argument with her editors over using the correct rendering of bell hooks’s name, and how language has historically functioned as a site of white privilege and domination.
...moreThe Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Phillip B. Williams about his new book Thief in the Interior, form in poetry, and balancing editing work with one’s own.
...moreEver find yourself in a risky situation where you are being asked to give your number to a not-so-awesome-but-also-frightening-and-possibly-aggressive person? Here’s your solution! Give out this number instead and avoid the danger. And spread a little feminism along the way.
...moreIn the latest installment of an Autostraddle feature described as “a biweekly devotional to whoever the fuck I’m into,” Carmen Rios throws a little love party for bell hooks. Inspired by an eerily prescient hooks quote about “the white male home owner who made a mistake,” Rios ends her celebration of hooks’ legacy as a writer […]
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