Notable Online: 10/25–10/31
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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...moreLindy West discusses her new essay collection, THE WITCHES ARE COMING.
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...moreRumpus editors share forthcoming books they can’t wait to read!
...moreI am in a war, and some of the toughest battles happen in my head.
...moreAlexandra Tweten shares a list to celebrate her new book, BYE FELIPE.
...moreA weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
...moreWe don’t like to think that love traffics in the same biases that shape our culture—but of course it does.
...moreA weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
...moreCarmen Maria Machado discusses her debut story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, her favorite horror writers and movies, and writing the book(s) she’s always wanted to read.
...moreAbeer Hoque reviews Shrill by Lindy West today in Rumpus Books.
...moreAn agenda can only exist when there is a contingent opposing it. We only push for representation when so many hours and characters of wrath are poured into keeping us out.
...moreIjeoma Oluo discusses feminism, coloring, badass women, and being a troller of trolls.
...moreLindy West on what it was like being a fat bride, and the public politics of private acts: But “beauty” is a fraught concept. There’s an awkward three-way tension between wedding culture and feminism and fat acceptance – because of what “acceptance” demands of women in our culture, a lot of fat activism takes the […]
...moreHow one troll came to repent for his sins. Speaking of trolls, they probably all have bad hearts. There is real symbiosis between science and fiction. There is also symbiosis between medicine and literature. Why we shouldn’t fetishize “makers.” Awkward online? Awkward in person.
...more“If talking back to some random idiot makes me feel better—if it’s fortifying for my mental health—then I don’t care if I give some dumbass with 13 followers the flash-in-the-pan attention he’s been craving.” At the Nation, Feministing’s Jessica Valenti says, “Fuck the high road” and extols the virtues of (sometimes) feeding the trolls. (The above […]
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