Rumpus Original Fiction: Fantasyland
Here is a lesson Portia learned years ago—you can get away with being rude and nasty if there’s a twinkle in your eye.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #218: Rufi Thorpe
“It doesn’t matter your gender or your sexual orientation; you can disorder your eating.”
Everyone You Meet Is God in Drag
If the art of drag has taught me one thing, it’s that I am not unique.
The Image-Maker: A Conversation with Sam Brown
Artist Sam Brown discusses the highs and lows of big artistic dreams.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #135: Patrick Nathan
"I wanted to make these characters much more complex than the individual boxes we normally see."
Sound & Vision: Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw
Allyson McCabe talks with Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw, two of the founders of the performance group Split Britches, about their lives and work.
Finding the Finally: Alice Anderson Discusses Some Bright Morning, I’ll Fly Away
Alice Anderson on her memoir, Some Bright Morning, I’ll Fly Away, drag, and motherhood.
Notes from the Underground
For Hazlitt, Hugh Ryan attempts to document the many personas of mid-1900s drag performer Malvina Schwartz, bringing color to the landmarks and styles of a queer world that sometimes threatens…
(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Michael Broder
If I am a sub poet, is poetry as a genre my dom? Is the particular poem I’m working on my dom?
Fresh Comics #4: Making Babies!
Aside from defecating or having sex, giving birth is one of the most common life experiences. Half of the world’s population is capable of doing it and every single one…
Fresh Comics #3: Remarkable Histories
One of the goals of the Fresh Comics series is to shine some light on superb works of comic storytelling. Another is to look a little deeper into the content of these…