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What to Read When: Rumpus Staff Favorites 2020

The Rumpus editorial staff selects our favorite pieces from 2020!

Suffragette City: The Resistance of Red Bird

Her freedom ended. Her resistance began.

Suffragette City: On the Delicacy and Charm of Women

I assure you chivalry is dead.

Suffragette City: Women’s Rights Men

Not all suffragists were women.

Suffragette City: The Substance and the Shadow

Isabella decided “to take her freedom into her own hands.”

Suffragette City: The War of the Roses

But Mama, why aren’t you dressed for the polls?

Welcome to South Bend: The South Bend Fugitive Slave Case

You have shown no proof of your claim. This family may go free.

Welcome to South Bend: The Lady Boxers

How did South Bend become so central to women's boxing in the '50s?

Welcome to South Bend: The Poetry of South Bend

All my mixed-up words.

What to Read When You’re Surrounded by Ghosts

Katharine Coldiron shares a reading list to celebrate CEREMONIALS.

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The Rumpus Top 30 of 2019

We share our thirty most-read pieces of 2019!

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