Rumpus Exclusive: “Sacred Stories”
All anyone really wants is to be seen and heard, and yet we avoid seeing and hearing others every day.
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Join NOW!All anyone really wants is to be seen and heard, and yet we avoid seeing and hearing others every day.
...moreIt’s just their story, and we don’t have to believe a word of it.
...moreI was a little girl and all I wanted was to grow up.
...moreThe personal is political, to the extent that politics itself can be effectively effaced with no detrimental effects.
...more[Still photos] grab what otherwise might feel too foreign to understand.
...moreAs we wait for the total collapse of this leaning tower of garbage, a few books to prepare ourselves for what comes next.
...moreJessica Valenti discusses her memoir, Sex Object, how the experiences she touches on in her book shaped her, and how she discovered herself outside of those experiences.
...moreWelcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent and relevant content on our country, which is currently spiraling down a crappy toilet drain. You owe it to yourself, your communities, and your humanity to contribute whatever you can, even if it is just […]
...moreIt’s time to take responsibility for compliancy.
...moreThis election is critical. We are code-red. We might elect our first woman president, or we might elect a man who is at best dangerous and unqualified and at worst the end of democracy as we know it today.
...moreWhat if I said: while people still believe they are white in America, that delusion, and the dream upon which it is founded, needs to be seriously examined.
...moreOver at the New Yorker, Thomas Beller writes about reading Don DeLillo’s White Noise, with its opening move-in day scene on repeat, and the ways stories change when read again and again—even and especially presidential races and speeches, as with Bill Clinton’s speech at this past DNC.
...moreWhat kind of change do I want, and what does fighting for it look like, today?
...moreIn the end, the question isn’t whether there’s an appetite for female political power in America.
...morePulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler takes a crack at the underworld in a hit-and-miss new novel.
...moreTED, or Technology, Entertainment, Design, began as a conference in 1984 that brought together leaders in those three fields with the mission of spreading ideas. Now, the annual conference challenges presenters to give “the talk of their lives” in 18 minutes. And while attending the talks can be cost-prohibitive for most, the talks can be […]
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