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From the Archives: The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Bad Blood

  • Edgar Gomez
  • March 21, 2023
To give blood in the United States today is like joining an elite, profoundly uncool, hyper-exclusive club.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Sarah M. Sala

  • Kiran Bhat
  • November 5, 2020
“A poem is like a vision test—its vision is either clear or it’s not.”
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Turning Purple: The Borderland

  • Leigh Hopkins
  • August 5, 2019
What we have most in common is that we don’t know the truth.
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The Real Community Guidelines: How to Be a True Ally

  • Mac Crane
  • July 30, 2019
The banning of women’s nipples is, of course, violence in and of itself.
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #19: Are YOU My Hero?

  • Charles Kruger
  • March 3, 2017
This week, I’ve found myself thinking about heroism. What makes a hero, anyway? Who should we choose for our heroes? When I was around fourteen, I developed a hero crush…
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The Friends of Dorothy Have Something to Say to Kansas

  • Martin Pousson
  • February 20, 2017
As we move backward in time, we must beware of yellow brick fallacies. Also: poppy fields, flying monkeys, and entrepreneurial wizards.
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This Week in Trumplandia

  • Buffy Flores
  • February 9, 2017
Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most relevant content on our country, which is currently spiraling down a…
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The Future of Body Horror: Can Our Art Keep up with Our Suffering?

  • Davey Davis
  • January 26, 2017
The individuality of body horror is its signature attribute. Nothing is more intimate than one’s own body, and by extension, one’s own physical suffering.
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Scarecrow

  • David Sellers
  • January 9, 2017
My future grew dimmer. Just moments after computing in my head that I was gay, my mom stomped down the stairs.
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This Week in Trumplandia

  • Buffy Flores
  • December 8, 2016
Welcome 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…
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United We Stand

  • The Rumpus
  • November 15, 2016
No one knows exactly what the next four years will bring. But we are always stronger when we protest together.
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Frank Ocean’s Plea for Beauty after Orlando

  • Liz Wood
  • June 23, 2016
Frank Ocean has released a message about the Orlando shooting that is mournfully beautiful in both its reflection on the hate that fueled the attacks and the hope for a counter-balancing beauty…
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